scholarly journals Motives and Images of Folk Laughter Cultures as the Commonplaces of the Soviet Carnival of 1920–1930

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-248
Author(s):  
Sergey Alpatov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Traditional Calendar ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
May Day ◽  
Round Dance

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of continuity between images, motives, poetic clichés of Russian as well as Jewish folk cultures and components of the laughter discourse of the Soviet era. Genre patterns (procession, round dance, game, street song, everyday wit), chronotope (Pesach / Easter / May day), archetype (a dying and resurrecting hero), ethnical and social stereotypes (“aliens”), ritual objects (carnival carriage; matzo vs Easter baking), grotesque rhymes (“matzo – lamza-dritsa”) are analyzed on the basis of the popular city song “Tram No. 9”, ditties, memoirs, satirical wall newspapers. Those elements of the traditional laughter culture of the Slavs and Jews had been actively interacted in the urban environment at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, was exploited by the Soviet carnivals of the 1920s–1930s, and remained in Russian folklore of the second half of the 20th century. The study demonstrates that the scriptwriters and actors of the Soviet carnivals borrowed some of the brightest and at the same time common elements of folk laughter culture, which formed extremely labile semantic ties outside the traditional calendar and everyday contexts changing their content in agreement with the political situation. At the same time, the basic techniques and bottom semantics of the folk comic remain unchanged.

scholarly journals Lo que fue ya no es y lo nuevo aún no toma forma: elecciones 2006 en perspectiva histórica

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciska Raventós Vorst
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Political Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Electoral Behaviour ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
The Relationship

RESUMEN: Este artículo analiza el proceso de cambio político que se inició en Costa Rica en 1998 y que aún no concluye, ubicándolo en el contexto de la historia política de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Revisa luego las explicaciones que se han dado para el brusco quiebre en el comportamiento electoral de 1998, analiza la relación entre abstención y declive de los dos partidos tradicionales en el período 1998-2006 y se detiene a estudiar algunos rasgos del comportamiento electoral de los ciudadanos en el 2006. Concluye planteando una interpretación preliminar sobre el momento político en que se encuentra el país.ABSTRACT: This article analyzes the process of ongoing political change that has taken place in Costa Rica since 1998. It is analyzed in the context of the political history of the second half of the 20th century. This article reviews the explanations of the sudden shift in electoral behaviour in 1998, analyzes the relationship between electoral abstention and the decline of the two traditional parties between 1998 and 2006, and it studies some characteristics of voting behaviour in 2006. The paper concludes with a preliminary interpretation of the current political situation.

International relations in Spanish physics from 1900 to the Cold War

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joséé M. Sáánchez-Ron
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Civil War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Cold War

This paper studies the tactics developed in Spain to improve the country's scientific capacity over most of the 20th century. Early in the 20th century, Spain sought to raise its low scientific standing by establishing relations with foreign scientists. The tactics changed according to the political situation. The first part of the paper covers the period from 1900 to the Civil War (1936-39); the second examines consequences of the conflict for physical scientists in Spain; and the third analyzes the growth of physical sciences in Franco's Spain following the Civil War, a period in which the United States exerted special influence.

scholarly journals Otvaranje i rad muslimanskih čitaonica u manjim mjestima Bosne i Hercegovine početkom 20. stoljeća = Opening and Operation of Muslim Reading Rooms in Smaller Places of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Beginning of the 20th Century

Bosniaca ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (26) ◽  
pp. 89-111
Author(s):  
Hana Younis
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Internal Relations ◽  
The Government ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Way

