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Democratisation as the fulfilment of intergenerational contract and paying tribute to the victims of the previous regime and to repressed oppositionThe historical need for national unity; Membership in international organisations, alliances and economic and political groups; The assumed post-transition identity; References; Chapter Two; A historical overview; Identity formation. The second Estonian national regeneration; The singing revolution; Democratisation. The "second" independence; The pre-transition identity. Homo Sovieticus?; The development of the transition identity

Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 "Tomorrow the World" -- 2 "Germany Belongs in the Western World" -- 3 "Your Post on the Frontier" -- 4 "The Anti-German Wave" -- 5 "We Refuse to Be'Good Germans' " -- 6 "The Hero Is Us" -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Captain John Lovewell's fatal expedition -- War and survival in Dunstable, Massachusetts, 1673/1725 -- Deaths and burials in Dummer's War, 1722/1725 -- Scripting the fight -- Social welfare and Lovewell's men -- Remembering Lovewell through the centuries

"Despite the Mexican government's projected image of prosperity and modernity in the years following World War II, workers who felt that Mexico's progress had come at their expense became increasingly discontented. From 1948 to 1958, unelected and often corrupt officials of STFRM, the railroad workers' union, collaborated with the ruling Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI) to freeze wages for the rank and file. In response, members of STFRM staged a series of labor strikes in 1958 and 1959 that inspired a nationwide working-class movement. The Mexican army crushed the last strike on March 26, 1959, and union members discovered that in the context of the Cold War, exercising their constitutional right to organize and strike appeared radical, even subversive. Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico examines a pivotal moment in post-World War II Mexican history. This study of railroad labor activism argues that the railway strikes of the 1950s constituted the first and boldest challenge to PRI rule and marked the beginning of mass dissatisfaction with the ruling party. In addition, Robert F. Alegre gives the wives of the railroad workers a narrative place in this history by incorporating issues of gender identity in his analysis"--

Conceptualizing horror -- The Camp Mittelbau-Dora -- An end and a beginning -- The change of command -- Shaping the new land and its memories -- The Mahn- und Gedenkstätte in the GDR -- The wall comes down -- The modern Gedenkstätte -- Major themes and conclusions

This collection of essays honors G.H. von Wright whose contributions have been instrumental in advancing our understanding of the thinking of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book includes the first English translation of the Frege-Wittgenstein correspondence.