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World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, the Glossary

The World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace (Światowy Kongres Intelektualistów w Obronie Pokoju) was an international conference held on 25 to 28 August 1948 at Wrocław University of Technology.^[1]

168 relations: A. J. P. Taylor, Aimé Césaire, Albert E. Kahn, Albert Einstein, Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga, Albin Amelin, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Palladin, Alexander Abusch, Alexander Fadeyev (writer), Alves Redol, American imperialism, André Malraux, André Mandouze, Andrei Zhdanov, Andrzej Panufnik, Anna Seghers, Anti-Americanism, Antoni Słonimski, Aubrey Pankey, Berthold Lubetkin, Bertolt Brecht, Clericalism, Clifford Durr, Colston Warne, David Zaslavsky, Dominique Desanti, Donald Ogden Stewart, Eastern Bloc, Eberhard Rebling, Edita Morris, Edward Crankshaw, Ella Winter, Erik Blomberg (writer), Ernst Fischer (writer), Eugénie Cotton, Eugene O'Neill, Ewa Bandrowska-Turska, Fascism, Feliks Topolski, Fernand Léger, François Bondy, Franciszek Strynkiewicz, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Freda Kirchwey, French Resistance, Friedrich Wolf (writer), George Abbe, Giorgio Caproni, ... Expand index (118 more) »
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A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy.

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Aimé Césaire

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone Martinican poet, author, and politician.

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Albert E. Kahn

Albert Eugene Kahn (May 11, 1912 – September 15, 1979) was an American journalist, photographer, and author.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

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Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga

Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga (28 December 1907 – 16 September 2001) was a Malagasy physician, biochemist and diplomat.

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Albin Amelin

Hans Albin Agaton Amelin (25 January 1902 – 8 February 1975) was a Swedish artist.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.

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Aleksandr Palladin

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Palladin (Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Палла́дин; Олександр Володимирович Палладін, 10 September 1885 – 6 December 1972) was a Soviet and Ukrainian biochemist, professor and academician.

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Alexander Abusch

Alexander Abusch (14 February 1902 27 January 1982) was a German journalist, non-fiction writer, and politician.

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Alexander Fadeyev (writer)

Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фаде́ев; – 13 May 1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954.

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Alves Redol

António Alves Redol (29December 191129November 1969) was an influential Portuguese neorealist writer.

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American imperialism

American imperialism is the expansion of American political, economic, cultural, media, and military influence beyond the boundaries of the United States of America.

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André Malraux

Georges André Malraux (3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs.

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André Mandouze

André Mandouze (10 June 1916 in Bordeaux - 5 June 2006 in Porto-Vecchio), was a French academic and journalist, a Catholic, and an anti-fascist and anti-colonialist activist.

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Andrei Zhdanov

Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (a; – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet politician.

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Andrzej Panufnik

Sir Andrzej Panufnik (pronounced:; born 24 September 1914 – died 27 October 1991) was a Polish composer and conductor.

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Anna Seghers

Anna Seghers (born Anna Reiling, 19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983), is the pseudonym of German writer Anna Reiling, who was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.

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Anti-Americanism

Anti-Americanism (also called anti-American sentiment and Americanophobia) is a term that can describe several sentiments and positions including opposition to, fear of, distrust of, prejudice against or hatred toward the United States, its government, its foreign policy, or Americans in general.

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Antoni Słonimski

Antoni Słonimski (15 November 1895 – 4 July 1976) was a Polish poet, artist, journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union of Polish Writers in 1956–1959 during the Polish October, known for his devotion to social justice.

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Aubrey Pankey

Aubrey W. Pankey (June 17, 1905May 8, 1971) was an American-born baritone and noted Lieder singer in 1930s Germany.

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Berthold Lubetkin

Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin (14 December 1901 – 23 October 1990) was a Georgian-British architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Clericalism

Clericalism is the application of the formal, church-based leadership or opinion of ordained clergy in matters of the church or in broader political and sociocultural contexts.

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Clifford Durr

Clifford Judkins Durr (March 2, 1899 – May 12, 1975) was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and others accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras.

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Colston Warne

Colston Estey Warne (August 14, 1900 – May 20, 1987) was an American professor of economics and one of the founders of Consumers Union (along with Arthur Kallet), in 1936.

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David Zaslavsky

David Iosifovich Zaslavsky (January 13, 1880 – March 28, 1965) was a Soviet journalist and literary critic.

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Dominique Desanti

Dominique Desanti (1920 – April 8, 2011) was a French journalist, novelist, educator and biographer.

