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The opening exhibition of ALBERTINA MODERN, entitled The Beginning. Art in Austria, 1945 to 1980, offers the first-ever comprehensive overview of a period that numbers among Austrian art history’s most innovative. On exhibit are the most important artistic stances situated at the threshold of postmodernism—from the Vienna School of ...
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There is of course much that is simplistic about this account. It prioritises the western half of the continent over the experience of Soviet occupationin the east, as well as marginalising the bitter wars of decolonisation in which the European powers continued to engage long after 1945. But, even so, the importance of 1945 is impossible to deny. ...
1945 was therefore a year of destruction and endings, but what did it create? Because we know what happened next, it is all too easy to find a pattern in the events of the year, which would have been entirely invisible to contemporaries. We are accustomed to the photographs of civilians cheering the arrival of Allied liberating troops. But the domi...
Gradually, Europe regained a semblance of order. This was a top-down order imposed by occupying armies, or by new rulers such as de Gaulle whose legal and democratic credentials to exercise power were more improvised than real. Government preceded elections, and the latter were often subordinated – especially in the Soviet-controlled east – to serv...
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Yalta Conference, (February 4–11, 1945), major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders—Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union —which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi ...
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The 1945 meeting betwen the Allied partners underlined the differences between them, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming decades between two global ...
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A brutal civil war ensued, dividing China from 1927 to 1949. After more than twenty years of fighting and millions of deaths, the CCP emerged victorious. On October 1, 1949, Mao declared the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, which the Communist Party rules to this day.
May 7, 2020 · The fall of Berlin. The final battle in the savage struggle between Germany and Russia opened before dawn on April 16, 1945, when Soviet artillery along the Oder River unleashed a thunderous ...
In 1945, when she was only nine years old, Winnie had her first conscious experience of what the strictures and injustices of racism and apartheid meant in South Africa. News had just arrived in Bizana that the Second World War had ended, and celebrations had been scheduled. Along with her siblings, Winnie begged their father to attend, and ...
