scholarly journals Remembering “Andy” Aines: A look back at his call for a national STI policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
W. David Penniman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
World War ◽  
Internet Archive ◽  
Scientific And Technical Information ◽  
Look Back ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Information

A commemoration is presented of the passing 25 years ago of Andrew A. Aines, a pioneer and staunch advocate for a rational national information policy and approach to the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Included in this recognition of his efforts is information on an unfinished manuscript of major proportions covering the post-World War II efforts to create such a national policy. This manuscript includes a detailed history of the establishment and evolution of the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) and is available on the Internet Archive.

Never Look Back: A History of World War II in the Pacific.

1992 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 720
Author(s):  
Roger Dingman ◽  
William A. Renzi ◽  
Mark D. Roehrs ◽  
Harry A. Gailey
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Look Back ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals A Dramatic Turn in Oil Production and Oil Refining at the End of World War II: the Mechanics of Implementation

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Е.В. Бодрова ◽  
В.В. Калинов
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Oil Refining ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
In The Beginning

Актуальность исследования определяется значимостью проблем истории Великой Отечественной войны, важностью аккумуляции позитивного опыта, накопленного в ходе мобилизации стратегически важных нефтяных ресурсов на нужды фронта и тыла. Целью статьи является определение этапов развития нефтяной промышленности в военные годы, выявление на основе неопубликованных архивных документов причин падения нефтедобычи и нефтеперера-ботки в начальный период войны, рассмотрение механизмов преодоления кризисной ситуации и достижения коренного перелома в отрасли. Предмет исследования: процесс реализации государ-ственной политики в сфере перевода нефтяной промышленности на военные рельсы. Сделан вывод о том, что, не-смотря на большое количество трудностей, в начальный период войны была решена огромная по значимости и масштабам задача: параллельно с перебазированием на Восток части нефтяной промышленности СССР увеличить темпы разведки, добычи и переработки сырья для обеспечения работы тыла и боеспособности действующей армии. Благодаря подвижничеству нефтяников, все-мерной экономии, упрощению конструкций удавалось значительно сократить сроки строитель-ства, изменить структуру нефтепереработки. С 1943 года были приняты меры по восстановлению нефтепромышленности, производству специального оборудования, увеличивался его выпуск, ак-тивизировалась геологоразведка. Возросло значение Урало-Поволжского нефтяного региона. В настоящее время советский опыт модернизации нефтяного производства в исследуемый период остается востребованным. Abstract. The relevance of the research is accounted for by the necessity to further investigate the history of World War II and to assess the effectiveness of strategies that were used to ensure unfailing energy supply for the Soviet Army and the civilian population. The aim of the article is to investigate previously unpublished archival materials discussing the causes of the fall in oil production and oil refining volumes in the beginning of the war, to identify the major stages oil industry underwent during World War II, to explore the mechanics of overcoming the energy crisis and bringing about a dramatic turn in oil production and oil refining. The object of the research is the process of implementing the national policy aimed at oil industry militarization. The authors conclude that despite a great number of difficulties the Soviet state had to face in the beginning of the war, it managed to solve an unprecedentedly significant problem: oil industry relocation to the eastern regions was accompanied by the increase in the exploration, production and refining of oil to ensure unfailing energy supply for military and civilian purposes. Oil industry workers’ selfless commitment made it possible to significantly expedite the construction of oil plants and to revolutionize oil industry. In 1943 oil industry started developing rapidly, new drilling and refining equipment was produced, oil exploration was intensified. The role of the Volga-Ural region became more prominent. Nowadays the Soviet experience of oil industry modernization during the investigated period is acquiring relevance.

The Film World’s Cooperative Store: Institutions and Films of the 1930s and 1940s

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Early History ◽  
World War ◽  
International Context ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This chapter traces the early history of state-sponsored informational filmmaking in Denmark, emphasising its organisation as a ‘cooperative’ of organisations and government agencies. After an account of the establishment and early development of the agency Dansk Kulturfilm in the 1930s, the chapter considers two of its earliest productions, both process films documenting the manufacture of bricks and meat products. The broader context of documentary in Denmark is fleshed out with an account of the production and reception of Poul Henningsen’s seminal film Danmark (1935), and the international context is accounted for with an overview of the development of state-supported filmmaking in the UK, Italy and Germany. Developments in the funding and output of Dansk Kulturfilm up to World War II are outlined, followed by an account of the impact of the German Occupation of Denmark on domestic informational film. The establishment of the Danish Government Film Committee or Ministeriernes Filmudvalg kick-started aprofessionalisation of state-sponsored filmmaking, and two wartime public information films are briefly analysed as examples of its early output. The chapter concludes with an account of the relations between the Danish Resistance and an emerging generation of documentarists.

Recasting Bourgeois Europe

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Maier ◽  
Charles S. Maier
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Group Representation ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
European History ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Country Analysis ◽  
Economic Stabilization

The author, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published this, his first book, in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, the book provides a comparative history of three European nations—France, Germany, and Italy—and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representation. While most previous accounts presented the decade as a prelude to the Depression and dictatorships, the author suggests that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II. The immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse histories in detail, and its effort to explain stabilization—and not just revolution or breakdown—have made it a classic of European history.

THE ROLE AND ROLE OF OIL POLICY IN SAUDI ARABIA IN POST WORLD WAR II ECONOMIC LIFE

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Maftuna Sanoqulova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oil Policy

This article consists of the politics which connected with oil in Saudi Arabia after the World war II , the relations of economical cooperations on this matter and the place of oil in the history of world economics

Charles de Gaulle and European Community

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10-3) ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
David Ramiro Troitino ◽  
Tanel Kerikmae ◽  
Olga Shumilo
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
European Community ◽  
World War ◽  
Charles De Gaulle ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Post War ◽  
De Gaulle

This article highlights the role of Charles de Gaulle in the history of united post-war Europe, his approaches to the internal and foreign French policies, also vetoing the membership of the United Kingdom in the European Community. The authors describe the emergence of De Gaulle as a politician, his uneasy relationship with Roosevelt and Churchill during World War II, also the roots of developing a “nationalistic” approach to regional policy after the end of the war. The article also considers the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy (hereinafter - CAP), one of Charles de Gaulle’s biggest achievements in foreign policy, and the reasons for the Fouchet Plan defeat.

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