From Belonging to Belief: Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan. By Julie McBrien. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. xv + 232 pp. $28.95 paper
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DOI: 10.1017/s1755048319000270
Abstract: McBrien begins this ethnographic study of religion and secularism in Kyrgyzstan with snapshots of the town of Bazaar-Korgon, the site of most of her research: a Soviet-era statue of Lenin, a government office now representing… read more here.
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Trafficking justice: how Russian police enforce new laws, from crime to courtroom
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DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2017.1390988
Abstract: In any case, the Marxist tradition required of the first generation of Soviet historians that they produce a history based on socioeconomic class analysis, even where this required significant adjustment of the facts to conform… read more here.
Keywords: russian police; soviet period; period; police enforce ... See more keywords
Children’s literature of the Soviet period as a source of philosophical ideas (case of Nikolai Nosov)
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DOI: 10.1515/humaff-2018-0013
Abstract: Abstract The relevance of the research is due to the interest of modern science in the successful experience of comprehending social reality and of social forecasting in forms nontrivial for systematic rational thinking. T topic… read more here.
Keywords: philosophical ideas; soviet period; philosophy; children literature ... See more keywords