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Elite Status-Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society: An Analysis of Corporate Elite Appointments to Charity Boards. [PDF]
Br J SociolABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between economic elites and civil society by analysing the appointments of corporate elites to the boards of charitable companies in the UK. Whilst previous research has usually focused on who among the corporate elite hold positions in key civil society organisations, and the extent to which these ...
Mills T, Massoumi N.
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
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Snap Judgements: Turning Photography into Art in the Late Soviet Union
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 217-236, April 2026.Abstract The history of photography and photography theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is often preoccupied with “Western” criticism and arguments regarding the photograph as art, document, or technology. Yet, this criticism has ignored the development of photographic theory in the Soviet Union, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s ...
Jessica Werneke
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A Relational View of Uncertainty
Strategic Change, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 207-216, March 2026.ABSTRACT There is significant confusion and debate in entrepreneurship and strategy research about the nature and locus of uncertainty. Does uncertainty reside internally in the agent or externally in the environment? This article introduces a relational view of uncertainty (RVU) to help reframe this issue.
Daniel Leunbach
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PROVINCIALISING BERLIN IN MENSCHEN IM HOTEL
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 57-74, January 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I take the peculiar source of Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel (1929) in a Southern Moravian town as a starting point to reveal the ways in which the hierarchies between metropolis and province are negotiated and complicated by the novel.
Meindert Peters
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In the Beginning was the Work: Donald MacKinnon’s Metaphysics after Lenin
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 210-236, January 2026.Abstract Donald MacKinnon expressed a distinctly realist and actualist metaphysic. One aspect of his metaphysics that is less frequently commented upon, however, is his reception of Vladimir Lenin. While not an unqualified admirer of Bolshevism, it is readily apparent that MacKinnon incorporated elements of Lenin’s philosophy and theories regarding ...
Khegan M. Delport, Dritëro Demjaha
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The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 4, Page 660-680, October 2025.Abstract Drawing on newly uncovered archival and printed sources, this article offers a fresh perspective on the recriminalization of homosexuality under Stalin by challenging key assumptions in existing historiography. It demonstrates that the OGPU did not actively advocate for new anti‐sodomy legislation. Although Leningrad homosexuals had been under
Irina Roldugina
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Walking and Perceptions of Danger in Various Cities
City &Society, Volume 37, Issue 2, August 2025.ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Mauss' classic idea of walking as one of many “techniques of the body,” this essay reflects on how perceptions of danger shape how one walks in various cities. I draw on my own research on the limits and possibilities of quantified walking as well as on urban experiences I have had in my life.
Anne Meneley
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 469-487, December 2024.Hugh Ray Easton (1906–1965) was a leading mid‐twentieth century British designer of stained‐glass windows. His works combined neo‐baroque style with an aesthetic that was attuned to glamour in contemporary media such as film and homoerotic physique magazines.
Jane Brocket, Dominic Janes
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