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Great Britain Against Libya’s state Terrorism in the 1980s

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Jureńczyk Ł.

Historia i Polityka

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2018

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issue 24 (31)

61-71

EN

The aim of this paper is to present and assess Britain’s attitude towards Libya’s state terrorism in the 1980s. It presents the circumstances of involvement of Libyan authorities in the acts of terror, as well as the reasons for directing such activity against the United Kingdom. The paper discusses the response of the British authorities to the Libyan-backed terrorist activity and the results of investigations into attacks perpetrated by Libyans against British citizens. The main thesis of the paper is the statement that the politics of Great Britain in reaction for support offered by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime to the international terrorist network was formulated in line with the main directions of US policy towards Libya.

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Job Assignment of Graduates of the University of Bucharest and Their Integration in the Labor System of the 1980s

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Rotaru M.

International Review of Social Research

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2014

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vol. 4

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issue 2

153-162

EN

According to the official communist rhetoric, the assignment of higher education graduates to socialist enterprises and/or institutions was ‘an action with profound social-political meanings, which aims to ensure the production units and other areas which the specialists they need’. The closure of the top most populated 14 cities starting with 1981 combined with the economic crisis of the 1980s and with various measures of the regime perceived as absurd, and made the system more restrictive than ever before. This study focuses on the changes of the job supply for graduates of the University of Bucharest during the 1980s, and on the process of assigning graduates to their work-place.

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Loss, Fatalism and Choice: The Moral Component in the Narratives of Polish Dissident Historians in the 1980s. The Cases of Krystyna Kersten and Jerzy Holzer

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González C. Á.

Acta Poloniae Historica

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2017

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vol. 116

PL

This article discusses the moral dimension of history writing in the opposition milieus during the last decade of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL). It focuses on the works of two dissident historians who dealt with untold or contested aspects of Polish contemporary history: Krystyna Kersten and Jerzy Holzer. First, the essay describes the narratives about the values and experiences shared in the PRL context by people belonging simultaneously to the intelligentsia, opposition dissidence, and academia (professional historians), with a special emphasis on the discovery and search for the truth under positivistic premises. Secondly, it analyses the counterfactual questions posed by Kersten and Holzer in their bestseller underground books about post-war politics and the trade union Solidarity’s legal period, respectively. The reflections that these two scholars developed about pasts-that-didn’t-take-place provided a complementary ethical component to their discourses concerning decision-making processes and Polish society’s political agency. The idea of losing, the ultimate inevitability of defeat, and the way that defeat was faced in two different moments of Poland’s recent history are tackled by Kersten and Holzer with an educational goal: to explain to readers that, however minute the range of choice is, ethics, together with remembrance, plays an important role in social consciousness and empowerment, and hence can make a crucial difference in the long run.

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Słoweńcy i Europa Środkowa

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Cmiel-Bażant M.

Slavia Meridionalis

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2018

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vol. 18

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The Slovenes and Central Europe In the 1980s, a few years before Slovenia became an independent country, many intellectuals – including writers, politicians, sociologists and historians – were trying to answer the question about the cultural area in Europe to which Slovenia belonged. Most of them identified themselves with the concept of Central Europe, which was a reference to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in the period between the 1860s and the First World War. The Monarchy was perceived as a supranational state that allowed all nations to develop and respected the diversity of cultures, which gave rise to a creative and multicultural intellectual atmosphere. This utopian vision was created to balance the domination of the communist ideology in the Eastern Bloc countries.The idea which underlied Slovenian considerations of Central Europe was that of an imagined border of Europe, whereby the latter is seen as an intellectual concept and identified with Western Europe. The Slovenian territories were a part of the southern provinces of Austria-Hungary and then, after the First World War, they became the northwesternmost republic of Yugoslavia. In both cases they were peripheral in cultural and political terms. In the period that this paper is concerned with, the concept of Central Europe which was most popular in Slovenia excluded the Balkan countries. Słoweńcy i Europa ŚrodkowaW latach 80. ubiegłego wieku, na kilka lat przed uzyskaniem przez Słowenię statusu niezależnego państwa, wielu intelektualistów – pisarzy, polityków, socjologów i historyków – próbowało znaleźć odpowiedź na pytanie, do jakiego kręgu kulturowego przynależy Słowenia. Większość identyfikowała się z koncepcją Europy Środkowej, odwołującej się do monarchii austro-węgierskiej z okresu od lat 60. XIX wieku do I wojny światowej. Była ona postrzegana jako państwo ponadnarodowe, które umożliwiało rozwój poszczególnych narodów i respektowało różnorodność kultur, co przyczyniło się do powstania kreatywnej, wielokulturowej atmosfery intelektualnej. Była to utopijna wizja, stworzona, aby zrównoważyć dominację ideologii komunistycznej w krajach bloku wschodniego.Ideą znajdującą się u podłoża sposobu postrzegania Europy Środkowej przez przywoływanych słoweńskich humanistów była wyobrażona granica Europy jako pojęcia intelektualnego odpowiadającego Europie Zachodniej. Słoweńskie ziemie były częścią południowych prowincji Austro-Węgier, a po I wojnie światowej stały się najbardziej wysuniętą na północny zachód jugosłowiańską republiką. W obu przypadkach były peryferyjne w wymiarze kulturalnym i politycznym. W badanym okresie najbardziej popularna w Słowenii koncepcja Europy Środkowej wykluczała z jej ram państwa bałkańskie.