U radu na osnovu arhivske građe, relevantne štampe i literature autorica analizira način otvaranja muslimanskih kiraethana širom Bosne i Hercegovine početkom 20. stoljeća. Pod kojim uslovima su se otvarale kiraethane, kakva pravila su imale, koje ciljeve te koliko je vlast nadzirala njihov rad neka su od važnih pitanja u radu. Posebna pažnja je posvećena kiraethanama u manjim mjestima gdje su one predstavljale centar svih društvenih dešavanja. Kiraethane nisu bile samo preteča biblioteka i čitaonica, one su najčešće u samom sastavu imale i druge sekcije poput muzičke i antialkoholne. Autorica također posebno analizira unutrašnje odnose na koje utječe političko stanje u zemlji te lični animoziteti uprave, ali i članova. = Based on archival material, relevant press, and literature, the author analyzes the way of opening Muslim reading rooms throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of the 20th century. Under what conditions the reading rooms were opened, what rules they had, what goals, and how much the government supervised their work is an important issue in the work. Special attention was paid to the reading rooms in smaller towns where they were the center of all social events. Reading rooms were not only the forerunners of libraries, they usually had other sections, such as music and anti-alcohol sections. The author also analyzes the internal relations that are dependent on the political situation in the country and the personal animosities of the management and members.

scholarly journals THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR: COMMEMORATIVE PRACTICES AND IMAGES IN NEWSPAPER PERIODICALS (1946–1965)

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Marina A. Klinova ◽  
◽  
Andrey V. Trofimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Press ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Post War

The contours of the image of the Great Patriotic War and the Victory formed in the post-war 20th century laid the content of the “matrix” of Russian historical memory. The strengthening trend of national and state-oriented policy of historical memory actualizes addressing the genesis of this image and commemorative (traditions, rituals, symbols). In the USSR, the tool for creating and promoting technologies of commemorative practices, preserving and transmitting the memory of the Great Patriotic War to society was newspapers highly demanded by the Soviet population. The article analyzes the materials published in 1946–1965 in central, regional, and local newspapers (“Pravda”, “Ural’skii rabochii”, “Sovetskaya Sibir′” and “Magnitogorskii Metall”). The use of content and discourse analysis methods made it possible to identify the dynamics in the presentation of the Victory image on the pages of the press: from a chaotic festive extravaganza to a “cultural” recreation of citizens and ritualized practices (laying wreaths, holding concerts, exhibitions). The paper also captures the changes caused by a change in the political situation, a decrease in the intensity of the company, aimed at the labor mobilization of the Soviet society. The 1946–1965 newspapers of various levels reveal the specifics in the coverage of the Victory theme: the central newspapers published more theoretical materials on this topic, while the regional and factory newspapers more often covered practices dedicated to this date (labor, holiday).

scholarly journals Eugène Atget and Documentary Photography of the City

2020 ◽  
pp. 026327642094280
Author(s):  
Vladimir Rizov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
The Political ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Do So

This paper focuses on the documentary photography of Eugène Atget in late 19th and early 20th-century Paris. I will begin by exploring Atget’s position as a pioneering documentary photographer in the field, followed by an engagement with the urban environment of Paris, in which Atget worked almost exclusively. Finally, I will analyse a single photograph in depth while discussing it in relation to the work of Charles Baudelaire and Jacques Rancière. This text is a contribution to a literature of critical engagement with documentary photography, urban history and the politics of class visibility. I will do so by arguing for the political significance of reading Atget’s images in a critical, political manner that engages with Rancière’s concept of the ‘anonymous multiple’. Atget is considered a key documentary photographer, and, as such, he is exemplary of the history of documentary photography and its treatment of its subjects.

scholarly journals A Republican View of Rhee: The Chicago Tribune’s coverage of Syngman Rhee from 1945 to 1950

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Thomas-Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Chicago Tribune ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
The Cold War

This paper aims to examine the attitude that the Chicago Tribune displayed towards the Korean leader Syngman Rhee from 1945-1950. The Tribune played a key role in providing a voice for conservative Republicans during the first half of the 20th century, under the ownership of Robert McCormick. The paper was split over foreign policy, as it supported stopping Communism abroad but also supported non-intervention in global affairs. The political situation on the Korean Peninsula therefore proved to be an especially challenging topic for the Tribune, as it forced it to choose between combating Communism and non-intervention. In order to ascertain the Tribune’s positions on these key issues, I analyzed articles that had been digitized as part of ProQuest’s historical archives. Throughout this relatively short period of time, the Tribune’s opinion of Rhee varied greatly. It initially supported Rhee as a hero against the Truman state department. After the paper established a reporter in Korea, however, the paper’s attitude shifted, and Rhee was portrayed as an ultranationalist zealot. Ultimately, the Tribune developed a stance of confronting communist advances and supporting anti-Communist governments such as Rhee’s that would hold true for the rest of the cold war.

