The purpose of this thesis is to examine the topic of political control of literature within the Soviet Union. The specific scope of this examination includes an investigation of Nikita S. Khrushchev and his utilization of socialist realism as one of the primary methods of literary control during the period, 1960-1963. A study of literature and its political control will demonstrate the important and dynamic roles which the political control of literature fulfills in the political system.

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Study gives an interpretation of the materials relevant to the birth and growth of National Socialist Party in Germany as of 1941.

<p>U disertaciji su detaljno istraženi uzroci, tok, dinamika i posledice<br />transformacija društvene i prostorne strukture Novog Sada u periodu<br />tranzicije. Kroz multidisciplinarni pristup analizi kompleksnih<br />urbanih fenomena, uspostavljene su korelacije i definisane kauzalne<br />veze između složenih političkih, ekonomskih, institucionalnih i<br />društvenih reformi i urbanih promena, dajući naučni doprinos<br />razumevanju specifičnog konteksta razgradnje socijalističkog i geneze<br />postsocijalističkog grada u okolnostima kašnjenja tranzicionih procesa.<br />Istraživanje predstavlja osnovu za utvrđivanje teorijskih, metodoloških<br />i formalnih principa i smernica za dugoročno planiranje budućih<br />intervencija u gradkom prostoru, kao i teorijsku i analitičku bazu za<br />osmišljavanje određenih segmenata politike urbanog razvoja.</p> / <p>The thesis encompasses а detailed investigation of the causes, course<br />dynamics and outcomes of social and spatial restructuring conducted in Novi<br />Sad during the transitional period. Through a multidisciplinary approach to the<br />analysis of complex urban phenomena, it establishes correlations and defines<br />causal relationships between complex political, economic, institutional and<br />social reforms and urban changes, providing a scientific contribution to<br />understanding mechanisms of context-specific deconstruction of socialist urban<br />matrix and post-socialist city genesis in the circumstances of delay in<br />transitional processes. The thesis provides an insight needed for further<br />investigation of theoretical, methodological and formal principles and guidelines<br />for long-term planning of future interventions in urban space, as well as a<br />theoretical and analytical basis for developing certain segments of urban<br />development policy.</p>

<p>This dissertation examines the visual production of capital in socialist realist images during the Maoist era (1949-1976). By deconstructing the pseudo-opposition between capitalism and socialism, my research demonstrates that, although the country was subject to the unchallenged rules of capital and its accumulation in both domestic and international spheres, Maoist visual culture was intended to veil China's state capitalism and construct its socialist persona. This historical analysis illustrates the ways in which the Maoist regime recoded and resolved the versatile contradictions of capital in an imaginary socialist utopia. Under these conditions, a wide spectrum of Maoist images played a key role in shaping the public perception of socialism as a reality in everyday lives. Here the aesthetic protocols of socialist realism functioned to create for the imagined socialist world a new currency that converted economic values, which followed the universal laws of capital, into the fetish of socialism. Such a collective "cognitive mapping" in Fredric Jameson's words - which situated people in the non-capitalist, socialist world and inserted them into the flow of socialist time - rendered imperceptible a mutated capitalism on the terrain of the People's Republic of China under Mao. This research aims to build a conversation between the real, material space subordinated to the laws of capital and the visual production of imaginary capital in the landscapes of socialist realism, for the purpose of mapping out how uneven geographical development contributed to activating, dispersing, and intensifying the global movement of Soviet and Chinese capital in the cultural form of socialist realism. This study also illustrates how, via the image-making process, socialist realist and Maoist images influenced by Mao's romantic vision of the countryside were meant to neutralize this uneven development in China and mask its on-going internal colonialism. Through this analysis, I argue that, in the interesting juncture where art for art's sake and art for politics intersected, Maoist visual culture ended up reproducing the hegemony of capital as a means of creating national wealth.</p> / Dissertation

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This thesis explores the spatial transformations of the waterfront &amp / #8211 / an urban frontier - of Durr&euml / s port city in Albania, within a predefined timeframe: before, during and after socialism. Within this framework, a special concern of the thesis is the examination of the impact of political, social and economic actors, as well as the morphological and geographic conditions, which occur when transforming the urban space and environment. Thus, the work is constructed on the basis of cause (urban process) &amp / #8211 / effect (physical change) relation, within a particular period of time. The aim of the study is to understand how space was (re)produced, used and transformed in three different and consecutive systems: pre-socialist, socialist and post-socialist one / and the relations set among actors involved in these process, by making a descriptive and comparative spatial analysis utilizing the constituting physical - programmatic elements of the waterfront as the essential tools of the examination. Along with the information on space production process inherent of three political systems, concentrating the attention on the waterfront as an important element of the urban structure / this work will bring some understanding on subjects related to the actual spatial transformations occurring in the city and it social space. Finally, by affirming the waterfront as an edge condition, the notion of &amp / #8216 / edge&amp / #8217 / and its meaning in the socialist and post-socialist city will be elaborated. Keywords: Waterfront, Edge, Urban Frontier, Port-city, Socialist and Post-socialist City, Spatial Transformation

Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The purpose of the present study is to identify the participants in the British socialist movement who worked in the Second International. The Second International was a confederation of socialist groups from over twenty nations who tried to carry on the work of Marx in the years of its existence, from 1889 to the outbreak of World War One in 1914. the study explains the political work of the Independent Labour Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Fabian Society, all of which gained focus from their membership in the International. The findings of the present study are that the focus of the British socialist movement in the period from 1889 to 1914 came from the Second International, an organization that British socialists helped to form and through which they were able to formulate an effective political party that lasted long after the world war they were powerless to prevent. It was this triumph which gave evidence of their special kind of optimism.

Title: JZD Chelčice - an example of successful collective farm period of "normalization"? Author: Martin Kopeček Department: Department of History and History Didactics Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Jiří Pokorný, CSc Abstract: The work deals with the Uniform agricultural cooperative in Chelčice in the normalization in Czechoslovakia. He tries to map its achievements and to answer the questions: what the nature of these accomplishments were (production, economy, presentation of achievements in contemporary media), on what is based (system and organization management, governing elites, economic concept, formal and informal relationships to the state and party authorities) and what were their historical context (esp. toward the village and the local agricultural production). Results are trying to contextualize contemporary, yet modest debate about the role of an agricultural cooperative in the normalization Key words: Chelčice - socialistist agriculture - United Agriculture Cooperative - collective farm - agriculture in socialist Czechoslovakia - affiliate production - khozraschyot - socialist entrepreneurship .