The Role of the Military-Political Elite of Egypt in the Struggle for National Independence in the Post-World War II Period (1945-1952) by I. E. Ibragimov

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Art and art history in cultural publishing of the second half of the 20th century by Irene Piazzoni

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Layering Public Park Histories: Uncovering the Effects of Restoration Idea[l]s in Post-War Urban Spaces in Germany and the U.S. by Laura Brannan Fretwell, Eliane Schmid

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The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…By analyzing a number of recordings of Beggar’s Holiday’s opening song, “In Between,” I demonstrate that Ellington and Latouche simultaneously invoked and undermined this aesthetic dichotomy to make an intervention into post-World War II left-wing political debates.…”
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When Ethnic Identity is a Private Matter by Kjell Olsen

“…This article analyses the change of articulation of ethnic boundaries on the coastline and the fjord areas in Finnmark, Northern Norway in the post-World War II period. From being a ‘social stigma’ in the 1950s a Sámi identity is today something that can be expressed in certain cultural constructed spaces. …”
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Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Writing against the grain of post-World War II conformism, Highsmith proleptically addresses issues of maladaptation in her portrait of a repressed sociopath who attempts to mask his inner rage via the sublimation of aesthetic pursuits.…”
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Quand le mieux est l’ennemi du bien : David Ross Brower, la militance environnementaliste et la prospérité matérielle by Jean-Daniel Collomb

“…This article addresses the vulnerability of American environmentalist discourse during the post-World War II boom: while the growing success of the environmental movement in the United States can largely be attributed to an unprecedentedly large distribution of material wealth after 1945, many environmentalists had warned Americans against the negative effects of economic growth and mass consumption. …”
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“More than the travels around the world, on your nest full of peace, you find each time the playful love:” Lollobrigida’s motherhood in admirers’ letters by Federico Vitella

“…Post-World War II fan letters were more a means to something than an end for their writers. …”
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Experts on the defensive: The Tsiganologue versus Romani activism (1959-1973) by Begoña Barrera López

“… This article discusses the figure of the Tsiganalogue, the expert on the “Tsigane question,” in post-World War II France. Specifically, it analyses the role played by one of these experts in the police persecution of Roma ethnic activism during the 1960s and early 1970s. …”
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The Critique of the Book of the Modest State, the Modern State, Strategies for Another Change About the Modest Leviathan by Hamid Reza Malek Mohammadi

“…Meanwhile, Michel Crozier, a writer sociologist and critic of state behaviors and bureaucracy, examining the post-World War II French states, finds them to have self-knowledgeable ideas and self-powerful imagination, but he believes that the developments of the era along with the failures of these states in achieving social and economic goals, especially in areas such as education and health, reveals the necessity of a fundamental rethinking of the state nature; a nature that  must be reflected in modesty of state. …”
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Innenentwicklung in ländlichen Räumen zwischen Planungsideal und Akteurinteressen: Der Einfluss von sozialen Aspekten by Jennifer Gerend, Marina Beck

“…The results of a survey were assigned to four spatially coded settlement types: historic town centres, post-World-War II settlement types, settlements from the 1980s and 1990s, and new developments after 2000. …”
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DETERRING AND THREATENING IN THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR: A GAME THEORY PERSPECTIVE by Adelina Andrei

“…Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 marked a significant turning point in the post-World War II history of Europe, with the realist and idealist views on international relations offering contrasting interpretations of its underlying sources. …”
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The West and the Rest of Us? by Masilo Lepuru

“…Their project of African Independence as undergirded by Pan-Africanism sought to challenge the West as the embodiment of slavery and colonialism (Chinweizu 1975) not only on the continent where it created colonies but the post-World War II dispensation. Many of them propagated socialist sentiments and objectives. …”
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Emergence et développement des dispositifs d’accès au logement : quelle place pour les handicapés psychiques ? (Europe occidentale-Amérique du Nord, milieu du XIXe-début XXIe siècl... by Gwenaëlle Legoullon

“…Formulas for accommodation and medical care outside the walls were diversified, but initially remained limited. The post-World War II period, marked by the rapid development of open hospitalization and the emergence of pioneering schemes aimed at integrating or reintegrating patients into the community (with their families, in their neighborhoods, etc.), favored the search for solutions to house some patients outside hospitals. …”
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Toward a Methodology of Spatial Neighborhood Evaluation to Uncover the “Invisible Spaces” in Neighborhoods Built Through State Initiatives Between 1945 and 1980 by Hadas Shadar, Dalit Shach-Pinsly

“…This article examines the ideological and spatial characteristics of neighborhoods built through the initiative of various states, particularly in Europe, in the post-World War II years, from 1945 to 1980. We argue that despite these neighborhoods being older and subject to economic, professional, and ideological criticism, they feature beneficial physical spaces that came to light, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Soviet View of the World. Exploring Long-Term Visual Patterns in “Novosti dnia” Newsreel Journal (1945-1992) by Mila Oiva, Tillmann Ohm, Ksenia Mukhina, Mar Canet Solà, Maximilian Schich

“…Studies in Soviet visual culture have recognized both continuities of repeating patterns and changes in the post-World War II period. This understanding is based primarily on temporally limited source selections, while a more systematic study of the developments in Soviet visual culture over a longer period is pending. …”
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Une histoire oubliée : la genèse française du terme « film noir » dans les années 1930 et ses implications transnationales by Thomas Pillard

“…In the 1990s, North American and British scholars started to re-evaluate film noir and show that this genre was not exclusive to American cinema: in fact, Charles O’Brien revealed that the label “film noir” had first been used in France before the war to describe a group of French films that are more or less the same ones we now identify as “poetic realism”; he then went on to refer to a new tendency in post-World-War-II Hollywood cinema. However, his work has, for the most part, gone unrecognized in France, where film noir is still seen as purely American. …”
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The Epochal Crisis of Global Capitalism by William I. Robinson

“…The conflict in Ukraine escalated in 2022 and the West’s radical political, military and economic response to it was but the coup de grâce of a decadent post-World War II western-centric order. However, the escalation of geopolitical tensions around the world in the wake its violent crackup is symptomatic of something more fundamental: the epochal crisis of global capitalism. …”
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Digging the Digital: Beat Modalities and the Representation of the Beats in Video Games by Tomasz Sawczuk

“…Ever since setting their foot on the social and cultural landscapes of the post-World War II realities, the Beats have been both the subject of and subject to pop-cultural representations and appropriations. …”
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Soviet Diplomatic Efforts to Prevent Hungary’s Alignment with Germany in World War II (1939– 1941) by V. F. Pryakhin

“…Hungary, as strategized by Budapest, hoped to secure a position among these observers, avoiding direct conflict participation, and to later engage in territorial reconfiguration post-World War II. However, the reality in Europe by the early 1940s diverged significantly, with Western powers (the USA and Great Britain) unable to redirect Hitler's global domination ambitions eastward. …”
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