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Review of: Evgheni Zamiatin, Noi

This article offers a reading of Andrey Platonov’s short story The Cow (1938) through the lens of social reproduction theory and practical manuals on livestock care, situating the analysis within the context of Soviet ...

The essay takes off from current controversies about Communism, and on the relative weight of its cultural, political and economic components. The discussion then moves, in light of recent historical scholarship, to prob...

The migration policies of the V4 countries present many similarities that seem to be the effect of congruent historical and economic determinants. During the migration crisis in 2015–2016, the Visegrad states partially...

Communist’s collectivistic approach to social order is based upon the premise that private means of production should be abolished, and instead be managed by a centralized power representing the people as a whole. As s...

The paper focuses on both fascism and communism in an attempt to analyze them as politics „pioneering” phenomena. My goal is to see the way fascism and communism as historical realities, ideal-types, and as tropes we...

At the beginning of 1989, the Western Civil Society expressed its most together with violation of the human rights as well as Romanians’ free of movement triggered a huge backlash toward the regime. An extensive civil ...

This review of the historical studies of cleavages and seeks to bridge the gap between the historical study of cleavages and frozen cleavage theory and the post-communist states of Europe which have transitioned to democ...

This article analyzes how political prisoners from communist Romania survived after release. They don’t allow rejoining in jobs had before imprisonment, and their families suffered regime oppression to. Authorities mon...

The article analyses the impact the electoral system on the Romanian politics of the last 25 years. The main thesis is that, despite the eclecticism of electoral formulas and despite the frequent changes of the laws regu...

The official papers of the Romanian Communist Party came into possession of Army that had evacuated them form the Central Committee’s headquarters during December 1989 Revolution. Gen. (r) Nicolae Spiroiu, the minister...

This article describes how Romanian Communist Party obtained the control of mass-media between 1948 and 1989. Like any totalitarian regime, the communist state put into control printing press, radio and television throug...

On the 31of January 1989, the diplomat Mircea Răceanu was arrested while he was getting to the US Embassy in Bucharest. He was accused for betrayal and sent it to death. We present an official paper that is the position...

The writings and speeches of Áron Márton clearly show his attachment to his parents and his native village. Leaving his homeland did not mean forgetting his native village and his homeland. As a priest and bishop, he r...

A concepção de segurança nacional orientada externamente e focada militarmente não lida suficientemente bem com as inseguranças turcas, inseguranças estas compartilhadas com outros países em desenvolvimento. Apesa...

In February 1959, the current Mexican president, Mr. Adolfo López Mateos approved a proposal from his Minister ofEducation, Mr Jaime Torres Bodet, which declared that the Government will publish and distribute text and ...

Post-communist states of East Central Europe face the authoritarian challenge to their young democracies, the sources of which are both historical and contemporary. Economic underdevelopment, the retarded process of nati...

This article includes a reassessment of the Romanian constitutional definition of the place of religion in the public sphere, from 1866 to the 2003. We seek to understand how and to what extent constitutional texts inclu...

The intervention of the USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic and Hungary in Czechoslovakia on the night of 20 to 21 August 1968 produced a huge shock in the international community, but also a deepening...

The mean value of happiness in the former communist countries in the European Union is considerably lower than the mean value of happiness in Western European countries. Nostalgia for the former totalitarian regimes has ...

Bulgarian concentration camp literature represents a crucial area of literary studies, concentrating on the experiences of individuals repressed by the communist regime in Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989. This article examine...

Ancient myths from the Mediterranean Culture often become a language used to express current social and political anxieties. In the contemporary theatre ancient myths are deconstructed and subverted according to the post...

A ideologia liberal foi capaz de criar, a partir da Revolução Francesa, uma geocultura legitimadora da economia-mundo capitalista. O refor-mismo racional apregoado pelos liberais, afinal aceito também pelas forças de...