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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

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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

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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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TWO LIVES OF A STATE OFFICIAL YAKOV VASILYEVICH GLINKA

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
Background. The subject of this article is the reconstruction of the biography of a prominent statesman of imperial Russia, and in the Soviet era – theatrical artist Yakov Vasilyevich Glinka.
P. S. Kabytov, E. P. Barinova
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

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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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ULOGA FABRIKE „BRATSTVO“ U RAZVOJU NOVOG TRAVNIKA//THE ROLE OF THE FACTORY „BRATSTVO“ (BROTHERHOOD) IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVI TRAVNIK [PDF]

Historijski pogledi, 2020
The establishment of the socialist regime had led to thorough political, economic, social, cultural and other changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first decade after the Second World War was marked by the reconstruction of the war-torn country, and ...
Mirza Džananović
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Framings of Intervention in Spain: From the Civil War to the Franco Dictatorship

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Abstract Despite the role of foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War, the word intervención rarely appeared in contemporary media and official discourse. This article examines the expressions that Republican and rebel authorities used to represent the presence of outside forces in Spain.
Marta Costa Costa
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The Situation of Buddhists Buryatia in the Context of the Liberalization of Soviet Religious Policy

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований
Based on the materials of the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia, the article examines the activities of the Buddhists of Buryatia in the second half of the 1980s.
Petr K. Dashkovskiy, Egor A. Traudt
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"Koszos lóra bársony nyereg nem illik." Cselédek és urak – egykor és most. - "You Would Not Put a Velvet Saddle on a Dirty Horse." Manorial Servants and Their Masters: Then and Now [PDF]

Belvedere Meridionale, 2013
This paper is an attempt to reconstruct the past and present life of the inhabitants of a former manorial village through the deep analysis of a narrative biographical interview. The hermeneutic case reconstruction focuses mainly on a person’s biography,
NÉMETH, Krisztina
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A War of Words: Framing the Austrian Civil War through the Language of the Combatants

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Abstract The Austrian civil war was a four‐day conflict in 1934 between the largest left‐wing paramilitary, the Schutzbund, and government forces aligned with the largest right‐wing paramilitary group, the Heimwehr. The Schutzbund was quickly and brutally suppressed through the use of overwhelming force, armoured vehicles and even artillery deployment ...
Jenna Byers
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INFLUENCE OF SOVIETIZATION AND DECOMMUNISATION ON THE ARCHITECTURAL LOOK OF CITIES AND TOWNS IN TERNOPIL REGION (ON THE EXAMPLE CITY OF TERNOPIL, AND ZALISHCHYKY, TOWN OF SKALA-PODILSKA) IN 1939 – THE BEGINNING OF XXI CENTURY

Місто: історія, культура, суспільство, 2017
The article deals with the problem of the influence of Sovietization and decommunization on the urban environment of modern Ternopil region: the cities of Ternopil and Zalishchyky and the town of Skala-Podilska.
Serhiy Humennyi
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