Daniel Siemens, The Making of a Nazi Hero: The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel
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Archiv für April 2015
Robin Aizlewood and Ruth Coates, eds, Landmarks Revisited: The Vekhi Symposium 100 Years On
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Marianna G. Muravyeva and Raisa M. Toivo, eds, Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Krawall in der Zionskirche: Skinhead Violence and Political Legitimacy in the GDR
In 1987, an East Berlin punk concert was attacked by Skinheads. This event and others like it provoked sustained outcry in the German Democratic Republic in the last years of the 1980s. The political opposition transformed public outrage over Skinhead…
David I. Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/45/2/386?rss=1
Becoming Dangerous: Everyday Violence in the Industrial Milieu of Late-Socialist Romania
In this article, I examine the extent to which everyday violence was a matter of public order in the 1970s and 1980s in Romania’s ‘industrial milieu’. Starting from the assumption that public order is an integral part of a monopoly on the use of physical force, I analyse unexceptional, nonlethal violence because, as a borderline phenomenon with both public and private aspects, it can illuminate our understanding of the implementation of legitimating practices in late socialism. Focusing mainly on cases of violence among male workers in the 1970s in Călan, a ‘mono-industrial’ town whose economy was dominated by a metallurgical plant, I examine how everyday violence was dealt with by various institutions, including the law enforcement system (the police, prosecutors and courts), the plant administration and various levels of the party structure. In this context, everyday violence was apparently linked to the private sphere and to stereotypical male normalcy, along with alcohol consumption, and consequently it was not deemed a matter of public order. The situation changed progressively in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when, after the worker protests in Lupeni (1977) and Motru (1981), the authorities began to infer a causal link between everyday violence and protest.
Jean-Pascal Gay, Jesuit Civil Wars: Theology, Politics and Government under Tirso Gonzalez (1687-1705)
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Order, Reputation and Narrative: Forms of State Violence in Late Socialist Macedonia
Taking the view that micro-historical approaches augment our understanding of how sweeping societal change is experienced and enacted ‘from below’ by human actors, this paper focuses on the largely forgotten ‘Vevčani affair’ (1987–1989) to illuminate some under-examined modalities of violence in the waning years of Communist Party rule in Yugoslavia. In particular, the paper seeks to trace how physical violence by security forces against residents of Vevčani, a village in Western Macedonia, in August 1987 (as well as an earlier confrontation in May 1987) was part of a larger framework of forces, which included three other modalities of violence here defined as existential, reputational and narratival. The paper also examines the degree to which this particular dispute in the Republic of Macedonia became part of broader political battles in Yugoslavia, and how the existence of differentiated ‘publics’ within an increasingly tenuous federation operated to accelerate the dramatic changes under way in the different republics.
Maurizio Viroli, As If God Existed: Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy
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Containing Conflict and Enforcing Consent in Titoist Yugoslavia: The 1970 Dockworkers‘ Strike in Koper (Slovenia)
The port of Koper (It. Capodistria) in the Slovenian part of the Istrian peninsula was built in the second half of the 1950s as a socialist modernization project. In 1970, it witnessed the only violently escalating dockers’ unrest in its sociali…