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Unfinished Democracy : Political Transformation in Southeastern Europe

, 1997
Presents an overview of the political transformation in the Balkans resulting from the decreased influence of Communism in Southeastern Europe. Ascent of liberal democracy through elections; Consolidation and acceptance by members of the political ...
Engelbrekt, Kjell,
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A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

History, Volume 111, Issue 396, Page 386-403, June 2026.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
wiley   +1 more source

Statement: [Account of W.B. Post and Lincoln of August 21, 1863]

, 2012
Handwritten account of W.B. Post and Lincoln of August 21, 1863, signed W.B. Post, 4 pages.
Post, W.B.
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Social Theory and Postcommunism

, 2005
"Social Theory and Postcommunism" undertakes a thorough study of the implications of post-communism for sociological theory. Written by two leading social theorists, the book discusses the thesis that the fall of communism has decimated alternative ...
Ray, Larry J., Outhwaite, William, William Outhwaite (7188515), Larry Ray (16067423)   +3 more
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The institutional origins of vaccines distrust: Evidence from former-Soviet countries. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Costa-Font J, Garcia-Hombrados J, Nicińska A.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Word Made Flesh”: Czech Women’s Writing From Communism to Post-Communism

, 2003
This article explores the changes in Czech women’s fiction from communism to post- communism, focusing in particular on Czech women writers’ relationship to literary discourse and feminism. It contends that women writers’ rapport to ideological discourse
Hron, Madelaine
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Anti‐Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
wiley   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source