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Studia Territorialia 2 2017 6150.Indd
ACTA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE STUDIA TERRITORIALIA XVII 2017 2 ACTA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE STUDIA TERRITORIALIA XVII 2017 2 CHARLES UNIVERSITY KAROLINUM PRESS 2018 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief: PhDr. Jan Šír, Ph.D. Executive Editor: PhDr. Lucie Filipová, Ph.D. Associate Editors: Mgr. Paul Bauer, Ph.D., doc. PhDr. Miloš Calda, Mgr. Kateřina Čapková, Ph.D., Ing. Mgr. Magdalena Fiřtová, Ph.D., RNDr. Vincenc Kopeček, Ph.D., PhDr. Ondřej Matějka, Ph.D., PhDr. Tomáš Nigrin, Ph.D., doc. PhDr. Luboš Švec, CSc., doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc. Advisory Board: Prof. Marek Bankowicz (Uniwersytet Jagielloński), Prof. Dr. Christoph Boyer (Universität Salzburg), Prof. Crister Garrett (Universität Leipzig), prof. PhDr. Jiří Kocian, CSc. (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences), prof. PhDr. Jan Křen, DrSc. (Charles University), doc. PhDr. Ilja Lemeškin, Ph.D. (Charles University), Prof. Iain McLean (Nuffield College, University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Marek Nekula (Universität Regensburg), Prof. Dietmar Neutatz (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Prof. Alan Butt Philip (University of Bath), Prof. James F. Pontuso (Hampden-Sydney College), Prof. Jacques Rupnik (Sciences Po, Paris), prof. PhDr. Petr Svobodný, Ph.D. (Institute of the History of Charles University and Archive of Charles University), PhDr. Oldřich Tůma, Ph.D. (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels (Universität zu Köln) Website: http://stuter.fsv.cuni.cz © Charles University, 2018 ISSN 1213-4449 (Print) ISSN 2336-3231 (Online) CONTENTS Editorial . 7 Articles ................................................................. 9 Transforming a Controversial Heritage: The Case of the Fascist Victory Monument in South Tyrol .......................................... 11 ANDREA CARLÀ, JOHANNA MITTERHOFER Rethinking Reconciliation and the West German Left Wing ................... -
The Establishment Responds Power, Politics, and Protest Since 1945
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY SERIES Akira Iriye (Harvard University) and Rana Mitter (University of Oxford) Series Editors This distinguished series seeks to: develop scholarship on the transnational connections of societies and peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; provide a forum in which work on transnational history from different periods, subjects, and regions of the world can be brought together in fruitful connection; and explore the theoretical and methodological links between transnational and other related approaches such as comparative history and world history. Editorial board: Thomas Bender University Professor of the Humanities, Professor of History, and Director of the International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University Jane Carruthers Professor of History, University of South Africa Mariano Plotkin Professor, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, and mem- ber of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, Argentina Pierre- Yves Saunier Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Ian Tyrrell Professor of History, University of New South Wales. Published by Palgrave Macmillan: THE NATION, PSYCHOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, 1870–1919 By Glenda Sluga COMPETING VISIONS OF WORLD ORDER: GLOBAL MOMENTS AND MOVEMENTS, 1880s–1930s Edited by Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier PAN-ASIANISM AND JAPAN’S WAR, 1931–1945 By Eri Hotta THE CHINESE IN BRITAIN, 1800–PRESENT: ECONOMY, TRANSNATIONALISM, IDENTITY By Gregor Benton and Terence -
Finnish Studies Volume 18 Number 2 July 2015 ISSN 1206-6516 ISBN 978-1-937875-95-4
JOURNAL OF INNISH TUDIES F S International Influences in Finnish Working-Class Literature and Its Research Guest Editors Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Kati Launis Theme Issue of the Journal of Finnish Studies Volume 18 Number 2 July 2015 ISSN 1206-6516 ISBN 978-1-937875-95-4 JOURNAL OF FINNISH STUDIES EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OFFICE Journal of Finnish Studies, Department of English, 1901 University Avenue, Evans 458 (P.O. Box 2146), Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341-2146, USA Tel. 1.936.294.1420; Fax 1.936.294.1408 SUBSCRIPTIONS, ADVERTISING, AND INQUIRIES Contact Business Office (see above & below). EDITORIAL STAFF Helena Halmari, Editor-in-Chief, Sam Houston State University; [email protected] Hanna Snellman, Co-Editor, University of Helsinki; [email protected] Scott Kaukonen, Assoc. Editor, Sam Houston State University; [email protected] Hilary Joy Virtanen, Asst. Editor, Finlandia University; hilary.virtanen@finlandia. edu Sheila Embleton, Book Review Editor, York University; [email protected] EDITORIAL BOARD Börje Vähämäki, Founding Editor, JoFS, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto