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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Book Translations As Idea Flows: The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge [PDF]
We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism’s collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations, we show that while translations between Communist languages ...
Isabelle Sin, Ran Abramitzky
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An American mathematician in Moscow, or how I destroyed the Soviet Union
, 2014 Reminiscences about I. M. Gel'fand on the 100th anniversary of his birth, and about mathematical life in Moscow in the former Soviet Union.Comment: 6 ...
Nathanson, Melvyn B.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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Quantum Measurement and Entropy Production
, 2000 We study the time evolution of a quantum system without classical counterpart, undergoing a process of entropy increase due to the environment influence.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Before entering the river look at the stones under the water…
Новые исследования Тувы, 2016 Author, a well-known politician and public figure of Tuva, shares his memoirs about the events of summer 1990, which gave way to the aggravation of interethnic relations in Tuva just before the collapse of the USSR and against which members of the Tuva ...
Chimit-Dorzhu B. Ondar
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
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The role of ideology in creating new nations in the USSR and strengthening a centralised state-The example of the Dungans in central Asia. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Kokaisl P, Hejzlarová T.
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