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How much control is enough? Monitoring and enforcement under Stalin [PDF]
, 2007 Given wide scope for asymmetric information in huge hierarchies agents have a large capacity for opportunistic behaviour. Hidden actions increase transactions costs and cause the demand for monitoring and enforcement.
Markevich, Andreĭ
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HISTORICAL WRITING: BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND HISTORICAL NARRATION
Вестник Мининского университета, 2017 The issue puts the global question: what makes a work of professional historiographic writing and a narrator’s «telling a history» different? It is, first of all, a definitive indication of concerns of the study, suggestions of its theoretical grounds ...
J. Baberowski -
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Ultraviolet Flux and Spectral Variability Study of Blazars Observed with UVIT/AstroSat
The Astrophysical JournalBlazars, the peculiar class of active galactic nuclei, are known to show flux variations across the accessible electromagnetic spectrum. Though they have been studied extensively for their flux variability characteristics across wavelengths, information ...
M. Reshma +7 more
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A Tale of Two Transitions: Mobility Dynamics in China and Russia After Central Planning
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines intergenerational mobility in China and Russia during their transitions from central planning to market systems. We consider mobility as movement, measured as changes in status between parents and children. We provide estimates of two key mobility measures: overall mobility, which captures total intergenerational movement ...
Kristina Butaeva +3 more
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“A Great President”: Alexander A. Troyanovsky’s Unpublished Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vestnik MGIMO-UniversitetaThis article examines previously unpublished typescripts by Alexander A. Troyanovsky, the first Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1933–1938), preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI).
V. V. Vorotnikov, E. S. Pankov
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FUNDAMENTELE POLITICE ȘI ECONOMICE ALE ALIANŢEI SINO-SOVIETICE DIN PERIOADA POSTBELICĂ [PDF]
Revista de Știinţe Politice şi Relaţii Internaţionale, 2022 The purpose of this study is to show the way that the Sino-Russian relationship have dramatically evolved since their first diplomatic contact, particularly during the Cold War period.
OANA SIMION
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History, EarlyView.Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Reisner vs. Stalin: The RSFSR Constitution of 1918
BRICS Law Journal, 2019 In 2018, the centenary of the Constitution of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (RSFSR) was celebrated. Scholarly debate over this legal and political document – Russia’s first constitution – has continued across time up to the present day.
S. Shakhray, K. Krakovskiy
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Report of the saboteur I.G. Starinov to the Supreme Commander
Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2023 Background. The relevance of the study is determined by the need for an objective study of the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War. The publication purpose is to sanctify the activities of one of the organizers of this movement, I.G ...
Oleg B. Mozokhin
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