Raimo Anttila, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles Michael Branch, Professor Emeritus, University of London Thomas DuBois, Professor, University of Wisconsin Sheila Embleton, Distinguished Research Professor, York University Aili Flint, Emerita Senior Lecturer, Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University Titus Hjelm, Lecturer, University College London Richard Impola, Professor Emeritus, New Paltz, New York Daniel Karvonen, Senior Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Andrew Nestingen, Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle Jyrki Nummi, Professor, Department of Finnish Literature, University of Helsinki Juha Pentikäinen, Professor, Institute for Northern Culture, University of Lapland Oiva Saarinen, Professor Emeritus, Laurentian University, Sudbury George Schoolfield, Professor Emeritus, Yale University Beth L. -
Eiserner Vorhang Lichtenstein Kurt
NAME Kurt Lichtenstein Lichtenstein, Kurt Geboren am 1. Dezember 1911 in Berlin | erschossen am GESCHLECHT 12. Oktober 1961 | Ort des Vorfalls: zwischen Zicherie männlich und Kaiserwinkel, Gemarkung Jahrstedt (heute Landesgrenze zwischen Sachsen-Anhalt und GEBURTSDATUM Niedersachsen) 1. Dezember 1911 GEBURTSORT Berlin LETZTER WOHNORT Dortmund STAAT DES VORFALLS DDR REGION DES VORFALLS Quelle: Rainer Zunder: Sachsen-Anhalt Erschossen in Zicherie. Vom Leben und Sterben des ORT DES VORFALLS Journalisten Kurt Lichtenstein. zwischen Zicherie und Kaiserwinkel, Berlin: Dietz Verlag 1994, S. Gemarkung Jahrstedt 12 TODESURSACHE Der Journalist Kurt Lichtenstein hatte eine lupenreine kommunistische Funktionärsbiographie Schusswaffen bis es in den frühen 50er Jahren zum Bruch mit der KPD kam. In den Mittagsstunden des 12. Oktober 1961 parkte Lichtenstein seinen Ford Taunus auf einem Feldweg unmittelbar vor der DATUM DES VORFALLS DDR-Grenze. Dann stapfte er über den Grenzstreifen und ging auf eine Landarbeiterbrigade 12. Oktober 1961 zu, die unmittelbar hinter der DDR-Grenze einen Kartoffelacker aberntete. Für die Westfälische Rundschau wollte er mit ihnen Interviews führen. Kurt Lichtenstein konnte sich TODESALTER gar nicht vorstellen, dass man dort auf ihn schießen würde. 49 Der Journalist Kurt Lichtenstein hatte eine lupenreine kommunistische Funktionärsbiografie – TEILPROJEKT bis es in den frühen 1950er Jahren zum Bruch mit der KPD kam. In den Mittagsstunden des innerdeutsche Grenze 12. Oktober 1961 parkte Lichtenstein seinen Ford Taunus auf einem Feldweg unmittelbar vor der DDR-Grenze. Dann stapfte er über den Grenzstreifen und ging auf eine FALLGRUPPE Landarbeiterbrigade zu, die unmittelbar hinter der DDR-Grenze einen Kartoffelacker ohne Fluchtabsicht aberntete. Für die Westfälische Rundschau wollte er die auf dem Feld arbeitenden Leute interviewen. -
Hertta Kuusinen - the Leading Communist Woman in Finland in the Post-War Era
"People of a special mould"? International conference on comparative communist biography and prosopography Manchester, 6th - 8th April 2001 Pirkko Kotila: Hertta Kuusinen - the leading communist woman in Finland in the post-war era Hertta Kuusinen was the best-known character of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) and The Democratic League of the People of Finland (SKDL) during so called third republic - after Finland's defeat in the war against the Soviet Union. Internationally, she was the most famous - if some communist Finns were famous abroad on the whole - Finnish communist together with her father Otto Wille Kuusinen. Otto Wille Kuusinen was also a well-known person in the international communist movement, to the extend that he was not always considered a Finn but a Soviet citizen. Hertta Kuusinen's role as a leading communist personality is significant when compared to other countries: she was a woman who was the symbol for the communist movement in one country. Introduction The end of the Second World War in Finland was the truce on 19th September 1944. The Communist Party of Finland had been forbidden and persecuted and could only act secretly. In the autumn 1944, the Communist Party was re-accepted as a legal party. Hertta Kuusinen and her husband Yrjö Leino (the couple married in 1945 and divorced five years later) were natural leaders of the party. They negociated about the legal status of The Communist Party with the Minister of Interior Affairs, Kaarlo Hillilä of the Agrarian Party. Yrjö Leino was appointed as Minister on Social Affairs the same autumn, whereas Hertta Kuusinen was appointed as a minister (without a ministry) in the spring 1948 after Leino's resignation. -
Unsettled Germans: the Reception and Resettlement of East German Refugees in West Germany, 1949-1961
