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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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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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THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF ANGOLA'S REAL ESTATE FRONTIER: How Private‐led Housing Developments are Reshaping the Outskirts of Luanda

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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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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The Promotion and Reception of British Sculpture Abroad, 1948–1960: Herbert Read, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and the “Young British Sculptors”

British Art Studies, 2016
In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Networks needed to be established, new alliances forged. UNESCO was a child of that time, and the idea of a united, democratic Europe took wing.
Henry Meyric Hughes
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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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Deconstructing the Urban Scenography of Socialist Realism: Post-war reconstruction of Warsaw between 1949-56

, 2022
Architecture is used by political leaders to seduce, to impress and to intimidate. This ongoing romance of power and arts is a theme that has been known for centuries.
Ingielewicz, Katarzyna (author)
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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization between twin absolutist models in which either racism or capitalism alone possesses causal force, we argue that Burawoy articulates a third position—one
Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
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Close cannot be preserved: crises of Tambov workers’ faculty

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
The gap remains in the development of history of Derzhavin Tambov State University: history of Tambov workers’ faculty (TWF) is not revealed. Having emerged as a part of Tambov State University in November 1919, the Tambov workers’ faculty after the ...
A. L. Avrekh
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Class Ruptures and Openings: The Role of Social and Family History in Narratives on Class Mobility and Reproduction

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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