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Currency under War Communism: An example of Gresham's Law?

Economic Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 211-228, June 2023., 2023
Abstract This article covers the consequences of the Bolsheviks' coup d'état in 1917 for the Soviet monetary system. I argue that the episode illustrates Gresham's Law, as three different currencies made an appearance in the Russian economy. This monetary disorder is scarcely mentioned by Marxist authors. It was a failure that would be mitigated by the
Cristóbal Matarán
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National memory in exile: The case of the Georgian émigré community, 1921–2018

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 246-263, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper investigates the construction and role of national memory in exile through the intersection of nationalism and memory studies. Building on descriptions of the Georgian émigré memory, its comparison with the Soviet Georgian identity and its travelling trajectory, this study illustrates the potential of subaltern national exilic ...
Elene Kekelia
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Business representation in an autocratic regime: Tariff policy and exchange committees in late Tsarist Russia

The Economic History Review, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 801-829, August 2022., 2022
Abstract Studies on the role of interest groups in the formation of public policy are generally focused on those in democratic countries. However, the emerging literature on interest groups in autocratic regimes suggests that business in such states is actively involved in policy formation. On the basis of the first dataset on the 1891 tariff reform in
Marina Chuchko
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The Origins of the Soviet Person: The Anthropological Dimension of October 1917 as Perceived by Menshevik Social Democrats

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
This article is devoted to the ideological heritage of post-October Menshevism. The author aims to analyse the perception of social processes in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1922 by Menshevik social democrats.
Alexey Valeryevich Antoshin
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Japan as perceived by the Mensheviks on the pages of the “Iskra” newspaper (1904–1905) [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношения
The article is devoted to the study of the image of Japan presented on the pages of the newspaper “Iskra”, the organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, which also became ...
Ermolaev, Igor Vladimirovich
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Election campaigns to Stavropol City Duma in September – November 1919

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2023
The article deals with elections to the Stavropol City Duma in autumn 1919. In that time the city was under control of Armed Forces of South Russia and the local White military administration working for a loyal Duma actively meddled in the race and put ...
A. A. Chemakin
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Political Views and Positions of the Russian Servicemen in Finland at the Final Stage of the First World War (Spring – Summer 1917)

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2022
. Introduction. In the spring and summer of 1917 changes in the former autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland determined the history of relations between Russia and Finland for decades to come.
Elena Yu. Dubrovskaya
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“The case of detecting the proclamation, interpreting about the need to stop the war”: anti-war revolutionary activity in Omsk in 1914–1917 [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
This publication considers the activities of revolutionaries in Omsk in 1914–1917, which are opponents of the First World War. Despite the extensive number of works in the Soviet and post-Soviet historiography about the Siberian Bolsheviks in the pre ...
M. M. Stelmak
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Virumaa kooliõpetajast koduloolane August Martin ja Kaukaasia eestlased [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2017
The article discusses the activities of August Martin in the Caucasus, where he organised cultural life in Estonian settlers’ society, strengthening their ties with the motherland Estonia and organising a correspondents’ network to collect folklore and ...
Aivar Jürgenson
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Robert Michels, the iron law of oligarchy and dynamic democracy

, 2020
Constellations, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 185-198, June 2020.
Hugo Drochon
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