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Donald Ogden Stewart

Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 – August 2, 1980) was an American writer and screenwriter best known for his sophisticated golden age comedies and melodramas such as The Philadelphia Story (based on the play by Philip Barry), Tarnished Lady and Love Affair.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).

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Eberhard Rebling

Eberhard Rebling (4 December 1911 – 2 August 2008) was a German pianist, musicologist and dance scholar as well as an anti fascist.

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Edita Morris

Edita Morris (born Edita Dagmar Emilia Toll; 5 March 1902 – 15 March 1988) was a Swedish-American writer and political activist.

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Edward Crankshaw

Edward Crankshaw (3 January 1909 – 30 November 1984) was a British writer, author, translator and commentator; best known for his work on Soviet affairs and the Gestapo (Secret State Police) of Nazi Germany.

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Ella Winter

Ella Winter Stewart (17 March 1898 – 5 August 1980) was an Australian-British journalist and activist, and champion of migrant farm workers.

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Erik Blomberg (writer)

Erik Axel Blomberg (17 August 1894 – 8 April 1965) was a Swedish poet, translator and critic.

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Ernst Fischer (writer)

Ernst Fischer (3 July 1899 – 31 July 1972), also known under the pseudonyms Ernst Peter Fischer, Peter Wieden, Pierre Vidal, and Der Miesmacher, was a Bohemian-born Austrian journalist, writer and politician.

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Eugénie Cotton

Eugénie Cotton (13 October 1881 – 16 June 1967) was a French scientist, socialist, women's rights advocate and was active in the resistance.

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Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright.

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Ewa Bandrowska-Turska

Ewa Bandrowska-Turska (20 May 1894 – 25 June 1979) was a Polish coloratura soprano and music educator.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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Feliks Topolski

Feliks Topolski RA (14 August 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a Polish expressionist painter and draughtsman working primarily in the United Kingdom.

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Fernand Léger

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.

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François Bondy

François Bondy (1 January 1915 – 27 May 2003) was a Swiss journalist and novelist.

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Franciszek Strynkiewicz

Franciszek Strynkiewicz (September 15, 1893 – November 20, 1996) was a Polish sculptor.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of induced radioactivity. World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace and Frédéric Joliot-Curie are world Peace Council.

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Freda Kirchwey

Mary Frederika "Freda" Kirchwey (September 26, 1893 – January 3, 1976) was an American journalist, editor, and publisher strongly committed throughout her career to liberal causes (anti-Fascist, pro-Soviet, anti-anti-communist).

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War.

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Friedrich Wolf (writer)

Friedrich Wolf (23 December 1888 – 5 October 1953) was a German doctor and politically-engaged writer.

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George Abbe

George Bancroft Abbe (January 28, 1911 – March 15, 1989) was an American poet and novelist.

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Giorgio Caproni

Giorgio Caproni (Livorno, 7 January 1912 – 22 January 1990, Rome) was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator, especially from French.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.

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Grzegorz Fitelberg

Grzegorz Fitelberg (18 October 1879 – 10 June 1953) was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer.

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György Lukács

György Lukács (born György Bernát Löwinger; szegedi Lukács György Bernát; Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician.

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Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer.

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Hans Jacob Nilsen

Hans Jacob Nilsen (8 November 1897 – 6 March 1957) was a Norwegian actor, theatre director and film director.

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Hans Mayer

Hans Mayer (19 March 1907 in Cologne – 19 May 2001 in Tübingen; pseudonym: Martin Seiler) was a German literary scholar.

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Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist during the latter New Deal and Fair Deal.

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Henry A. Wallace

Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Hewlett Johnson

Hewlett Johnson (25 January 1874 – 22 October 1966) was an English priest of the Church of England and Christian communist.

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Howard Fast

Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer.

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Hugo Steinhaus

Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus (14 January 1887 – 25 February 1972) was a Polish mathematician and educator.

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Ilya Ehrenburg

Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг,; – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian.

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Ira Victor Morris

Ira Victor Morris or I.V. Morris (1903–1972) was an American writer and journalist.

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Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie (12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist, physicist and politician, the elder daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska–Curie, and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.

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Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andrić (Иво Андрић,; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.

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J. B. S. Haldane

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics.

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J. D. Bernal

John Desmond Bernal (10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace and J. D. Bernal are world Peace Council.

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Jack Lindsay

John "Jack" Lindsay,, FRSL (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex.

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James Crowther

James Gerald Crowther (26 September 1899, Halifax – 30 March 1983) was one of the founders of science journalism.

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James Maude Richards

Sir James Maude Richards, CBE FRIBA (13 August 1907 – 27 April 1992) was a British architectural writer.

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Jan Czekanowski

Jan Czekanowski (October 8, 1882, Głuchów – July 20, 1965, Szczecin) was a Polish anthropologist, statistician, ethnographer, traveller, and linguist.

