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Physiological Metaphor as Means of Creating the Image of Modern Russia in German Media

Научный диалог, 2017
The role of physiological metaphor in creating the image of modern Russia in the German media is discussed. The author relies on the idea that metaphor is one of the ways of structuring the reality and formation of the relationship of the recipient to ...
V. A. Babkina
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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Mikhail Alekseev as an Anglicist: Prehistory [PDF]

Литературный факт
The article deals with the early work of the outstanding Russian philologist academician M.P. Alekseev (1896–1981). A brilliant connoisseur of classical Russian literature, primarily the works of A.S. Pushkin and I.S.
Petr R. Zaborov
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Lotman on mimesis

Sign Systems Studies, 2003
The article considers some basic notions of semiotics of mimesis by Juri Lotman, such as model, similarity, and relations between an object and its representation.
Jelena Grigorjeva
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Between Restitution and International Morality [PDF]

, 2001
This Essay explores a rush of restitution cases throughout the globe. The author sees in the pattern formed by these cases a central component of a new international morality.
Barkan, Elazar
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A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

History, 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
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NATO at 60: A Hollow Alliance [PDF]

, 2009
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 60th birthday, there are mounting signs of trouble within the alliance and reasons to doubt the organization's relevance regarding the foreign policy challenges of the 21st century.
Ted Galen Carpenter
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Crash of Imperial Russian Train on October 17, 1888, in German Press of Late 19th Century

Научный диалог
This study aims to explore the distinctive features of how Russian events were portrayed in the German press of the late 19th century, focusing on publications concerning the crash of the imperial train near the Borki station in October 1888. It examines
N. A. Vlasov
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