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The Last Draft of Civil Service Reform in the Russian Empire and Its Fate
The study focuses on the reform of the Civil Service Statute and its new draft, developed by the special Commission in the period between 1895 and 1901.
Artem D. Makei, Valerii I. Gal'tsov
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Customs Houses of the Russian Empire (1820s)
Customs Houses of the Russian Empire, as depicted on the Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire produced by the Military-Topographical Depot of His Imperial Majesty's General Staff, 1820-1827. Component of the Imperiia Project.
O'Neill, Kelly
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Taverns of the Russian Empire (1820s)
Taverns of the Russian Empire, as depicted on the Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire produced by the Military-Topographical Depot of His Imperial Majesty's General Staff, 1820-1827. Component of the Imperiia Project.
O'Neill, Kelly
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Ketamine assisted psychotherapy is a promising new treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). The psychoactive effects of repeated intravenous (IV) ketamine infusions in people with AUD and their mechanistic role in treating AUD are largely unknown.
Cassie Bloy +11 more
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Harbingers of dissolution? Grain prices, borders and nationalism in the Habsburg economy before the First World War [PDF]
This paper explores the pre-First World War Austro-Hungarian economy as a prominent case where growing conflict between various ethnic and national groups within an empire might have contributed to the emergence of internal borders and even its eventual ...
Wolf, Nikolaus, Schulze, Max-Stephan
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Inland Islands of the Russian Empire (1820s)
Inland Islands of the Russian Empire, as depicted on the Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire produced by the Military-Topographical Depot of His Imperial Majesty's General Staff, 1820-1827. Component of the Imperiia Project.
O'Neill, Kelly
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Alone in the steppes: Carla Serena in the peripheries of the Russian Empire
, 2019 The six-year-long solo journey that Carla Serena took in her fifties and the publications that followed provide interesting – and yet unexplored – insights on two peripheral regions of the Russian Empire, namely the Caucasus and the Black Sea-Caspian ...
Daniele Artoni
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