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Jan Dembowski (biologist)

Jan Bohdan Dembowski (26 December 1889 – 22 September 1963) was a Polish biologist and academic who was the first President of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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Jan Parandowski

Jan Parandowski (11 May 1895 – 26 September 1978) was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator.

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Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Jarosław Leon Iwaszkiewicz (also known under his literary pseudonym Eleuter; 20 February 1894 – 2 March 1980), was a Polish writer, poet, essayist, dramatist and translator.

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Józef Chałasiński

Józef Chałasiński (17 February 1904 – 5 December 1979) was a Polish sociologist, academic and university professor.

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Jean Bruller

Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller (26 February 1902 – 10 June 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company with Pierre de Lescure.

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Jean Wahl

Jean André Wahl (25 May 1888 – 19 June 1974) was a French philosopher.

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Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault (8 September 1910 – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.

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Jerzy Borejsza

Jerzy Borejsza (born Beniamin Goldberg; 14 July 1905 in Warsaw – 19 January 1952 in Warsaw) was a Polish communist activist and writer.

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Jerzy Zawieyski

Jerzy Zawieyski, born Henryk Nowicki, (2 October 1902, Radogoszcz, Piotrków Governorate – 18 June 1969, Warsaw) was a Polish playwright, prose writer, Catholic political activist and amateur stage actor.

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Jo Davidson

Jo Davidson (March 30, 1883 – January 2, 1952) was an American sculptor.

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John Boyd Orr

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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John Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his ''U.S.A.'' trilogy.

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Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school.

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Julia Pirotte

Julia Pirotte (née Diament; 1908 – 25 July 2000) was a Polish photojournalist known for her work in Marseille during the Second World War when she documented the French Resistance, and for photographs taken in the aftermath of the Kielce Pogrom of 1946.

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Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist.

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Julian Krzyżanowski

Julian Krzyżanowski (4 July 1892 – 19 May 1976) was a Polish literature and folklore scholar, best known for his study of Polish proverbs.

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Julian Tuwim

Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym Oldlen as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition.

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Julien Benda

Julien Benda (26 December 1867 – 7 June 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist, known as an essayist and cultural critic.

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Karl Vennberg

Karl Vennberg (11 April 1910 – 12 May 1995) was a Swedish poet, writer and translator.

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Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (12 December 1890 – 12 April 1963) was a Polish philosopher and logician, a prominent figure in the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic.

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Kazimierz Wyka

Kazimierz Wyka (19 March 1910 – 19 January 1975) was a Polish literary historian, literary critic, and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków following World War II.

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Kingsley Martin

Basil Kingsley Martin (28 July 1897 – 16 February 1969) usually known as Kingsley Martin, was a British journalist who edited the left-leaning political magazine the New Statesman from 1930 to 1960.

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Lawrence S. Wittner

Lawrence S. Wittner (born May 5, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American historian who has written extensively on peace movements, foreign policy, and economic inequality.

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Léon Moussinac

Léon Pierre Guillaume Moussinac (19 January 1890 – 10 March 1964) was a French writer, film and art critic, film historian and film theorist.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Leon Kruczkowski

Leon Kruczkowski (28 June 1900 – 1 August 1962) was a Polish writer, publicist and public figure.

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Leonid Leonov

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov (Леони́д Макси́мович Лео́нов; — 8 August 1994) was a Soviet novelist and playwright of socialist realism.

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Leopoldo Méndez

Leopoldo Méndez (June 30, 1902 – February 8, 1969) was one of Mexico's most important graphic artists and one of that country's most important artists from the 20th century.

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List of anti-war organizations

In order to facilitate organized, determined, and principled opposition to the wars, people have often founded anti-war organizations.

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List of peace activists

This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods.

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Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon (3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France.

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Louis Golding

Louis Golding (19 November 1895 – 9 August 1958) was an English writer, very famous in his time especially for his novels, though he is now largely neglected; he wrote also short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books, and poetry.

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Ludwik Hirszfeld

Ludwik Hirszfeld (5 August 1884 – 7 March 1954) was a Polish microbiologist and serologist.

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Lviv Anti-Fascist Congress of Cultural Workers

Lviv Anti-Fascist Congress of Cultural Workers was an event that brought together the progressive intellectuals of Poland, Western Ukraine, and Western Belarus.

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Madeleine Renaud

Lucie Madeleine Renaud (21 February 1900 – 23 September 1994) was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre.

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Maria Dąbrowska

Maria Dąbrowska (born Maria Szumska; 6 October 1889 – 19 May 1965) was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel Noce i dnie (Nights and Days) written between 1932 and 1934 in four separate volumes.

