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Spring Man

A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture

By: Petr Janecek

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Spring Man

A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture

By: Petr Janecek

Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture deconstructs the nationalistic myth of Spring Man that was created after the Second World War in visual culture and literature and presents his original form as an ambiguous, ghostly denizen of oral culture. Petr Janeček analyzes the archetypal character, social context, and cultural significance of this fascinating phenomenon with the help of dozens of accounts provided by period eyewitnesses, oral narratives, and other sources. At the same time, the author illustrates the international origin of the tales in the originally British migratory legend of Spring-heeled Jack that reaches back to the second-third of the nineteenth century, and Janeček also draws parallels between the Czech myth of Spring Man and similar urban phantom narratives popular in the 1910s Russia, 1940s United States and Slovakia, and 1950s Germany, as well as other parts of the world.

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229

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666913766

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9781666913767

Spartakiads

The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia

By: Petr Roubal

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Spartakiads

The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia

By: Petr Roubal

Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Involving hundreds of thousands of male and female performers of all ages and held in the world’s largest stadium—a space built expressly for this purpose—the synchronized and unified movements of the Czech citizenry embodied, quite literally, the idealized Socialist people: a powerful yet pliant force directed by the regime. This book explores the political, social, and aesthetic dimensions of these mass physical demonstrations, with a particular focus on their roots in the völkisch nationalism of the German Turner movement and the Czech Sokol gymnastic tradition. Featuring an abundance of photographs, Spartakiads takes a new approach to Communist history by opening a window onto the mentality and mundanity behind the Iron Curtain.

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425

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Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press

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8024638517

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9788024638515

Environmental Transitions

Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Petr Pavlínek,John Pickles

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Environmental Transitions

Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Petr Pavlínek,John Pickles

Environmental Transitions is a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both under state socialism and during the period of transition to capitalism. The change in politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed an opportunity for a rapid environmental clean up, in an area once considered one of the most environmentally devastated regions on earth. The book illustrates how transformations after 1989 have brought major environmental improvements, as well as new environmental problems. It shows how environmental policy, economic change and popular support for environmental movements, have specific and changing geographies associated with them. Environmental Transitions addresses a large number of topics, including the historical geographical analysis of the environmental change, health impacts of environmental degradation, the role of environmental issues during the anti-communist revolutions, legislative reform and the effects of transition on environmental quality after 1989. Environmental Transitions contains detailed case studies from the region, which illustrate the complexity of environmental issues and their intimate relationship with political and economic realities. It gives theoretically informed ideas for understanding environmental change in the context of the political economy of state socialism and post-communist transformations, drawing on a wide body of literature from West, Central and Eastern Europe.

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385

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Routledge

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1134715587

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9781134715589

Dangerous Dreamers

The Australian Anti-Democratic Left and Czechoslovak Agents

By: Peter Hruby,Petr Hrubý

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Dangerous Dreamers

The Australian Anti-Democratic Left and Czechoslovak Agents

By: Peter Hruby,Petr Hrubý

Australian spy Ian Milner was suspected of working for Soviet and Czechoslovak secret services on four continents. He served at the United Nations in New York, and the FBI followed him day and night before eventually declaring he was not a spy. But secret documents from Prague show he was spying all along. Wilfred Burchett claimed to be an independent Australian journalist. He wrote dozens of books, and Prague documents prove that he was a secret member of the Communist Party of Australia. He also worked for Soviet, Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese secret services. Drawing upon past secret documents of Australian, Czechoslovak and U.S. secret agencies along with important Soviet records, historian and professor Peter Hruby, who grew up under Communist rule and taught in Australia for decades, uncovers the secrets of the ideology and its manipulative advocates. Along with the stories of spies previously unknown or overlooked, also discover: How Communists pushed for revolution in Australia The role of writers and artists in the struggle How terrorists and politicians influenced the movement And much more! Uncover the secrets of history and discover the truth about Communism and its role in Australia in Dangerous Dreamers.

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422

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iUniverse

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1440174997

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9781440174995

The Birth of the State

Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China

By: Petr Charvát

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The Birth of the State

Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China

By: Petr Charvát

In the book titled Birth of the State, readers learn what researchers nowadays think about the rise and stabilization of the oldest statehood in the original civilization centres of the Old World - Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. The scholar takes them through essential economic, political and spiritual changes caused in those societies by the rise and stabilization of the first states. The overviews are completed with a comprehensive view of the entire theme, attempting to provide a balanced view of the rise of the oldest states not only as a question of economy, politics or power, but also as exceeding the basic threshold in the spiritual sphere. The book allows the very founders and cultivators of the oldest state units to speak: in the moments when their work seemed to be on the verge of total collapse, they spoke to their contemporaries urging them to defend the ideals that formed the basis of their civilizations. The book is intended for university students as well as others interested in the rise and development of the oldest states of the humankind.

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356

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Karolinum Press

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8024622149

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9788024622149

Spring Man

A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture

By: Petr Janecek

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A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture

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Spring Man

Spring Man

Spartakiads

Spartakiads

Environmental Transitions

Environmental Transitions

Dangerous Dreamers

Dangerous Dreamers

The Birth of the State

The Birth of the State

Spring Man

Spring Man

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