State Regulation of Church Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia after the Second World War

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Psychotherapy in The Netherlands after the Second World War

The early history of psychotherapy in the Netherlands hardly differs from that of the surrounding countries. Somewhat later than in France and Germany, psychotherapy appeared during the last decades of the nineteenth century, with general practitioners who started to treat their patients (mainly for all kinds of somatic complaints) by psychological means. In the early decades of the twentieth c...

The moral economy of home construction in late socialist Yugoslavia

Housing shortages in Yugoslav cities were a perennial concern for authorities and citizens alike. They disproportionately affected Yugoslav workers who as a consequence were the demographic most likely to independently construct a family home. This article explores how informal builders justified home construction in moral terms, legitimizing it on the basis of physical labour that was invested...

Typhus Fever in the Second World War.

Fertility Regulation in a Declining State Socialist

International Family Planning Perspectives Elwood Carlson is professor and Megumi Omori is Ph.D candidate, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. The authors thank Kiril Donkov of the Bulgarian National Statistical Office, Tzveta Timtcheva and Christian Griva of the Bulgarian Ministry of Health, Marta Sougareva and Dimiter Filipov of the Institute of Demograph...