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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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INFRASTRUCTURE IN CRISIS: ASSESSING WATER SERVICE CHALLENGES IN POST-SOVIET VS. NON-POST SOVIET REGIONS OF EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA [PDF]

open access: yesAnalele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie
This paper analyzes the effects of the 2008–2009 global financial crisis on infrastructure challenges in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with a focus on comparing post-Soviet and non-post-Soviet firms. We find that declining business formation rates
HALIL D. KAYA
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“Why Nations Fight?”: An Analysis of the Causes of the Russian Federation-Ukraine War from Russian Perspective within the Framework of Richard Ned Lebow’s Approach

open access: yesGüvenlik Stratejileri Dergisi
The annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation (RF) on March 18, 2014, and the declaration of the People’s Republics in Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine are considered by many international relations experts as one of the most important ...
Murat Jane, Hazar Jane
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Journal Articles - Post-Soviet Affairs Volume 30, Issue 2-3, 2014 : Law enforcement, Violence, Police reform

open access: yes, 2014
Post-Soviet Affairs - Volume 30, Issue 2-3, 2014 Selection of articles: Faking performance together: systems of performance evaluation in Russian enforcement agencies and production of bias and privilege Ella Paneyakh pages 115-136 Means of production ...
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
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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

Falling through the cracks: critical review of the deinstitutionalisation process in a post-socialist state

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2018
Throughout Eastern Europe, the attempts to carry out successful deinstitutionalisation (DI) have been hampered by the legacy of Soviet-era practices of care.
Kārlis Lakševics   +2 more
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Photographs separated from various series in the Action for Soviet Jewry records (10 digital images)

open access: yes, 1988
Photographs separated from the Series I-X of the Action for Soviet Jewry records. Photographs from the Daniel Tarsy's trip to the USSR (separated from Box 101, Folder 6).Digital ImageDigital finding ...
Action for Soviet Jewry
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

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