The long read: the writing and re-writing of Joseph Stalin and his Regime: a critical comparison of two biographies [PDF]
, 2016 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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Quasi-Simultaneous Two Band Optical Micro-Variability of Luminous Radio-Quiet QSOs [PDF]
, 2008 We report the first results of quasi-simultaneous two passband optical monitoring of six quasi-stellar objects to search for micro-variability. We carried out photometric monitoring of these sources in an alternating sequence of R and V passbands, for ...
Alok C. Gupta +50 more
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A Theory of Leadership Meta‐Talk and the Talking‐Doing Gap
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We identify managers' meta‐level talk about the positive purpose, meaning, and significance of their actions as an overlooked type of leadership behaviour and call it leadership meta‐talk. We outline why leadership meta‐talk is not necessarily truthful or deceptive, but selective and loosely coupled with leadership practice.
Thomas Fischer, Mats Alvesson
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leviatã soviético: estado hobbesiano e autocracia stalinista na rússia
Processando o Saber, 2017 A autocracia comandada por Stalin, na Rússia Soviética pós Revolução de Outubro de 1917, notabilizou-se pelo extremo controle que os órgãos políticos possuíam sobre a maior parte dos habitantes daquele país.
Newton Ferreira Silva
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PRIMA VIZITĂ A LUI MAO ZEDUNG LA MOSCOVA (1949-1950) [PDF]
Revista de Știinţe Politice şi Relaţii Internaţionale, 2023 Mao’s first trip to Moscow (December 1949 – February 1950) was an important step in the Sino-Soviet relations. The Beijing leader intended by his visit to obtain from Stalin a strategic alliance with the Soviet Union, perceived at that time as China’s
Iancu, Ana-Maria
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern 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
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Soviet-Greek church relations as a factor of post-war stabilization in the world (1946–1953)
Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2022 We consider the role of religion and religious leaders in the Soviet foreign policy towards Greece. The reasons for the conflict between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Greek Church were not rooted in religion, the cultural divide between the two ...
E. A. Martyukova
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Seeking comradeship in the "Ogre's Den:" Winston Churchill's quest for a warrior alliance and his mission to Stalin, August 1942 [PDF]
, 2007 On 12 August 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Moscow to meet Soviet leader Josef Stalin, for the first time, a mission that Churchill’s wife, Clementine, had described to him as a “visit to the Ogre in his Den.” Churchill had, by
Folly, MH
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Reimagining the (Supra)nation, Remaking the State: The Yugoslav Idea and Ante Marković's Party
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the reimagining and representation of the Yugoslav idea by the Alliance of Reformist Forces (SRSJ), a party established by federal Prime Minister Ante Marković in 1990. The SRSJ sought to reshape the structure of the federal state and revive the narratives of shared history and culture foundational to the Yugoslav ...
Alfredo Sasso
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Knowing the Soviet Union: the historical dimension [PDF]
, 1989 This repository item contains a single article of the Publication Series, papers in areas of particular scholarly interest published from 1989 to 1996 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy.
Conquest, Robert
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