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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Instytucjonalne uwarunkowania rywalizacji o władzę w postradzieckich systemach autorytarnych
Politeja, 2018 Institutional Conditions of the Political Rivalry in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian Regimes More than 25 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Rafał Czachor
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Clerics of Don Kalmyk Cossacks in the Second Half of the XIX – early XX Centuries
МонголоведениеIntroduction. The article reveals the issues of the organization of the service of the Buddhist clergy on the Don in the second half of the 19th century, implemented during the reform of the administrative and territorial administration of the Kalmyk ...
Konstantin N. Maksimov
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Formation of Soviet control bodies (1926–1934) [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношенияThe article considers the activities of the authorities in the direction of finding an acceptable model for the organization of control in a Soviet-type society. Based on archival sources, methods and technologies related to the involvement of workers to
Mitrokhin, Vladimir A.
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Quantity Versus Quality in the Soviet Market for Weapons [PDF]
Military market places display obvious inefficiencies under most arrangements, but the Soviet defense market was unusual for its degree of monopoly, exclusive relationships, and intense scrutiny (in its formative years) by a harsh dictator. This provided
Mark Harrison, Andrei Markevich
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The fundamental problem of command : plan and compliance in a partially centralised economy [PDF]
, 2005 When a principal gives an order to an agent and advances resources for its implementation, the temptations for the agent to shirk or steal from the principal rather than comply constitute the fundamental problem of command.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Historical and legal analysis to combat child homelessness and neglect first years of soviet power
RUDN Journal of Law, 2013 The purpose of this article addresses the analysis of the normative base in the field of combating child neglect and homelessness in the years of Soviet power, the article analyzes the legal, organizational activities, activity of state bodies and public
E S Shahova
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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