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Framings of Intervention in Spain: From the Civil War to the Franco Dictatorship

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the role of foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War, the word intervención rarely appeared in contemporary media and official discourse. This article examines the expressions that Republican and rebel authorities used to represent the presence of outside forces in Spain.
Marta Costa Costa
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Reasons for the Compulsory Nature of the Ukrainians’ Repatriation, from the Western Zones of Occupation to the USSR, after the Second World War (1945 – 1951) [PDF]

Codrul Cosminului, 2016
During the years of the Second World War millions of people suffered from the compulsory shifts due to the military actions or captivity or due to the remove to the compulsory labour. Ukrainians made an essential part of those who were removed.
Lyudmyla Strilchuk
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

History, EarlyView.
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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Victor Andreev: „Şi atunci când Patria îşi va recăpăta libertatea..." / Victor Andreev: "And when the Motherland will regain freedom ..."

Tyragetia, 2015
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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German soldiers in Latvian SSR war captive camps: reflections of problems in soviet represive structures documents

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2015
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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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Sovietisation of Schools in the 1940/41 School Year: the Role of Writers in “Re-educating” Teachers; Establishment of the Pioneer Organisation in Schools of Šakiai County; Teachers between Resistance, Conformism and Collaboration; Repressions (4)

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2015
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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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Sovietisation of Schools in the autum in 1940: ideological constraints from teachers, bolshevis indoctrination,compain of eadult education, selebration of boshevik a coup d'état in in Schools of Šakiai County; (1)

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2014
The subject of the article is the phenomena and facts of the Sovietisation of general education schools in the first months of 1940–1941, which are still largely unreported in the historiography.
Stanislovas Buchaveckas
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The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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