Now the country was on the precipice yet again; without urgent social reforms, the health care, pension, and education systems could suck the life out of the Polish economy, sending inflation soaring again and jeopardizing Poland’s trajectory from a Communist backwater to a European pow...
Analysis: Struggle in Poland to determine how to deal with the truths of its Communist pastMADELEINE BRAND
Mao was born in 1893 and, as a young man, was influenced by the revolution of 1911, which overthrew China's last imperial dynasty. He later became a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and its chairman. (He was, and still is, known worldwide as "Chairman Mao.") ...
A popular boardgame, parodying queue-culture in Communist Poland Another well-loved strategy occurs when someone arrives at the queue, tells you they are in front of you, then leaves only to appear again just as it’s about to be your turn. Should you give any space between you and the...
, trying to find feminists was like looking for a needle in a haystack. There were good reasons for this. For a long time, even after 1989, women in former communist countries did not want to be identified as feminists, even if they were. If anything, to be a feminist was considered ...
long as it held the promise of pulling them out of the terrible economic condition (Johnson, 2022). Hitler, taking advantage of people’s economic desperation, advanced his antisemitic and anticommunist rhetoric by partly attributing Depression to the Jewish population. In 1933 Hitler was elected ...
At first glance, President Donald Trump’s second inauguration seemed like a continuation of the country’s nearly 250-year-long tradition of peaceful transfers of power, essential to its democracy. And there was much to celebrate: Trump won a free and fair election last fall, and his supporte...
Abstract The political and social changes that have taken place in Central Europe after the collapse of the communist regimes in the 1990s, followed by the accession of some countries to the European Union, have initiated the intense development of cities. The development is manifested, among other...
uncover its potential, and feel inspired to tackle this transformative field. browse all ai technology an ai artist's take on tech and legacy growing up in poland under communist rule, artist agnieszka pilat has always found hope and freedom in technology. accompanied onstage by the infamous ...
In what way did communism have a global impact beyond those countries that were governed by communist parties ? What was the most significant benefit of the Cold War for Americans? What are the lasting effects of the great war? In what way did it cause change the occur socially,...