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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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The Colour Revolutions in the Post-Soviet Space: Illusion and Reality of the Post-Soviet Civil Disobedience

Studia z Polityki Publicznej, 2016
The political events that took place at the end of 2003 in Georgia, in 2004 in Ukraine and in 2005 in Kyrgyzstan are popularly called the Rose, Orange and Tulip Revolution or collectively: the Colour Revolutions in the post-Soviet space.
Krzysztof Kozłowski
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Pipss.org - Issue 14-15 - "War Trauma in Post-Soviet Russia" & "Military Reform in Russia and the CIS" - now on-line

, 2013
Issue 14/15 | 2013 War Trauma in Post-Soviet Russia / Military Reform in Russia and the CIS http://pipss.revues.org/3814Table of Contents   Psychological War Trauma in Post-Soviet Russia - Article (1) Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski The Post-Soviet Russian
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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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
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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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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, 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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Islamic Internet in the Post-Soviet Space

Russia and New States of Eurasia, 2020
It is clear that the presence of an Islamic factor in WWW has become an objective reality, including in the post-Soviet Muslim countries. It could be determined as a Cyber-Islamic Environment (CIE). In the post-Soviet space the CIE is represented mostly by official Islamic structures, while the presence of unofficial religious organizations and ...
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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