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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Armenian Pilots’ Contribution to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War

RUDN Journal of Russian History
The authors present for the first time the contribution of Armenian pilots to the common victory in the Great Patriotic War and is based mainly on the basis of newly discovered archival documents. Along with representatives of other peoples of the Soviet
Kliment A. Harutyunyan, Ashot A. Melkonyan, Edita V. Dadayan   +2 more
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Retired Army Bulletin, Vol. I

, 2020
Bulletin published by the United States Department of the Army for it's retirees, featuring the article "Glad You Asked" regarding Secretary of the Army, Howard H ...
Department of the Army
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Forced Mobilization into the Red Army (1944–1945)

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2013
Forced mobilisation into the occupying Soviet army in August 1944–May 1945 became an integral part of the terror against the population of Lithuania. The Soviet Union, which in the second half of 1944 launched a call-up of Lithuanian men to the Red Army,
Vytautas Tininis
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

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Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
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The 1945 Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in the Light of New Sources

Ежегодник Япония, 2023
The article focuses on the Manchurian strategic offensive operation of the Red Army against the Japanese troops in Northeast China in August 1945. Its relevance is due to the fact that, over the past decade, researchers have gained access to documents ...
A. G. Zorikhin
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Archiving the History of Environmentalism: Insights from Academia and Practice

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum considers the current state of archiving for the environmental movement at local, national and international levels. It responds to a gap that researchers of environmentalism have long been aware of, but one that is poorly understood from the perspective of records management and collections development practice.
Henry Irving, Paul Beard, Georgina Brewis, Sara Kinsey, Heather Forbes, Tara‐Lee Platt, Maissan Hassan, Rebecca Marti   +7 more
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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