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The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers
Abstract Drawing on newly uncovered archival and printed sources, this article offers a fresh perspective on the recriminalization of homosexuality under Stalin by challenging key assumptions in existing historiography. It demonstrates that the OGPU did not actively advocate for new anti‐sodomy legislation. Although Leningrad homosexuals had been under
Irina Roldugina
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Abstract This paper aims to describe the evolution of firm and industry strategies and to analyze detailed transaction data on the structure of the international grain trading industry. Specifically, data are developed from vessel nominations, and these were used to derive measures of concentration and determine how these change across selected ...
William W. Wilson +2 more
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«Back to the Future»: Images of Modernization Reforms in the Collective Memory of Russian People
The article deals extensively replicated images of major structural reforms in the history of Russia (The government reforms of Peter I, the Great Reforms of Alexander II, the October Revolution, industrialization, Perestroika and market reforms of the ...
Vladimir Olegovich Beklyamishev
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Public Patterns in Private Writing: Computational Insights into Russophone Diaries
Abstract Diaries seem to contain almost anything; how could it be otherwise, given the diversity of their authors, the variety of contexts in which they are authored, and the range of reasons for authoring them? But examining diaries en masse, using computationally assisted reading, discloses large‐scale commonalities obscured by the local variance ...
Tatyana Gershkovich +2 more
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Football's coming home ? digital reterritorialization, contradictions in the transnational coverage of sport and the sociology of alternative football broadcasts. [PDF]
This article critically utilizes the work of Manuel Castells to discuss the issue of parallel imported broadcasts (specifically including live-streams) in football.
Baimbridge +34 more
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The Yenisei Makes the Weather: The Microclimate of the Krasnoyarsk Dam and Its Research, 1960s–1990s
Abstract When Soviet authorities began building the Krasnoyarsk Dam in 1956, the Yenisei River had an ice‐free period of only 112 days a year. The thick and long‐lasting ice impeded dam building and navigation. However, as the dam rose, it produced an environmental anomaly; for more than 200 kilometers downstream, the Yenisei became ice‐free year‐round.
Mariia Koskina
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Spain and the Soviet Union during the final stage of the Cold War
This article analyses Spanish-Soviet relationships from 1977, when Spain’s diplomatic relations with the USSR resumed, until the end of the Cold War.
María Magdalena Garrido Caballero
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The puzzles of 'patriotic' communism: Gennadi Zyuganov, the Russian Milosevic? [PDF]
This repository item contains a single article of the Publication Series, papers in areas of particular scholarly interest published from 1989 to 1996 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy.
Yanov, Alexander
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The paper studies the last anti-alcohol campaign in the Soviet Union during the period of Perestroika (1985-1991) on the example of the Smolensk region.
Ivanov Alexander Mikhailovich +1 more
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