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Lannemezan prison, autumn 1994, Daniel Koehl (age 38), a.k.a. Coin-Coin, convicted in 1978 to life imprisonment at the age of 21 for murder, recounts his prison career to Pierre-Marie Andreotti (aged 47), also sentenced to life imprisonment for murder ...
Léonore Le Caisne
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“Privilege” Factor in Economic Policy of Bolsheviks and Kronstadt Rebellion
The influence of the Kronstadt mutiny (March 1921) on the change in the economic course of the Bolsheviks is analyzed. The results of a comparative analysis of different conceptual approaches to its interpretation as a factor of influence are presented ...
A. Yu. Davydov, V. V. Khutsieva
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The many English accounts of piracy, privateering and exploration in the South Sea that were produced around 1700 share a language of sea travel. They do so because the narratives themselves were taken to sea and read by other seafarers. Hence, the books
Johan HEINSEN
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La mutinerie d’Attica en septembre 1971. Récit d’une action collective
The uprising of more than 1,000 inmates at Attica Penitentiary in New York State in September 1971 is an important event in the history of the visibility of prisoner resistance to the prison system.
Philippe Artières
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Don Cossacs in the Kuban Insurgency in 1920
Introduction. In the archive of the Federal security service for the Rostov region a Tribunal case was found, in which people, named Kuban Cossacks, are accused of rebellion.
Andrey Venkov
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For contemporary British observers, the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was not so much about India as it was about Britain. The following essay examines the culturally introspective nature of the “Mutiny plays” and their persistent exploration of British ...
Marty Gould
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Czech-Slovak Corps and the Bolsheviks in the spring of 1918
May 1918 is a turning point in the relationship between the Bolsheviks and the CzechSlovak Corps. The events that have taken place will lead to the outbreak of a Civil war in Russia, which will take millions of lives.
V. V. Mironov, P. E. Salnikov
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Many are the veterans who took part in the 1917 mutinies or who experienced them at close range. Yet, transmitting that memory proves extremely complex, so difficult it is to fully accept a mass movement of disobedience in wartime and award it a stable ...
Nicolas Offenstadt
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The Fire Dragon. Benavente’s Indian Comedy
El dragón de fuego is a play by Jacinto Benavente, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922, which describes the situation in India during the British Raj. The action takes place in Nirvan, an imaginary country which symbolises India.
Enrique Gallud Jardiel
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“Żeligowski’s Mutiny” as a Polish Way to Solve the “Vilnius Problem” [PDF]
The article describes the facts and examines the Polish-Lithuanian territo¬rial dispute of 1919-1920, which occurred during the time of the formation of independent states in Central and Eastern Europe following World War I.
Larysa Shvab +2 more
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