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Poland in the Period of Partitions 1795–1914 [PDF]
, 2015 The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Żurawski vel Grajewski, Radosław
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe [PDF]
, 2006 Why do great powers expand? Offensive realist John Mearsheimer claims that states wage an eternal struggle for power, and that those strong enough to seek regional hegemony nearly always do.
Rendall, Matthew
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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Russian-Swedish confrontation in Karelia (18th – early 20th centuries)
Studia Humanitatis, 2018 The article discusses the main events and the course of the Russian-Swedish confrontation in the secondary but significant theater of military operations closely adjacent to the northern borders of the Russian Empire.
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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RUDN Journal of LawАbstract. The study is devoted to the peculiarities of legal regulation of communal land ownership in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries; it is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon that requires new theoretical ...
Almagul D. Dyusyupova
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Pushkin and Gannibal: Ethnic Identity in Imperial Russia
, 2009 Since his untimely death in 1837, the nineteenth-century romantic writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin has been renowned the world over not only for his literary achievements, but also for being a paradigm of Russianness. However, Pushkin himself was by
Grinberg, Miriam
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The Perception of Germany in the Kyivan Press: From Ukrainian People’s Republic to the Hetmanate (November 1917 — December 1918) [PDF]
, 2017 The 1917 February Revolution led to the reshaping of the war-era image of the German enemy. Focusing on the former imperial borderland province of the Southwestern Krai, this article unveils the national, political, and cultural considerations of the ...
Basenko, Ivan
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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