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Ballet scene in Belgrade (1930-1940)
Accelerando: BJMD, 2020 The author based his observations and his conclusions upon memoires of Ksenia Grundt Duma (Ксения Грундт-Дюме). She was a well-known ballerina throughout Europe, as she was dancing on many stages from Russian Kharkov to Paris.
Viktor Ivanovich Kosik
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how an online eikaiwa (English conversation) provider in Japan that employs only female Eastern European (particularly Ukrainian) teachers brands them through objectification. Analysis of textual and visual elements of the provider's website and related media, including videos, demonstrates that the teachers are ...
Misako Tajima
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Satisfaction or Hard Labour? Portrait of a Ballet School in 52 Percent by Rafał Skalski
Images, 2014 How is ballet presented in documentaries? Is Central European cinema different from cinema in the West in this respect? 52 Percent, Rafał Skalski’s documentary about Alla, a girl dreaming of becoming a ballerina, provides an intriguing answer to this ...
Anna Śliwińska
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Prokofiev’s ballet The Tale of the Stone Flower: idea, creation, premiere
Современные проблемы музыкознания, 2020 The article is the first attempt to recreate the history of the emergence and early existence of the final ballet by Prokofiev. The composer worked on this opus from July 1948 until the last day of his life.
Svetlana A. Petukhova
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Gendered Harmony and Unsung Collections: Two Debussy Rabbit Holes
Music Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This review article on Mark McFarland's The Musical Relationship between Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky (2024) offers a critical reading of this recent text and treats its content as a springboard for the exploration of two issues untapped in existing musicological discourse.
Rajan Lal
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The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 3, Page 289-306, July 2026.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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Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2015 Teesid: Oktoobrirevolutsiooni järgne vene emigratsioon, mida teaduskirjanduses traditsiooniliselt nimeta takse esimeseks laineks, valgus mööda ilma laiali ning oli seninägematult arvukas, haarates kaasa miljoneid endise Tsaari-Venemaa elanikke.
Irina Belobrovtseva, Aurika Meimre
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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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