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Persian Gulf and adjacent countries [cartographic material].
Map of the Persian Gulf region (Persia and parts of Caucasia, Turkistan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, the Turkish Empire and Arabia), showing international boundaries, zones of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 31 August 1907, transportation, telegraphs ...
Great Britain. War Office.
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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The author presents a review of the monograph “The Great Patriotic War. Science and Victory” (Novosibirsk, 2025), dedicated to the contribution of scientists to the Victory and their work in the postwar period at Siberian academic institutions.
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Perim Island [cartographic material].
Map of Perim Island off the Yemeni Red Sea coast showing transportation, buildings and camps. Relief shown by contours.; "Heliographed at O.S. from originals dated 1917 by the Surveyor General of India and printed at W.O.
Great Britain. War Office.
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Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519
Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon +3 more
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The article analyzes the Muslims patriotic activity of Moscow, the Moscow Region and the Volga-Ural region during the Great Patriotic War. The author employs the following archival documents declassified in recent years: reports of commissioners and ...
V A Akhmadullin
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Ethnographical map of Afghanistan [cartographic material].
Ethnographical map of Afghanistan showing international and provincial boundaries, transportation, tribal and provincial names and populated places.; At head of map: J.I.B.
Great Britain. War Office.
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change
Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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Hong Kong and the New Territories [cartographic material].
Set of 24 topographic maps of Hong Kong and the New Territories, China. Relief shown by contours, spot heights, bathymetric isolines and tints, and soundings.; Includes various editions of some sheets.; Maps, and index indicating National Library of ...
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section.
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Abstract Objectives The feared self‐concept, the self that a person fears they may be or could become, has been increasingly shown to drive the development and maintenance of obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD). It is proposed that the feared self develops from a vulnerable self‐concept, which itself is a result of normative self‐concept development ...
I. Gomez +4 more
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