scholarly journals Filmowy Mińsk (1915–1918) – polskie doświadczenie podczas Wielkiej Wojny

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (35) ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Mariusz Guzek
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
National Community ◽  
Provincial City ◽  
White Spots ◽  
The Future ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
The Great War

Polish film life in the Eastern Borderlands of the former Republic of Poland is replete with numerous white spots. During World War One, however, activity was quite intense, as evidenced by book-length studies on Vilnius, Lviv and even Kiev. Minsk, the future capital of Belarus, also had its own film-related Polish culture. The article focuses on the functioning of Minsk cinemas and their repertoire, as well as the Polish accents associated with them, which repeatedly had a mobilizing and identitarian character around which the national community of this provincial city was organized. Minsk’s border status means its cinematographic ancestry can be claimed by various national cinematographies, including Russian and Belarusian, but the source query and resulting findings clearly indicate that in the years of the Great War, this center was most strongly associated with Polish culture

scholarly journals The Reality of Return: Exploring the Experiences of World War One Soldiers after Their Return to New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Coralie Clarkson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Idealistic View

<p>The focus of this thesis is the lives of New Zealand's returned Great War soldiers. This thesis explores the experiences of men who did not successfully repatriate as a counterpoint to the experiences of those who did, and argues that men's return to New Zealand and their post war lives were shaped by many factors including access to employment and good health. Many returned soldiers were able to resume their lives on return and led relatively happy and successful lives. For these men, their success seems to have come from the ability to find or resume employment, good health, family support, and financial support. For those who did not, one or more of these factors was often missing, and this could lead to short or long term struggle. The 1920s form the backdrop of this thesis, and were a time of uncertainty and anxiety for returned men and their families. The disillusionment of the 1920s was exacerbated by men's nostalgia for New Zealand which they built up during the war. Tens of thousands of men returned to New Zealand from war with dreams and hopes for the future. The horrors of war had given men an idealistic view of peaceful New Zealand, and dreams of home comforts and loved ones had sustained these men through their long absence. For those who returned to find life difficult, the idealistic view of New Zealand as a land of simplicity and happiness would have been hard to maintain. Chapter 1 demonstrates the idealisation of New Zealand and 'home' built up by soldiers and their families during the war. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 use the lenses of employment, illness – specifically tuberculosis – and alcoholism to argue that for many men and their families, the 1920s were an extension of the anxieties and separation of the Great War years. Sadly, for some, their lives were forever marred by the spectre of war and what their absence from home cost them.</p>

scholarly journals COURTS MARTIAL AND THE CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE OF THE ROMANIAN ARMY IN WORLD WAR ONE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (72) ◽  
pp. 365-380
Author(s):  
Liviu CORCIU
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Military Justice ◽  
Normal People ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Preemptive Effect ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Day By Day

The century that passed over the memories of the Great War, as it was called in the era, should allow all of us, no matter what side we had chosen at that time, to think on allaspects of the day-by-day life in the frontline. And to admit as well, that not all the soldiers and officers who had taken part in, were heroes. They were normal people, with hearts and feelings, trapped in an abnormal environment, fighting for their side of “King and Country” against all destructive means of the industrial war. So, it was of great importance to maintain a proper discipline among those troops which were sent day after day in slaughter attacks. And for this reason, was used the military justice and the Code of military justice, named differently by country, but having the same role: to support the war effort. One of the supportive elements was the preemptive effect, the deterrence of any potential act of breaking the discipline. Equally counted the way this contribution came into effect.Keywords: military justice; discipline; court martial; world war; war effort.

scholarly journals The Politics of War and the “Battle of Balaklava”

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-95
Author(s):  
John Maynard
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Return Home ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War ◽  
At Home

This paper seeks to aid and open further discussion on the impact upon Aboriginal communities and lives during and after World War One. We now know that over a thousand Aboriginal men enlisted and went overseas to fight for their so-called country during the Great War and that many made the ultimate sacrifice. But what was happening at home to their families and communities whilst they were away? Did they receive just recognition on their return home? These are some of the questions this paper will reveal and analyse.

The Great War in the Book Ithaca and Comments by Miloš Crnjanski

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Milisav Savić
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The Great War

Crnjanski’s Ithaca and Comment, published forty years after the collection of poems about World War One entitled Lyrics of Ithaca are considered as a fragmented autobiographical novel about the poet's participation in the Great War.Although he found himself at the front, Crnjanski rarely describes battles, even less cruelties of war. He is the narrator of the war's echo. Both the poetic and prosaic story is linked by an idea about the meaninglessness of war. Crnjanski's anti-war stance in Ithaca is also present in the novel Diary About Čarnojević - Crnjanski's ‘war novel’. Ithaca and Comments is the first Serbian postmodern book which banishes borders between genres.

scholarly journals Unorthodox Professors: World War One in Videogames and on YouTube

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-36
Author(s):  
Jordan Dean Crocker
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
First World War ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Historical Representations ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

The purpose of this article is to analyze the videogames Battlefield 1 and Victoria II and the YouTube channels Crash Course World History and The Great War in order to show how these forms of media represent the First World War. Given the centennial of the First World War in 2014 and the end of the centennial occurring in 2018, there has been increased attention brought to the First World War, and therefore more representations of the war have been occurring in these media. Specifically, these representations affect how younger audiences view the war and will impact their knowledge of it.  Although there has been scholarship in game studies, historians should engage more often with videogames and YouTube in order to ensure the wider public is receiving adequate historical representations from these media. 

scholarly journals The Sorry Steel: Trophy Guns in New Zealand’s World War One Commemoration

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Cooke
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
War Memorials ◽  
The Great War

In relation to WWI war memorials, we traditionally we have had a picture of earnest committees raising funds to build an obelisk, and dedicating it in a ceremony filled with poignancy and regret, sorrow and pride. And while that is essentially correct, the picture Jock Philips and Chris McLean painted (in their 1990 book) was skewed in one salient aspect – virtually all New Zealand communities also commemorated their fallen with a trophy gun. Hundreds of captured artillery pieces, mortars and machine guns were brought back from the front and distributed – to every city, town, borough, suburb and almost every school. This paper explores a slightly different view our commemorating the sacrifices of the Great War, one that added an element of ‘cold steel’ to the marble statuary. So what did we see in these trophy guns? Were they a triumphal statement or a reminder of loss? And what happened to them and the mode of commemoration they signified?

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