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Exile to Karaganda in 1950–1953: The case of Alexander Esenin-Vol'pin
The article explores the subject of exile to Karaganda during the late Stalinist period of the USSR history using the example of the dissident Alexander Esenin-Vol'pin.
Andrei A. Gross
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
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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Defending Dostoevsky: The History of Dvosya Sorkina’s 1956 Dissertation [PDF]
The article reconstructs the history of Dvosia Lvovna Sorkina’s (1922–2011) dissertation, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot and the Socio-Literary Struggle of the 1860s. The dissertation was defended at Leningrad University in 1956.
Petr A. Druzhinin
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„Motykou proti traktoru.“ Diskuse o vzdělávání neslyšících dětí v Československu na počátku padesátých let [PDF]
In the early 1950s, Stalinist Czechoslovakia saw a discussion about what form education for the deaf should take in the socialist future, which was then allegedly being rapidly built.
Pavel Šinkovec
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Satire and Silence Under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan
ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
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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Writing a cultural history of stalinism in post-soviet times
El artículo se centra en la reciente historiografía sobre el cosmos simbólico del estalinismo. En él se explora cómo los nuevos estudios han tratado el reino de rituales y representaciones propios del estalinismo.
Malte Rolf
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Artikkel käsitleb linnade kujutamist Nõukogude Eesti luules aastatel 1940–1955, analüüsimiseks on võetud sel ajal ilmunud luuleraamatud. Eestis kuulutati siis üldkehtivaks kirjanduslikuks meetodiks sotsialistlik realism.
Mart Velsker
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ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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The Constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic adopted on July 10, 1918 at the V All-Russian Congress of Soviets, defined seven categories of persons who were denied voting rights.
A. A. Kozhaeva
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