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Without being exhaustive, the present paper aims to analyse the complex developments that involved international conflicts between the Fifties and the early Seventies. At that time, the international relations were strongly marked by the bipolarism and by the opposition between both the Superpowers, United States and Soviet Union, and their respective fields of influence. In the time frame considered, the dynamics included not only the European equilibrium – the most visible theatre of dispute between US and USS...

Object: is to formulate provisions that basically would constitute an integral and consistent view of the role and significance of developing the legal framework for international cooperation in the context of responding to natural disasters. Methods: special historical methods, such as specific historical, comparative historical and chronological methods, as well as historical and legal and complex methods, which allowed to go beyond formal research and study the development of the legal field of the internationa...

Christianity reached the territories inhabited by Baltic and Baltic Finnic peoples (the present-day Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) considerably later than the rest of Europe. The centralization (and thereby also Christianization) process of Lithuania took a different turn, whereas the ethnic groups living in the territory of Latvia and Estonia were baptized in the result of crusades (during the years 1195/1196–1290). Subsequently, a set of feudal lands was established there, known as the medieval Livonia. In the...

The article considers the negative factors of the human impact on the environmental situation during the largest world wars. The analysis of various sources made by the authors resulted in the conclusion that this problem remains underestimated in the scientific community up to the present and enjoys little popularity with historians and ecologists, which leads to the gaps in large environmental studies and modern projects. Unfortunately, today the factor of the adverse impact on the environment is neither a suffi...

Female education is a central topic of the historiographical debate and, particularly for the nineteenth century, it represents an original visual angle to follow the difficult and contrasted path of female emancipation, together with the emergence of the bourgeois class and with others structural changes that occurred in the Italian society in that historical phase. Over the time the affirmation of women's education has proceeded hand in hand with the development of the various societies and, in the western count...

The article is devoted to the history of the mineralogical collection which played a special role in the history of museums of Russian universities. Assembled in Saxony by a chemist and mineralogist Johann Friedrich Henckel and then bought by the owner of several steel factories Akinfy Nikitich Demidov, it was later presented to the Moscow university and then served as the basis of the first Russian university museum. This article reviews the history of the mineral collection before it was sold and explores newly ...

Today there is an increasing interest in reviving folk festivities and outdoor celebrations. At the same time, the attempts of modern society to properly identify and understand the roots of these festivities and celebrations oftentimes resemble a costume show, or a theatrical performance with a new twist, in which once deep and meaningful traditions and rituals, with original historical and cultural significance, are lost, devoid of any meaning to a modern observer or participant. Realia more familiar to modern c...

The Western Piedmont area, where are located the lower Po and Infernotto valleys, is important for intangible heritage, because was the theatre of the main events that took place during the Resistance (September 1943 – April 1945). Consequently, cultural heritage of the community is very conspicuous now. Precisely war diaries, correspondences, video interviews and pictures represent the core of the sources available: part of them is already been published and it is been related to the geography of the territory....

Italy is a country with the centuries-old history, the country which has given the world a lot of great rulers and strategists, politicians and scientists, philosophers and artists. The research is aimed at examining the main directions and priorities of the foreign policy of Italy with Russia. Italy is one of the countries which has special relations with Russia. The fact that Italy prefers involving Russia in the European affairs to containing it doesnВ’t imply its automatic agreement with Moscow on all issues. ...

Orientalism is a doctrine based on the isolation of the East (opposed to the West) as a special cultural, ideological, historical and sociopolitical phenomenon and reference point in the implementation of cultural or political activities, which was started in the colonial era between the 18-th and 19-th centuries. It is divided into three main stages: colonial, post-colonial and the new Orientalism. Orientalism was created by the European world to study the countries of the East in the following directions: direct...

The aim of the article is to analyse the attitude of the Polish Socialist Party – former Revolutionary Faction (PSPfRevFr) towards the Reform camp in the period 1928-1935. This party appeared on the Polish political scene as a result of a split that took place in the Polish Socialist Party (PSP), against the background of party members' attitude towards J. Pilsudski after the coup d'etat he had carried out in May 1926. For two years in the PSP there was a rivalry between two factions, which finally ended with th...

In her paper, the author analyses legal regulations from 17th, 18th and 19th century whose content might point to the life in joint family households. She compares the Vlach Statute, Military Border Rights and the General Military Border Law taking into consideration the inheritance matter and land ownership. From these categories, she draws political causes of forming, long existence and division of joint family households. Moreover, the author analyses joint households in the context of a military society which ...

