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Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

БАЧИТИ ДОЗВОЛЕНЕ: ФОТОГРАФІЯ ТА ЦЕНЗУРА У РОСІЙСЬКІЙ ІМПЕРІЇ

open access: yesАктуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2018
Казакевич Г.М. Видеть разрешенное: фотография и цензура в Российской империи. Целью исследования является рассмотрение истории становления государственного регулирования оборота фотографических изображений в Российской империи и выявление ...
Геннадій КАЗАКЕВИЧ
doaj   +1 more source

A wider Europe? The view from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
On the evidence of national surveys conducted between 2000 and 2006, there is a declining sense of European self-identity in the three Slavic post-Soviet republics of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Allison R.   +31 more
core   +2 more sources

Migration Network and Identity Reconfiguration: A Case of Gwangju Koryoin Village in Korea

open access: yesPacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs network theory to examine how advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) reshape migration flows, identity formation, and interactions between migrant and host communities, focusing on Gwangju Koryoin Village.
Seongjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

For King, not Tsar: Identifying Ukrainians in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Canadian-born men, followed by those born in the British Isles, made up the bulk of the 620,000 men who enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War. Many Americans, perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 or more, enlisted in Canada or
Broznitsky, Peter
core   +1 more source

The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.
Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Induced abortion in the world: 1. Perception of abortion throughout the centuries and by religions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, Volume 171, Issue 3, Page 1148-1155, December 2025.
Abstract Induced abortion has religious, moral, and cultural dimensions that place it at the center of major ethical debates. The interest of women caught in the middle of this never‐ending controversy requires that a dialogue replaces current confrontation.
Giuseppe Benagiano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religion in Eastern Europe After the Fall of Communism: From Euphoria to Anxiety

open access: yes, 2020
In the decades prior to the implosion of the communist system, change could be discerned here and there in Eastern Europe. The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of the most pertinent developments that spurred the transition from ...
Mojzes, Paul B
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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1274-1290, December 2025.
Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
wiley   +1 more source

The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
core   +1 more source

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