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From the blog of David Sedley at The Times of Israel

The play portrays the Slovene statesman and general Rudolf Maister in the turning point of 1918. Filmed according to the script by Sasa Vuga and directed by Andrej Stojan, it reconstructs historical events in a documentary-poetic way. Place of events - Maribor, time of events - night from 22 to 23 November 1918. When the Austrian Germans realized in October 1918 that new state formations would emerge, they also decided to establish their own state - German Austria. On October 30, 1918, the Marib...

All eyes are on Mariupol.

The supreme target is regime change in Russia, Ukraine is just a pawn in the game - or worse, mere cannon fodder. All eyes are on Mariupol. As of Wednesday night, over 70% of residential areas were under control of Donetsk and Russian forces,...

Nationalist dreams and nightmares Mike Macnair reviews Workers and nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918 by JS Beneš and The Fiume crisis: life in the wake of the Habsburg empire by DK Reill Both these books are about nationalism and the break-up of a larger multinational state regime. Reviewing Jakub Beneš’s book, published in 2017, is perhaps rather belated, but it provides fundamental background to that of Dominique Kirchner Reill: Beneš’s book ...

Socialism, nationalism and Ireland Before and during the Second International there were many different approaches to the questions of socialism and nationalism. In Ireland James Connolly banked on nationalists taking a positive attitude towards the cause of labour. In his next article Marc Mulholland will look at Ireland’s conservative revolution The liberal republicanism coming out of the French Revolution had generally aimed for a radical reconfiguration of Europe’s boundaries. The old d...