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Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
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Western Liberal‐Democratic Norms and Values: Why and How They Should Be Taught in Schools
ABSTRACT In many Western liberal‐democratic countries, there have been increasing efforts over recent decades to teach democratic norms and values in the primary and secondary school systems. However, there has been little agreement on how such democratic education can be effectively implemented. This article argues that an underlying core principle of
Lars Dietrich, Petra Weber
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Objective/Context: This research aims to analyze the editorial practice of the ssa, especially the Sudam publishing house; as well as to identify what were the functions of the published writings and what motives drove the organization to sustain its ...
Mariana Massó
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Composition of the Lithuanian Komsomol in June 1940–June 1941
The Lithuanian Leninist Young Communist League (LLKJS) in Lithuania occupied by the Soviet Union was a political structure of the occupation regime, which provided a reserve and assistance to the ruling Communist Party and actively participated in the ...
Nijolė Maslauskienė
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Indoctrination and Social Influence as a Defense to Crime: Are We Responsible for Who We Are?
A patriotic POW is brainwashed by his North Korean captors into refusing repatriation and undertaking treasonous anti-American propaganda for the communist regime.
Robinson, Paul H., Holcomb, Lindsay
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ABSTRACT This conceptual paper critically examines the evolving interplay between global citizenship and nationalism in Hong Kong's global citizenship education. Drawing on critical analysis of existing literature and recent socio‐political and educational changes in Hong Kong, it traces the shift from a Western‐oriented global citizenship ...
Jason Cong Lin
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Academic Community – the Target of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSR
Starting from the very beginning of the Soviet occupation, the academic community became the target of the Soviet government. The government aimed to break the elite of society because of its potential and real resistance against the system and to ...
Kristina Burinskaitė
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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories
ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
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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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The soviet press in the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1930s. Introduction to the topic and remarks regarding language The author presents in brief the most significant facts from the history of Germans in Russia (from the ...
Jolanta Mędelska
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