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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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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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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
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In Whose Interest is the Public Interest?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current government has implemented changes to the planning system in ‘the public interest’ and planners more generally aim to make decisions in ‘the public interest’. Yet, this concept is hard to define, and it has been much reflected on since the adoption of land use planning in 1947.
Kelvin MacDonald
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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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In the name of freedom: autocracy, serfdom, and suicide in Russia [PDF]

, 2004
The 1828 suicide of Grigorii Miasnikov in the small provincial town of Arzamas proved so controversial that it came to the attention of Tsar Nicholas I.
Morrissey, S.
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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
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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
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A tale of two commons. Some preliminary hypotheses on the long-term development of the commons in Western and Eastern Europe, 11th-19th centuries

International Journal of the Commons, 2013
In this article, we present our hypotheses regarding the divergence in the development of common-property regimes between Eastern and Western Europe. The latter area developed formalized arrangements for the collective exploitation of natural resources ...
Miguel Laborda Pemán, Tine De Moor
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