Trade in Lithuania under Rule of the Nazis by Justinas Braslauskas

“…In spite of the fact that it was permitted to re-privatise the smaller retail businesses which had been nationalised by the Soviet power, both retail and wholesale trade in Lithuania during the Nazis' occupation was moribund due to the scarcity of goods and transport and unworkable wage and price policy. …”
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La morale sexuelle, la famille et les droits reproductifs vus par le réseau transnational des femmes communistes dans les années 1920 by Daria Dyakonova

“…Supported by the youth of the Soviet Komsomol, sexual liberation was, however, viewed with caution (and sometimes suspicion) by some communist women.…”
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Tradition and Development of Lithuanian Terminology by Antanas Smetona

“…Although the influence of Russian was strong and the Soviet school dominated terminology science, this period witnessed substantial development. …”
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HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE STUDY OF STATE PRACTICES AND THE JUDICIARY OF SOUTHERN UKRAINIAN TERRITORIES: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS by Oleg Vuyiv, Maryna Bulkat

“…For a long time, domestic historians of law and the state and other branch scientists, who were engaged in the study of the southern territories, were focused on the practices of the imperial period, and later – of the period of Soviet occupation. However, the approach to the analysis of the processes of development of the southern Ukrainian territories in the core branches of historical science has now been radically changed and deepened. …”
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The 15th Anniversary of the Seminar on the History of Higher School in St. Petersburg by T. V. Kostina

“…Petersburg, but also in the  territories of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Reports,  presented at the interdisciplinary seminar, deal with the educational policy,  the history of educational institutions, the methodology of studying the  history of higher education, the study of archival collections of educational  institutions, etc. …”
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Typology of popular scientific periodicals in the early 20th century by Yu.B. Balashova

“…The emphasis on the union of sciences, self-education of the audience, fascination, and rich set of illustrations was retained even under the conditions of radical changes of the Soviet sociopolitical paradigm. The existing principles of scientific education proved to be so effective that they remained in effect until the World War II.…”
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Trauma, Romance, and the Diasporic Memory Keepers of the Holodomor in Erin Litteken’s The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Mateusz Świetlicki

“…Thus, it is plausible that for many readers the novel will be the first encounter with the complex topic of the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine. This article examines the narrative techniques used in The Memory Keeper of Kyiv and demonstrates that the combination of romance and historical fiction enables Litteken not only to introduce readers possessing little to no knowledge of Ukrainian history to the Holodomor but also show the links between Ukraine and North America and those between the present and past genocides in Ukraine. …”
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Издательство “Всемирная литература” как первая советская литературная институция: история в документах... by Marina Arias-Vikhil’

“… The World Literature Publishing House (1918-1924), founded on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, is the first Soviet literary publishing institution designed to ensure interaction between the new government and the broadest literary and scientific circles of the Russian intelligentsia. …”
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Schools of Strategic Thoughts on Russia in the Us Expert Community by I. A. Safranchuk

“…The suggested methodology is retrospectively applied to describe the evolution of US schools of strategic thoughts on Russia in the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union and until the present. The article also dwells on the major contemporary US schools of strategic thought on Russia. …”
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Breaking and entering, or a feeling of heterotopia in tourism situations by Hécate Vergopoulos

“…This paper is based on the following field research conducted in 2010: (i) a tourist accommodation experience in Chora, capital of the Greek island of Skyros, in a house that in all likelihood was never originally intended for tourists; and (ii) a visit of the Estonian city of Paldiski, an important military port under Soviet rule. These two cases, a priori very different, generated intense feelings of uneasiness similar to both guilt and voyeurism in the two groups of tourists involved, which included the author of this paper. …”
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Architectural appearance and preservation of the identity of historic center quarters: the case of Gorshechnaya Sloboda in Kazan) by Afanasyeva Elena A.

“…The surviving and lost components of the Gorshechnaya Sloboda identity were revealed by comparative analysis of data from the Russian, Soviet and modern periods. The results of the study are compared with the modern model of Kazan’s historical settlement identity. …”
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Les conflits fonciers comme analyseurs des guerres civiles : chefs de guerre, militaires américains et juges Taliban dans la Kunar by Adam Baczko

“…The multiplication and politicization of land disputes throughout the last three decades highlight the dislocation of the political structures and the normative framework which regulated these conflicts before the Soviet invasion. Moreover, a comparison between the modes of regulating land disputes pursued by local commanders, the US military and the Taliban underlines the differences between three ways of governing people. …”
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«No news on it and haven’t written...»: the sources of personal origin about the fate of the immigrant Nikolay N. Artamonov, Jr. by D. I. Petin

“…The author comes to the conclusion about the value of this type of documents in the study of culture, social life and everyday life of Russian emigration and Soviet society in the this period…”
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On Historiography of Fights for Independence and Creation of Lithuanian Army by Vytautas Lesčius

“…In the period between the wars (1921-1940), weighty publications came out which reviewed the activity of the army—journals on warfare and history, memoirs, etc. In Soviet times the problem was hardly investigated. …”
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New Collectivization in the Age of Discipline Domination; Review of the Book of Sociology of Modernity, Liberty, and Discipline by Farzad Azarkamand

“…In this book, different types of modernity - Western Europe, Soviet Socialism, and Western America - have been studied with a historical approach. …”
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Сurrent status and BAM’s development prospects by M. S. Simagutina

“…In recent years Russia has been discussing the development of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, which in Soviet times was a grandiose construction project of the era and an embodiment of the country’s power. …”
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Altai alphabet with cyrillic graphics by DİLBƏR

“…During the Tsarist Russia and later during the Soviet era, the Altai Turks also had difficulty with the alphabet process, like other Turkic peoples. …”
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Wrestling on the Table: The Contemporary Wedding Meal in Latvia by Astra Spalvēna

“…The aim of present research is to reveal how different traditions intertwine in the wedding meal - new or borrowed, with ancient and national or Soviet traditions. While followers of a modern lifestyle are emphasising a challenge to traditions, it is nevertheless the wedding meal and symbolic practices connected with it that indicates a more or less intentional respect for tradition. …”
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De la « déportation-abandon » à la réintégration des « ex-koulaks » : les modulations de la répression à l’égard des paysans soviétiques (1930-1948) by Hélène Mondon

“…In 1930 and 1931, more than one million eight hundred thousand peasants were sent into internal exile, becoming Stalin’s first « special settlers ».In 1930, the Soviet Northern territory was chosen to be the laboratory of this repressive and social experimentation on human beings that obliged thousands of peasant families to extract the natural resources of these frozen hinterlands. …”
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Prospects for the development of rural labor resources under the impact of changes in the rural areas economy in the 2020s by E. A. Yugov

“…The paper presents the stages of changes in the development of labor resources in rural areas in the post-Soviet period, which prepared them for further transformations. …”
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