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1. Czech Social Democracy, František Soukup and the Habsburg Austrian suffrage campaign 1897-1907. Toward a new understanding of nationalism in the workers' movements of East Central Europe

Creator:
Beneš, Jakub
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Subject:
history, social psychology, Czech Social Democracy, political rhetoric, democratization, leaders, and rank and file
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Czech
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This article examines a shift in Czech socialist workers’ political rhetoric in the first decade of the twentieth century from the sense that workers were excluded outsiders from the ethnic nation to the idea that they would rightfully redefine and lead the ethnic nation. Social Democracy’s preoccupation from 1907 on with national concerns led directly to the splitting of Austrian Social Democracy along ethno-national lines several years before the outbreak of World War One. Because this rhetorical and social-psychological shift coincided with a major extension of voting rights in Habsburg Austria (in which Social Democratic mobilizations played a key role), this paper argues that democratization played an important, unappreciated, role in the rise of nationalism in the east central European workers’ movement. It also highlights the role of Czech socialist leader, František Soukup, in facilitating and articulating Czech workers’ new stance. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
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2. Před dvaceti lety: pár osobních vzpomínek

Creator:
Jan Svoboda
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Věda. Všeobecnosti. Základy vědy a kultury. Vědecká práce, Akademie věd České republiky, 20.-21. století, demokratizace, Sametová revoluce (1989 : Československo), democratization, Velvet revolution (1989 : Czechoslovakia), Česko, Czechia, 12, and 00
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Czech
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Jan Svoboda.
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3. Turecké jaro? Od ekologického protestu k občanskému neklidu

Creator:
Kučera, Petr
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Dějiny Asie. Orient, protestní hnutí, demokratizace, protest movements, democratization, Turecko, Turkey, 8, and 94(5)
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Czech
Description:
In May and June 2013 Turkey witnessed one of the longest and biggest social unrests in its modern history. Protesters all around the country rebelled against the government's authoritarian tendencies and police violence, exemplified by the hars treatment of activists resisting the reshaping of Istanbul's favorite Taksim Square and the adjacent Gezi Park. This essay address the origins, development and outcomes of the Turkish "Occupy Gezi" movement. It seeks the roots of the movement on three interdependent levels centered around the uses and misuses of public space and the instrumentalization of civil society in the hegemonical political discourse. Accordingly, the demonstrations are analyzed as (1) a critique of neoliberal developmentarism in Turkey, reflected in the marketization/commodification of public space and the destruction of the envoronment; (2) as a critique of the majoritarian, non-inclusive concept of democracy that accompanies neoliberal economic policies in Turkey and has manifested itself in the attempt to appropriate public space and to gain effective control over "disloyal" elements of society; and (3) finally as a critique of state paternalism, its most palpable effect being the imposition of conservative values, the distaste for alternative life-styles and the construction of a homogeneous mass of "Turkish citizens" adhering to similar values. We argue that the alleged Islamism of the ruling AKP played only an accessory role in the outbreak and development of the protests. What was an ecological protest and outcry at non-participative urban transformation in the beginning turned into a widespread popular happening whose participants tried to create an alternative to the bureaucratic machinery of the neoliberal state and the increasingly authoritarian behavior of its representatives who are unresponsive and unsensitive to the frustrations of oppositional voices, non-religious classes and different life-styles., Petr Kučera., and Obsahuje bibliografii
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