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The Involvement of Ethnic Minorities in the Administration of the LSSR and the Ethnic Relations in Soviet Bureaucracy between 1940 and 1941

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2001
Having annexed Lithuania, the Soviet Union destroyed the country's independence, and formed its own administrative unit the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic – on the territory of the former independent Lithuanian republic.
Nijolė Maslauskienė
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

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Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Architectural Diversity in Lithuanian post-Soviet Catholic Churches (1988–91)

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This paper examines the architectural diversity in Catholic churches in Lithuania during the postSoviet transition period following five decades of occupations that disrupted the church-building tradition: the first Soviet occupation (1940-41), the Nazi ...
Kamilė Steponavičiūtė
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„Unreliable“ 50th Lithuanian rifle division

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 1998
In the summer of 1944, the red army invaded Lithuania. Forced mobilisation into the army of the new occupier began soon after. Mobilising Lithuanian men to join the USSR was particularly difficult for the Bolsheviks.
Mindaugas Pocius
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

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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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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

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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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“Actually, they used to pay no notice of”: Soviet Law Enforcement and Gender-Related Violence Problem in Historical Sources

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2019
After occupation and annexation of Lithuania, soviet government started to reorganize such institution like police and courts. Repressed former juridical elite, qualified independent jurist were changes by unqualified immigrants or by other loyal to ...
Monika Kareniauskaitė
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

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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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KGB struggle against emigree with propaganda and ideological means in XX century 9 decade.

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2008
One of the most important tasks of the KGB’s intelligence and ideological counter-intelligence units was to weaken the diaspora’s anti-Soviet activities, to prevent it from raising the issue of Lithuania’s occupation at the international level and from ...
Kristina Burinskaitė
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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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