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Volume XV, No. 3

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Religious Conflict in Poland

An Interim Report Even though Christianity is perhaps the most persecuted religion in the world, and the severity of the living conditions of oppressed Christians is getting worse by the

SCOTTISH NATIONALISM
AND DEPENDENCY CULTURE

Review Essay of John Lloyd’s Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot:The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence (Polity Press, 2020) Published six years after the 2014 independence referendum in which 55 per

Essay

Nation Building in Central Europe

On the Relationship between Religious and National Identity The purpose of this study is to outline the cooperation between Slovak, Czech, and Polish national movements and the Christian denominations that

Separation of Powers
and Sovereignty

The Question of External Executive Power The title István Bibó gave to his academic inaugural address on 16 January 1947 was ‘Separation of Powers, Then and Now’. 1István Bibó, Az

History

Russian Arms for Franz Joseph
in 1849

‘Warsaw is lying at Your Majesty’s feet’, declared Field Marshal Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich to Tsar Nicholas I on 8 September 1831, after the Polish capital had opened its gates to

SOME DIED SLOWLY

András Tömpe and the Long War within Communism* A tall dignified man in his late fifties, whose English moustache only accentuated his military bearing, András Tömpe brought two guns to

A Fatal Case of Empathy

Hungary and the UN, 1956–1963Excerpt II The surface-level events and those under the surface amounted to two entirely separate stories: one written for public consumption, the other the result of

AN INTERNMENT CAMP COMMANDER’S STRUGGLE

The Story of István VasdényeyPart II ‘The train departed a second time.’1The title of István Lengyel’s conversation with the poet Erzsi Szenes, an inmate of the Kistarcsacamp. See: István Lengyel,

Arts and Letters

Along the Russian Border

A Journey in Eastern Estonia Outside the front door, a crowd of rowdy transvestites were passing by. They had bottles of beer in their hands. One of them vomited against

Selected Poems

The Wind Has Entered My Room A szél jött be szobámba The wind has entered my room, and it talks to me.From the wind the answer comes into my labyrinth,the

TO GYULA KODOLÁNYI AT 80

Words quarrel, ideas clash, truths hide, theories mislead, deadlines have seized strategic chokepoints threatening paralysis, supplies of semicolons have failed to arrive on time, metaphors and similes are suspected of

Our Authors

OUR AUTHORS

PAUL GILFILLAN is a senior lecturer in Sociology at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. His major work is A Sociological Phenomenology of Christian Redemption (2014). In 2021–2022, he was a visiting