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The Soviet economic decline : historical and republican data [PDF]

Soviet growth for 1960-89 was the worst in the world, after controlling for investment and human capital. And relative performance worsens over time. The authors explain the declining Soviet growth rate from 1950 to 1987 by the declining marginal product
DEC, Easterly, William, Fischer, Stanley
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A Bidimensional Model of Language Transmission in Bilingual Families: Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Tartakovsky E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Biopsychosocial correlates of psychoactive substance use among student athletes in Azerbaijan. [PDF]

Discov Ment Health
Bunyatova A, Taghi-Zada T, Ahmadova L, Mursalbayova L, Suleymanova A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Iran's great scientific divergence: The Middle-Income trap and the Political Economy of Science Policy. [PDF]

PLoS One
Roohi E.
europepmc   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union.
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
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Overcoming Whiteness? Romanian Humanitarianism in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1960s. [PDF]

J Contemp Hist
Iacob BC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reproducing National Distinction: How Cultural Capital Shapes Estonia's Russian School Field

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on nationalism has long emphasized the homogenizing role of education in producing shared language, history and identity, while studies in the sociology of education have examined how cultural capital and social class structure school hierarchies.
Léo Henry
wiley   +1 more source