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Decentralized response as a pandemic second‐best: The case of Russia

Southern Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 2, Page 291-316, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Centralized state response is almost universally considered as the first best option for managing pandemics. This paper argues that in reality, states fall short of this ideal. Knowledge problems hinder the government's disease acknowledgement, resource allocation and feedback, while compulsion, political predation, and corruption exacerbate ...
Vladimir V. Maltsev
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Social Welfare Provision at the Imperial Edge: Single Mothers and Abandoned Children in the Late Russian Empire

Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 973-993, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article looks to the societal and imperial margins to examine attitudes towards social welfare provision in the final decades of the Russian Empire. Drawing on archival material from the Empire's Estliand province (now northern Estonia), the article focuses on the self‐representation of single mothers and official discussions of abandoned
Siobhán Hearne
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Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia

The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 649-667, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped ...
Sarah Badcock, Felix Cowan
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School, Empire, and the Provincial Roots of Civil Activism in Late Nineteenth‐Century Russia

The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 668-681, October 2023., 2023
Abstract In spring 1879, news reached the Russian Ministry of Education that students from several Real Schools in the Russian Empire’s western provinces were planning to send a coordinated petition to the Minister of Education, asking for permission to enroll in university. The petition initiative was arranged in secrecy and involved more than a dozen
Alex Valdman
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Historiography of the Samara Zemstvo in the context of Russian and foreign zemstvo historiography

Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology, 2020
The purpose of this study was a historiographic analysis of scientific works on the history of zemstvos of the Middle Volga region, which contained assessments of the organization and activities of zemstvos of the provinces of the Middle Volga region, which, along with city councils, performed the functions of local governments in the second half of ...
O. V. Turganova, M. N. Matveev
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Preservation of zemstvo traditions in Russian emigration in 1917–1939: The Russian Zemstvos and Towns Relief Committee of Russian Citizens Abroad (Zemgor)

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2022
The article is devoted to the analysis of the activities of emigrant zemstvo organizations in the context of their preservation of the traditions of the pre-revolutionary Russian zemstvo.
Irina V. Sabennikova
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Out-of-School Activities of Zemstvos to Overcome Relapses into Illiteracy (with Reference to Perm Province)

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
Referring to Perm Zemstvo, this article considers the role of out-of-school activities of Zemstvo establishments in overcoming relapses into illiteracy, i.e. the loss of literacy skills and the return of the state of illiteracy.
Iliana Damirovna Ismakaeva
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Influence of zemstvo self-government on process of national constitutionalism development in late XIX – early XX centuries

Проблеми Законності, 2016
Problem Setting. The article describes the activities of the zemstvo self-government which had a significant impact on the process of national constitutionalism development in the late XIX – early XX centuries. The actuality of the topic.
Анатолій Іванович Козаченко
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First Female Doctors in the Zemstvo Service of the Saratov Province (Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries)

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2023
Introduction. The gender aspects of modern medicine determine the research interest in the activities of the first female doctors in Russia.
Olga Kitsenko, Roman Kitsenko
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The Radical Attorney of the Russian Empire – Alexander Lindfors (1837–1890) [PDF]

, 2020
The article is intended to highlight the advocacy of the well-known attorney and zemstvo leader in the Russian Empire, Alexander Lindfors (1837–1890).
Yutsevych, Pavlo
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