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Історія міжнародних відносин (16-20 століття) [PDF]
Видання містить комплекс завдань: тематику лекційного курсу, семінарські заняття, перелік питань для самоконтролю, список рекомендованих джерел, словник основних понять та подій.
Karpchuk, Nataliia P. +1 more
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Winston Churchill's "crazy broadcast": party, nation, and the 1945 Gestapo speech [PDF]
Copyright © 2010 by The North American Conference on British Studies.
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History and Contemporary Politics of Poland 1939–2003 [PDF]
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Żurawski vel Grajewski, Przemysław
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Realistic caution and ambivalent optimism: US intelligence assessments and war preparations against Japan, 1918-1941 [PDF]
Throughout the years prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States defence establishment held an ambiguous view on Japanese policy and strategic aims. A number of factors precluded a clear-cut forecast, among the most important of which was
Ford, D
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ABSTRACT During the past two decades, foreigners have acquired housing stock in many of Rio de Janeiro's oldest and most iconic favelas, or self‐built neighborhoods, and invested in capital improvements, with an eye toward turning private residences into lodging accommodations.
ALESSANDRO M. ANGELINI, GARETH A. JONES
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The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers
Abstract Drawing on newly uncovered archival and printed sources, this article offers a fresh perspective on the recriminalization of homosexuality under Stalin by challenging key assumptions in existing historiography. It demonstrates that the OGPU did not actively advocate for new anti‐sodomy legislation. Although Leningrad homosexuals had been under
Irina Roldugina
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Abstract Mentally ill defendants are regularly sentenced to death in Texas, the leading executioner in the United States. In this article, I explore the reasons for this phenomenon by analysing the arguments developed by prosecuting attorneys in capital punishment trials involving defendants who advance insanity or diminished capacity claims but are ...
CHLOÉ DEAMBROGIO
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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]
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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REFUGE AND THE WILDED CLASSROOM: FIGURE, PRACTICE, SPACE
ABSTRACT University teaching in a context of escalating planetary crisis requires new approaches to pedagogical encounter. Reconceptualising the university classroom as a potential refuge from polycrisis, we identify symptoms and effects of the academic‐industrial complex and ‘fast academia’ in our practice, and we develop ways to take refuge from ...
Peter Arnds +2 more
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The challenge of theorising and analysing socio-political phenomena can feel overwhelming given today’s somewhat threatening realpolitik (9/11, US-led wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and now, perhaps, Syria) and the rapid pace with which (dis)information is ...
Sullivan, Sian
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