The Education of dissent: the reception of the Voice of Free Hungary, 1951-1956

Within the cultural history of the Cold War some attention has been paid to the history of western broadcasting to Soviet bloc countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Most of this work has concentrated on the institutional histories of individual radio stations and their relationships to politics. Little or no systematic attention has, however, been paid to the reception of those radio stations in their target societies. This article, which concentrates on the reception of the Voice of Free Hungary in that country during the early 1950's, lays the foundations of an approach to the social history of western broadcasting towards the Soviet bloc

The 'memoir problem', revisited.

The ‘memoir problem’ revisited “That you had parents and a childhood does not of itself qualify you to write a memoir”. Neil Gunzlinger, book reviewer for the New York Times, griped in a review of yet another confessional memoir. It’s true; suddenly everyone is writing memoir, even people who only ever wrote fiction, rock music or poetry, or never wrote before. I even find myself writing memoir, but mining some of my own fictional writing for triggers and nudges, delving into old poems for clues and lines of inquiry. After all, the memory does not always linger on. Now, since revisiting this autobiographical writing as a resource for chapters of my Creative Nonfiction PhD thesis, a food memoir, in this paper I’ll discuss attempts made to fictionalise the ‘true’ events of the stories, and the uses made of them, to revitalise memoir. I also reflect on the work of controversial memoirist Karl Ove Knausgaard, whose six-volume work, ‘My struggle’, has offended members of his extended family, critics and purists, or simply bored many readers with the impossibly detailed accounts of his life, to ask again of memoir, “Should it be artful or truthful?

Like an operatic quartet

Any reader drawn to this first edition’s cover image of summer catalogue pastels, sand dunes and deck chair, or by Catherine Robertson’s happy association with the romance genre, is bound for a deeper richer read than expected. Bookended by a literal eye of dog, from the perspective of King, the resident black Labrador of Gabriel’s Bay the township, ‘Gabriel’s Bay’ wisely refrains from the picturesque or breaking wave scenario so popular in beach art. Robertson‘s town is an anywhere and everywhere coastal New Zealand settlement; familiar ribbon development along the stretch of bay, with supermarket, two pubs, one closed, a petrol station, doctor’s surgery and pop-up café. The nearest town is Hampton, just ‘over the hill’, by a windy and precipitous country road

A magyar forradalom új megközelítésben: az ipari munkásság, a szocializmus széthullása és rekonstrukciója, 1953-1958

1956-ról majdnem minden társadalmi csoportnak megvan a maga mítosza. A szerz? arra tesz kísérletet, hogy a levéltári források tükrében tárja fel a forradalom társadalmi gyökereit, illetve megmutassa, milyen okok miatt fordultak szembe a munkástömegek a rendszer politikájával. A tanulmány érdeme, hogy vizsgálja a munkásság bels? tagozódását, s bemutatja, hogy eltér? okok motiválták a bejárókat és a városi munkásokat, illetve az id?sebb, elit szakmunkásréteget és a periférián lev? munkásfiatalokat. A széles kör? elégedetlenség a Rákosi-rendszerben a munkásokat sújtó nyomorból (is) fakadt. Gazdasági követeléseik teljesítése így lényegesen hozzájárult a Kádár-rendszer viszonylag gyors konszolidációjához

A múlt lezárása a háború utáni Ausztriaban: Emlékezet, nemzetiszocializmus és 1945 értlemezése Észak-Burgenlandban

A cikk az osztrák nemzeti emlékezetben Ausztria második világháborús részvételér?l kialakított kép revíziójára tesz kísérletet. A szerz? - egy alaposan dokumentált burgenlandi esettanulmány alapján - arra a következtetésre jut, hogy a helyi közösség elfogadta a nácik rasszista, népirtó politikáját, vagy legalábbis beletör?dött abba, s a végleges kiábrándulás csak akkor következett be, amikor a totális háború már Burgenlandot is fenyegette

