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The Downgrading of Stalin as Seen from the Free World [PDF]
, 1956 Address by Honorable William P. Rogers, Deputy Attorney General of the United States, on the occasion of Bryant\u27s 83rd Commencement, Providence, Rhode Island, Friday, August 3, 1956 at 10a ...
Rogers, William P.
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The threat of the thief: who has normative influence in Georgian society? [PDF]
, 2006 This piece gives an account of the Georgian government's recent attempts to crackdown on the institution of thieves-in-law [vory-v-zakone] within Georgian society.
Slade, Gavin
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
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Jehoova tunnistajad Eestis [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2012 The article explores the history of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in Estonia. The first Bible students emerged in Estonia in the 1920s, and the Society started its work in the country in 1926 when the local office was opened.
Ringo Ringvee
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Soviet repressions and resistance to them in Onuškis rural municipality (Trakai district)
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2003 Due to the aggressive activities of the Soviet (red) partisans and the armed resistance of the village self–defenders, the so–called local self–defence, which had been established in south–eastern Lithuania since the autumn of 1943, the situation in the
Rimantas Zizas
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Serendipities, 2020 For decades Soviet and later post-Soviet sociology was dominated by a cohort of scholars born between 1927–1930 (Grushin, Kon, Levada, Ossipov, Yadov, Zaslavskaya). The origins of their prominence and the character of their recognition offers a puzzle as
Mikhail Sokolov
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Hidden and Repressed Inflation in Soviet-Type Economies: Definitions, Measurements and Stabilisation [PDF]
Contributions to Political Economy, 1986 Official price trends in the USSR and in the Soviet-type economies have changed markedly through time but have followed a roughly uniform general pattern: hyperinflation at times of war, systemic transition and reconstruction; inflation at times of accelerated industrialization; stabilization through currency reform and fiscal measures, followed by ...
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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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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The Socio-Political Attitudes of the Don Cossacks in the First Half of the 1920s
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017 The study of socio-political attitudes of the Don Cossacks in the early 1920s is of large importance for understanding the socio-political processes in the south of Russia at that time.
Olga V. Rvacheva
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