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The Internal Affairs Agencies of the Soviet State in the Period of Stalinism in the Context of Russian Historiography

open access: yesHistoria provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2019
The article examines Russian historiography related to the history of the internal affairs agencies in the period of Stalinism. Based on the analysis of publications by Soviet and modern Russian historians, it describes the main stages, problems and ...
Alexander Kuzminykh
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Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Learning Languages Other Than English in the Era of Global English

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study on female Japanese learners of the Korean language is situated in the centuries‐long anti‐Korean sentiments in Japan, the global popularity of the Korean Wave, particularly among women, and the essentialized image of socially marginalized young Japanese women who study English with romantic desires for Western men.
Yoko Kobayashi
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Children of persons deprived of voting rights in rural areas of Western Siberia during the process of restoring voting rights (on the example of the districts of Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions)

open access: yesОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
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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The History of Political Repression in the Vologda Region (1918–1953): the last monograph by Professor V. Konasov

open access: yesHistoria provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2021
The monograph under review considers the tragic pages of mass terror and the activity of special settlements, prisons and labor camps in the territory of Vologda Oblast in the period between 1918 and 1953 against the general historical background.
Alexander L. Kuzminykh
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Towards an Archaeology of the Contemporary Past [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Archaeology, defined as the study of material culture, extends from the first preserved human artefacts up to the present day, and in recent years the ‘Archaeology of the Present’ has become a particular focus of research.
Buchli, V
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Humanity Rearranged: The Polish and Czechoslovak Pavilions at Expo 58 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article explores the ways in which ʻcinematicʼ exhibition techniques exploited by Czechoslovak and Polish designers in schemes for the Brussels Worlds Fair in 1958 can be understood as part of a new political project to produce active citizens after
Crowley, David
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Acknowledging the past in the post‐truth era: Witch‐hunts, lawfare and the veterans’ amnesty in Northern Ireland

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Using the amnesty introduced by the Boris Johnson government designed to protect British army veterans who served in Northern Ireland as a case study, this article examines the intersection between law, politics and the legacy of conflict. The article first offers an account of the amnesty's genesis and traces the evolution and deployment of ...
KIERAN MCEVOY
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A Theory of Leadership Meta‐Talk and the Talking‐Doing Gap

open access: yesJournal 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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RUSCISM AS A NEW VERSION OF TOTALITARIANISM

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна: Серія "Питання політології", 2022
This paper is devoted to clarifying the essence of ruscism as a phenomenon of modern socio-political reality. It is noted that the concept of ruscism appeared in public and scientific circulation as a result of the formation of Putin's regime in Russia ...
Oleksandr Romanyuk
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Knowing the Soviet Union: the historical dimension [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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