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Quo Vadis, Homo Viator? / Journeys in Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures

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Tapodi Z.

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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2015

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vol. 7

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issue 1

113-121

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In Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures [Slike brez obrazov] the characters go astray or get into the attraction of adventures and set off for a journey. The spiritual and identity shifts can be interpreted along these eternal human desires as well. A patchwork of remembering and forgetting, the internal journeys of identity preservation, spontaneous or forced assimilation, tolerance and all kinds of politics-induced human deformations are depicted in the novel. The text traces the roles of the journey defined by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant such as the search for justice, peace, immortality and finding the spiritual center. This study examines how the concrete physical journey changes into an internal road determining the evolution of personality.

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Douglas MacArthur w historiografii USA

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Polit J.

Dzieje Najnowsze

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2022

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vol. 54

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issue 2

177-195

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General Douglas MacArthur, one of the most controversial figures in the twentieth-century history of the United States, was, until the end of his military service (1951), mostly praised as an army commander and champion of democracy. Then, doubts arose, and in the era of the dominance of the so-called New Left, he was denied all achievements in the military fields. The disclosure of new documents at the end of the twentieth century brought a gradual and at least partial rehabilitation of his person.

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Generał Douglas MacArthur, jedna z najbardziej kontrowersyjnych postaci w historii USA w XX w., do końca służby wojskowej (1951) był przeważnie wysławiany jako dowódca i orędownik demokracji. Następnie pojawiły się wątpliwości, a w dobie dominacji tzw. Nowej Lewicy odmówiono mu wszelkich osiągnięć na polu tak wojskowym, jak i militarnym. Ujawnienie nowych dokumentów u schyłku XX w. przyniosło stopniową i przynajmniej częściową rehabilitację.

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Pożegnanie z łotrem? Yuan Shikai w świetle nowych badań

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Polit J.

Prace Historyczne

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2020

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vol. 147

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issue 3

505-527

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Yuan Shikai, the military strongman of late Qing Empire, talented administrator and reformer, crucial figure during the 1911 (Xinhai) Republican Revolution, president with dictatorial power and, finally, a self-proclaimed emperor, is the most controversial figure of 20th-century China. After his death during the civil war that his actions provoked, historiography (communist and non-communist) portrayed Yuan as traitor and chief villain. In following years Yuan was almost unanimously denounced by Soviet (S.L. Tikhvinsky, O. Nepomnin) and Western (L. Sharman, E. Hummel) historiography. His first biography, written by Jerome Ch’en in 1960, fully upheld this portrait. Significant studies (1968 and 1977) of Ernest P. Young, based on important primary sources, went unnoticed at the time. It was also the case with Stephen McKinnon’s volume on Yuan as brilliant Qing official in Tianjin and Beijing between 1901 and 1908. During the two last decades of the 20th century some smaller studies changed this unfavorable portrait. In the eyes of Marie-Claire Bergère, Madleine Ch’i, Luke Kwong and Henerietta Harrison, Yuan appears as a far-sighted statesman and defender of Chinese raison d’état. The last biography written by Patrick Fuliang Shan portrays Yuan as an extremely power-hungry and astute politician and as a conservative reformer and modernizer, at the same time. His political failure was both his personal tragedy and a catastrophe of the Chinese nation.

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Chińska wojna domowa 1946–1949 w zachodniej historiografii

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Polit J.

Dzieje Najnowsze

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2024

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vol. 56

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issue 2

105-130

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The 1946–1949 Chinese Civil War was long considered a war in which communist peasant guerillas defeated a US-backed army. From the 1980s, it became increasingly clear that Mao Zedong’s forces were a professional military body equipped by the Soviet Union.

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Chińska wojna domowa 1946–1949 była długo uważana za wojnę, w której komunistyczna partyzantka chłopska pokonała armię wspieraną przez USA. Począwszy od lat osiemdziesiątych XX w. staje się coraz bardziej jasne, że wojska Mao Zedonga były profesjonalną armią wyposażoną przez Związek Sowiecki.

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Quo Vadis, Homo Viator? / Journeys in Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures

Douglas MacArthur w historiografii USA

Pożegnanie z łotrem? Yuan Shikai w świetle nowych badań

Chińska wojna domowa 1946–1949 w zachodniej historiografii