initiated a purge of intelligent soldiers in 1937. The Gas Dynamics Laboratory and Petrapavlovskaya Fortress in then Leningrad (St. Petersburg) were left to the captured German Rocket Scientists. Russian rocket designer Sergei Korolev was taken to a gulag and Valentin Glushko‚ engine expert‚ escaped punishment (a rivalry was created). Korolev was able to participate in a prison research facility‚ and after liberation he created the R-7 missile or “Little Seven”. Despite the failure of the first launches
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------------------------------------------------- Discipline and Punish: a critical review ------------------------------------------------- This is a summary of Michel Foucault’s seminal work on the history of criminal punishment and social discipline as it transformed from punitive to correctional models during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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Master of Social Sciences (M.Soc.Sc.) in Criminology First Semester 2013-14 SOCI8004 Punishment and Society (Thursday‚ 6:45 – 9:45 p.m.‚ CPD 3.01) Dr. Kalwan Kwan (kalwan@hku.hk) Dr. XU Jianhua (xujh@hku.hk) The social institution of punishment is a central object of social theory and in many ways a mirror of society and its norms. Why and how should we punish wrongdoers in our society? The course aims to explain punishment and society in a multi-dimensional context‚ entrenched
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GENERAL HISTORY OF INDUSTRAL PSYCHOLOGY Industrial psychology is a relatively recent subfield of psychology. In fact it did not become fully productive until about the late 1920’s. The industrial side of industrial psychology has its historical origins in research on individual differences‚ assessment‚ and the prediction of performance. This branch of the field crystallized during World War I‚ in response to the need to rapidly assign new troops to duty stations. After the War the growing industrial
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have led us to respond to social problems pragmatically‚ rationally‚ and sensibly‚ with the assumption that careful planning and technical knowledge can significantly ameliorate if not solve any problem. Auschwitz‚ Hiroshima‚ Cambodia‚ and the Gulag‚ as metaphors of this orientation gone mad‚ not only have shocked and horrified us but have also seriouslyaggravated our despair and paralysis. Indeed‚ we have come to understand that the destructive forces in our world are as powerful as ever‚
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Nothing to Envy 2/15/11 Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Koreans who have experienced a great deal of hardship and turmoil living under one of the most notorious communist regimes. Throughout the years these North Koreans lived through the death of their great Kim Il-Sung‚ the rise to power of his successor Kim Jong-Il‚ and the horrific famine that has left many in despair. Although North Korea is constantly in the news globally
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CHAPTER 1: WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR * Periods of hostility and high tension between two great post-war superpowers‚ the United States and the USSR in the period of 1945 – 1989 * An ideological conflict * A conventional and nuclear arms race * Wars fought on proxy on the battlefields on Asia‚ Africa and Latin America * Economic rivalry * Development of huge espionage networks * Harry S Truman: “the war of nerves” COMMUNISM VS. CAPITALISM THE WEST | THE USSR |
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Guantanamo Bay The United States detention facility located at Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba was opened in 2002 by George W. Bush to hold enemy combatants from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are currently three sections in Guantanamo Bay: Camp Delta‚ Camp Echo‚ and Camp Iguana. Insurgents are kept at Guantanamo Bay for a variety of reasons and there are CIA interrogators at the camp to gather information. On January 22‚ 2009‚ President Obama signed an executive order closing the Guantanamo Bay detention
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Dmitri Shostakovich: A Musical Representation of Communist Russia In the musical world‚ no one is as controversial as Dmitri Shostakovich. Although he died not 30 years ago‚ many aspects of his life still remain to be a great mystery. When he was alive‚ many in the world believed he was a Communist and a devoted servant of Stalin. It was not until after his death that the truth had come out. Or had the truth been there all along? Many believe that this was because his music expressed a lot of
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HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 0 *CROSS-REFERENCE: civil society-transnational‚ ethics‚ genocide‚ governance-global‚ human rights-comparative‚ indigenous peoples’ rights‚ international regimes‚ international law‚ intervention-humanitarian‚ normative theory‚ rights‚ rule of law‚ sovereignty 0 Human rights is the soul of politics. The essence of human rights is the idea that all persons possess equal moral worth‚ that social order exists to preserve the essential humanity of its members
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