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Since the beginning of the new millennium, municipal cooperations have come into the focus of European public procurement law. This has given rise ...

On 25 February 1956 at the XX KPdSU Party conference Chruschtschow held his famous secret speech on the "personality cult" and crimes of Stalin. Th...

Babett Bauer analyzes the connection between the experience of dictatorship and individual identity creation in the GDR from a double perspective. ...

Research concerning the GDR, especially the dictatorial power machinery of the SED, has led to a number of studies concerning the three main armed ...

How strange the description of an 'exotic' animal can be in a medieval text and which properties or proprietates are here especially stressed, depe...

Popular Conservatism - Conservative Traditions in the English Lower Class? The impetuous patriotism, the loyalist enthusiasm for the crown and the ...

The world marketplace is dominated by companies from North America, Europe and East Asia. But what is the role of their respective cultural backgro...

The history of the East Berlin Academy of Arts (1950--1993) is a hallmark for quarrels between mind and power. The protagonists on behalf of the Ac...

The national emancipation of the Czechs in the 19th century is regarded as a model case of the formation of a stateless "language and cultural nati...