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Post-Soviet emptiness (Vladimir Makanin and Viktor Pelevin)

open access: yesJournal of Eurasian Studies, 2013
Emptiness is a key word in several post-Soviet Russian novels of the late 1990s. One can find it as well in Vladimir Makanin's “Underground” as in two novels written by Viktor Pelevin, “Generation ‘P’” and “Chapaev and Emptiness”.
Hans Günther
doaj   +1 more source

Castoriadis and social theory:from marginalization to canonization to re-radicalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter examines Cornelius Castoriadis's trajectory from obscurity and the margins of post-war French intellectual and political milieu to the misappropriation and canonization of his thought after the 1970s and argues for a re-radicalization of his
Memos, Christos
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Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making space for a new picture of the world: Boys in Zinc and Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Based on a study of Boys in Zinc and Chernobyl Prayer, two books by the Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich, this paper’s core argument is that Alexievich’s writing represents an approach designed to capture that which eludes more conventional journalism.
Rodgers, J.
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The Evolution of Autonomous Systems for Planetary Cave Exploration: A Review

open access: yesJournal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The exploration of Subsurface Access Points (SAPs), such as lava tubes on the Moon and Mars, has gained significant interest due to their potential as stable environments shielded from surface radiation and temperature extremes. These sites are considered high‐value targets for detecting water and signs of ancient life, and assessing their ...
Sarah Swinton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Third Reality of Soviet Times

open access: yesLietuvos istorijos studijos, 2016
Rec.: Ainė Ramonaitė (moksl. red.), Nematoma sovietmečio visuomenė,Vilnius: Naujasis Židinys-Aidai, 2015, 387 p.
openaire   +2 more sources

Sampling, Mobility, and Anchoring in Small‐Body Sampling Robots: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesSmartBot, EarlyView.
Small‐body sampling robots are exploration systems that perform contact, sampling, and stable operations on microgravity bodies such as asteroids and comets. The authors review representative robot architectures and key technologies, focusing on the mechanisms, evolution, and coupling of sampling, mobility, and anchoring.
Yurui Shen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A DWELLING HOUSE OF MOSCOW AS THE OBJECT OF POLITICS AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE REVOLUTION YEARS 1917-1918

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History, 2008
The study of Soviet society remains very important. As scholars and as human beings we are also concerned about that reality, which was faced by the common man, the ordinary soviet town-dweller.
A N Fedorov
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The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

Отражение ранних вариантов советских национальных языков в московских русско-иноязычных словарях

open access: yesActa Baltico-Slavica, 2015
Reflection of early Soviet dialects of national languages in Russian bilingual dictionaries published in Moscow After the October Revolution, over half of the citizens of the new Russian state were non-Russians.
Jolanta Mędelska, Marek Cieszkowski
doaj   +1 more source

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