Montessori as an alternative in post-totalitarian and ‘folwark’ educational culture – ethnographical research report by Jarosław Jendza

“…The results of the research show, that all three cultural codes, including the totalitarian and folwark ones are present in many different situations investigated during the research. …”
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The Form and Functioning of the Union of Czechoslovak Writers in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s in the Context of Czech Literature by Michal Bauer

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Filmowy Poemat pedagogiczny: między Makarenką a wymogami kultury totalitarnej by Jakub Sadowski

“…The literary Pedagogical Poem was created as an autonomous work against totalitarian discourse, however it still participates in it. …”
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Gréckokatolícki mučeníci z obdobia neslobody 1939–1989 by Peter Borza

“…Pass of the twentieth century in Central Europe is marked by two totalitarian systems, which grossly restricted the freedom of people and stifled any opposition speeches. …”
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Christianity and Islam - the development of modern science nad the genesis of the modern (just) state by D. F. M. Strauss

“… This article focuses on the formal similarities between Christianity and the Islam resent during the later middle ages — a period in which both legacies subscribed to a relatively totalitarian societal condition manifested in the existence of their respective empires. …”
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Symboliczne praktyki edukacji. Doświadczenie A.S. Makarenki w postsocjalistycznym dyskursie pedagogicznym by Aleksander Połonnikow

“…The problem discussed in the article is related to the attitude to the pedagogical tradition born in conditions of the formation and development of the totalitarian society. Its reconstruction and analysis is organized by denoting this experience in the form of text. …”
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Kissing the naked Novomeský (an interpretative probe into an unpublished chapter from Janko Silan’s book Dom opustenosti [House of abandonment]) by Andrej Gejdoš

“…Although he actively pursued its publication, especially between 1970 and 1974, the text could not be published during the period of normalisation in the totalitarian Czechoslovakia. The work was officially made available to readers only after the socio-political changes of 1989, first in 1991 and later in an expanded edition in 1997. …”
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Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature during the normalisation period by Olha Norba

“…Prominent themes included environmental pollution, warnings against the loss of humanity, calls for peace, fear of nuclear catastrophe, and condemnation of power domination and totalitarian rhetoric. Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature of the normalisation period proved to be an effective way to re-evaluate the traditional black-and-white vision of society, which was viewed as divided into the “fighting dissent” and the masses blindly accepting the ruling regime.…”
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The situation of the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia in the second half of 20th century by Peter Šturák

“…The Greek Catholic Church suffered from pressure of the totalitarian regime the most, it even made its martyrs. …”
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The models of behaviour ofthe old generation historians in the presence of sovietization process by Aurimas Švedas

“…This article inquires into strategies and tactics of behavior that the most famous historians of independent Lithuania have chosen to pursue in the presence of existential and professional challenges made by the Soviet occupation and its totalitarian system.  The older generation of historians from independent Lithuania was deliberately isolated during the time of creating the Soviet model of history; their influence was limited as these scholars were directed to the "ideologically safe" spheres of work and were prevented from reading "complicated courses" to students. …”
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