scholarly journals Resisting the White Possessive

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stine H. Bang Svendsen
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
The South ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Indigenous Feminism ◽  
The Relationship

At the turn to the 20th century settler colonialist and racist policies of land theft and systematic devaluation of Sámi livelihoods had produced an acute and dire political situation in Sápmi. Elsa Laula (1877-1931) and Karin Stenberg (1884-1969) were central activists and writers in the anticolonial Sámi national movement that organised in the south of Sápmi at this time. The political analyses in Laula´s book Inför lif eller död (1904) and Stenberg and collegues´ Dat läh mijen situd! (1920) offer scathing critiques of the settler colonial racism of the Swedish state at the time. Their contributions theorize the relationship between whiteness and property in the colonization of Sápmi, and the crucial role that racialization of the Sámi people have played in this process. These theoretical contributions are largely unknown to Nordic feminist scholarship on race and racism, however. In this paper I show how Laula and Stenberg´s analysis of racism offered insights that feminists would lend from American and British black feminist scholarship, as well as Australian indigenous feminism almost a hundred years after they were first formulated in the Nordic context. Finally, I consider possible reasons for the denial of this scholarly history in Nordic feminism. Merk: Selv om abstractet er på engelsk kan jeg godt holde innlegget på norsk.

scholarly journals The Centrality of Culture in the 20th Century Estonian Press

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Kõnno ◽  
Agnes Aljas ◽  
Maarja Lõhmus ◽  
Ragne Kõuts
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Media System ◽  
Stable Elements ◽  
Self Reference

Abstract The present article highlights the importance of the comparative longitudinal study of massmediated content in comparing the evolution of public spheres in neighbouring countries. In order to contextualize our research on the Estonian media system, we simultaneously conducted a similar study on Finnish and Russian newspapers of the same period. The 20th century was a period of rapid change in Estonian society and, compared with Finnish and Russian newspapers, Estonian newspapers paid more attention to issues that were labelled as “cultural”. In the Estonian press the understanding that ‘culture’ is important prevailed, as it was one of the most stable elements of content throughout the century. The significance of governance-politics and economics depended on the political situation and historical context. The interpretation of data is based on the binaries “centre” vs. “periphery” and “self-reference” vs. “other-reference”.

Constitutional transition to democracy in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-109
Author(s):  
N. N. Zhukov
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Spanish Constitution ◽  
History Of

In this article the author analyses formation of the country's constitutional legislation system. In the 20th century Spain experienced three different periods: the years of the Second Republic in 1931-1939, the Franco's dictatorship of 1939-1975 and the period of transition to democracy or, as it is called ‘constitutional transit' of 1975-1980, when the basic laws and regulations of democratic Spain were adopted. Each of these periods corresponded with fundamentally different lawmaking processes, based on different legal judicial norms that were strongly influenced by the peculiarities of the political situation in the country. This article examines the background of the creation of Spanish constitutions in a particular historical period, the domestic and international situation and its influence on the peculiarities of lawmaking process. The author studies the history of the constitutional documents' adoption, considers and examines their structure and content in a highly detailed way. The author scrutinizes not only the logic, but also the sequence and reasons for the adoption of all Spanish constitutional and legal acts, as well as their meaning and influence on the legal system of the state. The Fundamental Laws of Frankish Spain, as well as the Spanish Constitution of 1978, the Political Reform Act, the rulings of the Spanish Constitutional Court and other acts, the peculiarities of the transition process to democracy and the legal break with the Frankish epoch and its system of lawmaking are studied in the article. It is worth noting that, at a time when the exist opinions that the Spanish Constitution is outdated and needs reforming, the conclusion about its fundamental role for the peaceful transition to a new Spain at the end of the 20th century and its legal relevance is the issue of utmost importance.

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