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Commemorating 1917 in Russia: Ambivalent State History Policy and the Church’s Conquest of the History Market

open access: yesHistorical Expertise, 2019
Russia’s historical policy towards the centenary of 1917 was composed of several parallel strategies: diminishing the meaning of the event to avoid the head of state and other government figures having to take a stance; outsourcing commemorative events ...
M. Laruelle
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Russian History in the Monumental Sculpture of Pre-Revolutionary Saint Petersburg

open access: yesVestnik of Saint Petersburg University History, 2023
The article is devoted to the analysis of the complex of monumental sculptures of pre-revolutionary St Petersburg in terms of their influence on the construction of mass ideas about the history of Russia. The list of monuments created and installed in St
Dmitry A. Sosnitsky
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Korney Chukovsky in Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Korney Chukovsky is a neglected figure in the story of the British reception of Russian literature. This essay attempts to recover his place in the complex networks of translation, criticism, and interpretation in the twentieth century by examining his ...
Vaninskaya, Anna
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Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
wiley   +1 more source

The Criminal Law Foundations of the Fight against Professional Crime in Soviet Russia in the 1917-1920s

open access: yesJuridical Science and Practice
The article examines the issues of the development of domestic criminal legislation in the early years of the establishment of Soviet power to combat one of the most dangerous threats to public security of the country – professional crime.
K. Zarubina
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
wiley   +1 more source

Sofia A. Yanovskaya: The Marxist Pioneer of Mathematical Logic in the Soviet Union [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
K. Marx’s 200th jubilee coincides with the celebration of the 85 years from the first publication of his “Mathematical Manuscripts” in 1933. Its editor, Sofia Alexandrovna Yanovskaya (1896–1966), was a renowned Soviet mathematician ...
Kilakos, Dimitris
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A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
wiley   +1 more source

“Labor as freedom, labor as burden”: on the early period of women’s professional employment in Russia

open access: yesRUDN 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   +2 more
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Features of the Mineralogical Society in Russia in the pre-revolutionary period

open access: yesVestnik of Kostroma State University, 2019
This article presents the conditional periodisation of the stages of the St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society. The object of the research is its activity from 1817-1917.
Andrey V. Rukoleyev
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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