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Art for the Soviet home

Human Affairs, 2011
AbstractAs an intensive housing construction drive in the late 1950s began to provide separate apartments for millions of Soviet citizens, aesthetic experts envisioned the Soviet home as a potential site for the display of works of art and for amateur aesthetic production.
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Reception of the Avant-garde in Russian Contemporary Art of the 1980s and 1990s [PDF]

Художественная культура
The article examines the reception of the Russian avant-garde art of the 1910s and 1920s in Soviet non-official art and early post-Soviet art of the 1980s and 1990s, the period when the Russian avant-garde art was widely discovered, followed and/or ...
Lazareva Ekaterina A.
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Rethinking Minor Literature and Small Literature as Secondary Zone Literature [PDF]

, 2020
The aim of this article is to argue that both “minor literature” and “small literature” should be readdressed as Michel Ragon’s “secondary zone literature” from three perspectives. Firstly, it will be argued that “minor and small
HE, Yanli
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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
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EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
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When Is a Boundary Not a Boundary? Exploring the Tensions and Potentialities of Creative Practice in Doctoral Research in Art and Design Education

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Alongside their continuing growth in the popularity, both practice research in creative disciplines and arts‐based methods in research in the social sciences have histories now spanning several decades. In doctoral education, art and design education research sits within and across two distinct fields – the art and design doctorate and the ...
Sian Vaughan
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Operation Barbarossa Interpreted in Light of the Primacy of Stalin\u27s Economic Plan and Trade with Germany [PDF]

, 2018
The controversy over who was the aggressor behind Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s 1941 attack on the Soviet Union, has focused largely on political and military analyses. However, a study of Soviet economics sheds critical light on this debate.
Novey, Adam G
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War as a Phenomenon of Inquiry in Management Studies

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We argue that war as a phenomenon deserves more focused attention in management. First, we highlight why war is an important and relevant area of inquiry for management scholars. We then integrate scattered conversations on war in management studies into a framework structured around three building blocks – (a) the nature of war from an ...
Fabrice Lumineau, Arne Keller
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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