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A sophisticated democratic citizen must be able to vote in a way that is most representative of his/her own political views, in short they must be able to cast their votes “correctly”. The analysis of voting behavior in the new democracies can tell us a great deal about normalization of politics in these societies overtime.

The Habsburg Monarchy disappeared in 1918, but many elements of its urban culture survived and even continued to evolve in the years to follow. In popular cinema of the interwar period, we can pick up what Nancy Condee has called, in other contexts, an "imperial trace" and begin to map out a common cultural space that continued to bridge the former twin seats of empire, Vienna and Budapest. For this talk, I will focus on three titles -- Frühjahrsparade (1934), Ernte/Die Julika (1936), and Maria Ilona (1939) -- helmed by Géza von Bolváry, one of the most prolific directors of the period.

The lecture illuminates the ethos of postwar soviet social scientists as expressed in the wedding of party activism and scientific professionalism. Examining the biographies of social scientists, we learn that they moved in and out of state, Party and scientific positions throughout their professional lives. They did not distinguish between these roles, and viewed social science as a tool of social transformation in the service of the Party and state. As a result their scientific production was not limited to academic publications.