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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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NEW YORK TIMES ON THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION OF 1917

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article analyses the coverage of the Revolution of 1917 in Russia by the American newspaper New York Times. It was the most influential print media which expressed opinions of the political establishment.
Tatyana Pantyukhina
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Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
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Leaders of the February Revolution M. Rodzyanko and A. Kerenskii in Late February – Early May 1917 in Soviet Historiography (1918–1985)

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории
The article analyses the Soviet historiography of 1918–85 devoted to the questions of leadership in the February Revolution and the activities of M. Rodzyanko and A. Kerenskii in March – early May 1917. The author proves that starting with the works of S.
Andrei B. Nikolaev
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The Perception of Germany in the Kyivan Press: From Ukrainian People’s Republic to the Hetmanate (November 1917 — December 1918)

Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, 2017
The 1917 February Revolution led to the reshaping of the war-era image of the German enemy. Focusing on the former imperial borderland province of the Southwestern Krai, this article unveils the national, political, and cultural considerations of the ...
Ivan Basenko
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Does Deposit Insurance Promote Deposit Stability? Evidence from the Postal Savings System during the 1920s

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We evaluate whether deposit insurance (DI) promotes liquidity by influencing depositor behavior. We use the postal savings (PS) system and state‐adopted DI schemes during the 1920s to examine the effect of bank suspensions on PS deposit growth in pairs of border cities (DI versus non‐DI).
Lee K. Davison, Carlos D. Ramirez
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“Близится революция, созвучная пролетарской” Россия до и после 1917-го года как полигон конструирования новой сексуальной культуры

Revue des études slaves, 2019
Social reform projects often provide for a review of gender relations. Were the changes in the sexual behavior of the Russians in 1917 and later the result of a conscious, persistent and targeted policy of the Bolcheviks?
Natalia Pushkareva
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Peasant Movements and the Fourth Transformation in Mexico: What Does the Theory of Collective Empowerment Tell Us?

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines peasant and Indigenous movements in Mexico since Morena's rise to power in 2018 through the lens of collective empowerment theory, a theory of political‐cultural formation. Beyond offering an empirical assessment, the theory is refined and formalized through an analysis of these movements and their relationship to ...
Gerardo Otero
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Память о «неиспользованном» юбилее 100-летие революции в восприятии жителей России

Revue des études slaves, 2019
The authors analyze the relationship between symbolic policy in Russia and public opinion regarding the revolution of 1917. The main participants in the political process have not used the potential of the centenary, which is, among other things, due to ...
Boris Kolonitskii, Maria Matskevich
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‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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