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Reconstructing Class Sport Practices in Post-Communist Poland
Physical Culture and Sport: Studies and Research, 2014 The article analyzes the changes in attitude of Poles towards sport and recreational activities as well as their participation in these disciplines between the period before system transformations and the present day.
Lenartowicz Michał +1 more
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History, EarlyView.Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
History, EarlyView.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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After 20 years of status quo: the failure of gradualism in Slovenia’s post-socialist transition [PDF]
In the past 20 years, the Slovenia has been praised as the richest former socialist country, having accomplished the advancement from borrower into donor status at the World Bank and having entered the European Monetary Union as the first country from ...
Spruk, Rok
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RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2023 The New Economic Policy solved a number of economic and production problems for early the Soviet Union. At the same time, it caused a series of conflicts associated with the delays of the reconstruction period, as well as with the disappointment of the ...
Olga M. Morozova, Tatiana I. Troshina
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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QuartThe article discusses German urban visions of Breslau from 1935–1943, developed during the period of National Socialist rule in the Third Reich. It analyses the plans for transforming the city into a Nazi metropolis, in accordance with the German Urban ...
Tomasz Piędzioch
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The 1930-s Unrealized Projects on Development of Gorky City (Nizhny Novgorod)
Academia: Архитектура и строительство, 2018 The article deals with little-known unrealized projects shaping the image of the socialist Gorky city, its river panoramas, squares and highways in accordance with the first Soviet master plan of 1935-1937, made by the creative collective of Leningrad ...
Olga V. Orelskaya
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN
History, EarlyView.Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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QuartThe article discusses German urban visions of Breslau from 1935–1943, developed during the period of National Socialist rule in the Third Reich. It analyses the plans for transforming the city into a Nazi metropolis, in accordance with the German Urban ...
Tomasz Piędzioch
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