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This article analyzes ethnopolitical processes which were underway in the North Caucasus during the revolution of 1917. The February revolution had a significant impact on the course and nature of the socio-historical development of the region.
Artur Kazharov, Tamerlan Tsoloev
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Election of Honorary Members of the Russian Mineralogical Society from 1917 to 1937
The period of 1917–1937 includes three stages in the development of Russian science: the decline in scientific research caused by socio-political changes and the Civil War, the establishment of Soviet power and the sovietization of science, and the ...
Ivan Yu. Matveev
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Bonbons and Bolsheviks: The Stigmatization of Chocolate in Revolutionary Russia [PDF]
This essay examines how and why how the official Party attitude toward chocolate changed rather dramatically during the first two decades of Communist rule.
LeBlanc, Ronald D.
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Landscape science: a Russian geographical tradition [PDF]
The Russian geographical tradition of landscape science (landshaftovedenie) is analyzed with particular reference to its initiator, Lev Semenovich Berg (1876-1950). The differences between prevailing Russian and Western concepts of landscape in geography
Alekseenko V. L. +101 more
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A Convenient Untruth: Fact and Fantasy in the Doctrine of Odious Debts [PDF]
The few years since the U.S. incursion into Iraq in 2003 have witnessed an explosion in the literature on odious debts - that is, debts incurred (a) without the consent of the people (e.g., by a despotic regime); (b) from which no benefits accrued to the
Gulati, Mitu, Ludington, Sarah
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ONTOLOGICAL SITUATION OF RUSSIAN EMIGRATION: AN ATTEMPT TO COMPREHEND
AN ATTEMPT TO COMPREHEND The article represents attempt of scientific, literary-critical and cultural judgment of destinies of representatives of the Russian intelligentsia which has emigrated after February revolution of 1917.
Diana E. Kostenko
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The February Revolution of 1917 and the Fate of Prisoners of the First World War
The First World War put a number of practical issues before the Russian diplomats. The first one was sending home Russian citizens stranded in foreign countries, and the second, helping numerous prisoners.
S. I. Chernyavskiy
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