UNSETTLED GERMANS: THE RECEPTION AND RESETTLEMENT OF EAST GERMAN REFUGEES IN WEST GERMANY, 1949-1961 By Eric H. Limbach A DISSERTATION submitted to Michigan State University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY History 2011 ABSTRACT UNSETTLED GERMANS: THE RECEPTION AND RESETTLEMENT OF EAST GERMAN REFUGEES IN WEST GERMANY, 1949-1961 By Eric H. Limbach This study focuses on the migration of East German refugees into West Berlin and West Germany between the establishment of the GDR and FRG in 1949 and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, an influx that, over the course of twelve years, totaled more than three million individuals. While the newcomers were physically indistinguishable and, apart from a few regional differences, shared a common language, culture and religious background with those already residing in West Germany, the presence of these refugees, like that of many other groups of migrants, was still considered a significant danger to the public order – a perception that was deeply rooted in the historical context of migration in Germany. In response to the influx, the Federal Republic and West Berlin established a comprehensive registration process for refugees, which attempted to determine whether refugees had a valid reason for their flight, and set up temporary camps to accommodate those awaiting resettlement in West Germany. Longer-term solutions included the creation of new employment opportunities and the construction of adequate (and permanent) housing in West German cities. However, these efforts required the cooperation of organizations and agencies at several levels of government, and disagreements among the West German Länder, West Berlin, and the Federal Government had a significant impact on the reception process. -
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2017 ACTA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PAG. 35–57 STUDIA TERRITORIALIA 2 RETHINKING RECONCILIATION AND THE WEST GERMAN LEFT WING JANA STOKLASA LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITÄT HANNOVER Abstract Discussion about reconciliation in post-World War II Germany usually centers on Hitler’s Jewish victims or recently enacted programs of restitution for so-called marginalized victim groups. In this paper, I explore the largely neglected domestic reconciliation policy affecting the West German left wing in the postwar period. Initially, on a genealogical, micro-historical basis, I investigate the restitu- tion claim files of former communist and social-democratic printing companies located in Hannover, Lower Saxony. In the light of recent nationwide discourse in Germany about anti-communist mea- sures of the pre-unification Federal Republic of Germany, such as the so-calledBerufsverbote (bans on employment of leftists), these sources document negotiations to right past wrongs and shed light on reconciliation policy during the German-German “cold civil war” that followed World War II. Keywords: Germany; reconciliation; restitution; KPD; SPD; Berufsverbote DOI: 10.14712/23363231.2018.3 I. Introduction The past, as we know it from history, is depicted as the only possible past because this serves to justify the present order, but this arrangement is never entirely stable.1 Jana Stoklasa is a research assistant and coordinator at the Institute of Didactics of Democracy, Historical Department, at Leibniz University Hannover. Address correspondence to Jana Stokla- sa, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, Historische Abteilung, Königsworther Platz 1, D – 30167 Hannover. E-mail: [email protected]. 1 Berthold Molden, “Resistant Pasts Versus Mnemonic Hegemony: On the Power Relations of Col- lective Memory,” Memory Studies 9, No. -
O E Gedenkzeichen, Gedenkstätten Und Museen Zur Berliner Mauer Und Innerdeutschen Grenze
OOQB ABP EOFKKBOKP Gedenkzeichen, Gedenkstätten und Museen zur Berliner Mauer und innerdeutschen Grenze Dokumentationsprojekt Erinnerungsorte an die kommunistischen Diktaturen Auszug: Erinnerungsorte an die Berliner Mauer und innerdeutsche Grenze Projektleitung: Dr. A. Kaminsky Erarbeitet: Ruth Gleinig und Enrico Heitzer Layout: Mihaela Petkovic Berlin 2011 Inhalt Baden Würemberg Denkmal „Freiheit Recht Einheit“ 14 Gedenktafeln für den 17. Juni 1953 und den 3. Oktober 1990 14 Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ 14 Gegen das Vergessen – Sammlung zur Geschichte der DDR 15 Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ 15 Bayern Mahnkreuz zur Erinnerung an die innerdeutsche Grenze 17 Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ 17 Unterfränkisches Grenzmuseum 17-18 Skulptur und Gedenktafel zur Grenzöffnung 18 Grenz- und Friedenskapelle 18-19 Grenzzaun-Kreuz 19 Denkmal „Zug der Freiheit“ 19-20 Gedenkstäe Heinersdorf-Welitsch 20 Aussichtsturm „Thüringer Warte“ 21 Gedenkstein zur Grenzöffnung 21 Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ 21-22 Gedenkkreuz für die Opfer der innerdeutschen Grenze 22 Informaonsstelle über die Teilung Deutschlands 23 Grenzausstellung im Historischen Ortsmuseum 23 Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ 24 Denkmal „Wiederfindung“ 24 Deutsch-Deutsches Museum zur Geschichte der Teilung 24-25 Grenzland- und Trenckmuseum 26 Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ 26 Gedenktafel zur Erinnerung an den Fall der Grenze 26 Gedenkstein für Gerhard Palzer 27 Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ 27 Berlin Berliner Mauerweg Geschichtsmeile Berliner Mauer 29 Markierung der ehemaligen Grenzübergänge 29-30 Doppelpflastersteinreihe „Die Berliner Mauer 1961-1989“ 31 Charloenburg Wiedervereinigungsmahnmal 32 Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Mauermuseum „Haus am Checkpoint Charlie“ 32-34 Mahnmal für Peter Fechter 34-35 Inhalt East Side Gallery 35 Gedenkstein für den unbekannten Flüchtling 36 Mauerstück Grenzdurchbruch 37 Informaonstafel zu gescheiterter Tunnelflucht 37 Denkmal „Berliner Mauer“ 38 Kunstobjekt „Übergang zur Untergrundbahn“ 38 Gedenktafel Dr. -
