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Journey through Soviet and post-Soviet Plant Entanglements

Plant Perspectives
This essay aims at unravelling Soviet and post-Soviet livelihoods and landscapes by looking at plant entanglements. It is about my own journey as an anthropologist and about leitmotifs I encountered across the post-Soviet space in almost two decades of ...
Susanne Fehlings
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Internal centralization and international integration in the post-Soviet space [PDF]

An important but often neglected factor influencing the changes in power relations in Eurasia is the development of center-periphery relations in individual countries.
Libman, Alexander
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The Cold Peace: Russo-Western Relations as a Mimetic Cold War [PDF]

, 2013
In 1989–1991 the geo-ideological contestation between two blocs was swept away, together with the ideology of civil war and its concomitant Cold War played out on the larger stage.
Asmus Ronald, Averre Derek, Barany Zoltan, Bugajski Janusz, Carr EH, Clunan Anne L, Cornell Svante E, Cottey Andrew, Eisenstadt Shmuel N, Finkel Evgeny, Freire Maria Raquel, Frye Timothy, Gellner Ernest, Geuss Raymond, Gleason Abbott, Gorlizki Yoram, Greenleaf Monika, Hamilton Robert, Hartz Louis, Haukkala Hiski, Hosking Geoffrey, Hurrell Andrew, Ikenberry G John, Karaganov Sergei, Kopeček Michal, Korinman Michel, Lucas Edward, MacFarlane Neil S, Mouffe Chantal, Mouffe Chantal, Neumann Iver B, Nye Joseph S, Odysseos Louiza, Ortmann Stefanie, Prozorov Sergei, Rich Paul B, Richard Sakwa, Rossbach Stefan, Sakwa Richard, Sakwa Richard, Shevel Oxana, Surkov Vladislav, Surkov Vladislav, Suzuki Shogu, Sztompka Piotr, Tsygankov Andrei P, Tsygankov Andrei P, Wolin Sheldon S   +47 more
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Uncertain Borders in the Post-Soviet Space

The Journal of power institutions in post-soviet societies, 2017
"Ukraine's border is sacred and untouchable," reads a sign in a border garrison in the Chernivtsy region of western Ukraine. Sacred and untouchable? The news coming out of Ukraine seems to indicate the opposite. Though protected by a specific international agreement, the Ukrainian border was brutally redrawn with the annexation of Crimea by Russia in ...
Anna Colin Lebedev, Amandine Regamey, Ioulia Shukan   +2 more
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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“The moon was not Stalinist”. Post-Soviet Memory: Narratives from the Borderland City of Lviv

eSamizdat, 2021
This article examines the post-Soviet as a category of analysis in the study of historical memory and nation-building in the former Soviet Union. Post-soviet memory suggests a continuum in space and time that will be critically addressed through the ...
Elisa Lucente
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Contact Languages in the Post- Soviet Space: Linguistic and Cultural Dominance

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2012
The article addresses the sociopolitical and linguistic problems in choosing contact languages for communication in the post-Soviet space. The author analyses the factors that determine the status of a contact language and its impact on the choice of ...
E. V. Voevoda
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Is it really different? Patterns of regionalisation in the post-Soviet Central Asia [PDF]

While the regional economic integration encompassing the former Soviet Union (FSU) transpires to be inefficient, there appears to be a stronger interest in regionalism in smaller groups of more homogenous and geographically connected countries of the ...
Libman, Alexander, Vinokurov, Evgeny
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