During Barcelona May Days, clashes broke out between troops of the popular-front government and radical revolutionary forces in May 1937. By analysing the events of the uprising and the following retaliation, the article values the chances of the popular front policy in a special historic constellation – during the revolutionary upheaval.        

The author reviews fractions of the Spanish anarchism in connection to traditional Spanish regionalism – their history and place in the political-ideological map. The study gives weight on anarchist ideas on production, land ownership and industrial governance.

The study reviews the history of popular fronts between the two World Wars, focusing mainly on criteria of interpreting it, and also discusses the reality of ideas and tactics of popular fronts after World War II until recent times. The study aims to rise questions, which induce optimal political answers against present right-extremist and authoritarian global tendencies.

Lifting the veil from the ancestry of Yuri V. Andropov also sheds light on some peculiarities of the prehistory and heritage of the Stalinist system. The study investigates the historical and personal reasons behind the efforts to conceal Andropov's Jewish ancestry, presenting the first important positions in the career of the KGB chief and later secretary general, who also was the USSR's ambassador to Hungary in 1956.

Nothing is more present as the past, thus the question "does Auschwitz exist as aesthetic?" is a real oxymoron. It may exist, because three is no such aspect of culture, which is not a document of barbarism as well – as it is shown in the Auschwitz Album annoyingly. But if Auschwitz is the absolute new, the impossible what happened, then how this document on the impossible is possible?