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Time at Home: The October Revolution and Soviet Temporalities
Abstract The October Revolution ushered in a radical, future‐orientated political agenda. Almost immediately, through the press, advice literature, activism and avant‐garde planning, a lively discourse on domestic life presented the home as a central site for building this ‘new epoch’. The home became the hub of a new and burgeoning Soviet temporality –
ANDY WILLIMOTT
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Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia
Abstract This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped ...
Sarah Badcock, Felix Cowan
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School, Empire, and the Provincial Roots of Civil Activism in Late Nineteenth‐Century Russia
Abstract In spring 1879, news reached the Russian Ministry of Education that students from several Real Schools in the Russian Empire’s western provinces were planning to send a coordinated petition to the Minister of Education, asking for permission to enroll in university. The petition initiative was arranged in secrecy and involved more than a dozen
Alex Valdman
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Electrochemical photonics: a pathway towards electrovariable optical metamaterials
Abstract This review article focuses on the latest achievements in the creation of a class of electrotuneable optical metamaterials for switchable mirrors/windows, variable colour mirrors, optical filters, and SERS sensors, based on the voltage‐controlled self‐assembly of plasmonic nanoparticles at liquid/liquid or solid/liquid electrochemical ...
Joshua B. Edel +2 more
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The article discusses the theoretical issues of legal regulation mechanism features of separate stages of public procurement. Conclusions about the legal nature of the type of legal regulation, its relationship with the peculiarities of the legal facts ...
Evgeny V. Solomonov +1 more
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Richard Maack and his contributions to the botany of Siberia
A brief account of the biography of Richard Maack (1825–1886) is provided, with an emphasis on his botanical travels and research presented in the context of contemporary politics and sciences. The history of three Siberian expeditions of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society is detailed: to the Viluy River in 1853–1855, to the Amur River in 1855 ...
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Sokolova
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COVID-19: Japanese Traditions against a New Challenge
Over the past decades, the world economy experienced several global crises, but none of them changed our lives as rapidly as COVID-19. The coronavirus pandemic is destroying communication and production chains at an incredible speed, forcing states to ...
L. V. Zhilina
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The Set of Genres as a System: Review of the Monograph by M. A. Kanturova, T. I. Stеksova “Productivity and Variability of Speech Genres” (Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, 2019. 128 p.) [PDF]
The review is a response to the publication of the monograph by M. A. Kanturov and T. I. Staksova “Productivity and variability of speech genres”. The authors represent the Russian speech-and -genre space as a complicated non-rigid system, the units of ...
Natalya Vasilievna Orlova
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Global in the discourse of metamodernism: The problem of origins [PDF]
The article examines the representation of the global phenomenon in the discourses of modernity and metamodernity. In the domestic reception, metamodernism is often represented as post-postmodernism.
Ovodova, Svetlana Nikolaevna
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Drunkenness and Disorder in the Imperial Russian Army
Abstract Drunkenness was a serious matter in the Imperial Russian military because of its potential to create disorder within an institution that was a central part of the disciplinary apparatus of the Russian Empire. Changes made to the military as part of the Great Reforms were intended to restore it to glory after its defeat in the Crimean War ...
Alison K. Smith
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