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Preparing the Postcolonial Situation: Polish Drugi Obieg periodicals, the Europe Topic and the Question of Poland's Eastern Neighbors

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Ritter R.

Porównania

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2013

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vol. 13

61-79

PL

Artykuł opisuje historię drugoobiegowych polskich czasopism sprzed 1989 roku. Analizuje warunki, w których te czasopisma musiały funkcjonować: funkcjonowanie w konspiracji, nieregularnie ukazujące się numery, niestabilność redakcji. Wśród głównych tematów autor podkreśla międzynarodowe ambicje polskich autorów. Mieli oni ambicje śledzenia przemian, zachodzących we wszystkich państwach komunistycznego obozu. Pragnęli także modernizować społeczeństwo, dzięki szerokiemu otwarciu łamów na teksty autorów zachodnich: filozofów, politologów, historyków, zwłaszcza tych, którzy zajmowali się fenomenem komunizmu.

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The article describes the history of the Polish underground press (referred to as second circulation) before 1989. It offers an analysis of the conditions in which the magazines appeared including conspiracy, irregular printing and instability of the editorship. The author emphasises that the Polish writers aimed at going international. They observed the changes that took place in all the countries of the communist bloc. They also wanted to modernise the society by means of introducing texts by Western authors: philosophers, politologists, historians, especially those who dealt with the phenomenon of communism.

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Doslovy ke Spisům Karla Čapka aneb „Úvaha psaná na okraj“

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Smějsíková M.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2022

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vol. 19

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issue 40

125-142

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This study focuses on the postfaces that accompany Karel Čapek’s Writings (published 1980–1995), with an eye to the way they relate to the primary texts. The first part explores the nature of these essays, as well as the topics they address, in relation to Gérard Genette’s theory of paratexts. The author then goes on to examine certain presuppositions in the essays about the experience of reading Čapek’s writings, and how or whether authors of the essays are aware of their role in mediating this experience. In a third and final part of the study, the author examines the demands placed on literature during the period 1948–1989, and how they are reflected in the postfaces.

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“Things Change but the Amerecano Is Here to Stay”: America in Italian Popular Movies of the 1980s

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Zangari S. M.

Review of International American Studies

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2013

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vol. 10

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issue 2

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Sostene M. ZangariUniversity of MilanItaly“Things Change but the Amerecano Is Here to Stay”: America in Italian Popular Movies of the 1980sThe article focuses on a number of film comedies of the early 1980s. In different ways, the movies rearticulate the relationship between Italy and the United States. In showing how Italians can beat Americans at sports, how they can indulge in conspicuous consumption and finally how even the United States are not alien to provincialism and backwardness, these movies express a new mood of confidence that was widely felt in Italian society at the time. However, these movies came at a moment when the Italian film industry was on the verge of its decline. Starting from the 1980s, in fact, American movies and distributors would colonize the Italian movie market and depress the Italian movie industry.

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Obrzeża subkultury czy ruch religijny? Satanizm młodzieżowy w Polsce w latach osiemdziesiątych XX wieku

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Tracz B.

Polska 1944/45-1989. Studia i Materiały

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2022

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issue 19

233-262

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This article presents the history of youth Satanism, which appeared in Poland in the early 1980s. It was brought up by the fashion for heavy metal music, and the formation of a youth subculture gathered around this music and its subgenres. First, the author outlines the cultural background of the emergence and development of contemporary Satanism in the USA and Western Europe. Next, he describes its reception in Poland of the eighties, which, on the one hand, took place in isolation from the American and Western European sources of this phenomenon, while, on the other, it was an attempt to copy it, under the conditions of a non-democratic and largely traditional society. He also presents the role of music and its performers, as well as that played by official media in propagating Satanism, together with social reactions to its appearance and activities aimed at combating it. Based on new, unused sources, the author verifies some claims formulated in the literature on the subject and poses further research questions.

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Artykuł jest próbą przedstawienia dziejów satanizmu młodzieżowego, który pojawił się w Polsce u progu lat osiemdziesiątych XX w., wraz napływem mody na heavy metal i ukształtowaniem się subkultury młodzieżowej zgromadzonej wokół tej muzyki oraz jej podgatunków. Przedstawione zostało kulturowe tło powstania i rozwoju współczesnego satanizmu w USA i na zachodzie Europy, a następnie jego recepcja w Polsce lat osiemdziesiątych XX w., która następowała z jednej strony w oderwaniu od amerykańskich i zachodnioeuropejskich źródeł tego zjawiska, z drugiej zaś była próbą jego skopiowania w warunkach społeczeństwa niedemokratycznego i jednocześnie w dużej mierze tradycyjnego. Przedstawiono rolę muzyki i jej wykonawców, a także oficjalnych mediów w rozpropagowaniu satanizmu, reakcje społeczne na jego pojawienie się i działania mające na celu jego zwalczanie. W oparciu o nowe, niewykorzystane dotychczas źródła, autor weryfikuje niektóre twierdzenia funkcjonujące w literaturze przedmiotu i stawia nowe pytania badawcze.

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