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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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Art in the Age of Globalisation: Dialogue of Cultures (Ural Opera Ballet Theatre’s Production of the Opera Tri Sestry)

Changing Societies & Personalities, 2020
The article explores the dialogics of art and the role of art as a tool of dialogue between cultures on the example of the Ural Opera Ballet Theatre’s recent stage production of the opera Tri Sestry (Three Sisters), which demonstrates a successful ...
Andrey G. Shishkin, Olga O. Morozova
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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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Petersburski benefis Feliksa Krzesińskiego w 1888 roku

Pamiętnik Teatralny, 1995
Based on letters from the Krzesiński family collection held at the Library of the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as Russian periodicals and other sources, the author reconstructs the details of jubilee celebrations in honour of the
Joanna Sibilska
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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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Modern creative methods of ballet staging and their reflection in the Kazakh ballet Zhusan

Creativity Studies
The manuscript explores the evolution of ballet staging, focusing on the integration of modern dance and classical ballet. It traces this trend to the second half of the 20th century, highlighting the impact of modern dance’s flexibility on classical ...
Ilzat Aukhadiyev, Daulet Dosbatyrov, Heili Einasto   +2 more
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Liturgy by Leonide Massine and Liturgy by Olga Tsvetkova: In Search of Historical and Cultural Dialogue [PDF]

Художественная культура
The article is devoted to studying the reasons for the historical and cultural connection between Leonide Massine’s unstaged ballet Liturgy, which was conceived by him together with Sergei Diaghilev, and the production of the Liturgy ballet shown in 2023
Vasenina Ekaterina V.
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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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A Dandy, Bully, and Mystic: The School of Poetic Play in T.S. Eliot’s Inventions of March Hare [PDF]

Литература двух Америк, 2016
The paper deals with some aspects of the early works by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). The object of the research is a collection of poetry, the notebook under the title “The Inventions of the March Hare” (1909-1917).
Olga M. Ushakova
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Classical choreographic heritage of the 19th century in Kazan theater: in past and present

Историческая этнология, 2018
In the middle of the 19th century Kazan had a solid reputation as a theatrical city. The Russian grand drama theater started operating in 1791. 1874 is rightly considered the birthday of the Kazan opera.
Larisa N. Donina
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