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The Don Cossacks at the Polish Front in 1919
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017 During the civil war in the Don region in early 1919, a considerable part of the Cossacks of the white Don army lost faith in the regime of General Krasnov and went home.
Andrey V. Venkov
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Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
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Heirs to the Frontier: James Fenimore Cooper’s Influence on Tolstoy [PDF]
, 2018 In the early nineteenth century, American author James Fenimore Cooper wrote a series of frontier novels called The Leatherstocking Tales (1823-1841), the most famous of which was The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
Gum, Christian
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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The Russian Cossacks and the Problem of Identity with the Question: Who Are We?
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. On August 29, 2013, director of the Department of State National Policy in the Sphere of Inter-Ethnic Relations of the Ministry of Regional Development A.
Nikolai F. Bugay
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Мiryachit: A Culture‐Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, Volume 12, Issue 6, Page 807-816, June 2025.Abstract Background Miryachit is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the culture‐specific startle syndromes that include latah and the jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Objectives We carried out a field study to evaluate startle‐induced paroxysms in the Saami to determine if it is still endemic and, if so, to contrast it with the available ...
Marianna Selikhova +3 more
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Enemies: uneasy accompaniments in late life Ennemis : accompagnements de fin de vie difficiles
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 128-144, April 2025.Against a phenomenological orientation to ageing as path or course, a contrastive frame is offered around a figure termed the enemy. Four distinctive ethnographic fragments are utilized: (1) a Polish‐Jewish migrant to Canada in her late eighties who listens continually to the radio and worries over the malign forces in the world that the radio ...
Lawrence Cohen
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Experimental generation of patina on glass
Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 6, Page 565-573, November/December 2024.Abstract Patina formed on ancient glass holds potential to be a useful tool in determining the age of patina and to interpreting its formative environment climatically, pedogenically, hydrochemically and biologically. To date, its usefulness in this regard appears to have been underestimated.
Penelope Clifford, Vic Semeniuk
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition
Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
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The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 4, Page 502-517, October 2024.Abstract This article uses campaign reports and memoir literature to explore tsarist officers’ views of masculinity—both their own and that of their opponents—during the conquest of the Caucasus, focusing particularly on the Nicolaevan era. It frames conquest as a form of cultural exchange and argues that tsarist officers’ understandings of the gender ...
Ian W. Campbell
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