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Operation Barbarossa Interpreted in Light of the Primacy of Stalin\u27s Economic Plan and Trade with Germany [PDF]
The controversy over who was the aggressor behind Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s 1941 attack on the Soviet Union, has focused largely on political and military analyses. However, a study of Soviet economics sheds critical light on this debate.
Novey, Adam G
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Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
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ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Yugoslavia and Informbiro: Causes and the beginning of the conflict [PDF]
Conflict of Yugoslavia and Cominform certainly represents the first and the most significant conflict in the so-called Eastern Bloc, which was under the leadership of the USSR. The epilogue of the conflict was the split between Yugoslavia and the Eastern
Tošić-Malešević Nikola
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Daily life is usually associated with repetition and the ordinary. There are, however, settings where the quotidian is far from usual or familiar. Marked by dread and uncertainty, the everyday reality in the Kremlin during Joseph Stalin’s era is one such
Marcin Kowalczyk
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Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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Representation of Gender Binarism in Frida Kahlo’s “Self Portrait with Stalin”
Frida Kahlo’s “Self Portrait with Stalin” 1954, has been related to biographical, cultural, and national references. It is examined as an allegory of the artist’s troubled personal relationships with political figures; her antagonism towards the Soviet ...
Shajwan N. Fatah, Ala B. Ahmed
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The long read: the writing and re-writing of Joseph Stalin and his Regime: a critical comparison of two biographies [PDF]
This comparative review examines two works that use new documents to further explore Joseph Stalin’s life and regime. Stalin: New Biography of a New Dictator, by Oleg Khlevniuk, and Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, by Stephen Kotkin, have both been
Onaciu, Vlad
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Long-term optical photometric monitoring of the quasar SDSS J153259.96-003944.1 [PDF]
We report optical Cousins R and I band monitoring observations of the high redshift (z = 4.67) QSO SDSS J153259.96-003944.1 that does not show detectable emission lines in its optical spectrum.
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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