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“DO YOU WANT TO BE KRAMPUS?” Santa Claus, globality and locality of Christmas tradition
In this paper the author argues that the Christmas holidays, notwithstanding their international standing as a religious and commercial season, are most productively understood as a glocal phenomena, a concept intended to link the local with the global ...
Kürti László
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The relationship of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSR and the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party constitutes an important aspect for the analysis of the history of the operation of the Lithuanian KGB in Lithuania.
Kristina Burinskaitė
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Alienation in Duong Thu Huong’s Novel Without a Name and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer [PDF]
Challenging the postcolonial studies focus on trauma, memory, and identity, this study instead draws on the concept of alienation in Marxist theory to analyze the ideological transformations of four representative soldiers in Duong Thu Huong’s Novel ...
JingJie Liu
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"December 1960.""Communist bloc program. China Project"--handwritten on t.p"L2-1154"--handwritten on coverIncludes bibliographical references ( leaves 34 ...
Schein, Edgar H.
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Forced labour in the National Organisation „Service to Poland” 1948–1955. Between the rebellion and the capitulation [PDF]
The100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence encourages us to reflect on its difficult road to obtaining actual freedom. It obliges us to recall events and attitudes not only of well-known heroes of past times, but also ordinary people who ...
Jolanta Lenart
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez +1 more
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Kalmyk Oblast Party Committee: Activities of the Women’s Affairs Department (1921–1928)
Introduction. Despite there are quite a number of works dealing with the history of Kalmykia’s Communist party organizations, the former provide virtually no description of the latter’s structure, and, specifically, nothing has been published to ...
Evgeniya V. Sartikova
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Enclaves of freedom. On „second circulation” publishing in the PRL [PDF]
„Second circulation publishing”, the broadly defined publishing and cultural movement, independent of the authorities of the PRL and not subject to state censorship, was initiated in the autumn of 1976 by the community which opposed communist party rule ...
Tatarowski, Konrad W.
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ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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