The politics of dancing: 1934–1945

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Williamson ◽  
Martin Cloonan
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Second World

This chapter outlines the history of the MU from the mid 1930s to the end of the Second World War. It includes sections on the state of the music professions, the Union’s internal politics, the introduction of a “ban” on foreign musicians entering the UK to work, relations with the BBC and PPL and the effect of war in the music profession

B'nai B'rith on the European continent after World War Two

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-126
Author(s):  
Hans Levy
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Jewish Organization ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
European Continent ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Second World

The focus of this paper is on the oldest international Jewish organization founded in 1843, B’nai B’rith. The paper presents a chronicle of B’nai B’rith in Continental Europe after the Second World War and the history of the organization in Scandinavia. In the 1970's the Order of B'nai B'rith became B'nai B'rith international. B'nai B'rith worked for Jewish unity and was supportive of the state of Israel.

UPRAVNO SUDSTVO PREMA VIDOVDANSKOM USTAVU

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoran Jovanović ◽  
◽  
Stefan Andonović
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
State Council ◽  
World War ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Administrative Courts ◽  
Second World ◽  
Selection Of

The Vidovdan Constitution of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is one of the most important monuments of regional history of constitutional law. Adopted in 1921, in order to determine the basic principles of state and social organization, the Vidovdan Constitution contained certain provisions that are still acceptable today 100 years later. Moreover, the Vidovdan Constitution represents one of the most important moments in the creation of the administrative judiciary of the states that later emerged in the territory of the Kingdom. Namely, the literature states that the organization of the administrative judiciary, provided by the Constitution, leads to the most significant period in the development of the administrative judiciary (in Serbia) from its founding in 1869 until the Second World War. In this regard, as one of the most important aspects, authors emphasize the introduction of a two-tier administrative judiciary, with significant guarantees of professionalism in the selection of judges. Having in mind its significance in the history of the administrative judiciary, the authors will analyze the basic constitutional norms regarding the legal nature and organization of the administrative judiciary. Also, the research will include the issue of the position of judges of the administrative court and members of the State Council. In addition to the constitutional provisions, paper gives mentions to relevant provisions of the Law on the State Council and Administrative Courts, as well as the Decree on the State Council and Administrative Courts adopted shortly after the Vidovdan Constitution.

scholarly journals Koncepcja organizacji pracy w instytucji naukowej – ankiety i opracowania z okresu okupacji (1941–1942) w Państwowym Muzeum Zoologicznym w Warszawie

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Dariusz Iwan ◽  
Piotr Daszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
World War ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
Second World ◽  
Source Of Information

The Concept of Work Organisation in a Scientific Institution – Surveys and Studies from the Occupation Period (1941–1942) at the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw During the Second World War, the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw (PMZ) suffered severe losses. Many workers were killed, and parts of the zoological and book collections were stolen by the Germans as early as 1939. The Museum became an important centre of the resistance movement, as it became a storage for weapons, explosives, and chemicals used for sabotage. Despite the repressions, the Museum employees tried to continue their work under the occupation and developed a modern model for the functioning of this institution to be implemented after the war. In the archives of the Museum and Institute of Zoology, a folder was found containing the documentation of the surveys conducted in 1941–1942 on the organisation of work and the future structure of the PMZ. This article presents the first analysis of these documents, which turned out to be a valuable source of information on the functioning of scientific institutions during the occupation, as well as on the history of the PMZ itself.

scholarly journals The Memory Policy of the Second World War in the Post-Yugoslav Republics: Symbolic and Commemorative Aspects

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 659-674
Author(s):  
Ilya A. Pomiguev ◽  
Eldar R. Salakhetdinov
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
World War ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Ideological Attitudes ◽  
Second World

The paper analyses the politics of memory of the World War II (WWII) in socialist Yugoslavia and compares the corresponding commemorative practices in the post-Yugoslav republics. The focus is on the design of holidays and memorial dates that reflect the symbolic and valuable attitudes of society, as well as the trajectory of nation-building. The formation of the state metanarrative in post-war Yugoslavia was closely related to the monopolisation of the leadership roles of the national liberation war by the communists, who united the six South Slavic nations in their struggle against the Nazi invaders. The state holidays and memorial days were derived from the history of resistance to foreign occupiers and internal enemies in order to legitimise and strengthen the triumph of the new socialist order. Alternative Yugoslavian non-communist movements, especially the Ustash and Chetniks who were potentially capable of competing in the symbolic field, were declared class enemies, reactionary elements, and quislings. As the processes of disintegration increased in socialist Yugoslavia, there were several attempts to revise its ideological attitudes and symbolic heritage of WWII. Nevertheless, as the study shows these attempts became, rather, a marginal phenomenon, and most post-Yugoslav states retained the commemorative, albeit de-ideologised, practices of the previous period.

scholarly journals The History Of Construction Of Irrigation Facilities In The Ferghana Valley During The Second World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (12) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Kabuljan Makhamadjanovich Nasritdinov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
History Of Construction ◽  
Ferghana Valley ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

In the state of the author on the basis of archival documents, scientific-historical sources and literature analyzes the history of the development of irrigation construction in Ferghana Valley in the years of the Second World War of the XX century.

scholarly journals Správní mechanismy přesunu knižních fondů v letech 1918–1954: odrazový můstek k výzkumu knižní provenience

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 4-26
Author(s):  
Marcela Sulženko ◽  
Luboš Kokeš
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Collective Guilt ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
State Administration ◽  
War Criminals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Second World

