“Some Comments on Political Discourse and Regime-Building in Post-Transition Hungary.”>full text (c) tr@nsit 2013
Archive for Communism
Anti-Communist propaganda
Posted in Uncategorized with tags anti-Communism, Communism, Europe, political art, politics, posters, propaganda on 14 November 2013 by delclem
“Horror movies and Weird Tales magazine have given us some beautiful, spooky and unnerving works of art. But if you really want a dose of scary brilliance? Check out the posters that warned people of the evils of Communism. These are scarier, and more beautiful, than pretty much any horror art you’ve seen.”
>photo album (c) l09.com 2013
First Lady of Yugoslavia dies
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Communism, Croatia, Jovanka Broz. obituary, Serbia, Tito, yugoslavia on 28 October 2013 by delclem
“Jovanka Broz (1924-2013) was the first wife of a Communist leader in Eastern
Europe to become a celebrity in her own right.” >text & photo (c) NYT, 2013
Alternative read (c) balkaninsight.com 2013
Photographer & Soviet spy with a conscience
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Communism, Edith Tudor-Hart, espionage, exhibition, Greta-Britain, London, photography, Soviet Union, Vienna on 3 October 2013 by delclem
“When Edith Tudor-Hart wasn’t working as a Soviet agent, she was taking lovingly realistic portraits of London’s workers and street children. Now, for the first time, a retrospective is celebrating her double life.” >full text (c) THE TELEGRAPH, 2013
Stalin’s Shadow
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Anne Applebaum, Central Europe, Communism, Eastern Europe, histroy, Iron curtain, Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union, World War II on 18 January 2013 by delclem
“Having brilliantly documented the horror of Stalin’s Soviet terror machine in her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, author Anne Applebaum now offers a bulky sequel, Iron Curtain, about the brutal effort of that same machine to crush and colonize Eastern Europe in the first decade after World War II. Her evidence, once again drawn from archival research and some survivor interviews, is overwhelming and convincing. But the heart of her story is hardly news.” >review & photo (c) NYT, 2012
“The Tragedy of Central Europe” (1945-1989)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, Communism, Czech Republic, essay, France, Lund, Milan Kundera, Russia, Soviet Union, Sweden on 19 December 2012 by delclem
On Milan Kundera‘s seminal and problematic, ie. almost racist,
essay from 1984 >text (c) EUROPEAN STUDIES IN LUND, 2010
Bird brain or canard?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags birds, Communism, Iron curtain on 24 October 2011 by delclem
“Birds with smaller brains, such as the goldfinch (above) have not been able to cope with the changes unleashed by the demise of Communism in eastern Europe, scientists found.” Article (c) The Telegraph, 2011
Warsaw in the 1950s
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Communism, France, homosexuality, Michel Foucault, philosophy, Poland, Warsaw on 24 September 2011 by delclem“Based on the stay of Michel Foucault in Warsaw in the late 50’s, Foucault’s Room is a visual exploration of the post-war architecture of Warsaw over a text riddled with innuendos about erotic encounters under scrutiny by the Communist authorities.”
Objet trouvé on MadForFoucault, 2011
Neglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Communism, Holocaust, Lithuania, National Socialism, Second World War, Timothy Snyder on 31 July 2011 by delclem
An article by the historian Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
who published the controversial & thought-provoking book Bloodlands recently
(c) NYR, 2011
delirium clemens 