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PARADOXES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOMANDREPRESSION IN (POST-)SOVIET CONTEXTS [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Law and Religion, 2014
AbstractThe religious revival that followed the collapse of the USSR provides an excellent opportunity to compare the dynamics of projects of religious freedom with those of religious repression. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, this article documents the contradictory effects that both repressive and liberal ...
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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
wiley   +1 more source

“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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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
wiley   +1 more source

Igor Caşu, Duşmanul de clasă. Represiuni politice, violenţă şi rezistenţă în R(A)SS Moldovenească, 1924-1956, Chişinău, Cartier, 2013

open access: yesPlural: History, Culture, Society, 2014
Review on book - Igor Caşu, Duşmanul de clasă.
Petru Negura
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Death Penalty Politics and Symbolic Law in Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In contemporary Russia there is widespread support for the death penalty. Recent Russian presidents have endorsed the nation’s entry into the European Community (EC).
Galliher, John F., Semukhina, Olga B.
core   +1 more source

A Natural LTR Retrotransposon Insertion in the Promoter of GhNAC140‐Dt Boosts Cotton Lint Yield

open access: yesPlant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transposable elements (TEs) are fundamental drivers of crop evolution and domestication. Whereas the underlying mechanisms of TE‐mediated gene activation remain poorly understood. Lint percentage is an important yield component in cotton. Here, we report a retrotransposon insertion in the promoter of GhNAC140‐Dt, a secondary wall NAC encoding ...
Yujia Yu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Memory of Soviet Repressions in the Kazakhstan Lithuanian Diaspora: Interpretations, Practices, Contexts

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija
In this article, the focus is on the memory of repressions in the Kazakhstan Lithuanian diaspora, a large part of which consists of the descendants of Lithuanians who were subject to repression. Based on data from a survey of semi-structured interviews,
Irena Šutinienė
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REPRESSION OF BELIEVERS IN UZBEKISTAN DURING THE SOVIET PERIOD

open access: yes, 2022
This scientific article describes the policy of the Soviet government in Uzbekistan in the 20-30s of the last century and the attitude of believers, including Muslim clerics and Christian clergy, their repression, the activities of believers. the state of religious institutions and organizations, and how the ceremonies conducted by Muslim clerics and ...
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