The Real Mineshaft Gap

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-188
Author(s):  
Edward M. Geist
Keyword(s):  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Civil Defense ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Soviet Leadership ◽  
The Real ◽  
Berlin Crisis ◽  
Fallout Shelters ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter tracks the development of U.S. and Soviet civil defense from the beginning of the 1960s until the mid-1970s. The 1961 Berlin Crisis compelled both superpowers to reinvigorate their civil defense programs. Soviet civil defense was transferred into the Ministry of Defense and renamed “Grazhdanskaia oborona” (civil defense). Similarly, President Kennedy transferred civil defense to the Department of Defense and endorsed a program based on developing community fallout shelters in existing buildings. But from the mid-1960s, the superpowers’ civil defense programs increasingly diverged. Congressional opposition and the assassination of President Kennedy deprived the community shelter program of funding. The ascent of Leonid Brezhnev to the apex of the Soviet leadership, by contrast, empowered military interests who secured substantial resources for Soviet civil defense by the mid-1970s.

Evolution of Cost/Schedule Control (Direct Labor) in Naval Shipyards

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 245-253
Author(s):  
Scott N. Gessis
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Schedule Control ◽  
Control Concept ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cost

The evolution of a cost/schedule control system (C/SCS) for direct labor in naval shipyards can be traced from the cost/schedule control concept used in the Air Force in the 1960s as an initiative toward more reliable data. Subsequent C/SCS programs were initiated across the Department of Defense (DoD) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As private shipyards came under what is known as cost/ schedule control system criteria (C/SCSC), and its validation requirements, the issue of C/SCS in naval shipyards rose to the surface. In 1984, the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) issued a directive which called for C/SCS implementation in naval shipyards. Expanded use and standardization has followed. This paper reviews basic C/SCS principles, how naval shipyards have used C/SCS in improving performance, and how it has been standardized while still retaining a degree of flexibility.

Folktales and Civil Rights

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Real World ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Brer Rabbit

This chapter examines African American folktales that teach the importance of strategic thinking and argues that they informed the tactics of the 1960s civil rights movement. It analyzes a number of stories where characters who do not think strategically are mocked and punished by events while revered figures skillfully anticipate others' future actions. It starts with the tale of a new slave who asks his master why he does nothing while the slave has to work all the time, even as he demonstrates his own strategic understanding. It then considers the tale of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, along with “Malitis,” which tackles the problem of how the slaves could keep the meat and eat it openly. These and other folktales teach how inferiors can exploit the cluelessness of status-obsessed superiors, a strategy that can come in handy. The chapter also discusses the real-world applications of these folktales' insights.

Did the Soviet Union instruct Southeast Asian communists to revolt? New Russian evidence on the Calcutta Youth Conference of February 1948

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larisa Efimova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Soviet Leadership ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Archival Documents

This article uses recently declassified archival documents from the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) concerning the Calcutta Youth Conference of February 1948. This evidence contradicts speculation that ‘orders from Moscow’ were passed to Southeast Asian communists at this time, helping to spark the rebellions in Indonesia, Malaya, Burma and the Philippines later that year. Secret working papers now available to researchers show no signs that the Soviet leadership planned to call upon Asian communists to rise up against their national bourgeois governments at this point in time. This article outlines the real story behind Soviet involvement in events leading up to the Calcutta Youth Conference, showing both a desire to increase information and links, and yet also a degree of caution over the prospects of local parties.

scholarly journals The Presence of The Analyst in Lacanian Treatment

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Cauwe ◽  
Stijn Vanheule ◽  
Mattias Desmet
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Implications ◽  
The Real ◽  
Case Vignettes ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Moment

Transference implies the actualization of the analyst in the analytic encounter. Lacan developed this idea through the syntagm presence of the analyst. In the course of his seminars, however, two completely different presences emerge, with major implications for how the treatment is directed. In the light of Lacan’s idea that the transference is constituted in Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary dimensions, it can be seen how in his early work the analyst’s presence is a phenomenon at the crossroads between signifiers and images. From the 1960s onward, however, the analyst’s presence comes to necessarily involve the Real. This means it points to the moment at which symbolization reaches its limits. The clinical implications of this later interpretation of the presence of the analyst as incorporating the Real are manifold and affect psychoanalytic practice with regard to the position and the interventions of the analyst. Specifically, interventions targeted at provoking changes in defenses against experiences of excess or senselessness are discussed and illustrated with case vignettes and a published case. With transference considered “the navel of the treatment,” the necessity that traumatic material will emerge in relation to the analyst becomes clear.

scholarly journals Krzysztof Kieślowski's Art of Film

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Miczka
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Socialism ◽  
Party Activists ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Polish Culture

"WE LIVE IN THE WORLD LACKING IDEA ON ITSELF: KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI's ART OF FILM" OUR "little stabilization" -- this ironic phrase by Tadeusz Różewicz, the poet and playwright, rightly characterized the low living standards of Poles and the state of apathy of the society in the 1960s. It also reflected well the situation of the Polish culture which, at that time, was put under strong political pressure and, except for very few instances, half- truths and newspeak replaced the clear dichotomy of truth and falsity. However, it finds its strongest expression if seen against the background of the Polish cinema of that time, since the cinema was, so to say, the "light in the eyes" of the Workers' Party activists devoutly building the 'real socialism' state. After the period of the political thaw which, among other things, brought to life artistically courageous works of the 'Polish film school', the...