The history of Czechoslovak private libraries reflected great historical events, specifically in the change of ownership between 1918 and 1945/1954. The biggest change came after the Second World War, when the highest state officials decided to punish war criminals. In general, all Germans were labelled as enemies of the republic and were to bear collective guilt for starting the war. Their punishment included, among other things, the loss of property, which also concerned their libraries. This study focuses on the state administration dealing with such property.

scholarly journals The Detention of Non-Enemy Civilians Escaping to Britain during the Second World War

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Artemis J. Photiadou
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
World War ◽  
Occupied Territory ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Administrative History ◽  
Second World

Abstract Thousands of civilians from Allied and neutral countries reached Britain during the Second World War. Nearly all who arrived between 1941 and 1945 were detained for interrogation – an unprecedented course of action by Britain which has nevertheless seldomly been studied. This article focuses on the administrative history of this process and the people it affected. It demonstrates how certain parts of the state treated non-Britons with suspicion throughout the war, long after fears of a ‘fifth column’ had subsided. At the same time, others saw them favourably, not least because many either offered intelligence, intended to volunteer with the Allied Forces, or work for the war industry. Examining how these conflicting views co-existed within a single detention camp, this article thus illustrates the complex relationship that existed between non-Britons and the wartime state, which perceived them simultaneously as suspects, assets, and allies. By making use of the thousands of resulting interrogation reports, the article also offers more detail than currently exists on the gender and nationality background of those who reached Britain, as well as about the journeys they took to escape occupied territory.

Autogyro Developments in North America

1967 ◽  
Vol 71 (684) ◽  
pp. 827-836
Author(s):  
G. J. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Early History ◽  
World War ◽  
Identical Manner ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

It is my pleasure and privilege to deliver this lecture about the state of development of the autogyro in North America. I would like to deal with some of the early history of the autogyro, the progress of which had been steadily increasing up to the start of the Second World War. The introduction of the helicopter and the prospect of cheap transportation for all, tended to bring a temporary halt to autogyro construction. The last of the Cierva line of Autogiros was the C.40 which was a two-seater capable of a jump take-off by spinning up the rotor in zero pitch above the normal rpm required for flight, and using the excess kinetic energy stored in the rotor to achieve a satisfactory jump. Cierva's first autogyro experiments were conducted during 1922 using blades attached rigidly to the hub; the single rotor machines rolled over on take-off due to lift dissymmetry on the disc. Cierva also experimented with a contra-rotating rotor but this system was.unsuccessful, since the two discs did not behave in an identical manner.

scholarly journals The lost prewar collection of the Simferopol Art Gallery (1937–1941)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Alexandra Yu. Kugusheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art Museum ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World ◽  
Official Data

The article highlights the history of the prewar collection of the Simferopol Art Museum in 1937–1941 and notes the most important works of art lost. The events that accompanied the loss of the collection during the Great Patriotic War were repeatedly covered by the museum in publications. According to official data, during the evacuation in October 1941, the boxes with the exhibits and the museum archive were transported to Kerch where they were burnt during a fire in the port caused by the bombing of enemy aircraft. For many years, the museum’s employees Galina I. Fedotova, Natalya D. Dyachenko and Natalya F. Grishchenko studied documents in the Simferopol, Moscow and St. Petersburg archives to restore the list of exhibits from the prewar collection. The result of their work was an extensive “Catalog of the values of the Simferopol Art Museum, lost during the Second World War” (2002), which is presented in the documentary archive of the museum. The main sections of the permanent exhibition of the prewar collection of the Simferopol Art Gallery are marked in the catalog. This information is of great importance for Russian museum science: many items transferred in 1937–1941 to the Simferopol collection were previously included in the funds of the State Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage and other major museum collections.

Foreign Centres of Belarusian Studies.The Ostrogorski Centre in London

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-198
Author(s):  
Ivan Rodionov
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Second World ◽  
Grand Duchy

The article analyzes the activities of the Ostrogorski Centre as one of the most active Belarusian organizations in the UK nowadays. The research is based on the analysis of the publications taken from The Journal of Byelorus-sian Studies and the course «The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in European and Belarusian History» offered by Ostrogorski Academy. The history of the Journal of Byelorussian Studies dates back to the mid-1960s. The journal was initiated by the Anglo-Belarusian Society. The first issue of the Yearbook was published in 1965. The journal as a whole tended towards a philological (linguistic) orientation. The General theme of articles on histori-cal Belarusian topics in the journal was firstly of random, fragmentary charac-ter, without a common editorial purpose and the philosophy of the journal his-torical issues: for example, the description of individual issues of «Nasha Niva» newspaper is replaced by articles about the role of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the daily life of the nobles, presented in memoirs, the influence of Belarus-ian masters on Moscow architecture, etc. In the majority of the thematically «scattered» historical publications, one line clearly emerges –the national one. The journal was published again in 2013 due to the joint efforts of Os-trogorski Centre and the Anglo-Belarusian Society. It has acquired a more sci-entific structure. It publishes articles on Belarusian literature, linguistics, inter-national relations, civil society, history and art, as well as book reviews, which emphasizes its scientific component. The modern version of the journalcontains a larger number of articles on historical topics in comparison with the publica-tion of the second half of the 20th century. Publications of the modern journal deal with such topics as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the early Soviet period of the 1920–30s and belarusization, Western Belarus as a part of Poland, the period of the Second World War, Stalinism, personalities, etc.

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