Making Sense of the Violent Past: War Veterans’ Organizations in Post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia

Learning From Past; Assessment of the Post-War Reconstruction of Qasr-e-Shirin in Iran

This paper addresses the post-war reconstruction experience of Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran, in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). Compared with the war-damaged cities in southwest Iran, western cities such as Qasr-e-Shirin lack a post-war reconstruction assessment and documentation. With an objective view, the author aims at documenting the situation of the city almost thirty years after i...

Stalinist Industrialisation and the Test of War*

Designing and Presenting of a Model of Sense Making in Service Organizations

Organizational sense making is the process that helps managers to understand how organization's members change ideas and eventually what they chose, maintain and achieve among different meanings. �This study examines and presents a model of sense making in service organizations and results in addition to the research community in other service organizations such as municipalities and municipal ...

Making Sense of the Unkown: Knowledge Dissemination in Organizations

Within corporations, opportunities are missed and efforts can be duplicated due to the relevant information not being known by the appropriate individuals. Often, an employee does not even know that relevant information might be uncovered by searching the corporate intranet. In this paper we present a context-sensitive aid to sensemaking by providing relevant information to an individual in an ...

Stalinist Identity from the Viewpoint of Gender: Rearing a Generation of Professionally Violent Women- Fighters in 1930s Stalinist Russia

The news about the German invasion of Soviet borders on 22 June 1941 found a Muscovite teenager Marina Chechneva in Yalta. Finding it difficult to return immediately to Moscow, she went to the local military recruitment committee: ‘I walked in’, remembered Chechneva years later in her autobiographical novel, The Sky Remains Ours, ‘and said that I am a pilot and want to go to the front’. On 22 J...