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Contemporary Russian Identity between East and West [PDF]

, 2005
This is a review of recent English-language scholarship on the development of Russian identity since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The first part examines literature on the economic and political changes in the Russian Federation, revealing how ...
Duncan, PJS
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The Soviet Union in the 1920s in Louis Fischer publications

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2013
The article is concerned with the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Louis Fischer – a social commentator, sovietologist, an expert on international relations, a professor of Princeton and Yale Universities. L.
Shvetsov Aleksandr Alekseevich
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

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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The Mock-Shakespeare by Les Podervianskyi: Overcoming Soviet Experience [PDF]

Cultural Intertexts, 2019
Shakespeare’s presence in the Soviet and early post-Soviet culture was ensured not only by translations, productions and general official appraisal, but also by travesty and mockery, which were typical of the underground cultural space.
Daria MOSKVITINA
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Playing with tension:national charisma and disgrace at Euro 2012 [PDF]

, 2013
By the time of Euro 2012, deepening tensions of nationalism and internal social struggles were developing across Europe in worsening conditions of systemic crisis.
Law, Alex
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

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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Imperial ideas or Byzantine heritage: Communism and the Church?

Studia Humanitatis, 2013
Soviet and anti-Soviet ideological clichés continue living in foreign and domestic politics of the states formed during the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
Kolupaev Vladimir Yevgen'yevich
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Identity and Space in Central Asia [PDF]

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2005
This article aims to provide an introduction to Central Asia from a geographic, historical and ethnolinguistic perspective. It demonstrates how the environment has conditioned the patterns of human settlement and, in particular, the relationship ...
Sebastian Stride
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Informal economy, informal state : the case of Uzbekistan [PDF]

, 2011
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Abel Polese, Johan Rasanayagam
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