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Postcolonial transitions on the southern borders of the former Soviet Union: the return of Eurasianism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
As the Soviet Union dissolved into a new territorial reality, it released the doubly repressed histories of Tsarist and Soviet imperium. In the states to the south of the new Russian Federation, the post-soviet jostled with the postcolonial as nations ...
Bowring, Bill
core  

Ukrainophile Activism and Imperial Governance in Russia's Southwestern Borderlands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Explores the relationship between the Ukrainian nation-building process and the tsarist ...
Faith Hillis
core   +1 more source

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts

open access: yesProduction and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE NATIVE OF FINLAND, JOHAN AMINOFF’S LETTER FROM FORMOSA: “THE HIGHEST MARK IS ON THE ORIGINAL”

open access: yesСравнительная политика, 2018
The lives of Russians who settled down in Taiwan in the 19th century are still an unexplored field in studies on history of the island and Russian-Taiwanese relations. In 1996 the grave of certain Johan Aminoff, born in Finland, was located by one of the
V. Ts. Golovachev, R. V. Zaitsev
doaj   +1 more source

Russian-Ottoman Border in the East Transcaucasia in the 20s-30s of the 18th century: Problems of Demarcation, Reaction of Frontier Communities

open access: yesЖурнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2022
The paper analyses one of the issues of the eastern policy of Russia of the Peter’s era, related to the creation of the Russian-Ottoman frontier on the territory west to the Caspian Sea.
Sharafetdin A. Magaramov
doaj   +1 more source

Contemporary Russian Identity between East and West [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This is a review of recent English-language scholarship on the development of Russian identity since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The first part examines literature on the economic and political changes in the Russian Federation, revealing how ...
Duncan, PJS
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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

FOREIGN CAPITALS IN THE GOLD-MINING INDUSTRY: SUCCESSION OF THE STATE POLICY IN RUSSIAN EMPIRE - USSR

open access: yesGISAP:History and Philosophy, 2014
The article describes main directions of the state policy in attraction of foreign capital to the domestic economy and peculiarities of its realization in the gold-mining industry. Special attention is paid to legal documents defining conditions of activities of foreign investors.
openaire   +1 more source

‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
wiley   +1 more source

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