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Marika Stiernstedt

Maria (Marika) Sofia Alexandra Stiernstedt, (12 January 1875 – 25 October 1954) was a Swedish author and artist.

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Martin Andersen Nexø

Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish writer.

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Max Frisch

Max Rudolf Frisch (15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist.

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Max Pechstein

Hermann Max Pechstein (31 December 1881 – 29 June 1955) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and a member of the Die Brücke group.

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Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (p; – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Minnette de Silva

Minnette de Silva (මිනට් ද සිල්වා;மினிட் டி சில்வா; 1 February 1918 – 24 November 1998) was an internationally recognised architect, considered the pioneer of the modern architectural style in Sri Lanka.

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Mirzo Tursunzoda

Mirzo Tursunzoda (Мирзо Турсунзода, 2 May 1911 — 24 September 1977) was an important Tajikistani and Soviet poet and a prominent political figure, full member (academician) of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.

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Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, recognised for his depiction of the lives of the poorer class in the traditional Indian society.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Norman Corwin

Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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O. John Rogge

Oetje John Rogge (October 12, 1903 – March 22, 1981) was an American attorney who prosecuted cases for the United States government, investigated Nazi activities in the United States, and in private practice was associated with civil rights and liberal political causes.

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Olaf Stapledon

William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) was a British philosopher and author of science fiction.

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Oleksandr Korniychuk

Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk (Алекса́ндр Евдоки́мович Корнейчу́к; Олександр Євдокимович Корнійчук; – 14 May 1972) was a Soviet and Ukrainian playwright, literary critic and state official.

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Otto Nathan

Otto Nathan (1893–1987) was an economist who taught at Princeton University (1933–35), New York University (1935–42), Vassar College (1942–44), and Howard University (1946–52).

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Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda (born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 190423 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944–1956

Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944–1956 is a nonfiction book written by Tony Judt and was originally published by University of California Press in 1992.

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Paul Éluard

Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.

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Peace movement

A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish People's Republic

The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland.

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Polish złoty

The Polish złoty (alternative spelling: zloty; Polish: polski złoty,;The nominative plural, used for numbers ending in 2, 3 and 4 (except those in 12, 13 and 14), is złote; the genitive plural, used for all other numbers, is złotych abbreviation: zł; code: PLN)Prior to 1995, code PLZ was used instead.

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Progressive Party (United States, 1948–1955)

The Progressive Party was a left-wing political party in the United States that served as a vehicle for the campaign of Henry A. Wallace, a former vice president, to become President of the United States in 1948.

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Rafał Taubenschlag

Rafał Taubenschlag (Raphael Taubenschlag; 8 May 1881, in Przemyśl – 25 June 1958, in Warsaw) was a Polish historian of law, a specialist in Roman law and papyrology.

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Recovered Territories

The Recovered Territories or Regained Lands (Ziemie Odzyskane), also known as the Western Borderlands (Kresy Zachodnie), and previously as the Western and Northern Territories (Ziemie Zachodnie i Północne), Postulated Territories (Ziemie Postulowane) and Returning Territories (Ziemie Powracające), are the former eastern territories of Germany and the Free City of Danzig that became part of Poland after World War II, at which time most of their German inhabitants were forcibly deported.

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Renato Guttuso

Aldo Renato Guttuso (26 December 1911 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter and politician.

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Roger Vailland

Roger Vailland (16 October 1907 – 12 May 1965) was a French novelist, essayist, and screenwriter.

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Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo (20 August 1901 – 14 June 1968) was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times".

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Samad Vurgun

Samad Vurgun (Səməd Vurğun; born Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov; March 21, 1906 – May 27, 1956) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, dramatist, public figure, first People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), academician of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945), laureate of two Stalin Prizes of second degree (1941, 1942), and member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1940.

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Sibilla Aleramo

Sibilla Aleramo (born Marta Felicina Faccio; 14 August 1876 – 13 January 1960) was an Italian feminist writer and poet known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy.

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Soviet atomic bomb project

The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stanisław Lorentz

Stanisław Lorentz (28 April 1899 – 15 March 1991) was a Polish scholar of museology and history of art.

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Stanisław Ossowski

Stanisław Ossowski (22 May 1897 – 7 November 1963) was a Polish sociologist.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

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Tadeusz Kotarbiński

Tadeusz Marian Kotarbiński (31 March 1886 – 3 October 1981) was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist.

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At the end of World War II, Poland underwent major changes to the location of its international border.

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Umberto Barbaro

Umberto Barbaro (3 January 1902, Acireale – 19 March 1959, Rome) was an Italian film critic and essayist.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

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