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HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken   +2 more
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“Labor as freedom, labor as burden”: on the early period of women’s professional employment in Russia

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2019
This article discusses the emergence of the Russian working woman employed in skilled labor from the second half 19th century until the 1930s. In Russia, educated women entered the sphere of socially significant labor during the Great Reforms.
Olga M Morozova, Tatyana I Troshina, Elena A Yalozina   +2 more
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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I.A. Bunin and S.N. Durylin: problems of creative dialogue

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2019
The article is devoted to the consideration of the creative connections of I.A. Bunin and S.N. Durylin (1887-1954). In modern literary criticism, the question of studying the creative connections of S.N. Durylin and I.A.
Evgenia Alexandrovna Korshunova
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Issues of Gender, Sovietization and Modernization in the Jewish Metropolis of Minsk.

Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2011
By using the case study of Minsk - a historic Jewish center in pre-revolutionary Russia, and capital of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic after 1917 - this article explores the Sovietization and modernization of Jewish women in an urban setting ...
Elissa Bemporad
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Custodians of Holy Places in Central Asia and Russian State (1865-1917)

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2020
The article discusses the institution of custody of holy places in Central Asia in the pre-revolutionary period (1865-1917). It is indicated that despite the fact that this institution was not legitimatized in Muslim Law (Sharia), nevertheless, custody ...
Vladimir P. Litvinov
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Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in Russia and in the USSR: some aspects of translation and publication

Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 2021
The translation of Ch. Darwin’s main and most well-known book, On the Origin of Species, had great significance for the reception and development of his evolution theory in Russia and later in the USSR, and for many reasons.
Mikhail B. Konashev
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
wiley   +1 more source

A.A. BRUSILOV - FULL GENERAL OF RUSSIAN ARMY AND LAST COMMANDER OF RUSSIAN TSAR

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2014
The article analyzes the biography of Russian full general A.A. Brusilov − the hero of World War I, whose name is associated with the term “Brusilov Offensive”.
S S Sinyutin
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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source