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'SAMIZDAT' AND SOVIET SOCIETY: 1966-1976
Title
'SAMIZDAT' AND SOVIET SOCIETY: 1966-1976.
Creator
THORNTON, CATHERINE D., Florida Atlantic University, Portnoy, Samuel A.
Abstract/Description
Samizdat, meaning self-published, is the primary medium of the contemporary dissident movement. This anthology draws heavily on The Samizdat Bulletin, inaugurated in English in 1973 in San Mateo, California. The documents contained in it voice various forms of protest and expose the workings of the Soviet hierarchy in the period 1966-1976. Lesser known samizdat authors and issues are the focal point. The more publicized authors have, because of their greater prominence in the West, received...
Show moreSamizdat, meaning self-published, is the primary medium of the contemporary dissident movement. This anthology draws heavily on The Samizdat Bulletin, inaugurated in English in 1973 in San Mateo, California. The documents contained in it voice various forms of protest and expose the workings of the Soviet hierarchy in the period 1966-1976. Lesser known samizdat authors and issues are the focal point. The more publicized authors have, because of their greater prominence in the West, received less emphasis. Emphasis has been placed on articles in samizdat which correlate with later issues of The Bulletin in which developments are followed to their culmination. Samizdat covers a broad gamut of issues, from literary topics to religious issues, from labor camps to radio-jamming--all of which are discussed. Efforts have been made to concentrate on samizdat per se and to minimize the dissident movement in its other aspects. A short introduction explains the beginnings of samizdat. Problems of samizdat enumerated and the study closes with observations on the efficacy and future of samizdat.
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Date Issued
1979
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14004
Subject Headings
Underground literature--Soviet Union
Format
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ASPECTS OF GERMAN - UNITED STATES ECONOMIC RIVALRY 1870-1914
Title
ASPECTS OF GERMAN - UNITED STATES ECONOMIC RIVALRY 1870-1914.
Creator
KNETSCH, JOE., Florida Atlantic University, Portnoy, Samuel A.
Abstract/Description
The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the intensive rivalry of Germany and the United States prior to 1914 and to show how this rivalry was a contributing factor to the United States' decision to enter World War One on the side of the Allies. To show how these two countries became intense rivals, the first chapters discuss the economic development of each country. The later chapters show the rivalry in action in Latin America, the Far East and in Europe.
Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13686
Subject Headings
Germany--Economic conditions--19th century, United States--Economic conditions--To 1865, United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918
Format
Document (PDF)
NAVAL QUESTION AND EFFORTS AT AN ANGLO-GERMAN RAPPROCHEMENT: 1908-1912
Title
THE NAVAL QUESTION AND EFFORTS AT AN ANGLO-GERMAN RAPPROCHEMENT: 1908-1912.
Creator
LUIKART, GORDON AUGUSTUS, III., Florida Atlantic University, Portnoy, Samuel A.
Abstract/Description
Given that the Anglo-German naval rivalry was one of the most important causes of antagonism between Germany and Great Britain prior to World War One, it is highly plausible that a mutual agreement to end the naval race may have brought about a rapprochement which in turn might have prevented World War One from ever occurring. Unfortunately, all efforts toward a negotiated settlement of this rivalry between the years 1908 and 1912 failed; and their failure left Anglo-German relations as...
Show moreGiven that the Anglo-German naval rivalry was one of the most important causes of antagonism between Germany and Great Britain prior to World War One, it is highly plausible that a mutual agreement to end the naval race may have brought about a rapprochement which in turn might have prevented World War One from ever occurring. Unfortunately, all efforts toward a negotiated settlement of this rivalry between the years 1908 and 1912 failed; and their failure left Anglo-German relations as uneasy as ever. For many years historians have been too quick to blame Germany exclusively for the failure of the 1908-1912 naval negotiations. This paper will attempt to correct that misconception by providing the evidence which proves that Great Britain must share at least part of the responsibility for their failure.
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Date Issued
1983
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14166
Subject Headings
Germany--Foreign relations--Great Britain, Great Britain--Foreign relations--Germany
Format
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LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF ANTI-BLACK DISCRIMINATION
Title
THE LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF ANTI-BLACK DISCRIMINATION.
Creator
GAGNON, CAROL ANNE., Florida Atlantic University, Portnoy, Samuel A.
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines the problems that American black workers have encountered in seeking entrance into the American labor movement. In particular, it looks at the historical changes in the unionization of black workers, as well as the structural and functional aspects of the largest single organized labor body in the United States--the AFL-CIO. The appendix contains interviews with both Mr. Donald Slaiman, Director of the Civil Rights Department of the AFL-CIO, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Date Issued
1972
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13501
Subject Headings
African Americans--Employment., Labor unions--United States--African American membership.
Format
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FRITZ FISCHER CONTROVERSY: NEW WAR GUILT THESIS OR NEAR MYTH
Title
THE FRITZ FISCHER CONTROVERSY: NEW WAR GUILT THESIS OR NEAR MYTH.
Creator
REYNOLDS, EDWIN STANTON., Florida Atlantic University, Portnoy, Samuel A.
Abstract/Description
Fritz Fischer is a German his t orian who caused an historical controversy in the 1960s by claiming that recent evidence of a German plan for territorial annexations, drafted during the First World War, indicated that Germany had provoked a war with France and Russia in 1914. An historical consensus now concludes that Fischer's evidence only reinforced older interpretations of the war's causation that predicated German culpability upon its desire to support its ally, Austria-Hungary, in a...
Show moreFritz Fischer is a German his t orian who caused an historical controversy in the 1960s by claiming that recent evidence of a German plan for territorial annexations, drafted during the First World War, indicated that Germany had provoked a war with France and Russia in 1914. An historical consensus now concludes that Fischer's evidence only reinforced older interpretations of the war's causation that predicated German culpability upon its desire to support its ally, Austria-Hungary, in a military strike against Russia's protege, Serbia. Prior historians could not blame the war solely upon Germany's desire for world power, since the Austro-Serbian conflict reflected ambitions of various powers to dominate the Balkans. Germany, therefore, was condemned for miscalculating Franco-Russian determination to block an Austrian subjugation of Serbia in 1914, but not for provoking a war of conquest against Russia and France, as Fischer suggests.
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Date Issued
1979
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13958
Subject Headings
Fischer, Fritz,--1908-, World War, 1914-1918--Causes, World War, 1914-1918--Germany, Germany--Foreign relations--1888-1918
Format
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