.... The distinctive features of all these miscarriages of justice were the public confessions of the accused to the most heinous felonies against the party and the Socialist regime with which they were charged. What was the reason for this? My article scrutinizes, from the generic perspective, the proceedings...

... of December 1970. It was a memo addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union reporting on the status of samizdat in the country and suggesting some practical steps that would diminish the spread and impact of uncontrolled publications in the USSR. The second document, dated...

...Els Andringa After the National Socialist party came to power in Germany in 1933 and in Austria in 1938, many writers and intellectuals fled these countries. As a result, a dense network of correspondences was established among exiles from many different countries in and out of Europe. This article...

... question the very human capacity to understand whatever lies beyond one's own horizon of experience. Over the years, either party to the dialogue has turned out, or become, unequal to its demanding role. Pagis's alternative strategy of communication—fictional, poetic,implicit—is the focus of the argument...

...), establish continua for mapping these social positions and conceptual frameworks and for evaluating their thematic salience in the narrative. Crucially, these methods are applied not only to text-internal figures like narrators and characters but also to the real-world parties to narrative: authors...

...Peter Steiner This article deals with the proceedings against the general secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Rudolf Slánský, and thirteen other high officials. The most striking feature of confessional trials such as his is the lack of any manifest culpability for gross miscarriages...

...Joseph Benatov Shortly after Nikita Khrushchev delivered his 1956 “secret speech” at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, the text of the report reached the United States by way of Poland and was published in the New York Times . The first secretary's denunciation of Stalinism thus...

.... The literary critic, like the detective, interprets clues, establishes causal connections, and identifies a guilty party: namely, the literary work accused of whitewashing or concealing social oppression. Deconstructionist critics like Shoshana Felman seek to expose the dangers of such a suspicious...

...Douglas Morrey Submission (2015), a novel in which a Muslim political party is elected to govern France, has been widely interpreted as part of a ubiquitous discourse of “declinism” in contemporary French intellectual culture. The novel has been accused of complicity with a reactionary politics...

.... Semiforgotten elements of the ancient faculty prove that rhetoric requires creative visual imagination from both parties (orator and audience) and that the practice emanates from and embeds in visuospatial, sensual experiences. These visual features are combined with the verbal in rhetorical practice resulting...

... of employing such models for the analysis of fictional dialogue have been debated elsewhere (for example,Toolan I hope to show that focusing on a scene of multi- . I use the term multiparty talk in an attempt to capture the sense that talk may be fragmen- tary, faltering, and made up of parties who may...

... discussion group “Synthesis”—a name alluding to the fact that it was a fusion of the various disciplines that the last party directives called for. While it would be an overstatement to claim that samizdat, the Seminar, or Synthesis brought down the totalitarian system in Bulgaria, it seems...

.... Such are the material lineaments of contemporary hegemony. The ways Communism became communism after 1989 need not here detain us. What is immediately symptomatic of the impasse in Leninism is (1) the belief that a party might conduct revolutionary work in the cause of its own obsolescence, (2) the notion...

... and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction , translated by Allan Cameron (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Brewer, John 1976 Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press). Butler, Marilyn 1996 “Shelley and the Empire...

..., it is not an isolated incident but rather a particularly successful occurrence. Through the following case studies, I will analyze the ACM and its affordances. A defining national moment of the Finnish political scene was the historic 2011 victory of the right-wing populist Finns Party, formerly the True Finns...

... of a Holocaust victim, we place it mentally, automatically, in a familiar context: we read it as a statement from an injured party. There is a victim and a victimizer in the scenario that we keep in mind as a frame of reference, and we hear in the narrative the victim’s side of the story; presumably, one...

... the two major existing approaches to the explanation of what makes a book great. The “beauty party” focuses on inherent aesthetic qualities, whereas the “power party” emphasizes the operation of extratextual institutional forces. But he suggests a third approach foregrounding the gamut of cultural...

..., artis- tic) dialogues can contribute to a better understanding of the controversial concept of “a great book.” He surveys what he considers the two major existing approaches to the explanation of what makes a book great. The “beauty party” focuses on inherent aesthetic qualities, whereas...

..., artis- tic) dialogues can contribute to a better understanding of the controversial concept of “a great book.” He surveys what he considers the two major existing approaches to the explanation of what makes a book great. The “beauty party” focuses on inherent aesthetic qualities, whereas...

... first Kolyma tales, and 1961, the year of the Twenty-second Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, during which the de-Stalinization initiated by Khru- shchev’s secret speech of 1956 was conducted openly. Sadly, this reversal was a prelude to the resurfacing of his camp...