The article explores the specifics of the work of the Siberian monumentalist V.A. Grigoriev, formed based on a complex interaction of various stylistic approaches. The main methods used are comparative-historical, structural-semantic, iconological and formal analysis. A special role was assigned to the practical definition of the inner design concealed by the artist in various symbolic images. The artistВ’s creative biography is closely connected with the city, distant from the general artistic environment that fo...

The Sibyls and the art of prophecies have played an essential role in history, proving the inclination of the human spirit towards mysticism and the belief of all societies that at the base of any symbolic story is a real event. In the book of Enoch, which describes the making of the world according to the Jewish tradition, often cited by the authors of the New Testament and even by Jesus Christ, it speaks of angels who loved women and married them, making them known the derisory mysteries they knew, the small mys...

The paper illustrates the history of the merchant, banker and entrepreneur, Vito Di Cagno, born from an outstanding family of rich shipowners and merchants of the city of Bari, in the region of Puglia, in the Italian South, and of his extraordinary capacity for socio-economic affirmation in a promising and expansive historical phase of the economy of the southern regions that preceded the First World War, during the Giolittian era. He managed to undertake successful strategies to achieve the control of important s...

The story of Tommaso Astarita is an expression of the passage, made by the few dynamic financial operators of the South, from the ancient regime society to the modern society, implementing in their work the separation between the functions of merchant-entrepreneur-banker, first indistinct. With the General Bank of the Sorrento Peninsula, in fact, one of the first private banking institution was born in the South of Italy, under the legal form of a joint-stock company, able to resist the competition of the big nati...

The problem of adaptation of migrants in receiving countries determines the urgent need to find ways to solve it. The article notes that a special role in the process of rooting foreign citizens in a new community plays the study and perception of its history, traditions, language, spiritual values. Particular attention is paid to the development of tests as one of the means of testing the acquired knowledge, and the socio-cultural adaptation. The authors analyze the materials of the manuals and the content of the...

In the article the authors studied the activities of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage in Russia and abroad, they identified the stages of development of this movement both in Russia and around the world. The authors use the methodological techniques and methods adopted in science, use both general scientific, historical and cultural methods. The historians note the features of each of the presented stages and identify the role of individuals and state, regional and scient...

The target of this research is to demonstrate that during the 10th -11th centuries the Hungarian settlement system in Northern Bihor (Bihor County, in Romania) was based on the habitation scheme organized by Avar Empire, in the 8th-9th century. The methodology is based on the new archeological discoveries and contemporaneous etymological results of the naming mode of settlements in the area, compared to the chartered information about the mentioned period. The target of this research is to refute the theory set up...

Christ’s Resurrection, despite its historical evidences available in the New Testament writings, is indeed a rock (gr. ?????, „solid stone”, 1 Cor. 10: 4) for the ones who believe in order to stronger believe, but for the skeptical ones it is a stumblingstone (gr. ?????????, „occasion of apostasy”, Rom. 9: 32), so, in this view, it is of less help in present times in order to prove that Christ’s message is still topical. There is, still, another historical fact that can become an unshakable proof, despite ...

Political stability appears to have returned to the Gambia since the constitutional crisis that confronted the Country following the controversial presidential elections of December 2016. ECOWAS through the indefatigable efforts of the ECOMIG and the resolve of most West African Countries helped to resolve the disputed polls and return normalcy to the small West African nation. The action of ECOWAS in the Gambia has been likened to in scientific literature, political discourse and the media to a military invasion,...

In our study we intend to analyze a part of a hagiographic source, The Life of Saint Niphon, written by Gavril the Protos in 1520 or 1521, and whose main characters are Radu the Great and Neagoe Basarab, two princes who ruled Wallachia at the end of 15th and early 16th centuries. The writing of Gavril the Protos narrates facts from the history of the country from 1504 until 1520, from a perspective that was favorable for prince Neagoe and the Craiovesti family, being an excellent example of using the past as a dev...

While the issue of the regional boyar families during the 15th and early 16th century Wallachia has already been approached, the princely council may yet be seen as a mixed up puzzle. Even if we have most of the pieces, the general picture continues to escape us. In our paper we wish to present the first results of a wider research. The study of the princely council during the reign of Radu the Great (1496-1508), but also with references to the previous reign of Vlad the Monk (1482-1496), his father, and to the on...