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AUTONOMY AND DECENTRALIZATION IN THE GLOBAL IMPERIAL CRISIS: THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND THE SOVIET UNION IN 1905–1924

Modern Intellectual History, 2018
This article brings the case of imperial transformation of the Russian Empire/Soviet Union into global discussions about empire, nationalism, and postimperial governance, and highlights the political and legal imaginaries that shaped this transformation,
Ivan Sablin, A. Semyonov
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Consolidation of the Principle of Democratic Elections in the Law of the Latvian People

Law: Journal of the University of Latvia, 2023
The article provides an analysis of the gradual consolidation of the principle of democratic elections in the election law of the Latvian people during the period from the abolition of serfdom in the Baltic Governorates of the Russian Empire at the ...
Jānis Lazdiņš
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Religious Tension and Ethnic Consciousness in the Later Russian Empire [PDF]

The Russian Empire collapsed because it failed to assimilate non-Russian minorities, and did not provide a coherent national narrative to unite the Russian population.
Marsden, Thomas
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol, Elizaveta Lyssova‐Golomzina   +1 more
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Raising a Professor, or How Higher School Teachers Were Trained in the Russian Empire. Review of the book: Ivanov A. "Scientific Dignity in the Russian Empire. 18th to Early 20th Century. Training and Qualifying Professors and Higher School Teachers"

Вопросы образования, 2019
Anatoly Ivanov’s book Scientific Dignity in the Russian Empire. 18th to Early 20th Century. Training and Qualifying Professors and Higher School Teachers gives the idea of academic degree attestation and awarding practices followed by Russian Empire ...
Kseniya Belik
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Review of 'The Russian Empire 1450-1801'

Revista historia, 2017
2017 is a wonderful year to study the history of Russia. This year saw the publication of new stimulating volumes of sweeping scope and new interpretive analyses including Kivelson and Suny's Russia's Empires and Westad's The Cold War: A World History ...
Orel Beilinson
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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Spatiotemporal Pattern Evolution and Driving Mechanisms of World Botanical Gardens Over Five Centuries

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
This study presents a comprehensive review of the 500‐year spatiotemporal evolution of global botanical gardens, identifying three major development stages—initial exploration (1543–1699), steady expansion (1700–1899), and rapid proliferation (1900–2020)—with six distinct sub‐stages. We propose a tripartite driving framework grounded in colonial botany
Shidong Li, Guangzhen Shi, Qingwei Li
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On the Uses of Decolonial History for Life

Вивліоѳика
This essay provides arguments in favor of decolonizing the field of Russian and East European Studies, focusing on the eighteenth-century history of Ukrainian-Russian relations.
Volodymyr Sklokin
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