The Legend of the Wehrmacht’s “Clean Hands”: The Attempt to Remove Nazism from the German Military

The legend of the Wehrmacht’s “clean hands” was created with the Himmerdoer Memorandum of 1950 and sought to disassociate the German military with its Nazi past. The legend gained popularity in the minds of the German people and successfully led to Germany’s rearmament after World War Two. Beginning in 1990, the legend was destroyed as the actions of the Wehrmacht during World War Two created a different picture than that of the legend. The Wehrmacht’s hands were far from “clean” and instead were very dirty

Prorocy, rozbójnicy i nauczyciele : czyli słów kilka o ruchach utopijnych i walce o sprawiedliwość społeczną w dobie Internetu

The following article is an attempt to find a common basis for the emergence of groups and movements aiming at changing the world as it is today, or altering certain elements of it. Starting with Thomas More and his Utopia, through a number of utopian socialists, ending with currently existing movements promoting alternative lifestyle (Project Venus, Church of the Last Testament) or civil disobedience (Anonymous, Stephane Hessel), the author analyzes the ways in which people attempt to face modernity, understood here as a consequence of the growth and development of the capitalistic economy. The article considers the ways in which the above mentioned people and movements fight for social justice, and combines it with descriptions of that fight existing in popular culture

Water and electricity networks between stress and reform: from post-civil war reconstruction to the new Lebanese wars

Texte présenté à la conférence (et légèrement repris). Soumis à la revue Arab World Geographer en vue d'une publication dans un numéro reprenant les actes de cette conférenceAfter the 2006 summer war and the 2007 assault of Nahr el Bared, the issue of energy and water supply is once again one of the main issues the Lebanese have to cope with. It is a consequence of the damages inflected by both conflicts (mostly during the 2006 war) as well as a result of the State paralysis, which is hindering the necessary reforms. But the recovery of the energy and water delivery, deeply affected by the civil war (1975-1990), had never been fully achieved during the reconstruction process. Strangely, while the crisis of these infrastructures has been recognized as one of the dimensions of the civil war urban crisis (Awada 1988, Davie 1991), urban scholarship has mostly overlooked the public service supply issue during the 1990's. In this paper we would like to address it and, specifically, to understand how the water and electricity supply is linked to the process of territorial fragmentation in post civil war Lebanon. Since the end 1990's, several attempts at reforming both sectors have been launched. They seem to be part of a wider global trend of neoliberal reforms affecting urban utilities. Since the social and territorial impacts of such reforms are usually strong, we will also try to assess their effects in the Lebanese cities. Lastly, we have to examine how the recent cycle of violence and of political unrest has heightened the problems, which is one of the currently most disputed political issues

The concept of “North-South Divide” and prospects of its development

The paper is devoted to some aspects of the problem of the gap between the wealthy developed Northern countries and poor and developing Southern ones. It also demonstrates the number of unsolved issues in the countries of the “third world” and processes of backwardness there. The article investigates some causes of the emergence of this problem, as well as ways of solution that were already implemented at the global level, and describes some future prospects concerning the concept of “North - South divide”.В статье рассматривается проблема разрыва между богатыми развитыми странами Севера и бедными развивающимися странами Юга. Показан ряд нерешенных проблем в странах "третьего мира". В статье приведены причины появления данной проблемы и пути ее решения, которые были уже воплощены в жизнь; а также описаны перспективы развития данной проблемы в будущем

A problem of risks of innovative development of higher education institutions in modern Russia

This paper deals with the risks of the development of higher education institutions in the context of changes occurring in Russian society. We believe that one of the attractors able to stabilize the process of the innovative socio-cultural development can be the higher education institution of a modern sample, which represents an integrated university system that combines the features of a classical university and the characteristics of modern higher education institutio

Психологическое состояние солдат вермахта на советско-германском фронте

Моральный дух немецких солдат в годы Великой Отечественной войны (на основе архивных источников, мемуаров и писем военнослужащих вермахта)yesБелгородский государственный университе

The Role of the State in Economic Transformation: Comparing the Transition Experiences of Russia and China

This paper will examine the transition experiences of Russia and China, with the aim of drawing lessons about the relative effectiveness of the neoliberal and the state directed transition strategies. Section 2 considers Russia=s economic transition since 1992, which has been guided by the neoliberal strategy. Section 3 examines China=s economic experience since 1978, when it began a transition based on a different approach from the neoliberal one. Section 4 considers why, in countries that successfully pursue a state directed strategy, such as China, pressure builds up over time to shift to a neoliberal strategy. Section 5 offers concluding comments.

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Prikaz knjige Bojan B. Dimitrijević (2003.), Jugoslavija i NATO (1951 – 1957

Continuity and changes in Croatian university students' leisure time activities (1999-2004)

In this paper the authors discuss changes in the Croatian university students’ leisure time acitivities. The analysis is based on a comparison of the data gathered in the youth researches in Croatia in 1999 in 2004. Results showed that in a five year period the patterns of leisure time activities of Croatian university students statistically significantly changed, the change in relation between university students’ leisure time activities and their sex, age and residential status occurred. At the same time, the results confirmed there are stabile patterns of leisure time activities during five year period, these patterns are to a significant extent constituted by products and contents of mass culture. (IN CROATIAN: U ovom radu autorice analiziraju promjene u aktivnostima slobodnoga vremena hrvatskih studenata. Analiza se temelji na usporedbi podataka prikupljenih istraživanjima mladih u cijeloj Hrvatskoj 1999. i 2004. godine. Rezultati su pokazali da je u promatranom petogodišnjem razdoblju došlo do znatnih promjena u nekim segmentima provođenja slobodnoga vremena hrvatskih studenata, kao i u smjeru i jačini povezanosti obrazaca korištenja slobodnoga vremena sa spolom, dobi i rezidencijalnim statusom studenata. Istodobno, potvrđeno je postojanje stabilnih obrazaca provođenja slobodnoga vremena studenata u promatranom razdoblju koje u najvećoj mjeri konstituiraju produkti i sadržaji masovne kulture.