1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910563175203321

Autore

Leidinger Hannes

Titolo

Gefangenschaft, Revolution, Heimkehr : die Bedeutung der Kriegsgefangenenproblematik für die Geschichte des Kommunismus in Mittel- und Osteuropa 1917-1920 / / Hannes Leidinger, Verena Moritz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Böhlau, 2003

Germany : , : Böhlau, , 2003

ISBN

9783205770688 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (754 pages)

Soggetti

Communism - History - 20th century - Europe, Central

Communism - History - 20th century - Europe, Eastern

Prisoners of war - History - 20th century - Europe, Central

Prisoners of war - History - 20th Century - Europe, Eastern

Socialism, Communism & Anarchism

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Up to the 1980s prisoners of war were hardly even mentioned in military history. Only in recent years have scientists acknowledged the importance of this topic. For their investigations some of them chose the First World War, especially the Eastern front, where more than 5 million soldiers were captured until the revolutionary events of 1917/18. Contrary to the few existing studies, the present publication concentrates more on the evaluation of captivity in the historical background rather than on the description of "POW-fates" in "the hands of their enemies". It therefore focuses on the meaning of captivity and repatriation during the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Communist International. Based on documents of the central archives in Vienna and Moscow, the thesis comes to the following results: On the one hand, conflicts between the soldiers of the Central Powers in



the former Tsarist empire, in particular between the Austro-Hungarian nationalities, for example between the "Bolshevik internationalists" and the "Czech Legion", played a decisive role in the beginning of an Eastern European "period of confusion" which can hardly be entitled a "Russian Civil War". On the other hand, former prisoners functioned as founders of the Comintern and leaders of the first communist parties outside Soviet Russia. The activities of POWs thus marked the starting point of the international cadrerecruitment for the Comintern, which became a significant aspect in the foreign politics of the "first proletarian republic" and consequently in the so called "short 20th century" defined by the existence of the USSR and its "satellite states".

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798997003321

Autore

Rouse Carolyn Moxley <1965->

Titolo

Televised Redemption : Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment / / Carolyn Moxley Rouse, John L. Jackson, Jr., and Marla F. Frederick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4798-7691-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 pages)

Disciplina

200.89/96

Soggetti

Television in religion - United States

Television broadcasting - Religious aspects

Religion on television

African Americans - Religion

Television in religion

SOCIAL SCIENCE - Media Studies

RELIGION - Reference

RELIGION - Essays

RELIGION - Comparative Religion

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Redemptive media histories -- Black Christian redemption: contested possibilities -- Racial redemption: language in Muslim media -- Divine redemption: Hebrew Israelites and the saving of the world -- Religious media and Black self-formation -- Reimagined possibilities: prosperity and the journey to redemption -- Race, Islam, and longings for inclusion: Muslim media and twenty-first-century redemption -- Citizens as stewards: on the air, online, and in the community.

Sommario/riassunto

How Black Christians, Muslims, and Jews have used media to prove their equality, not only in the eyes of God but in society. The institutional structures of white supremacy--slavery, Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, and mass incarceration--require a commonsense belief that black people lack the moral and intellectual capacities of white people. It is through this lens of belief that racial exclusions have been justified and reproduced in the United States. Televised Redemption argues that African American religious media has long played a key role in humanizing the race by unabashedly claiming that blacks are endowed by God with the same gifts of goodness and reason as whites--if not more, thereby legitimizing black Americans' rights to citizenship. If racism is a form of perception, then religious media has not only altered how others perceive blacks, but has also altered how blacks perceive themselves. Televised Redemption argues that black religious media has provided black Americans with new conceptual and practical tools for how to be in the world, and changed how black people are made intelligible and recognizable as moral citizens. In order to make these claims to black racial equality, this media has encouraged dispositional changes in adherents that were at times empowering and at other times repressive. From Christian televangelism to Muslim periodicals to Hebrew Israelite radio, Televised Redemption explores the complicated but critical redemptive history of African American religious media.