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Discussion about the Essence of the Proletarian State in the CPSU between 1919 and 1923

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2016
The author considers a still relevant topic, i.e. the formation of the state mechanism of Bolshevist Russia. The history of the first years of Soviet rule was one of the most politicized issues, and its academic reconstruction is still in progress. The
Boris Nikolayevich Zemtsov
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Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
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Infrastructure expansion, tourism and electoral outcomes

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the electoral impact of economic growth through increased foreign tourism using data from Croatia. To identify causal effects, the paper applies an instrumental variable strategy, which uses variation in the ruggedness of the local terrain to estimate the network of least‐cost paths.
Adrian Mehic
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The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
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FEATURES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE USSR (1928-1930s): THE USE OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY INDUSTRIAL POTENTIAL AND THE CREATION OF NEW SOCIALIST ENTERPRISES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE KLINTSOVSKY DISTRICT OF THE WESTERN REGION)

Вестник Брянского государственного университета
The article reveals the possibility of using the pre-revolutionary industrial potential for the restoration, reconstruction, and commissioning of former enterprises of the cloth and match industry in the Western region, created by Old Believers and co ...
Kochergina M.V.
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Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
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Stalingrad on the Eve of Industrialization: Social and Cultural Development and Improvement

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020
Introduction. The article deals with the issue of the situation in the urban economy and the socio-cultural sphere of the city of Stalingrad in the mid-1920s, on the eve of the beginning of socialist reconstruction. Methods.
Andrei V. Lunochkin, Ekaterina L. Furman
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
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"I Will Never Become a Soldier for You!": The Relevance of Biographical Learning for Political Action

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2011
This article focuses on the biographical dimension of the processes of developing political awareness and the significance for consistency in political action.
Andrea Neugebauer
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