A Variegated Insight on Stalinism and De-Stalinization of the Eastern Bloc and Western Europe: A Case Study of the Post World War II Era

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jehu Onyekwere Nnaji
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii

Post World War II orcharding creates present day DDT-problems in The Sørfjord (Western Norway) – A case study

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (10) ◽  
pp. 1856-1861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Ruus ◽  
Norman W. Green ◽  
Amund Maage ◽  
Carl Einar Amundsen ◽  
Merete Schøyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Western Norway

The Ambassador, the General, and the President: FDR’s Mismanagement of Interdepartmental Relations in Wartime China

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 288-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Burt
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Instructive Case ◽  
The U.S

China played an important part in Franklin Roosevelt’s vision for the post-World War II world. The president, however, lacked a clear and coherent plan of the tactics he should use to help turn his vision into a reality. The relationship between the U.S. ambassador in China, Clarence Gauss, and the U.S. commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, General Joseph Stilwell, provides an instructive case study of FDR’s mismanagement of the relations between the War and State Departments over China. This article argues that the president’s mismanagement resulted from the failure to develop a clear plan to bring about the conditions in China that would see his vision succeed.

Kalmyk DPs and the Narration of Displacement in Post-World War II Europe

Slavic Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-362
Author(s):  
Elvira Churyumova ◽  
Edward C. Holland
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
Insight Into

Based on interview files and archival materials, this paper reconstructs the experiences of Kalmyk displaced persons (DPs) against the backdrop of the shifting international refugee regime in post-World War II Europe. Kalmyks came to western Europe in two waves: at the conclusion of the Russian Civil War in 1920 and during the German retreat from the Soviet Union in 1943–44. After the war, the majority of Kalmyks were repatriated; those who remained in Europe primarily ended up in DP camps in the American zone of western Germany. This paper details the strategies used by Kalmyk DPs to avoid repatriation to the Soviet Union and eventually secure resettlement in the United States in 1951. Individual histories offer insight into how the Kalmyks as a group made themselves legible to the international community in light of a changing geopolitical environment and evolving racial regimes.

Rights of Noncitizens

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-73
Author(s):  
Hanna-Mari Kivistö
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The Political ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
The Right

Post–World War II developments concerning citizenship and access as one of the dimensions of citizenship are examined through the prism of noncitizenship and rights, using the drafting of the asylum paragraph of the 1949 Grundgesetz of the Federal Republic of Germany as a specific case study. The aim of this article is to look into the creation of the right to asylum in West Germany, to examine its political history by exploring its development and by searching for its conceptual, political, and rhetorical origins. The article investigates the birth of the unique conceptualization of asylum in the debates of the Parliamentary Council, the constitutional and quasi-parliamentary assembly responsible for the writing of the postwar Basic Law, and examines the political choices, motivations, and compromises behind its creation. To connect the matter of asylum to a wider problematic related to noncitizens and rights, the article benefits from the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, with reference to her writings on human rights and refugees in the immediate post–World War II period.

scholarly journals Between Socialist Modernity and Liquid Modernity. Vesna Goldsworthy’s Memoir Chernobyl Strawberries

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 244-270
Author(s):  
Gabriele Linke
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
World War ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Liquid Modernity ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

In modernity studies, there has been an ongoing debate about different forms and phases of modernity. Eastern and Western Europe present special cases in this debate because modernity developed unevenly, and differences became particularly obvious after World War II. While the ‘Eastern bloc’ strove for socialist modernity, Western Europe continued its route of classic capitalist modernity, soon entering the state of late, or liquid modernity, of which fluid and fragmented identities were a defining feature. These conceptions of modernity have been reflected upon in the life narratives of people who experienced different modernities, of which Vesna Goldsworthy’s memoir Chernobyl Strawberries is a compelling example. She grew up in Yugoslavia’s socialist modernity but, at the age of twenty-five, left for Britain, where she became a journalist and literary scholar. A close reading of her memoir reveals that she emphasizes the similarity of Western classic and Yugoslav socialist modernities but also constructs herself as a cosmopolitan subject with the flexible identity typical of liquid modernity.

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