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Abstract Gendered order in the Soviet camp system shaped women inmates’ experiences of labour and factored in their survival. This article zooms in on the published memoirs of four women political prisoners who survived the Gulag and explores how they experienced and narrated carceral labour.
Zhanna Popova
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A.N. Tolstoy in the memoirs of M. V. Neustrueva. Part 1. Lyosha and Manichka [PDF]
This publication is a fragment of the memoirs of M.V. Neustrueva (1885–1961), written in the mid-second half of the 1950s, and opens a cycle of two articles, the first of which, “Lyosha and Manichka,” deals primarily with the first period of the ...
Mikhail A. Perepelkin
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Memory, History and Resentments in the Primary Public Instruction in the Province of Parana (Brazil, 1853-1889) [PDF]
Dialoging with the historiographic research field on Resentment in History, this work on history of education turns the look towards primary public education in the Province of Paraná, in southern Brazil, in the second half of the nineteenth century ...
Juarez José Tuchinski dos Anjos +1 more
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Abstract This cluster of articles explores the gendered history of the military in the Russian imperial and Soviet contexts during periods of imperial conquest, war, and their complex aftermaths. The cluster began at the 2021 ASEEES virtual convention, when the contributors joined the Zoom panel while their respective countries were in various stages ...
Siobhán Hearne, Ian W. Campbell
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GENRE MODIFICATION IN G. IVANOV’S MEMOIR «PETERSBURG WINTERS»
The book of Ivanov’s memoir prose “Petersburg winters” from the time of publication evoked ambiguous assessments of contemporaries, critics and literary critics.
A A Rogovsky
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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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On the Memoirs of Major General S.A. Shchepikhin
Review of the book: Shchepikhin S.A. Memoirs of 1918–1920. Moscow, 2024. 976 p. ISBN 978-5-907396-34-0 (in Russ.). This paper dwells on the memoirs of Major General S.A.
Yuri A. Ugolnikov
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Contemporary Israeli literature is presently preoccupied with the past diasporic lives of the previous generation, the one that came to Israel from practically all four winds in the mid-late twentieth century.
Ilana Rosen
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Afterlives of the Persian Gifts to Versailles
Abstract The fate of diplomatic gifts after their presentation can reveal patterns of instability and shifting narratives on the items themselves and how they were perceived and received at the time. Often, these important pieces of material evidence disappear or are decontextualised from their exchange.
Samantha Happe
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