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The Development Costs of Revolution: Evidence From Violent and Nonviolent Transitions
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using data from the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem) project and the NAVCO catalog (1950–2019), we estimate the developmental effects of successful revolutions through difference‐in‐differences models and event studies. Our findings differ from common expectations: neither violent nor nonviolent revolutions consistently deliver expected ...
Shishir Shakya +2 more
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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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Armed resistance of partisans in 1944–1953 and its suppression in Skapiškis rural district
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2018 There were similarities and differences between armed resistance activities of partisans that took place in various regions of Lithuania in 1944–1953. Still, irrespective of several regional peculiarities, three main periods of the partisan warfare may ...
Ramona Staveckaitė-Notari
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern 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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Some Features of the Lithuanian Resistance Phenomenon
Genocidas 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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“Repressions Are Necessary; the Newspaper Hype Is Not”: Explaining Terror in Soviet Terms
Quaestio 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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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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Manuscript of Marc Popovski about Tolstoyan movement
Studia 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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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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