At its foundation in Moscow on 23 June 1921, the International Union of Red Sports and Gymnastics Associations, better known as Red Sport International (RSI), defined its mission as “the creation and amalgamation of revolutionary proletarian sports and gymnastics organizations in all countries of the world and their transformation into support centers for the proletariat in its class struggle.”...

Why are some states more corrupt than others? More specifically, why is post-communist Romania significantly more corrupt than post-communist Hungary even though both transitioned to democracy from USSR satellite states in 1989 and both went on to enter the European Union? This paper argues that though the implementation of communism in political institutions at the time of transition cannot se...

This paper examines the relationship between racism and memory politics of anti-communist underground in Poland. It explores a covert antisemitism behind conservative nationalist hegemonic project transforming into ideologically charged symbol Cursed Soldiers. demonstrates that under conditions condemnation antisemitism, symbolism Soldiers has become way expressing anti-Jewish prejudice politic...

Despite their increased popularity in Latin America, Africa and Asia, truth commissions have remained an overlooked solution to coming to terms with the recent human rights abuses perpetrated in communist Europe. Since the start of the democratization process in the early 1990s, only Germany, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Romania have employed truth commissions as meth...

The article reveals ideological-theoretical, methodological, and politico-ideological basic principles for an adequate analysis of the specifics modern Chinese (Sinicized) Marxism. attributive features Marxism (Marxism with (the adaptation to Context, Sinicized Marxism), as most effective version in world history correcting modernizing axiomatics Marxist-Leninist theoretical model social develo...

In places like contemporary China, where legal adjudication for past wrongdoings is impossible, an aesthetic engagement with the experience of loss has become essential to activating these historical remains and undermining violent narratives of progress. Tracing several generations’ aesthetic responses to the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and the present day influx of glo...

Ho Chi Minh is the eminent political leader of nation and Communist Party Vietnam, one major politicians in world. Minh's ideology on national interests viewpoints expressed deeply building, formation state construction people, by for people. From a historical point view, article uses methods qualitative analysis to clarify issue - core through work Duong Kach Menh. The argues that interest tho...

Abstract While existing scholarship looks at the relationship between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and emerging social strata civil society, Party's impact on its own grassroots has been largely overlooked. How does manage members? I argue that CCP ritualized management practices in recent years. Drawing from a dataset of 1,408 “Thematic Days” (TPDs) conducted by branches Beijing, show how suc...

Ho Chi Minh is a great man whose life, career, ideology and actions are associated with heroic historical period of the Vietnamese nation. He not only loved respected by people but also admired honoured world. Resolution United Nations Educational, Scientific Cultural Organization on 100th anniversary birth President Minh: "The national hero Vietnam cultural man”. Minh's revolutionary career ha...