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Seit Filme gemacht werden, stehen auch Sorbinnen und Sorben vor und hinter der Kamera. Einen Höhepunkt erlebte der sorbische Film in der DDR, vor allem in der DEFA-Produktionsgruppe "Sorbischer Film" (Serbska filmowa skupina). In der deutschen Filmgeschichtsschreibung aber ist er bisher nahezu unsichtbar. In Kooperation mit dem Sorbischen Institut schließt die Monografie mit Beiträgen sorbischer und deutscher Autorinnen und Autoren diese Lücke. Vom Kaiserreich bis in die Gegenwart geben sie einen Überblick des sorbischen Filmschaffens. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den Kino- und Fernsehproduktionen des DEFA-Studios sowie der Babelsberger Filmhochschule zwischen 1946 und 1992. Ergänzend dazu werden die wichtigsten sorbischen Filmschaffenden der DDR vorgestellt und ihre Bedeutung für den sorbischen und deutschen Film erörtert. Einzelbeiträge beleuchten zudem Fragen von Identitätsbildung und Film, Literaturverfilmungen, Stereotypen im Film und Verbindungen zum indigenen Kino. Ein Gespräch mit ehemaligen Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern der Produktionsgruppe bietet seltene Einblicke in eine bislang unbekannte Produktionspraxis und den Umgang mit der einzigen staatlich anerkannten ethnischen Minderheit der DDR. Auf zwei beigelegten DVDs werden wichtige Werke – sowohl deutsch- als auch sorbischsprachig – erstmals öffentlich zugänglich gemacht.

Збірка документів з архівів України про період «совєтизації» Закарпаття в різних сферах суспільно-політичного життя у 1944–1954 роках, а саме: з Центрального державного архіву вищих органів влади і управління України, Галузевого державного архіву Служби безпеки України, Державного архіву Закарпатської області, архіву Управління Служби безпеки України в Закарпатській області, Центрального державного кінофотофоноархіву України імені Г. С. Пшеничного, а також приватних колекцій Володимира Бірчака, Тараса Сегляника, Наталії Тирпак, Георгія Рогача та ін.

The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms and concepts employed for western democracies for describing, understanding, and predicting the developments in the "hybrid" regimes of Eastern Europe and the former USSR. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabulary and grammar tailored to the specifics of the countries of the former communist bloc. In this concise companion to the 800-page The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes (CEU Press, 2020), they develop a conceptual framework in 120 propositions with (1) a typology of post-communist regimes and (2) a detailed presentation of ideal-type actors and the political, economic, and social phenomena in these regimes. Each of the 120 propositions contains a statement and a succinct discussion supported by illustrative tables, figures, and QR-codes that connect the interested reader to the more detailed analysis in the Anatomy. In a condensed form, the holistic approach of the Anatomy is retained by treating political, market, and communal spheres as parts of a single, coherent whole. An analysis of twelve countries illustrates the concrete application of the method.

This book deals with the tension between a strategy of language maintenance (protecting and reinforcing the language where it is still spoken by community members) and a strategy of language revitalization (opening up access to the language to all interested people and encouraging new domains of its use). The case study presented concerns a grammar school in Upper Lusatia, which hosts the coexistence of a community of Upper Sorbian-speakers and a group of German native speakers who are learning Upper Sorbian at school. The tensions between these two groups studying at the same school are presented in this book against the background of various language strategies, practices and ideologies. The conflict of interests between the "traditional" community which perceives itself as the "guardians" of the minority language and its potential new speakers is played off on different levels by policy-makers and may be read through different levels of language policy and planning

"Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context is the first book to explore Odesa's cosmopolitan spaces in an urban context from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Leading scholars shed new light on encounters between Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian cultures. They debate different understandings of cosmopolitanism as they are reflected in Odesa's rich multilingual culture, ranging from intellectual history and education to music, opera, and literature. The issues of language and interethnic tensions, imperialist repression, and language choice are still with us today. Moreover, the book affords a historical view of what lay behind the Odesa myth, as well as insights into the Jewish and Ukrainian cultural revivals of the early twentieth century"--

Based on extensive field work, this book analyzes how ISIS – a widely hated, massively outnumbered, and ludicrously outgunned organization – managed to occupy over 120 cities, towns, and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya. Seeking to understand ISIS's combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour focuses on the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Egypt. The author explains how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations. This Ukrainian translation is supplemented by a special introduction on Russia's war against Ukraine and the ISIS tactics adoption by Russian troops (2014-2022).