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Interstellar Migration, the Population ‘Problem’ and the Climate Emergency
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Hartnell
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Beyond Bandung and Belgrade: Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, A Forgotten Indian Voice for World Peace
Peace &Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Dr. Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966) was an Indian polymath best known for his intellectual contributions in a dizzyingly wide range of fields: mathematics, statistics, genetics, numismatics, history, and literature. His enduring reputation seems to have been posthumously sealed as the father of Marxist historiography in India. What has
Suchintan Das
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Dictators, Repression and the Median Citizen: An “Eliminations Model” of Stalin’s Terror (Data from the NKVD Archives) [PDF]
This paper sheds light on dictatorial behavior as exemplified by the mass terror campaigns of Stalin. Dictatorships – unlike democracies where politicians choose platforms in view of voter preferences – may attempt to trim their constituency and thus ...
Konstantin Sonin +2 more
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What Can Arab Countries Learn From Post-communist Transition? [PDF]
, 2012 The commentary by Marek Dabrowski on what Arab countries can learn from the post-communist transition of the early 1990s, after the political uprisings against the authoritarian regimes in the Arab ...
Dabrowski, Marek
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Partisan Punitive Practice in Varėna District (1944–1952)
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2013 One of the least analysed aspects of the partisan war in Lithuania between 1944 and 1953 is the punitive practice of partisans. The aim of Total Irreversible Human Loss in Lithuania Between 1944 and 1953, a programme conducted by the Special ...
Laimis Mikelevičius
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Colonization of minds: Ukraine between Russian colonialism and Western Orientalism. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 Kotliuk G.
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Cuba is the oldest and most consolidated autocracy in the Americas. Its Revolution in 1959, the charisma of Fidel Castro, the single‐party system and the US embargo have made the island an exceptional case. However, recent developments such as popular protests, limited reforms, emigration or socio‐economic decline are bringing about some ...
Armando Chaguaceda, Susanne Gratius
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Genocidas ir RezistencijaThe paper provides a review of the shifts occurring in politics of memory regarding the political repressions of the Soviet period within post-Soviet Russia, spanning from the early 1990s to the present day.
Aleksey Kamenskikh
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Inner Prison of the NKGB (MGB, KGB) of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic 1944–1959
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2017 This study discloses the 1944-1959 period history of the inner prison of NKGB (Narodny Komissariat Gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, English translation – The People‘s Commissariat for State Security) of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, including MGB ...
Darius Indrišionis
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