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When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
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Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states [PDF]
Private services could contribute greatly to economic growth in Russia and the other former Soviet states. The authors use econometric analysis to identify the gap between expected and actual levels of service activities in these countries and simulate ...
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Education in the USSR: Russian or Soviet? [PDF]
, 2011 Works on the history of Russian education often point out and emphasize the similarities between the Tsarist and Soviet systems. Nicholas Hans has coined an aphorism which summarizes this line of thought; he maintains that Soviet education is not ...
Tudge, Jonathan R. +1 more
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Terendak Military Cemetery: Bodies, Burials, and ‘Operation Bring Them Home'
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Terendak Military Cemetery occupies an unusual position in the history of Australian war cemeteries. Initially established to service the needs of the community at Terendak Garrison—the operational base for Commonwealth forces in Malaya during the early years of the Cold War—it became the official overseas burial site of Australian dead during the ...
Hannah Swaine, Kate Ariotti
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, 2020 With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the newly independent Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan inherited a shared legacy of higher education, institutionalized during the twentieth century under Soviet rule.
Sabzalieva, Emma
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Kazakhstan is a post-Soviet nation whose education system and curricular constitution recently have gone through a number of substantial reforms. These changes have occurred in light of political-economic initiatives to strengthen the country’s economic ...
Mussakhanova, Anel, Boman, Björn,
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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, 2012 The victory over Axis forces by the Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943 is considered one of the major turning points of World War Two. General Vasily Chuikov and the men of the 62nd Army, supported by General Alexander Rodimtsev’s 13th
Taylor, Carol
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