Rapid asymmetric transfer hydroformylation (ATHF) of disubstituted alkenes using paraformaldehyde as a syngas surrogate

The authors thank Dr. Reddys (UK) and the Royal Society for an Industry Fellowship in the early stage of this work (2012–2014), and the EPSRC for funding (EP/M003868/1).As an alternative to conventional asymmetric hydroformylation (AHF), Asymmetric Transfer Hydroformylation (ATHF) using formaldehyde as a surrogate for syngas is reported. A catalyst derived from commercially available [Rh(acac)(CO)2] and Ph-BPE stands out in terms of both activity and enantioselectivity. Remarkably, not only are high selectivities achievable, the reactions are very simple to carry out, and can give higher enantioselectivity (up to 96% e.e.) and/or turnover frequencies than those that are achievable using the same catalyst (or other leading catalysts) using typical conditions for AHF.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

The ghost of Sigurd the Volsung in Eketahuna

While William Morris was creating the narrative poem based on his translations of the Icelandic tales of Sigurd the Volsung, in the 1870’s, groups of Scandinavian settlers were encouraged to come to New Zealand as part of a grand scheme of borrowing money from Britain to develop the new world country for further settlements. These immigrants were to clear and fell some of the densest bush remaining in the hinterland of the North Island for road, rail and the concomitant communications that would follow. They came willingly, anticipating better lives for themselves, although the reality was disappointing at best and devastating at worst. While the foot print of their efforts is still evident, and the towns and even cities they created, including Palmerston North and Eketahuna, are flourishing, the immigrants have become invisible, no more remembered than the nameless chain-gangs of prisoners or the unemployed, who took over their effort and continued with progress in the early 20th Century, on land that had been bought cheaply from the indigenous Māori. But what intellectual footprint did they leave this inhabitation? What stories and links with stories did they bring, coming from the great Viking traditions of Saga and Skald? This paper will consider the stories brought and left by the Scandinavians and their small, flickering presence in New Zealand poetry, song and story

Ngaio Marsh's New Zealand Gothic

While well established as a crime writer in her native country New Zealand and abroad, in the Golden Age of crime writing, between the two World Wars, Ngaio Marsh also explored more than the simple whodunit genre. Along with mysterious and sudden deaths and the investigations by her professional police investigator, Roderick Alleyn, whose intelligence is matched by his intuition, Marsh also revels in the uncanny and supernatural, several spectacular and innovative means of murder (involving wool presses in one and a boiling mud pool in another), the impact of locale, especially isolation, on the actions of criminals and victims, and the workings, in a couple of her New Zealand based stories, of Makutu or Maori magic. In an attempt to further the debate concerning New Zealand writing and the nature of a New Zealand Gothic, first identified by William Shafer in his 1998 work Mapping the Godzone, this paper will consider the Gothic elements of Marsh’s four detective novels set in New Zealand, A Vintage Murder, 1937, Colour Scheme, 1943, Died in the Wool, 1945 and Photo Finish, 1980

Food for finality: feeding the bereaved and ‘feasting’ the dead

While death is a taboo subject in most cultures, and surrounded by practices of prayer and purification, it is surprisingly often ritualized through the sharing of food or drink, or both. This article will consider some mythological and religious sources for connections between food and death. Then it will take a cross section of New Zealand ethnic cultures: Māori, Pakeha (European), Pacific, and Asian, and reflect on the symbolism and customs that are involved in the sharing of, or abstinence from, food, when commemorating the dead. Following on from Fischer’s model of the ‘five P’s’ of ritual analysis, namely performance, persons, period, paraphernalia and place (1996: 57-8), consideration will be given to similarities, differences, and matters of etiquette and faith

A New Land: Aotearoa, the Land of the Long White Cloud

Physical isolation and geographical variety are strong factors in New Zealand\u27s independence and individuality in art, music and literature which had all become distinctive by the early 20th century. Surprisingly its individuality in food production and presentation has taken longer to develop