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Historical Overview of the Romanian Constitutionalism
2011
The history of the Romanian constitution and constitutionalism is closely linked to the 19th and 20th centuries. The 19th century meant the birth of the national unitary Romanian state and the building of the modern constitutional system by way of the massive constitutional transplant from the Western constitutional models. Breaking with the past was abrupt therefore just few ideas, institutions and practices remained as an organic linkage with the political and constitutional past.
Sputniks cubanos. De cómo la URSS ocupó la imaginación de una generación
2015
Resumen: A pesar de la cierta marginalidad de la ciencia ficcion en Cuba, esta no estuvo exenta de la influencia cultural que sufrio la isla al sovietizarse. De la URSS y el entorno comunista llegaron cientos de obras del genero, al mismo tiempo que la produccion local se reducia a cero en los anos setenta. Los autores cubanos tomaron partido, unos defendieron los nuevos estilos e ideas venidos del Este; otros decidieron seguir su camino, algunas veces, a contracorriente. Abstract: Despite the somewhat marginalization of science fiction in Cuba, the genre could not avoid the cultural influence that the island experienced when it adopted Soviet cannons. From the USSR and the Communist allies…
Fascism and empire: Fascist Italy against republican Spain
1998
From 1931 onward, Fascist Italy tried to influence Spanish politics through a combination of formal diplomatic action and clandestine support for monarchist conspirators. Spain did not, however, become an axis of Italy's foreign affairs until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936. Supporting Franco was a way of helping to destroy international Communism and the democratic challenge and also served Mussolini's claims to Italian hegemony in the Mediterranean. From the point of view of domestic politics, helping Fascism in Spain would help to maintain the mobilization of the Italian people. In Italy's participation in the Spanish Civil War imperial Fascism, defined as foreign aggression, ideol…
The Present Through the Past: Polish Presidents and the Post-Communist Debate, 1989–2010
2013
I argue that the category of post-communism, though fuzzy in meaning and theoretically unrefined, did mark an essential point of dispute (albeit symbolic) in the democratization period of the Polish political system between 1989–2010. The dispute over post-communism in Poland was initially conditioned mainly by ideological divisions (first half of the 1990s) and later by a ‘competition of power’ (especially from 2000). The specific role played by the presidents in the debate over the communist past and post-communist reality of Poland resulted from his insufficiently defined position in the political system, as well as from the fact that up to 2010 the presidency was held by key actors on t…
Comunismo platónico: Revisión crítica de un proyecto utópico y político-social en la Atenas del siglo V a. C.
2016
This paper aims to study the platonic «communism» as an utopian project which was never carried out. We survey the misnamed platonic communism and its forced relationship, with modern communism, which we analyze in depth. Besides that, by reviewing modern authors, we attempt to compare platonic communism with Marxism, searching for its beginning and causes, as well as its socio-politic aspects. Besides, we bear in mind the historical context where it appeared: Athens in the 5th century BC. En este trabajo estudiamos el «comunismo» platónico como un proyecto utópico que nunca se llevó a la práctica. Se analiza el mal denominado comunismo platónico y su forzada relación con el comunismo moder…
Santiago Carrillo 1971. Políticas en transición y transferencia carismática
2015
Resumen : En junio de 1971, el PCE organizo un gran mitin politico en las cercanias de Paris. En el se presentaban ante una masa de militantes, simpatizantes y antifranquistas dos lideres, Dolores Ibarruri (Pasionaria) y Santiago Carrillo, que habian desempenado un importante papel en la historia de Espana y que se preparaban para hacerlo en el futuro postfranquista. El encuentro recibio una notable cobertura a traves de la prensa y fue ampliamente fotografiado. Un film fue rodado y montado por la Comision de Cine de Barcelona en colaboracion con el colectivo frances Dynadia . El presente texto analiza las distintas dimensiones de este encuentro en relacion con la tactica del partido, la lu…
Tsensuur kommunistlikus Poola Rahvavabariigis
2013
This article discusses the topic of censorship in the communist Poland. It presents a description of the functioning of the office of censorship (Main Office for the Control of Presentations and Public Performances; Główny Urzęd Kontroli Prasy, Publikacji i Widowisk) as well as other forms of informal influence on the authors working for public publishing houses. The underground publications suppressed during the Stalin era as well as difficulties encountered by Polish historians after 1956 will be the subject of the analysis. Furthermore, the article indicates the complementary role of the underground publishers after 1970. These publishing houses had a significant impact on the birth of p…
26 septembre 1939 : la dissolution des organisations communistes
2017
National audience; La dissolution du PCF et des organisations qui lui sont liées doit être replacée dans le mouvement de droitisation progressive des radicaux, en réaction au Front populaire dont ils s’attachent à démanteler une grande partie des acquis dès l’accession d’Édouard Daladier au pouvoir en avril 1938. L’anticommunisme est pour le chef du gouvernement un instrument pour resserrer les rangs, à la fois dans l’opinion comme au sein du Parlement, en faisant droit à une revendication émise par la droite dès la mi-1938. Mis au ban de la communauté nationale comme membres du parti de l’étranger, les communistes s’assimilent facilement au bouc émissaire constitué par les étrangers et per…
Post‐Soviet Reform in Latvia: Early Progress and Future Prospects
1992
After the rapid and dramatic demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, 15 newly autonomous republics are restructuring their economies after decades of central Communist planning. The three Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia had successful market‐oriented economies during more than two decades of independence between World Wars I and II and were comparatively strong performers within the USSR after being occupied in 1940. A case study of Latvia looks at the historic factors and political issues which are shaping the current reform process. A contrast of state‐run, collective and private enterprises is used to illustrate the rapid changes which now place Latvia at the forefront among p…
Getting support in polarized societies: Income, social networks, and socioeconomic context
2013
AbstractThis paper explores how unequal resources and social and economic polarization affects the size of social networks and their use to access resources. We argue that individual resource position generates divergent expectations with regard to the impact of polarization on the size of networks on one hand, and their usefulness for accessing resources on the other. Social and economic polarization encourages reliance on informal networks, but those at the bottom of the social structure are forced to rely on more extensive networks than the wealthy to compensate for their isolated and underprivileged position. At the same time, social and economic polarization limits the resources the po…