“The Miracle on the Oder”

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 204-222
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Opiłowska
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Native Land ◽  
Border Area ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

This article aims to analyze the impact of the policy of détente in the 1970s on the development of the German-Polish borderland and on grassroots cooperation. Opening the border for non-visa and non-passport traffic on 1 January 1972 was of great importance to mutual relations between the residents of the border regions. In the first period, German citizens used the opened border mainly for traveling to the so-called native land in order to look at their former households and houses, to “one more time cover the way back home from school.” The Polish, in turn, started shopping, mainly for children’s goods and food. It soon turned out that the German Democratic Republic had not been prepared for such a large number of Polish customers. Because of this conflicts arose and new prejudices appeared. Even so, for the first time since the war had ended the open border enabled direct contacts. New acquaintances were made. The number of Polish-German marriages significantly increased. Based on archive sources and written memoirs as well as narrative interviews this paper will investigate what influence this period had on the Polish-German relations in the border regions and how it is reflected in the memories of the border area residents.

POSTERS OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-163
Author(s):  
Lauren Shutt ◽  
Sean Tennant
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
American Society ◽  
First Time

Note from the Re: Sources Editor: This is my first contribution as editor of Re:Sources, and I'm proud to join the team of editors and authors who work diligently to put together each issue of this fine journal. I vow to try and maintain the standard of quality set by my immediate predecessor, Nena Couch—a daunting task, to be sure. I hope that you will find something of use within the pages of this column and that you will consider yourself an active participant in the shaping of its future. In the November 2006 issue (47.2) of Theatre Survey, which marked the fiftieth anniversary of the American Society for Theatre Research, editor Jody Enders invited readers to “ponder anew” what constitutes a resource and to submit “untraditional proposals” for the Re:Sources column. As she explained: Perhaps it is a document or a series of documents available for the first time when an entire collection is declassified. It could be that odd scribble somewhere that proves that, once upon a time, there really was a performance of a play that everyone else had taken to be closet drama. Maybe it is a transcription or an English translation of a document hitherto unseen, difficult to access, almost impossible to read. (165)

scholarly journals Miradas exploratorias. Fotografías inéditas del viaje a Italia de Asís Cabrero

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
María José Aldea Hernández ◽  
Iñaki Bergera
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Visual Tool ◽  
Historical Architecture ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

<p><em>As was the case in not just a few of his contemporaries, Francisco Cabrero's modern advent is centred on his initial trip, in this case the one made to Italy in 1941. The historiography of Spanish architecture in general and the specific studies on the architect have shown the impact and the scope of this two-month trip on his later career. Fleeing the ruling academicism in Spain, Cabrero 'discovers' in Italy the rationalist and abstract expression of monumentality. Nevertheless, the access to a wide photographic reportage —unpublished up to now— accomplished by the architect during the trip, allows us to document his journey but also to put in to question those claims. The photographs introduce us for the first time to Cabrero the photographer —to his particular way of constructing an image— and as a result they pave the way for the recognition of this visual tool as an exploratory instrument of the gaze to the detriment of the pencil and notebook. Above all and paradoxically, they contradict the supposed fascination for modern language in Cabrero since discovering that historical architecture was almost the only objective of his selective photographic look and as a result, the primary source, of his transforming inspiration.</em></p>

The Lao Động Party, Culture and the Campaign against “Modern Revisionism”

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-129
Author(s):  
Martin Grossheim
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Second Indochina War ◽  
North Vietnam ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Indochina War

The article tries to make a contribution to the reassessment of the Second Indochina War and of the significance of culture in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam before and during the conflict. By making use of as-yet untapped sources from the German Democratic Republic archives, DRV periodicals and interviews with Vietnamese informants, I highlight the cultural dimension of the campaign against modern revisionism in 1964, and thus present the Lao Động leadership as an actor on the cultural front of the Vietnam conflict. Moreover, I show that even after the beginning of the war an anti-revisionist undercurrent in cultural policy persisted and that the anti-revisionist campaign in 1964 was closely related to the Anti-Party Revisionist Affair in 1967. The article also sheds light on the impact of the Sino-Soviet conflict on North Vietnam.

METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSING THE INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS OF BORDER REGIONS’ BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERSTATE INTEGRATION BASED ON THE RESOURCE APPROACH

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 2158-2170
Author(s):  
A.S. Kuzavko ◽  
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E.A. Kirillova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Border Area ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The article presents an analysis of the experience in developing European border areas and a theoretical basis for analyzing investment attractiveness of their business environment. The specifics of such regions, the possibilities and restrictions imposed on them by such an arrangement and, accordingly, determining the approaches to the management of business entities on its territory are described. The specificity of the Russian-Belarusian border area in modern conditions is analyzed. On the one hand, the border location of the regions provides its residents with additional opportunities for the implementation of business ideas of international trade and cooperation, and on the other hand, it can significantly change the business environment in comparison with other regions of the state, increasing competition and creating additional risks for entrepreneurs. For Russia and other independent states of the post-Soviet space, the issues of adaptation of the population and economy of the regions of the new and “old” borderlands to the geopolitical changes that have taken place are urgent. The problems of foreign trade cooperation of these border regions have been repeatedly considered in the works of modern scientists. The main focus is on studying the impact of the formation of the Union State on the relationship between business entities of Russia and the Republic of Belarus. Based on the analysis carried out, the article proposes a methodology for assessing the investment attractiveness of the business environment in the regions of the border area of the Vitebsk, Mogilev and Smolensk regions (Dnieper-Dvina region) and assessing changes in the behavior patterns of subjects in this territory under conditions of interstate integration based on the resource approach. The methodology is aimed at identifying imbalances and unused opportunities for economic growth for the subsequent substantiation of options for a strategy for their socio-economic development. The revealed patterns should help explain the reason for the lag of the level of socio-economic development of these regions from the national one.

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