School of Diplomatic English by D. A. Kryachkov

“…Chair of English Language № 1 considers itself the successor of the English Language Chair, established at the Faculty of International Relations at the Moscow State University during the World War II. After the Faculty was reformed into MGIMO the Department of English Language began to grow rapidly. …”
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Literatura testimonial de la otra memoria democrática española : republicana, antifascista e internacionalista by Antonio Prado del Santo

“…With this in mind, I offer a Benjaminian reading of the Republican testimonial literature that looks back on the geopolitical connection of the War in Spain with the Second World War : their retreat to France, their stay in the French camps and their participation in the French Resistance…”
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Maurice Denis dans la Grande Guerre by Fabienne Stahl

“…Maurice Denis (1870-1943) did not participate actively in the First World War, but this period inevitably brought a break in his life and in his work. …”
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Ancient Art in the Collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk by Grzegorz First

“…The remaining artifacts stored in Gdańsk have not been thoroughly studied; they do not form a homogeneous collection, and it cannot be ruled out that they may also be remnants of former bourgeois collections dating back to the 16th century or German collections acquired in Gdańsk after World War II. …”
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Split Screen Nation: Vernacular Screen Forms of the American Paradox by Susan Courtney

“…This essay introduces an eclectic history of popular U.S. film, including but well beyond Hollywood cinema, that mediated conflicted sentiments about the U.S. in the decades after the Second World War through an implicit, and sometimes explicit, opposition between the screen South and the screen West. …”
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Tutti i colori del verde. Il ruolo del verde urbano nei processi di cittadinanza nella città di Bolzano by Roberta Raffaetà

“…This article analyses how the perception and the practices related to urban green in the city of Bolzano (north-Italy) are implicated in processes of citizenship and ethnic identity, with special reference to colonial invasion of the area since the end of first world war. Through an ethnographic approach (part of a interdisciplinary project), the article illustrates how the way in which people in Bolzano make sense and use the urban green is the result of historically stratified influences that are entangled to contemporary reinterpretations made on the basis of actual socio-political challenges. …”
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Adalékok a határ mentiség újraértelmezéséhez Magyarországon (Additives for the Reinterpretation of Cross-Border Character in Hungary) by Béla Baranyi

“…The radical geopolitical restructuring after the First World War resulted in new states and state borders in Central Europe. …”
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Experience and Interpretation: Emotion as Revealed in Narration by Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj

“…The narratives of those women were about dramatic stages of their lives during the World War II. The main themes of the life stories were forced transfers and deportation suffered by the Ingrian Finns. …”
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La traversée médiatique du simple soldat. À partir de l’œuvre de Bertrand Carrière by Johanne Villeneuve

“…Our reading of Carrière’s work leads to some considerations aboutThe Wartime Memories Project,a website collecting memories (stories and photos) of the Great War and the Second World War. Our analysis relies on the relationship between mediation, testimony and cults of the dead. …”
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La revendication bretonne dans la littérature du IIIe Emsav : une inversion des valeurs by Tristan Loarer

“…The decade following the end of World War II failed to rebuild, in Brittany, the popular emulation that certain “nationalist” militants could have wished for around the question of the specific Breton identity. …”
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Straff-välfärdsstaten och kontrollkultur i svensk kriminalpolitik by Henrik Tham

“…Swedish criminal policy has changed markedly in the years following World War II. This change shows clear parallels to the processes described in David Garland’s The Culture of Control. …”
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Propagande et « contre-propagande » en Irlande pendant la Première Guerre mondiale by Jérôme aan de Wiel

“…The First World War caused a major propaganda battle in Ireland between, on the one hand, the constitutional Nationalist Party, led by John Redmond, and the British authorities who were both in favour of the war and voluntary recruitment, and on the other hand, Sinn Féin, opposition nationalists and also a few Catholic clergymen who were against the British war effort in the country, deeming that the home rule crisis had not been dealt with in a satisfactory way. …”
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Franc Jeza v Trstu by Ivo Jevnikar

“…A Christian socialist, member of the Liberation Front, and former camp prisoner, Jeza left Yugoslavia after the Second World War, permanently settling in Trieste. The paper discusses his life from his escape to Italy in the autumn of 1948 to his death in Trieste on January 20, 1984. …”
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Selection and Evaluation of Electronic Resources by Doğan Atılgan, Yusuf Yalçın

“…Publication boom and issues related to controlling and accession of printed sources have created some problems after World War II. Consequently, publishing industry has encountered the problem of finding possible solution for emerged situation. …”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…To this heir to war accounts heard in his family –1870 and mainly 1914-1918 –, to this member of the Resistance movement during the second world war and to this witness of the conflicts that would lead to the French colonies independence, going back to his mother tongue seems to have stimulated him in his attempt to understand why a man agrees to fight. …”
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« La chère et la chair » : gastronomie et prostitution dans les grands restaurants des boulevards au xixe siècle by Lola Gonzalez-Quijano

“…From the Third Republic to the First World War, those establishments capitalized on the “Eros of good food” to become places of not only culinary pleasure and gastronomic tourism but also of prostitution and sexual tourism.…”
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The Spatial Extensions of the Right to Seek Asylum by Melina Philippou

“…It was the first time after the Second World War that Europe addressed statelessness in its territory. …”
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Les hôpitaux psychiatriques du Rhône entre 1946 et 1960 : de nouvelles maisonnées pour les malades non marié∙es by Mathis Farcy

“…After the Second World War, which proved to be a gruesome period for people placed in institutions, French psychiatric hospitals underwent several changes, especially to foster social ties between patients. …”
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Guerres et violences à l’abbaye d’Ardenne by Yves Chevrefils Desbiolles

“…Before focusing on the Second World War, which almost led to its final disappearance, this article discusses the history of Ardenne Abbey from the Middle Ages to the modern era, in the light of the dark topic of violence.…”
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Le Paysage, outil de résistance face à l’urbanisation by Jean-Louis Yengué, Clothilde Chaballier

“…The agglomeration has grown continuously since the end of the Second World War with a period of marked acceleration in the 1970s and a loss of 8 000 ha of agricultural land and of 58% of farms in the last 30 years. …”
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