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Russia: An Abnormal Country [PDF]
Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman recently rendered a summary verdict on the post Soviet Russian transition experience finding that the Federation had become a normal country with the west's assistance, and predicting that it would liberalize and ...
Steven Rosefielde
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHIC MODELING OF THE FIRST SIEGE OF THE ALBAZINSKY PRISON IN 1685. I
Вестник Брянского государственного университетаThis work opens a series of articles, and is its first part, describing the first siege of the state Albazinsky prison that took place in June 1685. Although the siege itself did not last long in terms of duration, the available data from this event ...
Lokhov A.Y., Eremin I.E., Natsvin A.V.
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union [PDF]
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we
Elizabeth Brainerd, David M. Cutler
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NIGERIA - RUSSIA BILATERAL RELATIONS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2017 In diplomacy, the interests of an individual nation largely determine the form of relations it maintains with other states. This gives credence to the notion that there is neither a permanent friend nor permanent enemy in international relations; rather,
Abiodun Adetokunbo
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
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