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Pipss.org - Issue 17 - Women in Arms: from the Russian Empire to Post-Soviet States, May 2016
, 2016 Women in Arms: from the Russian Empire to Post-Soviet States, May 2016 http://pipss.revues.org/4072 Amandine Regamey et Brandon M. Schechter Introduction by Amandine Regamey and Brandon M.
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
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Towards Revisiting the Discourse on Soviet (and Post-Soviet) Repressive Psychiatry
This review essay is prompted by Rustam Alexander’s monograph Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982, which explores the under-researched history of gay lives and conversion therapy practices in the USSR.
Dorogov, Dmitrii,
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International 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
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Book - M. Eichler, "Militarizing Men, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia", 2011
, 2011 Maya Eichler, Militarizing Men. Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia, Standford University Press, forthcoming, 2011.Description A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a "real man" is one ...
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
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Formation of the Post-Soviet Statehood in Central Asia
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2018 The features of formation of statehood in Central Asia in the post-Soviet period are discussed in this article. The author makes the assumption that the Central Asian region has lost the homogeneity, said by researches.
M. T. Laumulin
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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Regional features of population dynamics in Russia in the post-Soviet period
Regional Research of Russia, 2017 The paper analyzes regional features of Russian population dynamics in the post-Soviet period (1990–2014). This period is divided into three time intervals that are homogeneous in mean Russian population dynamics (1990–1998, 1999–2006, and 2007–2014). The typology of regional dynamics is based on a comparison of regional trends with the average Russian
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Jewish Dimension: Soviet Jewry radio program
, 1970 Foreign affairs specialist for the American Jewish Committee Jerry Goodman interviews a leading expert on the Soviet Union, journalist and author Harrison Salisbury on the future of Soviet Jewry.Digital recordingDigital finding ...
National Conference on Soviet Jewry
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