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The USSR and The GDR: Mutual Collapse
, 2020 The Soviet Union had a number of satellite states, where communist puppet regimes were propped up in order to serve the interests of the Soviet Union. The Eastern Bloc was established with the goal of spreading the Soviet style of government, regardless ...
Alessi, Jessica M.
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Dal diario di una piccola comunista. Ricostruzione della vicenda umana nella Cecoslovacchia di Husák
Lea, 2015 This article aims to present Dal diario di una piccola comunista (From the diary of a young communist girl), the first novel by the Slovak writer Michaela Šebőková.
Stefania Mella
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.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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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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Years of the Late Communism. An Attempt for a Synthesis
Sfera Politicii, 2014 This article analyses the final years of the communism in Romania. It draws on the premises of the Ceausescu’s coming into power, his economical, social, and cultural policies as well as the main events during the period of his dictatorial ruling of ...
Stelian Tănase
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Twenty years of political transition [PDF]
, 2010 What explains the divergent political paths that the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have followed since the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Treisman, Daniel
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CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
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Why are East Germans not More Mobile? Analyzing the Impact of Social Ties on Regional Migration [PDF]
Individuals’ preferences in transition regions are still shaped by the former communist system. We test this ‘Communism legacy’ hypothesis by examining the impact of acculturation in a communist regime on social network participation and, as a ...
Lutz Schneider, Peter Bönisch
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Claus Offe (1940–2025): A Tribute to His Academic Work and His Role as a Political Intellectual
Constellations, EarlyView.
Tine Stein
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