Search results for "iron curtain"

Friederike Kind-Kovács. Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain. Budapest: Central European Universtity Pr…

2015

В коммунистических режимах свободное слово было под запретом. Однако некоторые любящие правду писатели (впрочем, не только они, но и вообще люди интеллигентского круга), не боясь преследований, распространяли свои произведения в самиздате и отправляли их за «железный занавес», где другие такие же свободолюбивые люди печатали их, передавали их содержание по радио. Иногда даже удавалось отправлять несколько напечатанных экземпляров назад на родину автора. Таким образом возникло международное сообщество рыцарей справедливости. Какими плохими дядьками, однако, были эти коммунисты! С такой формулировкой, пусть и наивной по форме, вероятно, мог бы согласится каждый. В этой связи непонятно, для че…

Corruption and Organised Crime Signalling Indicators for Foreign Investors as Applied to Eastern European Countries

2021

The former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe and, implicitly, their economies, went through specific and sometimes asymmetric developments since the fall of the “iron curtain” at the end of the 1980s. During those years, they faced many challenges to create a secure and predictable economic environment for individuals and businesses, local or foreign. We propose a framework that considers legal, social, and economic indicators which can be used by foreign investors to make wise and efficient business decisions. Our main purpose is to expand the traditional economic analysis framework and enrich it with new institutional and societal indicators from the social, quality of lif…

DEVELOPMENT OF HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHER TRAINING IN UNIVERSITIES: THE CASE OF LATVIA AND BELGIUM

2021

The aim of this study is to seek answers to the following questions: 1) How has the formation and development of the history of education interacted with teacher training in universities? 2) How did the Iron Curtain influence the development of the history of education in Latvia and how can the consequences of Soviet era in the history of education be overcome? 3) What kind of history of education is suitable for teacher training programmes today? These questions are researched based on the analysis of the history of pedagogy as a course in Latvian and Belgian universities. KEY WORDS: history of pedagogy, revisionism in the history of pedagogy, “new” history of education, teacher training, …

States of Division: Border and Boundary Formation in Cold War Rural Germany, by Sagi Schaefer

2017

Filtered through the Iron Curtain: Soviet Methodology for the Canon of World (Foreign) Literature and the Latvian Case

2012

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Mobility of Cultures and Knowledge Management in Contemporary Europe

2012

In the aftermath of the fall of the Iron Curtain, the European Union (EU) has included more and more new member states from Central and Eastern parts of the European continent. This enlargement process has increased the cultural diversity of the European community as new languages and minority groups have been subsumed into the EU. It is the purpose of this article to discuss the challenges that result from the EU's enlargement, together with the added intra-European mobility of cultures, that affect the national knowledge infrastructures. Based on recent social scientific scholarship on mobility and cultures, this article proposes that knowledge management in contemporary Europe is not onl…