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Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
wiley   +1 more source

Projecting Chemistry in Lomonosov’s Russia (1741–1765)

Journal for the History of Knowledge
This paper describes the projecting career of a polymath, academician, professor of chemistry, and “father of Russian science” Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov (1711–1765). Hitherto, scholars have treated Lomonosov’s scholarly career as primarily motivated
Reut Ullman
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The “golden age” of Russian serfdom

Вестник университета, 2022
The article attempts to show the apogee of Russian serfdom as one of the most significant direct and immediate results of Peter the Great’s transformations.
O. Yu. Yakhshiyan
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Statistical analysis of the development of serfdom farms in the Vilnius and Dysna districts in the middle of the 19th century

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 1996
The decay of feudal relations and intensification of commodity production is analysed on the basis of compulsory inventories in the middle of the 19th century.
Stasys Pamerneckis
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KRIZA MAĐARSKE DEMOKRATIJE U LOKALNOM I GLOBALNOM KONTEKSTU

Srpska Politička Misao, 2020
Book review: Peter Wilkin. 2016. Hungary’s Crisis of Democracy: The Road to Serfdom. London: Lexington Books, p. 223.
Dejan Bursac
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Peter the Great and the “modernisation” of serfdom in Russia

Вестник университета, 2021
The article examines the transformations of Peter the Great in the context of the evolution of serfdom in Russia. The author substantiates the thesis that during the Peter’s transformations, the so-called “second edition of serfdom” took place, replacing
O. Yu. Yakhshiyan
doaj   +1 more source

Australia and the Path Not Taken: The Declining Independence and Influence of Middle Powers

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian foreign policy has famously been distinguished by the search for ‘great and powerful friends’. However, Australia's relationship with its current notional protector and key ally—the United States—has generally had more costs than benefits and, I argue, has consequently not been in Australia's much‐invoked ‘national interest ...
Mark Beeson
wiley   +1 more source

Economic challenges in Early Modern Ages and different responses of European margins. Comparative considerations based on historiography: the cases of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Moldavian Principality

Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2012
This paper desires to draw attention to some stereotypes that simplify perception of historical reality, but nevertheless still prevail in historiography.
Nerijus Babinskas
doaj  

The Ethnic 'Other' in Ukrainian History Textbooks: The Case of Russia and the Russians [PDF]

, 2007
This paper examines portrayals of Russia and the Russians in two generations of Ukrainian history textbooks. It observes that the textbooks are highly condemning of Ukraine's main ethnic other in the guise of foreign ruler: the tsarist authorities and ...
Anderson E. A., Antoniou V. L., Berghahn V. R., Carras C., Hein L., Hurzhi O. I., Jan Germen Janmaat, Kohn H., Kohn H., Kolstø P., Komarov Y., Koren S., Koulouri C., Krylach E., Kul'chyts'kyi S. V., Kul'chytskyi S. V., Kymlicka W., Linz J., Opalski M., Pingel F., Sarbei V. H., Serhienko H. Y., Shapoval Y., Shvyd'ko H. K., Smith A. D., Smith A. D., Soysal Y. N., Soysal Y. N., Tishkov V., Turchenko F. H., Turchenko F. H., Turchenko F. H., Turchenko F. H., Turchenko F. H., Velychenko S., Verbytska P., Vickers E., Wilson A.   +37 more
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