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Meanings of Culture and Books. From “Marriage of Convenience” to Signs of “First Love”

open access: yesLiteratūra (Vilnius), 2021
The article examines the polygraphic prerequisites for social reflection of the late Soviet and post-Soviet intellectuals and the connection between the autonomy of intellectual work and the autonomy of the publishing cycle.
Alexander Markov
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A new geopolitical Perestroika [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2023
After Chernenko's demise and Gorbachev's coming to power in 1985, the period known as perestroika began in the Soviet Union. Realignment led to an ostensible end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, thanks to Yeltsin's declaration ...
Lukić Aleksandar R.
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Communication, Democracy, and Intelligentsia

open access: yes, 2018
In the early 1990s, a group of Russian and American scholars teamed up to investigate the impact of Gorbachev’s reform on Soviet society, focusing especially on the role the intelligentsia played in fomenting glasnost and perestroika.
Shalin, Dmitri N.
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De la alborada roja a la perestroika

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 2019
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Laura Guillén
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‘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

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Resilience of Female Students Working in Occupational Health and Safety: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesPlacentum
Background: Balancing dual roles as a professional and a student is a significant challenge, especially for women in the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) field. Resilience is crucial for managing these responsibilities while ensuring workplace safety.
Grhasta Dian Perestroika   +1 more
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Pozicija mezhdunarodnogo soobshhestva po voprosu «vosstanovlenija» nezavisimosti Baltijskih respublik [The position of international community on the restoration of independence of the Baltic States] [PDF]

open access: yesБалтийский регион, 2012
The separation of the Baltics from the Soviet Union was a difficult process accompanied by both political and economic conflicts. The third party in the negotiation process was represented by Germany and the USA.
Portnyagina Maria
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Gauge field, strings, solitons, anomalies and the speed of life

open access: yes, 2014
It's been said that "mathematics is biology's next microscope, only better; biology is mathematics' next physics, only better". Here we aim for something even better. We try to combine mathematical physics and biology into a picoscope of life.
Niemi, Antti J.
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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

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