The Balkans since the second World War / / R.J. Crampton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786616303321
• Autore: Crampton R. J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-317-89116-3; 1-315-84320-X; 1-317-89117-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Collana: Postwar World
• Disciplina: 949.6/055
• Soggetti: Balkan Peninsula Politics and government 1945-1989; Balkan Peninsula Politics and government 1989-; Balkan Peninsula History 1945-1989; Balkan Peninsula History 1989-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published in Great Britain in 2002 by Pearson Education Limited"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgement; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Part I Communist Takeovers and Civil War: The Balkans 1944-1949; 1 Introduction; 2 Yugoslavia, 1944-1948; The Second World War and foundation of communist power; Communist power entrenched: October 1944 to November 1945; Communist power legitimized: the November 1945 elections and the January 1946 constitution; Unrestrained communist power in Yugoslavia, 1946-8; External affairs from the end of the war to the breach with Stalin, 1944-83 Albania, 1944-1948; The foundation and growth of the communist movement; The consolidation of communist power, November 1944 to March 1946; The beginnings of the revolution from above, March 1946 to June 1948; Albania's external alignment, 1944-8; 4 Bulgaria, 1944-1948; Bulgaria during the Second World War; Factors in Bulgarian politics, 1944-8; From the coup of 9 September 1944 to the postponement of the elections in August 1945; From the postponement of the elections in August 1945 to the Grand National Assembly elections of October 1946From the elections of ; October 1946 to the fifth party congress in December 1948; 5 Romania, 1944-1948; Factors in Romanian politics, 1944-8; From the coup of August 1944 to the installation of the Groza government in March 1945; The crisis of February-March 1945; From the installation of the Groza government to the elections of November 1946; The completion of the communist takeover, November 1946 to March 1948; 6 Greece, 1944-1949; Internal conflicts in Greece during the Second World WarLeft and right in Greece, 1944-9; The December events, 1944; 'Anarchic Banditry': from the Varkiza agreement to the elections of March 1946; The drift to civil war: from the elections to the declaration of the provisional government, March 1946 to December 1947; The Greek civil war, December 1947 to August 1949; Part II The Balkans During the Cold War, 1949-1989; 7 Introduction; 8 Yugoslavia, 1948-1989; Finding 'Tito's way': Yugoslavia in the 1950s; Yugoslavia isolated; The beginnings of self-management; The reform of party and state institutions, 1950-3Foreign policy and 'non-alignment'; Domestic affairs in the late 1950s; The search for stability: Yugoslavia 1960-76; The empowerment of the republics, 1960-5; The economic reforms of the mid-1960s; The fall of Ranković and the beginnings of unrest, 1966-8; The Croatian Spring, 1968-71; The purges and institutional reconstruction, 1971-6; Yugoslav foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s; Yugoslavia in decline, 1980-9; The demise of the old guard and their sustaining myths; Economic crisis and the discrediting of self-management; Ethnic nationalism and the end of 'brotherhood and unity'
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the collapse of Eastern European communism, the Balkans have been more prominent in world affairs than at any time since before the First World War. Crises in the area have led NATO to fire its first ever shots in anger, whilst international forces have been deployed on a scale and in a manner unprecedented in Europe since World War Two.An understanding of why this happened is impossible without some knowledge of the history of the area before the fall of communism, of how the communists came to power and how they used their authority thereafter. Covering the communist states of Albania

Theological and philosophical premises of Judaism [[electronic resource] /] / Jacob Neusner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781932903321
• Autore: Neusner Jacob <1932->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2008
• ISBN: 1-61811-101-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Collana: Judaism and Jewish life
• Disciplina: 296.3/01
• Soggetti: Judaism - Doctrines - History; Judaism - Essence, genius, nature; Judaism - Philosophy; Rabbinical literature - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Speech : an eye that sees, an ear that hears -- Time : considerations of temporal priority or posteriority do not enter into the Torah -- Space : the land of Israel is holier than all lands -- Analysis : hierarchical classification and the law's philosophical demonstration of monotheism -- Mixtures -- Analysis : intentionality -- Integrating the system -- Living in the kingdom of God.
• Sommario/riassunto: Classical Judaism imagined the situation of the people of Israel to be unique among the nations of the earth in three aspects. The nations lived in unclean lands, contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They themselves were destined to die without hope of renewed life after the grave. They were prisoners of secular time, subject to the movement and laws of history in its inexorable logic. Heaven did not pay attention to what they did and did not care about their conduct, so long as they observed the basic decencies mandated by the commandments that applied to the heirs of Noah, seven fundamental rules in all. That is not how Israel the holy people was conceived. The Israel contemplated by Rabbinic Judaism lived in sacred space and in enchanted time, all the while subject to the constant surveillance of an eye that sees all, an ear that hears all, and a sentient being that recalls all. Why the divine obsession with Israel? God yearned for Israel's love ; and constantly contemplated its conduct. The world imagined by the Rabbis situated Israel in an enchanted kingdom, a never-never land, and conceived of God as omniscient and ubiquitous. Here Neusner shows that in its generative theology, Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age invoked the perpetual presence of God overseeing all that Israelites said and did. It conceived of Israel as transcending the movement of history and living in a perpetual present tense. Israel located itself in a Land like no other, and it organized its social order in a hierarchical structure ascending to the one God situated at the climax and head of all being.