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The last phase of armed resistance ( Šiauliai region)
According to the MGB data, in the spring of 1952 there were still 142 partisan structures in Lithuania, with roughly 900 fighters in their ranks, although they were no longer a well–organised force they had used to be.
Simonas Norbutas
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The history of anti-Soviet and anticommunist resistance in postwar Bessarabia is rich in facts and names of fighters. This article tells about the fate of brothers Victor and Ion Andreev, natives of the village of Mănoileşti, who in the spring of 1949 ...
Elena Postică
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The occupation and colonial policy of the USSR resulted in a structural and substantive alteration of Latvia’s scientific scene. The professional connection between Latvian Soviet ethnographers and the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of ...
Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenka
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Diplomatic Representation of Lithuania in France During the 1940–1960
In 1940, the Soviets by illegal means subordinated the embassy of Lithuania in Paris, and thus, Lithuanian diplomats were placed in an ambiguous situation.
Laurynas Jonušauskas
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'Commemorating a Disputed Past: Football Club and Supporters' Group War Memorials in the Former Yugoslavia [PDF]
This article documents the existence of numerous football-related war memorials throughout the former Yugoslavia. Utilizing photographic evidence of these monuments, plaques and other methods of memorialization, it illuminates the ways in which those ...
Mills, Richard
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The aim of this article is to provide research insights on the topic of German prisoners of war in Latvia (1945–1950). Research objectives: 1) to examine the sources; 2) to investigate the situation of German prisoners in the prisoner-of-war camps on ...
Ainars Bambals
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Data Collecting and Research of Folk Medicine in Estonia During the Soviet Era
Folk medicine in Estonia has been studied more thoroughly within the last 30 years. Still, the respective data has always been on the folklorists’ work-list, when publishing questionnaires or going out on fieldwork.
Ave Tupits
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The article is dedicated to certain aspects of the Sovietisation of general education schools in Lithuania in the 1940/41 school year. It provides the facts of the Bolshevik indoctrination in the local area – Šakiai county schools. The “re-education” of
Stanislovas Buchaveckas
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Etnicidad, nacionalismo y el Estado en Afganistán
The paper begins by surveying the cultural, linguistic, occupational and sectarian diversity of Afghanistan's population, going on to discuss the origins of the modern Afghan state in the reign of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan in the late 19th century.
Beattie, Hugh
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The 1941 miners' strike in northern France: from a dispute over soap to armed resistance [PDF]
In Northern France in 1941, while under German military occupation, 100,000 miners went on strike from the 27th May to the 9th June. This strike not only cost the German war machine half a million tonnes of coal, but also had long-term consequences for ...
Cushion, Stephen
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