Proquest Dissertations
THE FIFTIES IN FINLAND Finnish society in the 1950s from the perspective of the cultural and industrial-banking elites. Alice Hudlerova University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies Submitted for PhD degree in History April 2002 ProQuest Number: U643425 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest. ProQuest U643425 Published by ProQuest LLC(2016). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 ABSTRACT THE FIFTIES IN FINLAND Finnish society in the 1950s from the perspective of the cultural and industrial-banking elites The main topic of the dissertation is the 1950s in Finland, analysed from the perspective of the cultural and industrial-banking elites. During the first post-war decade, Finland witnessed an immense political reorientation in terms of both foreign and domestic politics occurring as a result of the war. Such circumstances were a salient influence on the position and role of the cultural and industrial-banking ehte who, like the rest of the Finnish society, were required to adjust to the post-war circumstances. The process of their adaptability is of particular significance for this study. -
Finnish Communism Visited Ments in Europe
Finnish communism was one of the largest communist move- Finnish communism visited ments in Europe. It was born in two countries, Finland and Soviet Russia, and in 1918–1944 active in both of them. It was a move- ment deeply rooted in Finnish society and the traditions of the Finnish labour movement, but also a movement with strong ties with the Soviets. This collection of articles by Tauno Saarela gives a glimpse of this tension within Finnish communism. The articles discuss the contacts between the Communist Inter- national and Finnish communism, the relations between Finnish and Scandinavian communists, the American impact on Finnish communism. They also touch the importance of cemeteries for Finnish communism, characters in the short stories published in the Finnish communist magazines in the 1920s, and the attitude of the Finnish communist youth towards jazz, rock and roll and pop songs in 1944–1969. The articles address the cult of the indi- vidual within Finnish communism, too. *** Tauno Saarela is Senior Lecturer in Political History, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki. He is the author of Suomalaisen kommunismin synty 1918–1923 [Birth of Finnish communism, 1918–1923] (1996), Kansan Tahto. Poh- jolan työtätekevien lehti (2006), Suomalainen kommunismi ja vallankumous 1923–1930 [Finnish communism and revolution, 1923–1930] (2008), and the co-author of Communism: National and International (1998), Коминтерн и Финляндия 1919–1943 (2003), and several books in Finnish. Saarela Tauno Tauno Saarela Finnish communism visited TYÖVÄEN HISTORIAN JA PERINTEEN TUTKIMUKSEN SEURA Finnish communism visited Tauno Saarela Finnish communism visited The Finnish Society for Labour History Papers on Labour History VII Helsinki 2015 The Finnish Society for Labour History 2015 © Tauno Saarela Layout: Raimo Parikka Kannen kuva: L. -
The Finnish Communists and the Winter War Author(S): Kimmo Rentola Source: Journal of Contemporary History , Oct., 1998, Vol
The Finnish Communists and the Winter War Author(s): Kimmo Rentola Source: Journal of Contemporary History , Oct., 1998, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Oct., 1998), pp. 591-607 Published by: Sage Publications, Ltd. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/260988 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Sage Publications, Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Contemporary History This content downloaded from 31.30.175.212 on Tue, 29 Dec 2020 22:57:35 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Journal of Contemporary History Copyright ? 1998 SAGE Publications, London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi, Vol 33(4), 591-607. [0022-0094(199810)33:4;59 1-607;005872] Kimmo Rentola The Finnish Communists and the Winter War The Winter War of 1939-40 is one of the two fundamental experiences in the contemporary history of Finland, the other being the 1918 Civil War. These short shocks, only about 100 days each, involved every citizen, and at stake were the most basic questions: the identity and fate of a small nation beside its immense and incalculable neighbour,' the direction and utopias of popular movements, and life and death.