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Pushkin and Gannibal: Ethnic Identity in Imperial Russia

open access: yes, 2009
Since his untimely death in 1837, the nineteenth-century romantic writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin has been renowned the world over not only for his literary achievements, but also for being a paradigm of Russianness. However, Pushkin himself was by
Grinberg, Miriam
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Outsmarting sanctions

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
wiley   +1 more source

РОСІЙСЬКИЙ НАЦІОНАЛІЗМ У КОНТЕКСТІ ВИБОРІВ ДО ДЕРЖАВНОЇ ДУМИ НА ПРАВОБЕРЕЖЖІ (1906–1912): ІСТОРІОГРАФІЧНИЙ ОГЛЯД [PDF]

open access: yesStorìnki Istorìï, 2014
This article observed the question of Russian nationalism in the context of State Duma elections in Russian Empire (1906 –1912) in three Right-bank gubernias—Podillia, Volhynia, and Kyiv.
О. В. Мартинюк
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

[Post]-Reformation Influences and the Coming of Age of the Baptist Movement in the Russian Empire (1858–1911)

open access: yesБогословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2015
The issue of Baptist origins in the Russian Empire is the subject of hot debates even after more than a century of research. Russian Orthodox polemists at the end of the nineteenth century laid responsibility for the emergence and spread of the movement
Oleksandr GEYCHENKO
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

From Russia with Love: John and Nadine Turchin

open access: yes, 2016
In August 1856, Ivan Vasilievitch Turchaninov and Nedezhda Dmitrievna Lvow arrived in the United States. The two had been married for only three months, and were both natives of the Russian Empire.
Nadeau, Ryan M.
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