The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 088832542110127
Author(s):  
Muriel Blaive
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Prague Spring ◽  
Political Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Misleading Interpretation ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Czech Society ◽  
Exclusive Focus ◽  
The Way

This article is concerned with the continuities in the interpretation of the 1950s in Czechoslovakia from 1956 to the present. It first concentrates on the way the year 1956 (one that remained quiet in the country, as opposed to Poland and Hungary) has been treated in Czechoslovak historiography. It aims to show that an almost exclusive focus on political history has produced until today a misleading image of this apparent communist stability as based on repression rather than on a genuine basis of support for the communist rule. The German historiography of communism shows the usefulness of a socio-political approach that could serve as model. The article then further retraces the permanence of this misleading interpretation to the influence of a highly politicized narrative of the terror period inspired by the work of historian Karel Kaplan and other intellectuals of the Prague Spring era. For this it makes use of Kaplan’s autobiography, which has only ever appeared in French. One particular point of interest is the historiographical treatment reserved to the Stalinist leader Klement Gottwald. The article suggests that this reform communist narrative, which blames the terror on the Soviets without questioning the responsibility of Czech society, has kept the history of the 1950s in Czechoslovakia from evolving at the same pace as the historiography of the post-1968 period. It therefore needs to be acknowledged and challenged.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rembert Lutjeharms
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
Sanskrit Poetics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sanskrit Poetry ◽  
The Way

This chapter introduces the main themes of the book—Kavikarṇapūra, theology, Sanskrit poetry, and Sanskrit poetics—and provides an overview of each chapter. It briefly highlights the importance of the practice of poetry for the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition, places Kavikarṇapūra in the (political) history of sixteenth‐century Bengal and Orissa as well as sketches his place in the early developments of the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition (a topic more fully explored in Chapter 1). The chapter also reflects more generally on the nature of both his poetry and poetics, and highlights the way Kavikarṇapūra has so far been studied in modern scholarship.

What Is the Tradition of Chinese Prose Poetry?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Admussen
Keyword(s):  
Prose Poetry ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Fourth Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
May Fourth ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines, rejects, and revises the traditional history of the genre of prose poetry. Through a reading of Agamben, it demonstrates that during the May Fourth period, writers called a wide variety of work by the name prose poetry, including lineated free verse, lyric essays, and even fiction. By contrast, the writers of the 1950s wrote generically coherent work, and in the 1980s those same writers produced the focused, meaningful genre definitions that we use today. Because contemporary prose poetry has its roots in the obedient socialist poetry of the 1950s, it is not an inherently subversive form; its acts of refusal often serve to humanize or personalize the dictates of state socialism. The end of the chapter finds that the greatest stylistic influence on early prose poetry were Bing Xin’s translations of Rabindranath Tagore, and the way she made his transcendental music into vernacular prose.

Watchful realms: integrating GIS analysis and political history in the southern Maya lowlands

Antiquity ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (333) ◽  
pp. 792-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Doyle ◽  
Thomas G. Garrison ◽  
Stephen D. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Surface Analysis ◽  
Political History ◽  
Gis Analysis ◽  
Maya Lowlands ◽  
Gis Techniques ◽  
Viewshed Analysis ◽  
Cost Surface ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

Travellers naturally prefer to use the most passable routes and establish staging points on the way. Cost surface analysis predicts the easiest routes and viewshed analysis the territory visible from a staging point or destination. Applying these GIS techniques to the Buenavista Valley Corridor, our authors write a history of travel and exchange that vividly reflects the rivalry of two polities and the rise and fall of their nodal settlements.

scholarly journals A TALE OF MASTERS AND ISLANDS: VOLPI CLAIMED BY MÁRIO PEDROSA

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 849-873
Author(s):  
Marcos Pedro Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Face To Face ◽  
National Values ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Presence Of People ◽  
The Way

Abstract In the 1950s, Mário Pedro claimed Alfredo Volpi to be the greatest national painter and a master to be followed by younger artists. This was a conflict-ridden process, which put at stake the old canons of Brazilian modernism and also the way in which the history of national art was written. Following this process, we also come face-to-face with the mechanism responsible for mobilizing the presence of people, the persistence of national values and the importance of cities in the Brazilian artistic field.

scholarly journals Underground in the Czech literature of the 1950s.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Petr Poslední
Keyword(s):  
Communist Regime ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Popular Movement ◽  
Prague Spring ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Source Materials ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
The Way

In numerous collected source materials from the 1950s, it is necessary to distinguish texts created in the works of authors persecuted by the communist regime e.g. Catholic writers and those related to popular movement, from the authors deliberately abandoning official circu­lation e.g. supporters of the concept of total realism, embarrassing poetry and collage of various literary genres. Activities of the opposition in the second half of the 1950s resulted in the first attempts of culture liberalization. At that time literature has influenced film and theater opening up the way to the Prague Spring in the late 1960s.  

The Game Is Afoot

2021 ◽  
pp. 243-278
Author(s):  
Rabia Nessah ◽  
Tarik Tazdaït ◽  
Mehrdad Vahabi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Original Interpretation ◽  
The Way

In this article, we are interested in exploring the history of game theory in France, and particularly the way it was received and was diffused in the 1950s. It will be shown that France was the most fertile soil in continental Europe for a multidisciplinary welcoming to game theory. Reviewing certain aspects of the intellectual trajectory of the mathematician Guilbaud, the ethnologist Lévi-Strauss and the psychanalyst Lacan, we show how each of them, in his own way, played a key role in advancing game theory: (1) Guilbaud for his constancy in disseminating game theory (and mathematics in general), (2) Lévi-Strauss for his original interpretation of game theory that had some impact on social sciences, and (3) Lacan for using the contributions of game theory. Lacan and Lévi-Strauss were particularly convincing since they were instructed on request about the principles of game theory by Guilbaud.

Polish martial law of 1981 in Polish post-communist films: Between romanticism and postmodernism

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Mazierska
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Communism ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

This essay discusses representations of Polish martial law of 1981 in Polish feature films made after communism collapsed. It considers them against the political history of Poland over the last thirty years, especially the history of Solidarity and the shift from communism to post-communism. It argues that the way martial law is portrayed changed over the years. While initially, as represented by Kutz’s Death as a Slice of Bread, the aim was to commemorate the victims of martial law and condemn the authorities, in later films we observe more complex portrayals that reflect the growing erosion of the myth of Solidarity and the Church.

Turban and türban: ‘Divider between belief and unbelief’. A political history of modern Turkish costume

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
KLAUS KREISER
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political History ◽  
The European Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
State Interventions

There is probably no other country like Turkey whose inhabitants succumbed so thoroughly to state interventions as to how to cover or uncover their heads and hair. Suppression and enforced alterations characterize the last two centuries. The headscarf has become an important topic for the Turkish press since the 1950s. Today, the headscarf plays a major role in the discussion about the ‘maturity’ of Turkey to become a member of the European Union.

scholarly journals The Importance of being George

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-63
Author(s):  
Lykourgos Sofoulis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of ◽  
Democratic Ideals ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

The focus on this paper is the political history of Greece in the immediate aftermath of the ousting of the kingdom's first monarch, King Otto von Wittelsbach, and on to the first years of rule of his successor, King George I. After narrating the events that led to the installation of the new king, it specifically examines his cohabitation, inspired as he was by supposedly democratic ideals, with the fresh constitution of 1864; the challenges that the political and cultural landscape in the country presented for him, and the way he chose to respond in the first decade of his rule.

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