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A Discordant Voice from the Trenches: Juan José de Soiza Reilly's War Chronicles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The First World War represented a deep crisis of the European civilization that called into question the values and certitudes of the Belle Époque society. Trenches became the symbol of the dehumanization produced by a conflict that marked a watershed in
Tato, María Inés
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The effects of World War I on socioeconomic life of the population of Karelia

open access: yesTransactions of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015
The paper comprises the first overview of profound and many-sided impact of World War I on socioeconomic life of Karelia. Based on archive materials and published sources the paper shows the growing geopolitical significance of the region in 1914–1918 ...
Nikolay Korablyov, Elena Dubrovskaya
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The Fischer controversy, the war origins debate and France: a non-history [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The controversy that followed publication in 1961 of Fritz Fischer’s Griff nach der Weltmacht was not restricted to West Germany. Even if the Fischer debate abroad did not acquire the vehemence it took on domestically, intellectually the effect was ...
Keiger, JFV
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Scandinavia in Lithuanian Diplomacy in 1915-1917

open access: yesLietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2000
1914-1917 Lithuanian politics suggested the Lithuania orientation question and decided to choose - The West - during Vilnius Lithuanians' conference on 18-22 September 1917. The Northern orientation of Lithuanians wasn't so actual in conforming with the
Sandra Grigaravičiūtė
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Sofía Casanova between Poland, Russia and Spain. Gender, Public Space and Nationalism during World War I (1914-1918)

open access: yesCuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, 2016
Sofía Casanova was journalist in ABC during the First World War and Bolshevik Revolution. She wrote about geopolitical and war events, as well as she described her agency as burgess woman and Red Cross nurse, and everyday life at Poland and Russia. It is
Pedro Ochoa Crespo
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Reading, Trauma and Literary Caregiving 1914-1918: Helen Mary Gaskell and the War Library [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article is about the relationship between reading, trauma and responsive literary caregiving in Britain during the First World War. Its analysis of two little-known documents describing the history of the War Library, begun by Helen Mary Gaskell in ...
A Ellis   +37 more
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Macroeconomic Dynamics in Russia During the First World War

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2014
Introduction. The trajectory and quality of economic development of a country depend on the scale of the public entrepreneurship. The key parameters of macroeconomic dynamics are represented by the ratio between consumption and accumulation (saving) in ...
Cheremisinov Georgiy
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Book review. Milne, Lesley (2016). Laughter and War. Humorous-Satirical Magazines in Britain, France, Germany and Russia 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2018
Despite the stark contrast between laughter and war, it is not hard to understand why the two go together so well. Not only does humour form an ideal weapon to attack the enemy without running the immediate risk of losing lives, it can also function as a
Ivo Nieuwenhuis
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“Physically defective children” and their care in the first third of the 20th century: the regional aspect

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
We systematically study the practice of social protection of children with hearing and vision disabilities, as well as other categories of “physically defective” children and adolescents in the Tambov Governorate in the first third of the 20th century ...
P. P. Shcherbinin
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The Orthodox Church and the care of orphans in the 19th - early 20th century (on the materials of the Tambov Eparchy)

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2018
The practice of social protection of orphans in the Tambov Governorate of the 19th - early 20th century through the prism of Orthodox charity and monastic charity is studied comprehensively and systematically.
K. Kucher   +2 more
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