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The article looks into how history is created and modelled in Milo Urban’s (1904 – 1982) third book of memoirs Na brehu krvavej rieky [On the bank of a bloody river] (1994). The autobiographical character of the book is constructed through being positioned him into various scenes and portrayed him from different perspectives. The article concentrates mainly on outlining this authorial self-portrayal in the historical context of the Second World War. The memoirs provide a portrait of Milo Urban as both a public persona – writer, journalist and chief editor of the radical fascist newspaper Gardista – and as a husband and father. Methodologically, the article draws on literature that conceptualises autobiographical texts as ways of narrative shaping of the past by an individual. It is not just the personal history and individual identity that are formed in this way, but also collective memory and identity. Autobiographies as such are in this respect viewed as important part of collective memory, since they influence how we view the past and which events are to be remembered and which are to be erased.
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The paper is based on an analysis and interpretation of three memoirs. Its main goal is to harmonize the relations and the gaps between cultural memory and the role of literature. The next aim of the paper is to outline a stratification of transformations after the ruptures of constitutional law in 1918. Memoirs written by Jan Smrek, Jan Ponican and Andrej Plavka represent different variants of approaches toward reality. The research of Vladimir Petrik served as a methodological background for this article. Petrik's historical evidence of literature shows how literary texts can absorb, reshape, reproduce or manufacture structures and elements of non-literary discourses. This conclusion refers to the key feature of non-literary prose.
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Memory can be compared to the function of a balance wheel creating continuity in different areas of the society. History and memory are two different categories. History can enter memory; on the contrary, memory entry into history is an inadmissible matter for some historians; for other experts, the memories are adequate history resources. Subjective level of manipulation is what continues to be memory base. On the contrary, history is - to the maximum extent possible - an objectified view of the past. Memory records the past through individual experiences whereby several levels can be seen in the process of remembering. Especially: memory includes both a stage of a storage device and a stage of subjective interpretation depending on plenty of individualized factors including the current mood of the narrator. Both levels (storage device and interpretation), however, are subject to the author's license whereby the purpose of this communication is dominating. On the other side, the purpose cannot be related only to an individual's profit. The contribution summarizes some knowledge of the author gained at the collection of life stories among the members of Czech ethnic groups abroad with concrete examples from the Republic of South-Africa.
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During the socialist period, the Czechoslovak Danube Shipping Company, based in Bratislava, was one of the major employers. It employed approximately 3500 people. The company was founded in 1922 and has changed its name several times during its more than 100-year history (today it is called Slovenská plavba a prístavy, a. s.). The Danube Shipping Company transported goods along the Danube from Regensburg in Germany to the Black Sea, with an emphasis on the socialistic countries of Comecon. Boatmen belonged to professions that used special clothing – a uniform, on the basis of which they could be identified, thus distinguishing them from other civilian professions. The paper focuses on the working activities of the shipwright in the 1970s and 1980s, work duties, the way of spending leisure time during the voyage and personal leisure. It presents the social programme of the organisation Czechoslovak Danube Shipping, based in Bratislava, for boatmen and their families.
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Artykuł ukazuje znaczenie pamiętników Rufina Piotrowskiego w budowaniu emigracyjnej świadomości II poł. XIX w. na temat prześladowań i zsyłek Polaków na Sybir. Na podstawie relacji prasowych oraz kolejnych wydań pamiętników próbowano odtworzyć atmosferę zainteresowania, podniecenia, a nawet skandalu politycznego, do jakiego przyczynił się ich autor, publikując swoje wspomnienia. Z drugiej strony przeanalizowana została rola informacyjno-edukacyjna wspomnień, a samego autora próbowano przedstawić jako nauczyciela nie tylko wychodźczej młodzieży, ale w pewnym sensie – całej Wielkiej Emigracji. Ukazano znaczenie jego pamiętników w tworzeniu polskiej świadomości narodowej i budowaniu postaw patriotycznych w drugim pokoleniu emigrantów – uczniów szkoły polskiej w Paryżu, w większości urodzonych we Francji. Ich autor, wieloletni profesor słynnej Szkoły Batignolskiej był jednym z największych autorytetów dla uczących się tam uczniów. Jego wspomnienia wywierały na nich wyjątkowy wpływ: począwszy od budowania mesjanistycznego obrazu zniewolonej Polski, aż do podejmowania ostatecznych decyzji o walce z bronią w ręku za jej wolność.
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The article presents the importance of the memories of Rufin Piotrowski, a Polish immigrant after the insurrection of November 1830 who escaped from Siberia in 1846, in the process of building an emigrant’s consciousness about Siberian reality. Based on the written accounts (in the form of articles) and the successively edited French and Polishmemoirs of R. Piotrowski, the article tries to recreate the climate of interest, excitation, and even the political rumours surrounding the affairs occurring in the second part of nineteenth century. The article also analyses the educational and informational role of souvenirs from Siberia in the process of building the Polish national identity among the second generation of immigrants. For them Piotrowski was regarded as a heroic teacher who deserved followers. He not only had great influence over immigrant youth, but he was also an authority for the whole Polish emigration. The impact that the articles and books written by Piotrowski have had on the formation of the Polish identity and patriotism have been so far underestimated.
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