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Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process.
Bruce Grover   +11 more
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Defying the Nomadic versus Sedentary Dichotomy: The Rise and Fall of Zunghar Self-Strengthening Campaigns in Central Eurasia (17th-18th Centuries) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In the 17th century, an aggressive form of imperialism appeared in both Europe and Asia, resulting in appallingly high levels of violence, bloodshed, and warfare. During this time, the Russian and Qing empires employed advanced gunpowder weapons in large
Haines, Spencer
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Imagined Spaces: Land, Identity, and Kuban\u27 Cossack State-Building in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1922 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In 1917, the February Revolution ended the Russian Empire and the Kuban’ Cossacks’ military obligations to the tsarist estate system. Kuban\u27 Cossack ethnic identity existed and evolved within the estate system prior to the 1917 revolutions.
Ehrman, Grace
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The Pechenegs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century ...
Paroń, Aleksander
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The ‘Biological Species’ Meaning of Binominal Genus Pairs of Some Domestic Animals in Russian Dialects and Literary Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The article is devoted to presenting results of studies on coordination between genus, grammatical and biological gender in nomination of domestic animals.
Leonid L. Kasatkin
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ISSUE OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COSSACKS IN THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH BY ÉMIGRÉ RUSSIAN AUTHORS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The history of the Cossacks was widely researched and discussed among the Russian expatriates in the 1920s–1930s. The émigré literature on the origin and development of the Cossacks is also of interest for today’s public, as the contemporary Russian ...
Khudoborodov, Alexander L.   +1 more
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The Makhnovist Movement: Peasant Rebels as Anarcho-Communists in War-torn Ukraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This study has shown that Nestor Ivanovich Makhno strove to implement an interpretation of anarchism that consciously catered itself to the peasantry\u27s desires.
Young, Russell
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Theater as Metaphor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French ...

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Ilya Repin and the Zaporozhe Cossacks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Standing above other nineteenth-century century Russian painters, Ilya Repin has proven himself through his technical mastery and unrelenting quest for artistic exploration. Thi s has placed him among Russia\u27 s most influential artists.
Pavlov-Leiching, Kristina
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Наименования нечистой силы в русских проклятиях [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The work continues the authors' series of articles devoted to the study of the vocabulary of Russian imprecations. It is aimed at the study of demonyms that are used in imprecations. The article is based on the material of Russian dialect vocabulary, the
Berezovich, E. L., Surikova, O. D.
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