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Gods, Guns & Power
Why is socialism a political boogeyman? It’s not an accident—it’s a tactic used for over a century to maintain power.
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This paper by Arturo Zoffmann "focuses on resistance to the draft during the first recruitment drive of the National Defence Government in Greek Macedonia". This case study, allows him "to explore broader trends about the formation of the modern Balkan nation-states".
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19448953.2024.2414195
Arturo Zoffman's lecture at Sabanci University on his new project, ‘The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship’, funded by the European Research Council, is available on YouTube.
The lecture took place in the context of Arturo's research stay funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
Fátima Sá est l'une des coordinatrices de l'ouvrage « Langages de l’identité et de la différence dans le monde ibéro-américain (1770-1890) », « un ensemble qui apporte une contribution forte à la réflexion sur la forge des #LangagesPolitiques et leur fonction dans la construction des communautés politiques et de l’imaginaire social. » (Clément Thibaud, Préface).
Contrary to what many might think, it’s not just students who “go on Erasmus” to other countries. An example of this is researcher Arturo Zoffmann, who went to Turkey to spend a month at Sabancı University in Istanbul with the support of the Erasmus+ programme. 
What is he doing there? We'll tell you here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/arturo-zoffmann-erasmus-istambul/
Abrimos um concurso para atribuição de uma Bolsa de Investigação para Licenciado/a para integrar a equipa do projecto #DecTil — "Examinar a descolonização de Timor-Leste, 1974-82: o Relatório Riscado", financiado pela FCT.
As candidaturas decorrem até 5 de Março
The Story of Ben “Big Cat” Lewis
Trump erasing women from public view and positions of power is eerily similar to what the Taliban he liberated did when they took power. #GenderEquality #HistoryRepeats
#WomensRights #Feminism #PoliticalHistory #PowerDynamics #SocialJustice #EqualityForAll #WomensEmpowerment #TalibanComparison #HumanRights #Patriarchy #Oppression #WomensVoicesMatter #TrumpEra #PoliticalRegress
Who else feels reminded by Joe #Biden's last broadcast of another president's farewell address?
#history #UShistory #politicalhistory #USpresidents
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I'll respond to @Radical_EgoCom about state violence, terror, and terrorist states. I'll post about Leninism, Stalinism, and other kakistocratic systems like Putinism, which are among my research interests. I've posted about Soviet era from 1905 to 1917: https://mastodon.social/@homohortus/113808045559829515 It explores Soviet evolution from grassroots workers' councils to instruments of Bolshevik power. @sz_duras @gpilz @tofol.bsky.social @cccp.bsky.social #PoliticalHistory #SovietEra #Kakistocracy
MastodonHomo Hortus (@homohortus@mastodon.social)The Evolution of Soviets: From Revolutionary Origins to Bolshevik Power
🔴 Soviets: From workers' spontaneous councils to revolutionary power structures! A remarkable journey through Russia's political transformation, revealing how grassroots movements can reshape entire societies. #RussianRevolution #SovietHistory #PoliticalChange 🚩 Introduction: The Birth of a Revolutionary Concept Soviets emerged as grassroots councils representing workers, soldiers, and peasants…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/the-evolution-of-soviets-from-revolutionary-origins-to-bolshevik-power/
Does anyone here know of any accounts - comprehensible to a general reader - of the lives of ordinary people in the Soviet satellite states during the collapse of the Soviet Union?
I'm less interested in the separate countries eg GDR, CSSR, Poland, Romania etc, and more in the Soviet states eg Georgia, Moldova, Belarus etc.
My curiosity is to understand how ordinary lives felt, and changed, during the collapse of a seemingly endless political and financial system, and perhaps to read how people adapted (if at all).
Boosts welcome.
Pedro Aires Oliveira e Filipe Ribeiro de Menezes examined the use of #StatesOfEmergency during Portugal's First Republic and argue that the "suspensions of constitutional guarantees, while damaging to the quality of Portuguese democracy (...), were by no means a recent departure, having already been a feature of politics during the late constitutional monarchy."
The #CFP for the conference ‘50 Years of the Independence of Portuguese Colonies in Africa: Processes, Legacies and Memories’, which aims to reflect on the multiple dimensions of these independence events, is ongoing until 15 December.
Hoping to see you in Lisbon next July!
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/50-years-independence-portuguese-colonies/
![Poster for the international conference ‘50 Years of Independence of the Portuguese Colonies in Africa: Histories, Processes, Legacies and Memories’ [In Portuguese: 50 Anos das Independências das Colónias Portuguesas em África: Histórias, Processos, Legados e Memórias]. 17, 18 and 19 July 2025, at Nova FCSH, Lisbon. The poster includes a photograph taken in Guinea Bissau during a traditional dance show, where two men disguised with straw and wooden props (among other materials) are dancing in a yard while being watched by a small crowd.](https://cdn.masto.host/mastopt/media_attachments/files/113/561/576/532/126/825/original/255c98d21713ac11.jpg "Poster for the international conference ‘50 Years of Independence of the Portuguese Colonies in Africa: Histories, Processes, Legacies and Memories’ [In Portuguese: 50 Anos das Independências das Colónias Portuguesas em África: Histórias, Processos, Legados e Memórias]. 17, 18 and 19 July 2025, at Nova FCSH, Lisbon. The poster includes a photograph taken in Guinea Bissau during a traditional dance show, where two men disguised with straw and wooden props (among other materials) are dancing in a yard while being watched by a small crowd.")
Tomorrow, it's kickstart day for our new seminar: #Communisms — Lisbon Research Seminars on History and Politics.
The inaugural speaker will be Russian historian Alexander Reznik, who will address the role of political language applicable to the study of civil wars.
Free admission.
A week from today, on the 29th, we will kickstart a new seminar: #Communisms — Lisbon Research Seminars on History and Politics.
The inaugural speaker will be Russian historian Alexander Reznik, who will address the role of political language applicable to the study of civil wars.
Free admission.
If you're over 50, then like me, you're likely in the older half of the electorate. So there's a good chance you remember a bunch of political events. Which many in the younger half either haven't heard about yet, or only know about via Weapons of Mass Destraction, shipped by reputation launderers.
Younger people don't need our reckons, they have plenty of their own. But what we *all* need is a broader and deeper understanding of our political history.
@victorpereira a été interviewé par l'émission française de RFI « La marche du monde » pour parler de l'histoire de l'#EstadoNovo et de la révolution du #25deAbril.
RFI · La marche du monde - Révolution des œillets, la démocratie à quel prix ?
The latest issue of the e-Journal of Portuguese History, in a dossier dedicated to independence in the Portuguese-speaking world, includes two articles by IHC historians: Zélia Pereira discusses the self-determination of #EastTimor, while Aurora Almada e Santos analyses the case of #CapeVerde.
https://brill.com/view/journals/ejph/21/2/ejph.21.issue-2.xml
The book "Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe, 1945–2023" includes three chapters authored by IHC historians:
Irene Flunser Pimentel on refugees in Portugal; Helena Pinto Janeiro on #WWII memorials; and Pedro Aires Oliveira analyses Portuguese neutrality as featured on recent films.
