The "proletarian disease" on stage Theatrical anti-tuberculosis propaganda in the early Soviet Union.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2021.104838
Abstract: The present contribution analyses sanitary theatrical performances as a means of anti-tuberculosis propaganda in the early Soviet Union. Starting in the 1920s, sanitary theatrical performances were demonstrated in open-air theatres and clubhouses for workers and… read more here.
Keywords: early soviet; soviet union; tuberculosis; tuberculosis propaganda ... See more keywords
Migration, innovation and technological diversion: German patenting after the collapse of the Soviet Union
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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2020.104057
Abstract: Abstract Recent migratory shocks call for in-depth, structured studies of both the benefits and drawbacks of these phenomena. Using records from the European Patent Office, this paper documents the influence of Soviet inventors that migrated… read more here.
Keywords: innovation technological; collapse soviet; union; migration innovation ... See more keywords
Health in the Soviet Union and in the post-Soviet space: from utopia to collapse and arduous recovery
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DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32383-8
Abstract: “At least in those days, I had no rent and no heating bill to pay, I had free access to doctors, and the state would make sure my children are educated and in good health”,… read more here.
Keywords: health care; system; health; soviet union ... See more keywords
Defining the Borderlands: Sino-Soviet Border Talks and the Nationalities Issue (1987–1991)
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DOI: 10.1017/nps.2022.9
Abstract: Abstract In the 1980s, the Soviet Union and China resurveyed their border in order to restart their long-stalemated border negotiations. These negotiations resulted in only a partial border settlement: the agreement was signed in 1991.… read more here.
Keywords: defining borderlands; border; soviet union; sino soviet ... See more keywords
Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union: Reviewing the Past, Looking toward the Future. Edited by Cynthia M. Horne and Lavinia Stan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 438p. $125.00 cloth, $41.99 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592719004158
Abstract: mir, Chhattisgarh, Chechnya, and Turkish Kurdistan— are hardly poster children of peace” (p. 163). Defining policy success is surely a thorny problem. Yet given the selection issue and the principal’s military goal of defeating insurgents,… read more here.
Keywords: cambridge; former soviet; justice former; soviet union ... See more keywords
Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil's Political Cartoons. By John Etty. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. vii, 266 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Tables. $90.00, hard bound. $30.00, paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2020.47
Abstract: could easily gain international importance, and guerilla-style adventurers, such as Baron Roman Ungern and Ataman Grigory Semenov, could build quasi-states. These adventurers had their own resources: Babujab exploited the Mongolians’ aspiration for Inner Mongolia (Nakami… read more here.
Keywords: world war; soviet union; japanese right; war ... See more keywords
Spatial distribution of arable and abandoned land across former Soviet Union countries
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DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.56
Abstract: Knowledge of the spatial distribution of agricultural abandonment following the collapse of the Soviet Union is highly uncertain. To help improve this situation, we have developed a new map of arable and abandoned land for… read more here.
Keywords: abandoned land; arable abandoned; land; spatial distribution ... See more keywords
Between Border and Bazaar: Central Asia’s Informal Economy
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DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1532017
Abstract: ABSTRACT The disintegration of the Soviet Union spurred a transnational trade in consumer goods. Bazaars, which proliferated across the former Soviet Union, including in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan that is the focus of this article, became… read more here.
Keywords: informal economy; asia; economy; soviet union ... See more keywords
Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space
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DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2023.2190236
Abstract: was the result of central planning, which aimed at centrally organized construction with as little variation between different areas as possible. What planners could not anticipate, however, was the considerable number of side-effects that their… read more here.
Keywords: strategic uses; soviet union; nationalism ethnic; uses nationalism ... See more keywords
The modern fairy tale: nation branding, national identity and the Eurovision Song Contest in Estonia / Histories of public diplomacy and nation branding in the Nordic and Baltic countries: representing the periphery
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DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2017.1390986
Abstract: was negotiation with powerful states, especially Germany and Japan, which culminated in the Nazi–Soviet Pact and the partition of Baltic Europe and Poland and the Soviet–Japanese Non-Aggression Pact, which held until the last days of… read more here.
Keywords: stalin; nation; nation branding; soviet union ... See more keywords
Homonationalism Before Homonationalism: Representations of Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union in the U.S. Homophile Press, 1953–1964
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DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2017.1280992
Abstract: Abstract This essay focuses on representations of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe in U.S. homophile periodicals from 1953 to 1964. Extending the application of Jasbir Puar’s concept of homonationalism to the Cold War… read more here.
Keywords: homophile; representations russia; homonationalism; eastern europe ... See more keywords