[...]... concerning cultural life, behaving like a one-man state patronage The majority of society and the elite approved, while outstanding writers and poets dedicated their works to him At the Ninth Congress of the HSWP in 1966 Aczộl joined the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the CC, and in April 1967 he was elected secretary of the CC, supervising the work of the Department of Science, Education, and. .. 1945 Anders served as the commander -in- chief and inspector general of the Polish Armed Forces in the West Next, Anders assumed command of the Second Polish Corps, which after the end of the war was around 11 0,0 00-strong, posing a serious political problem to the Allies in the face of the Sovietization of Poland The ANDRSSY soldiers and ofcers of the corps, as well as their adored general Anders, wanted... authorities In June 1939 the congress of the BNSP was held in Gdansk At the congress it was decided that the future of independent Belorussia would be built in alliance with the Germans From June 1939 Akinchits worked in the Belorussian Bureau of the Ministry of Propaganda of the Third Reich At the beginning of 194 0, within the framework of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, he became... Lexikon, vol 1; Wacaw Felczak and Tadeusz Wasilewski, Historia Jugosawii (Wrocaw, 1985); Barbara Jelavich, History of the Balkans, Twentieth Century, vol 2 (Cambridge, 1983); Mark Biondich, Stjepan Radic, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 19041928 (Toronto, 2000) ALEXANDER Obrenovic (14 August 187 6, Belgrade11 June 190 3, Belgrade ), king of Serbia, son of Milan and Natalie,... mountains Interrogated many times in the Ministry of Interior headquarters in Bucharest, he was put in a villa in Sinaia, where Gheorghiu Gheorghiu-Dej and Patriarch Justinian tried to make him agree to join the Orthodox Church and offered him the position of Metropolitan of Iaási When Aftenie refused, he was put in the Jilava prison At the beginning of 1950 he was again interrogated and tortured in the. .. Un , Ramiz Alia: Dởshmoj pởr historinở (Tirana, 1993); Whos Who in the Socialist Countries of Europe (Munich, London, and Paris, 1989); Stavro Skendi, Albania (New York, 1956); Jerzy Hauzinski and Jan Lesny, Historia Albanii (Wrocaw, 1992); www.rulers.org ALIJAGIÔC Alija (20 November 189 5, Bijeljina8 March 192 2, Zagreb ), Bosnian Communist Born into an impoverished Bosnian Muslim family, Alijagic worked... Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and king of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Alexander I spent his youth in Geneva and St Petersburg In 190 3, after the overthrow of the Obrenovic dynasty, his father, Peter I Karadjordjevic, became king In 190 9, when his elder brother renounced his right of succession, Alexander came back to Serbia A successful commander in the Balkan Wars of 19121 3, he was appointed regent on 24 June... rinkimu programa (Vilnius, 1997); Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1999 (London, 1999); Bugajski; Piotr Êossowski, Litwa (Warsaw, 2001); www.presisident.lt; www.rulers.org ADAMOVICH Ales (3 September 192 7, Kaniukhy, near Kopylsk26 January 199 4, Moscow ), Belorussian writer and literary critic Between 1943 and 1944 Adamovich was active in the Soviet underground in the region of. .. president of the Civic Council of the Western Territories, which was established by the West Ofce of the Delegation of the Polish Government -in- Exile for the Homeland During the Warsaw Uprising he was the only bishop to perform pastoral services After the fall of the rising he went for a short time to Jasna Gúra, and then in February 1945 he returned to Katowice In the fall of 1945 Adamski allowed clergymen... view on the development of the nationalist issue in the Silesian Province during the German occupation)was adopted by the governor (wojewoda) of Dạbrowa Silesia, Aleksander Zawadzki, who was able to convince the central authorities to moderate their restrictive policy toward the Polish-speaking natives of Upper Silesia Adamski was involved in restoring a ministry in the Wrocaw diocese; for example, . D ., IPS PAS JD J zef Darski, Ph.D ., Warsaw JH Joanna Hyndle, M.A ., Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw JJ Jerzy Jackowicz, Professor, IPS PAS JK Jan Kofman, Professor, IPS PAS JS Jerzy Stañczyk,. w0 h0" alt="" Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century M.E.Sharpe Armonk, New York London, England Edited by Wojciech Roszkowski and Jan. Professor, IPS PAS WD Waldemar Dziak, Professor, IPS PAS WDj Vera Deyanova, Lecturer, University of Sofia, Bulgaria WR Wojciech Roszkowski, Professor, IPS PAS ZS Zbigniew Stawrowski, Ph.D ., IPS PAS ix Institutional