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Guerrilla warfare in Katanga: the Sanga rebellion of the 1890s and its suppression [PDF]
This article discusses the origins and development of the Sanga insurgency of the 1890s with a view to demonstrating that, contrary to commonly held stereotypes, pre-colonial warfare was neither simple nor unchanging. Its tactics, it is argued here, repay the sort of close analysis commonly reserved for other typologies and theatres of war.
Giacomo Macola
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IN THE WAKE OF PUGACHEV’S REBELLION: EXPERIENCE IN ORAL HISTORY
Grand uprising led by Pugachev seized a vast area from the middle reaches of the Volga, the Urals and the Kazakh steppes. Thousands of people from different classes and nationalities joined rebellious Ural Cossacks in 1773.
N. V. Shevtsov
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The rebellion of Şahin Giray Sultan (1746–1747)
Research objectives: This study aims to analyze the reasons, development, and consequences of Şahin Giray Sultan’s Rebellion in the history of the Crimean Khanate, based on data retrieved from Ottoman archival sources.
Başer A.
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High Treason: The trial of the Bondelzwarts kaptein and the politics of settler self-delusion
This paper concerns official “truth-seeking” about the Bondelzwarts Rebellion and its brutal suppression in 1922 by the South African administration in its newly-mandated territory of South West Africa.
Robert Gordon
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Military history of the Kichuy fortification in the 18th century
The identification, study and compilation of the most complete data on the history of fortifications on the territory of the Russian Federation remains one of the most pressing issues of modern historical science.
Khalim Minnullovich Abdullin
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We consider a new aspect of the well-studied themе, related to objective circumstances and subjective motives for choosing a life position in the Civil war: the entry of former officers of the Russian Imperial army into the ranks of the Soviet or rebel ...
V. V. Kanishchev
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'A Hostile Environment': Failure of Composition in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn.
This essay examines the effects of incompleteness in Anna Mendelssohn’s poetry, when incompleteness constitutes a requirement to take the thought of the poem further, beyond and outside itself, especially in its refusal to be reconciled with reality as ...
William Rowe
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Russian politics in the Balkans and the 1903 crisis [PDF]
After the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion, the situation in the Far East became increasingly dangerous. The contradictions between Russia and Japan in Manchuria and Korea were growing.
Rudol'fovič-Ajrapetov Oleg
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The instinct to tame and preserve and the longing for eternal beauty makes skin a crucial element in the genre of the Body Horror. By applying a gendered reading to the art of destruction and reconstruction of an ephemeral body, this paper explores the ...
Subarna Mondal
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DIE ROL VAN DIE UNIEVERDEDIGINGSMAG IN DIE ONDERDRUKKING VAN DIE NYWERHEIDSONLUSTE VAN JANUARIE 1914
During the Railways and Mineworkers strike which commenced on the 18th of January 1914, the Union Defence Force, enlarged by the Active Citizen Force and assisted by the Commandos, were able to take immediate action and suppress the riots. The strike was
C.J. Jacobs
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