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Education and the Soviet aircraft industry [PDF]
, 1956 Cover title"#1123"--handwritten on cover"Project Education"--coverIncludes bibliographical referencesScience and technology in the Soviet schools / by Alexander Korol -- Education and the Soviet aircraft industry / Leon ...
Trilling, Leon, Korol, Alexander G.
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Alpha Children Wear Grey: Postwar Ontario and Soviet Education Reform
, 2013 The author examines a prominent Ontario education commission’s tour through the Soviet Union in 1966. This tour is situated within the larger contexts of the Cold War, and postwar North American education reform.
Cole, Josh
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Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
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Determinants of Soviet Household Income [PDF]
World Values Survey data are used to examine household income in the Soviet Union. The data, gathered Summer/Fall 1990, provide a rare opportunity to empirically examine microeconomic factors influencing a Soviet household's position in the regional ...
Kenneth Smith
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Forging success : Soviet managers and false accounting, 1943 to 1962 [PDF]
, 2009 Attempting to satisfy their political masters in a target-driven culture, Soviet managers had to optimize on many margins simultaneously. One of these was the margin of truthfulness.
Harrison, Mark, Mark Harrison
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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Public Expenditures on Education and Health in the Economies of the Former Soviet Union [PDF]
This paper provides an overview of public expenditures on education and healthcare in Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine and some other countries of the former Soviet Union before and during the global financial crisis.
Roman Mogilevsky +3 more
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Education and society in Moscow : teachers' perceptions [PDF]
, 1999 1 v. (various pagings) ; 29 cm.Within the span of less than a decade, Russian teachers have lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of Communist rule, the emergence of a free market economy and levels of inflation which have pushed much ...
Hawkins, Laurie +1 more
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Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings +3 more
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Trends in first union formation in post-Soviet Central Asia
, 2009 This study used recently available survey data to examine trends in the rate of first union formation in the post-Soviet Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Clifford, D.
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