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Some Features of the Lithuanian Resistance Phenomenon

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija, 2003
Speaking presently about the post-war resistance, it is already possible to refer to authentic documentation, which allows analysis of the political and ideological features of the resistance.
Arvydas Anušauskas
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‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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Famous and Forgotten: Soviet Sociology and the Nature of Intellectual Achievement under Totalitarianism

open access: yesSerendipities, 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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Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Manuscript of Marc Popovski about Tolstoyan movement

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2014
Publication of archival documents, i.e. manuscripts of Marc Popovski, a famous writer, journalist, human rights activist, dissident, and vice president of the organization “Writers in Exile” American branch of PEN. The manuscript is dedicated to the fate
Kolupaev Vladimir Evgen'yevich
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“Repressions Are Necessary; the Newspaper Hype Is Not”: Explaining Terror in Soviet Terms

open access: yesQuaestio Rossica, 2020
В 1968 г. Роберт Конквест впервые опубликовал новаторское исследование политической ситуации в Советском Союзе в период правления Иосифа Сталина. С этого момента пик государственного насилия 1930-х гг. стали называть «Большим террором».
Malcolm L. G. Spencer
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

open access: yesModern 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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Jehoova tunnistajad Eestis [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 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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The Socio-Political Attitudes of the Don Cossacks in the First Half of the 1920s

open access: yesВестник 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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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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