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2014
This essay surveys the issue of Russian labor during the First World War. It summarizes existing historiography about the topic and suggests the parameters of statistics and definitions of the working class. It then focuses on the effects of wartime mobilization, the strategies used by the government to replace drafted workers, the issues of salaries ...
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This essay surveys the issue of Russian labor during the First World War. It summarizes existing historiography about the topic and suggests the parameters of statistics and definitions of the working class. It then focuses on the effects of wartime mobilization, the strategies used by the government to replace drafted workers, the issues of salaries ...
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Czechoslovak Legions (Russian Empire)
20141914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World ...
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2014
World War I was financially ruinous for the Russian government. Its decision to abolish the lucrative state spirits monopoly left a gaping hole in the budget. The Ministry of Finance opted to cover expenses through a combination of new taxes, foreign and domestic loans, and printing money.
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World War I was financially ruinous for the Russian government. Its decision to abolish the lucrative state spirits monopoly left a gaping hole in the budget. The Ministry of Finance opted to cover expenses through a combination of new taxes, foreign and domestic loans, and printing money.
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1995
This is the first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat, the literary analysis is firmly set in its historical context,
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This is the first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat, the literary analysis is firmly set in its historical context,
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2014
An early actor in cinema industry, Russia held a special position due to the strong foreign, notably French and German, influences. The First World War saw an unprecedented boom in national productions and distribution networks: cinema became integrated in the lives of Russian citizens.
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An early actor in cinema industry, Russia held a special position due to the strong foreign, notably French and German, influences. The First World War saw an unprecedented boom in national productions and distribution networks: cinema became integrated in the lives of Russian citizens.
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The Russian Revolution and Global Empires, or Global Revolution and the Russian Empire?
Ab Imperio, 2017Jeremy Adelman, who coined the concept and the model of “imperial revolution,” reflects on Ilya Gerasimov’s rendering of the 1917 Russian Revolution as an imperial revolution. He draws important parallels between the revolutionary events in Russia and the crisis of the overseas Iberian empires a century earlier. Adelman suggests that seeing empire as a
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