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Contemporary Review

Founded in 1866, Contemporary Review is a scholarly journal published quarterly. Contemporary Review Company Ltd. owns and publishes this journal, and its editorial headquarters is in Oxford, United Kingdom.Contemporary Review covers a number of topics, including politics, international affairs, literature, art and art history. Its region and its audience are international. Dr. Richard Mullen is the editor; Dr. Alex Kerr is the managing editor; Dr. James Munson is the literary editor; and Anselma Bruce is the associate editor. James LoGerfo, Robin Findlay and Charles Foster are the editorial advisers.

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Articles from Vol. 280, No. 1632, January

A Letter from Auschwitz to My Daughters
TODAY, when you were at school, I drove across Silesia to a small town near Krakow. In Polish it is called Oswiecim. In all the other languages of the world it is called Auschwitz. You will learn of the things that happened here. For the moment...
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Amy Levy: A Tragic Victorian Novelist
SHE died in an upstairs bedroom, by the light of the morning star, that shone over Endsleigh Gardens, and not over Leamington Spa. She died inhaling death deeply and willingly: carbon monoxide from the charcoal that she burnt in the sealed and oxygen-starved...
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Australia: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
AUSTRALIA'S conservative Prime Minister, John Howard, won a remarkable election victory on 10 November 2001, with a swing to his government of about two per cent. This is the greatest swing to a sitting government since 1966 and puts him on course...
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Belarus under Lukashenko
THE Republic of Belarus is a small country of just over ten million people at the crossroads between Russia and Europe that emerged on the rubbles of the collapsed Soviet Union. It is distinguished by the striking difference between the two stages...
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Ethnic Groups and National Unity in Afghanistan
KARL von Clausewitz wrote that war is nothing but the pursuit of politics by other means. The war in Afghanistan could be characterized as concerted efforts by ethnic communities to jockey for power in the post-Soviet era. One of the chief characteristics...
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Faith, Fanaticism and Food in Islam
IN the present world crisis, which even some moderates on either side see as a 'clash of civilizations', we are often called upon to 'understand Islam'. Usually these calls, from Christian as well as Muslim sources, aim to have us realize that 'not...
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Lord Longford: A Crusading Peer
Editor's Note: It is somewhat ironic that the two British politicians whose deaths received the widest and most sympathetic coverage last year were hereditary peers. At a time when the Blair Government is anxious to destroy all the political influences...
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War Leaves a Shadow of Hunger over Eritrea
Two years after the end of a crippling war with its neighbour Ethiopia, the East African nation of Eritrea is faced with a grim food situation in a reminder of the way conflicts can destroy dreams of development. Although armed conflict ended with...
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