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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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5. Food and Cooking in Revolutionary and Soviet Russia

Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 2016
In tsarist Russia, with both indigenous and foreign cuisine being very popular, since the middle of the 19th century the figure of the revolutionary took ascetic features.
Daniela Steila
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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
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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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Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the 1921–1923 trade war between Norway and Portugal as a historical case for exploring business responses to deglobalization and trade disruption. Focusing on the international supply chains (ISCs) of port wine and salted and dried cod, it investigates how business actors contributed to the recoupling of ISCs after a ...
Rolv Petter Amdam, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Trudi Henrydotter Eikrem, Maria Eugenia Mata   +3 more
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An analysis of the inability of the provisional government to prevent the Bolshevik seizure of power and the failure of Kerensky's coalition politics in 1917 [PDF]

, 1997
This thesis examines the weaknesses of the Provisional Government and Kerensky's coalition politics. It is argued that a teleological deterministic view of Russian history must be laid aside if the study is to progress.
Badcock, Sarah
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Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization's Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The deglobalization process experienced in the early 2020s is not without precedent. This Special Issue leverages business history as a lens to generate new insights and to uncover previously hidden complexities and nuances. Studying previous periods of deglobalization and their varying drivers, outcomes, and responses, the papers in this ...
Andrew Smith, Heidi Tworek, Marcelo Bucheli, Johann Fortwengel   +3 more
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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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“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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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
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