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The Perception of Germany in the Kyivan Press: From Ukrainian People’s Republic to the Hetmanate (November 1917 — December 1918) [PDF]
, 2017 The 1917 February Revolution led to the reshaping of the war-era image of the German enemy. Focusing on the former imperial borderland province of the Southwestern Krai, this article unveils the national, political, and cultural considerations of the ...
Basenko, Ivan
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Orlando Figes. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 / Revoluţia rusă. 1891-1924. Tragedia unui popor, Iaşi, Polirom, 2016, 814 p. Traducere de Cornelia Marinescu [PDF]
Plural: History, Culture, Society, 2018 Review on Romanian version of the book signed by Orlando Figes. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 / Revoluţia rusă. 1891-1924.
Anatol Petrencu
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Conceptualising the natural environment: critical reflections from Russia, 18th-20th Centuries, 22-23 March 2013 [PDF]
, 2013 The workshop was co-organised by Jonathan Oldfield (University of Glasgow, UK) and Julia Lajus (European University at St. Petersburg). It was funded by grants from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Economic and Social Research ...
Oldfield, J.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2011 The article is devoted to the causes of the Russian Empire breakup. The author studies imperial foundations as a particular type of statehood, shows their features in the light of these components and tries to trace the process of the Russian Empire ...
A P Korelin
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Pushkin and Gannibal: Ethnic Identity in Imperial Russia
, 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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In search of liberal Tsarism: the historiography of autocratic decline [PDF]
, 2002 The idea that the autocracy might have successfully modernized itself has, in recent years, spread widely beyond academic circles. However, a look at traditional and recent historiography shows that very few historians support this line.
Read, Christopher
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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