scholarly journals METHOD OF CONDUCTING PRACTICAL EXERCISES IN A MULTIFUNCTIONAL SIMULATOR OF CONTAINER TYPE

Fire Safety ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
V. Lushch ◽  
R. Yakovchuk ◽  
D. Voytovych
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Civil Defense ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Material Base ◽  
State University ◽  
The Real ◽  
Rescue Service ◽  
Current State ◽  
Training Of Personnel ◽  
Container Type

The paper analyzes the current state of practical training of firefighters using the existing material and technical base of the garrisons of the Rescue Service of Civil Defense of Ukraine. The existing method of conducting classes in most cases is the same, and the material base does not meet modern requirements and does not allow to reproduce the real conditions of the fire in the process of training personnel. Training of personnel of the fire and rescue service should take place in conditions as close as possible to the real fire, primarily in gassed and smoky rooms. The problem of training firefighters is the use of obsolete training complexes, primarily such as heat and smoke chambers. Existing methods and means of training personnel to work in a smoky and gassy environment, which is modeled on training complexes, do not reproduce the conditions of the fire, and outdated training scenarios allow you to get used to them, which calls into question the effectiveness of such training. technical imperfection is one of the main reasons for improper training of firefighters. Today, the requirements for domestic training complexes are insufficient and do not meet the conditions close to a real fire. As a training complex, in this paper it is proposed to consider a multifunctional container-type simulator, located on the basis of the training ground of Lviv State University of Life Safety. The training of firefighters in a multifunctional container-type simulator takes place in a variety of conditions and situations that allow personnel to be as close as possible to real extreme conditions; have elements of extreme complexity; learn to make decisions independently; create a variety of options for physical and emotional stress. A method of conducting practical classes in a multifunctional container-type simulator for training firefighters has been developed, which in combination with theoretical training will allow to increase the level of their professional training in conditions close to real fires. This technique can be used to train not only professional firefighters, but also members of the newly formed voluntary fire brigades of the united territorial communities.

Holy Men and Rural Communities in Zimbabwe, 1970–1980

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 443-461
Author(s):  
Terence Ranger
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The Real ◽  
Institutional Violence ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
Southern Rhodesia ◽  
The 1960S

A good deal has been written about the response of the mission churches to the guerilla war in Zimbabwe. Much less has been written about their experience of it. Yet it has been persuasively argued that the real significance of the war for the churches lay not at the level of institutional pronouncements upon it but at the level of the participation of churchmen in the sufferings of local rural communities. The war was an embarassment to institutional spokesmen. In the early colonial past the leaders of the catholic and protestant churches in Southern Rhodesia had legitimated war, providing chaplains for the white columns that defeated the Ndebele in 1893 and suppressed the risings in 1896 and preaching the duty of the representatives of Christian civilisation to overthrow barbarism. By the 1960s some churchmen had come to condemn violence—both the institutional violence of the Rhodesian state and the revolutionary violence of the nationalist and liberation movements. As guerilla war spread in the 1970s, hardly any church spokesmen could move beyond this position. It became clearer and clearer that the majority of their African rural flocks supported the guerillas and even clearer that African rural Christians were suffering terribly in the violence of civil war. But no-one was able to articulate a theology appropriate to such a crisis.

United States

2019 ◽  
pp. 346-353
Author(s):  
David Sorkin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civil Defense ◽  
American Jews ◽  
World War ◽  
The Great Migration ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter looks at how the Great Migration from eastern Europe made the United States a center of world Jewry. The Nazis' murder of most of European Jewry magnified that status. While the migrants and their children were citizens, their rights were restricted. Thus, in the period after World War II, American Jewry's civil defense organizations engaged in a concerted emancipation campaign. Jews collaborated with African Americans, Catholics, and other minorities to end inequality. That campaign succeeded: from the 1940s to the 1960s, state and federal civil rights laws, and court rulings prohibiting discrimination, dismantled the structure of inequality. Those events constituted American Jews' second emancipation: it positioned the immigrant's children and grandchildren to realize the promise of American equality.

Cosmic Enlightenment

2018 ◽  
pp. 84-105
Author(s):  
Victoria Smolkin
Keyword(s):  
Space Missions ◽  
The Real ◽  
Space Programs ◽  
Scientific Materialism ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Scientific Atheism ◽  
Blind Spots

This chapter examines how science, and more specifically the real and symbolic force of Soviet space programs, was harnessed as a weapon in Soviet atheist work. In the 1960s, as cosmonauts and astronauts raced to space, the USSR sought to channel cosmic enthusiasm into atheist work, believing that science could deal the final blow to religion. The chapter first considers the explosion of cosmic enthusiasm after successful Soviet space missions before discussing the use of the Moscow Planetarium as a base for natural scientific and scientific atheist propaganda. It also explores state efforts to spread scientific atheism and shows that the Soviets capitalized on Soviet space firsts to proclaim the truth of scientific materialism. However, scientific miracles and cosmic conquests failed to convert the masses to atheism and exposed the ideological blind spots of Marxism–Leninism.

CIVIL DEFENSE BELIEF PATTERNS: (3) FALLOUT SHELTERS AND RADIATION

1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm S. MacLean ◽  
Danbury Jr. ◽  
Talbott Thomas ◽  
Albert D.
Keyword(s):  
Civil Defense ◽  
Fallout Shelters
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