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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

The Commonwealth of Independent States as a Way to a «Civilized Divorce»

Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика, 2019
The article describes the events, which took place in the USSR in its last years. It discovers the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It explains why the CIS did not grow in a new
V. G. Burkov, K. E. Mescheryakov, R. G. Shamgunov   +2 more
doaj  

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Information manipulation and historical revisionism: Russian disinformation and foreign interference through manipulated history-based narratives. [PDF]

Open Res Eur, 2023
Arribas CM, Arcos R, Gértrudix M, Mikulski K, Hernández-Escayola P, Teodor M, Novăcescu E, Surdu I, Stoian V, García-Jiménez A.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

USSR COLLAPSE IN CHINESE DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University, 2021
openaire   +1 more source

Won and Collapsed: The Real Cause of the USSR's Triumph and Collapse in Space Exploration

This work is a philosophical and essayistic exploration in which the history of the space age, the cultural memory of the 20th century, and language are approached as a unified field of meaning. The author proposes an interpretation of civilizational development through the categories of vertical and horizontal movement, as well as through symbolic ...
openaire   +1 more source

Doklady chemical technology.

Voortzetting van: Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Academy of sciences of the USSR
core  

MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
wiley   +1 more source

Exporting Socialist Health Care: Soviet Humanitarianism in the Global South. [PDF]

J Contemp Hist
Hearne S.
europepmc   +1 more source