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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"THE "SOCIALIST CALCULATION" DEBATE"”.
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Socialist State Crime and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1961-2005
Reunification posed multiple challenges to the societies, economies, and polities of East and West Germany. On a political, legal, cultural and symbolic level, strategies needed to be found to incorporate the divided – and potentially divisive – past into a forward-looking historical narrative. …
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Energy Crisis and Opportunity: Energy Development and Debate in Saskatchewan, 1969–1982
The 1970s energy crisis was a global phenomenon that opened a window of opportunity to debate the future of energy development. With the future of oil appearing uncertain, nations around the world faced questions about energy security and interest in a wide array of energy alternatives was piqued. …
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The Classification, for purposes of the calculation of taxable income, of land and assets incidental to land, that are used as trading stock
In calculating the taxable income of a taxpayer, items of income and expenditure are classified as being either capital or revenue in nature, and are treated differently according to such classification. Over the years, a debate has emerged regarding the classification of items of income that are …
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Voltage calculation on low voltage feeders with distributed generation
The increasing levels of greenhouse gas emission and the continued depletion of fossil fuels have been the driving factors for power utilities to utilize renewable energy sources for power generation. In South Africa, a target was set in 2008 to achieve 10000 GWh of renewable generation by 2013, …
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Figurative art in Soviet Russia circa 1921-1934 : situating the realist-anti-realist debate in the context of changing definitions of proletarian culture
… that in many Western and Soviet texts the work of so called formalist leftists and figurative artists are viewed as diametrically opposed to one another. I argue against the perpetuation of this polemic and the assumptions that inform this view. These assumptions are that the leftists …
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NAVIGATING ‘NATIONAL FORM’ AND ‘SOCIALIST CONTENT’ IN THE GREAT LEADER’S HOMELAND: GEORGIAN PAINTING AND NATIONAL POLITICS UNDER STALIN, 1921-39
This thesis examines the interaction of Georgian painting and national politics in the first two decades of Soviet power in Georgia, 1921-1939, focussing in particular on the period following the consolidation of Stalin’s power at the helm of the Communist Party in 1926-7. In the Stalin era, …
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Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, state, and pan-Africanism in Ghana
This dissertation explores the construction of the pan-Africanist and socialist discourse of Kwame Nkrumah’s government—Ghana’s first independent government—during the nation-building project of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1957, when Ghana became independent, the country’s transition to self-rule …
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Labor activism and industrial relations in the coal-mining industries of the United States, Great Britain and Poland
… activism and changes in industrial relations in the coal mining industries of the United States, Great Britain and Poland. This research addresses the debate between system- and action-oriented approaches to social change by analyzing the adequacy of two explanations--structuralist and …
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Kontroverses Erbe und Innovation : die Novelle Die Reisebegegnung von Anna Seghers im literaturpolitischen Kontext der DDR der siebziger Jahre
The dissertation attempts to analyse the novella Die Reisebegegnung by Anna Seghers not as an isolated "work" by an isolated "author" but as a symptom of the possibilities and limits of innovative writing in the German Democratic Republic in the seventies. While it therefore situates the novella …
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Into the Mainstream: Independent Film and Video Counterpublics and Television in Britain, 1974–1990
This thesis looks at independent film and video cultures in Britain from the mid 1970s to late 1980s. It examines a period of time in which diverse radical film- and video-makers in Britain contributed towards struggles against capitalism, patriarchy, racism, colonialism and homophobia. New social …
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The role of the central bank of Libya in the era of globalisation
After 30 years of acting as a socialist country, political chaos, and nearly three decades of central planning control, Libya remains in the early stages of its financial liberalisation and reform. In 2003, Libya made a strategic move in order to cope with emerging challenges in the era of …
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Social democracy and the crime question in Britain : 1945 to 1980.
This thesis has the twin purposes of (a) providing an historical narrative of the evolution of social democratic, conservative and liberal approaches to crime in Britain since the war, and (b) (in part through this historical investigation) beginning to reconstruct the social-democratic form of …
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The development of labour politics in Southampton 1890 - 1945
The debate on the development of Labour politics has become more complex and it is accepted that local economic, social and political experiences are crucial to an understanding of the growth of Labour and the decline of the Liberals. The majority of regional and local studies have concentrated on …
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The role of monetary and financial reform in approaching the European Union: the case of Serbia
… in particular semi-structured interviews, this thesis reveals the main features of the Serbia’s 15-year long transition experience, which took place against a background of frequent constitutional changes over the period 1989 to 2004. Serbia’s transition began in December 1989 with the Markovic …
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Newspapers of the French Left in Provence and Bas-Languedoc during the First World War.
The purpose of this dissertation is to offer a contribution to the historical debate concerning the nature and extent of 'union sacrée' in France during the First World War. Two non-military mass-circulation daily newspapers oriented to the political left (gauché) are consulted in their entirety …
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Probing the Frontiers of the Standard Model with Lattice QCD
The Standard Model of particle physics provides a beautiful description of our universe at the most fundamental level and has been tested more thoroughly than any other scientific theory in history. Nevertheless, there are still unanswered questions lying at the frontiers of the Standard Model, …
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Whitby, Wilfrid, and church-state antagonism in Early Medieval Britain.
In 664, adherents of the Dionysian and Celtic-84 Easter tables gathered at the Northumbrian abbey of Whitby to debate the proper calculation of Easter. The decision to adopt the former, with its connections to the papacy, has led many to frame this encounter in terms of Roman religious imperialism …
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Ações revisionais de benefícios previdenciários: reflexos das ADIs 2110 e 2111 sobre os aposentados e pensionistas que ajuizaram a Revisão da Vida Toda
This paper analyzes the impacts of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court's (STF) decisions on Topic 1102 and the Direct Actions of Unconstitutionality (ADIs) 2110 and 2111, related to the constitutionality of Article 3 of Law 9.876/99, on the calculation of social security benefits. It is a monograph …
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Nazi "chic"? : Fashioning women in the Third Reich
During the Third Reich, women’s clothing became a site of contentious debate. Clothing, which the Nazis hoped would serve as a visible sign of inclusion into – or exclusion from – the Volksgemeinschaft, the national community, instead became a divisive wedge between the government and the majority …
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Reading prostitution in American fiction, 1893-1917
Many American novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries discuss prostitution. Some works like Reginald Wright Kauffman's The House of Bondage, (1910) exaggerate the threat of "white slavery," but others like David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1917) more …
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