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A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

History, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Historical realia in teaching Russian as a foreign language

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2017
This article deals with the historical realia as markers of the national and historical identity of the country of the target language. Realia make it possible to reconstruct selected aspects of the national character and study the axiology of modern ...
Lukyanenko I. N.
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

Potential of Graphic Organizers in Developing Communicative Competence in Learning Russian as a Foreign Language

Вестник Московского Университета. Серия 20: Педагогическое образование
Background. Graphic organizers (in particular, the hierarchical diagram “How?” and the “Pyramid” scheme) play a significant role in the study of Russian as a foreign language by high school students.
Sharofat T. Chorieva
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

History, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

THE PROBLEM OF TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

, 2023
The article points to the role of the Russian language in the world, the need to promote it in the countries of near and far abroad and improve the quality of its study in the Russian Federation; the main provisions of the "Concept of the Russian language and literature" are considered in relation to teaching Russian as a foreign language.
openaire   +1 more source

Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship

History, EarlyView.
Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
wiley   +1 more source

‘Three Circles’: Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations

History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a special issue that explores Winston Churchill's relationship with different countries. As its starting point, this piece takes Churchill's world view that Britain derived her status from its position at the focal point of three intersecting circles: Europe, the British Empire and the wider English‐speaking world ...
ALLEN PACKWOOD, RICHARD TOYE, JAYNE GIFFORD   +2 more
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Semiotics of fiction in teaching Russian as a foreign language

, 2021
Anastasia Alexandrovna Korshunova, Svetlana Maksimovna Petrova   +1 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source