This study of workers' altitudes compares data from International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys for former commuiiisi countries in Europe with ISSP data for Western countries over the period 1987-93, which covers the beginning of the transition to a market economy for the former communist countries. Omsistent with their hypothesis that communist-run economies left an altiiiidinal "lega...

ARGUMENT This paper examines the postwar reconstruction of the Polish academic system. It analyzes a debate that took place in the newly established university in the proletarian city of Łódź. The vision of the shape of the university was a bone of contention between the professors. This resulted in two contentious models of a university: "liberal" and "socialized." Soon, universities were tran...

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution period of the People’s Republic of China (1966-1976) was crucial in the creation of modern-day China. The material culture of that period mirrors the turbulent political activity of students and the directives of the Communist Party’s central leadership during the height of the Mao Zedong personality cult. The commercial manufacture of posters, often th...

This study firstly emphasize the importance and relevance of analysing newsreels from a history education aspect, which is blind spot in Hungarian research. The official Leninist ideology deeply influenced genre, used as channel overall propaganda, during after communist takeover, between 1945 1954. Production broadcasting depended on political goals turns Communist Party, combined simple messa...

This study explores the social construction of agency and wellbeing among 20 Chinese urban retirees aged between 50 and 82 years old (averaging 67), with a special focus on the impact of earlier life experiences in shaping later-life pathways. Today's retirees in urban China have experienced the communist collectivist ideology during the Mao era as well as the changes to everyday life brought a...

The left-wing insurgency in Peru waged by the Shining Path, or Sendero Luminoso (SL), and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal launched by the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN(M)) have impacted their respective states and societies. Despite similarities in the social, economic, and political grievances in the two states, the insurgencies had dramatically different trajectories and outcomes. The SL leade...

Two iconoclasms took place in twentieth-century Russian history: the iconoclasm after October revolution, and breakdown of Soviet Union. These two (ideologically opposite) phases iconoclastic actions (dismantling, destruction) were incited by programmes concerning abolition tsarist monuments 1918 met controversial reactions to removal statues former politicians 1990s. The revolutionary demoliti...

Very little information is available regarding psychiatry in North Korea, which is based on the legacy of Soviet psychiatry. This paper reviews the characteristics of psychiatry in former socialist countries and discusses its implications for North Korean psychiatry. Under socialism, psychiatric disorders were attributed primarily to neurophysiologic or neurobiological origins. Psychosocial or ...