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Architectural Diversity in Lithuanian post-Soviet Catholic Churches (1988–91)

open access: yesIn_Bo
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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Sovietisation of Schools in the 1940/41 School Year: bolshevis indoctrination,compain of eadult education in in Schools of Šakiai County; Teachers between Resistance, Conformism and Collaboration; Repressions (3)

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija, 2015
This article introduces some of the events, phenomena and facts of the Sovietisation (Bolshevization) of schools in annexed Lithuania in 1940–1941. The use of teachers in introducing the Bolshevik ideology to the society and pupils, the pseudo-elections
Stanislovas Buchaveckas
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
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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Relations between the Soviet Lithuanian Government and the Baltic Military District in 1963–1986

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija, 2006
The Soviet annexation of Lithuania was also manifested in aspects such as supplying the Soviet army with the required resources. The influence of the Soviet army and the relations between the armed forces and the local authorities in Lithuania has not ...
Inga Arlauskaitė
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
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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From Centre to Periphery... and Back? The Contribution of the Latvian Soviet Ethnographers to the Journal “Sovetskaya Etnografiya”

open access: yesLatvijas Universitātes Žurnāls. Vēsture
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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The Involvement of Ethnic Minorities in the Administration of the LSSR and the Ethnic Relations in Soviet Bureaucracy between 1940 and 1941

open access: yesGenocidas 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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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
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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„Unreliable“ 50th Lithuanian rifle division

open access: yesGenocidas 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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