Questions about the country in turmoil you are probably to embarrased to ask >full text (c) WASHINGTON POST, 2014. Another 10 questions (c) Business Insider
Archive for history
Understanding Ukraine
Posted in Uncategorized with tags history, nationaism, politics, riots, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine on 25 January 2014 by delclemWWI: “an imperial bloodbath that’s a warning, not a noble cause”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Europe, First World War, history, imperialism on 8 January 2014 by delclem
“Tory claims that 1914 was a fight for freedom are absurd – but then history wars
are about the future as much as the past.”>text & illu (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2014
“… with all means at its disposal”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria-Hungary, First World War, history, photography on 31 December 2013 by delclem
“In 2014, most European countries will commemorate the start of the First World War 100 years ago. Among the numerous publications to appear to date is a book from Carl Gerold’s Publishers, which contains numerous hitherto unpublished photographs.” >text & album (c) wieninternational.at 2013
What if… the Germans had won WWI?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Germany, history, Twentieth Century, World War I on 28 December 2013 by delclem
“With the war’s centenary near, this is not a parlour game. Counterfactual
conjecture allows us to see the conflict far more objectively.” >essay
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013; photo (c) Virginia Mayo/AP:
David Cameron visits the graves of WW1 soldiers in Zonnebeke, Belgium.
Discrimination against Roma traced back
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, discrimination, Eastern Europe, gypsies, history, Košice, marginalization, Roma, Slovakia on 1 November 2013 by delclem
“Discrimination against Sinti & Roma is an inextricable part of their millennium-old history in Europe. The discrimination could be seen as an understandable reaction of the settled population to nomadic strangers. However the Roma and their advocates argue that the nomadic lifestyle is a consequence, rather than cause, of the discrimination.” >full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
More: How Racist Assumptions fuelled the ‘Maria’ Disaster >text (c) SPIEGEL,2013
Another article: the Slovak city of Košice as ‘slumdog millionaire’?
>text & disturbing photos (c) THE DAILY MAIL, 2013
The History of VIENNA in 11 parts
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, history, Vienna on 6 October 2013 by delclem
Very helpful educational website. Just click on the link and select one of the languages available: German, English, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, BCS, Slovene, Russian, Romanian. All texts (c) wieninternational.at 2013
1913 – The Year Before the Storm
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1913, Austria, Europe, Florien Illies, Germany, history, Literature, World War I on 17 September 2013 by delclem
“Can you write a history of the year 1913 and ignore the disaster waiting around the corner? With the centenary of the First World War approaching that may sound perverse, yet it is precisely what Die Zeit journalist Florian Illies tries to do in his new book, which was a bestseller in Germany when it was published there last year.” >review (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
Austrofascism revisited
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Austrofascism, Emmerich Tálos, Engelbert Dollfuss, First Republic, history, Kurt Schuschnigg, Moscow, Vienna on 12 June 2013 by delclem
Austrofascism (1933 – 1938) “was not just a corporative state [Ständestaat] but a ‘despicable, unpopular, authoritarian Austrian dictatorship’. This is the conclusion reached by the retired Austrian political scientist Emmerich Tálos in his new book entitled Das austrofaschistische Herrschaftssystem. Tálos studied some 200 boxes of historical archive material returned by the Russian authorities from Moscow to Vienna in 2009.” Interview (c) WIENINTERNATIONAL.AT, 2103
The Serbian Chetniks & the Jews
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chetniks, history, Holocaust, Jews, Marko Attila Hoare, Muslims, Serbia, World War II on 15 May 2013 by delclem
British historian Marco Attila Hoare explores the ugly sides of World War Two & the Holocaust in the Balkans: the hidden agenda of local nationalism/s. >text (c) KOSOVO-NEWS 2013
In memoriam Central Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bratislava, Central Europe, Eric Hobsbawm, Great Britain, Habsburg, history, portrait, railway, Slovakia, Vienna on 15 April 2013 by delclem“Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012), the great historian, travels from his native Vienna to Bratislava (formerly Pressburg). A train journey of a mere 35 miles takes him through a tiny landscape that has seen some of the most turbulent political changes of the century – from the lost world of the Habsburgs to Europe’s newest state, Slovakia. ‘Nationalism is not compatible with the progress of history,’ says Hobsbawm.” video portrait (c) VIMEO, 2012
delirium clemens 