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Plant protection in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: the loss of an ecological perspective

, 2009
This thesis examines why and how plant protection issues are embedded in political, economic and social contexts. It analyses the domain of plant protection in Kazakhstan under two different socio-economic and political formations, namely the Soviet ...
Toleubayev, K.
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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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Pensions and social protection in central Asia and south Caucasus: developments in the post-Soviet era

, 2010
At independence all the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) inherited a extensive system of social welfare, including a comprehensive pay-as-you-go pension system characterised by low retirement ages, relatively generous opportunities for early ...
Falkingham, Jane, Vlachantoni, Athina
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THE MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF POLITICAL STABILITY IN POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES MOVED FROM CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMY TO FREE MARKET ECONOMY

Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, 2018
Thesuccessful integration of the post-Soviet countries to European Union and toother market economies via economic and political transition has been asubstantial issue for international economic and political relations.
İzzet Taşar
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International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism

Constellations, EarlyView.
Arturo Chang
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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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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition [PDF]

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
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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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Økonomisk vækst, produktion og divergens i transitionslandene

Nordisk Østforum, 2019
: Economic growth, production and divergence in the transition countries This article examines developments in income and living standards in the post-communist transition countries.
Karsten Stæhr
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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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