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This book explores how Kazakhstan has navigated its identity and geopolitical relationships since the January 2022 protests and the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. What began as a study of Soviet legacy in Kazakhstan shifted focus when major events in 2022 altered the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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The book is devoted to the problem of the civilizational development of the Kazakhs, as descendants of nomads, at the present stage.The author pays special attention to how the eras of modernity and postmodernity influenced today's Kazakhstan. In this anti-colonial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book presents a sustained and systematic analysis of the totalitarian topos across Vladimir Nabokov’s life and career. Contributing to the ongoing reappraisal of Nabokov’s writing in its engagement with politics and ideology, this study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book examines whataboutism arguments within the United Nations Security Council, with a focus on the case of Russia’s rhetoric in the Council. In doing so, it highlights their dualistic effects of facilitating or undermining international diplomatic efforts,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book offers an introduction to the history and course of the Russian war against Ukraine. Through this book, readers will:
- gain data, facts, and a general understanding of Russia’s current war against Ukraine;- understand the connections between...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book provides a comprehensive review of the relationship between utopia and democracy, challenging the tendency in Western scholarship to assume that an ideal society is inherently democratic. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book covers an extensive range...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was 'Europeanised' in the twentieth century - that is, brought into a wider fold of European countries through political,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes sind von ausgewiesenen ExpertInnen der politikwissenschaftlichen Osteuropaforschung formuliert und bieten einen umfassenden Überblick über die politische Geschichte der Ukraine.Die AutorInnen analysieren dabei das...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-25
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This book explores the evolving role of women in Georgian society through the lens of food and cooking. Drawing on ethnographic research in Ozurgeti, it reveals how domestic practices serve as powerful expressions of female agency. From the 19th century to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-11
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During discussions for the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Northern Ireland as we know it was created. However, there were discussions of the Irish boundary line, including partitioning the full province of Ulster. This raises a fundamental 'what if' within Irish...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-07-30
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This book explores Peter I’s same-sex relations, men’s sociability and male favoritism at the royal court in the context of the Petrine myth, scenarios of power, propaganda and othering. The first part is devoted to sources, historiography, the theory of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-18
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This book explores the transition from Soviet socialism to the present state of Central Asia's five countries. The role of the of state in regulating the market has been nowhere so topical, yet highly controversial, as in the case of five post-communist Central Asian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-11
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Die Entstehung der translatorischen Ausbildung in Deutschland fällt in den Zeitraum von den frühen 1880er Jahren bis in die späten 1940er Jahre. In diesen 70 Jahren wurde mit ersten Institutions- und Methodenbildungen die Grundlage für die heutige translatorische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-07-03
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This study analyzes the Soviet Union’s strategic interests and policies toward Mongolia, emphasizing Joseph Stalin’s perception of its geopolitical importance. It examines why Mongolia’s independence was a key condition Stalin set at the Yalta Summit...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-12
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Up until recently, Europe’s three imperial monarchies – the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires – were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economic, and cultural modernization, and as a result collapsed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-28
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Der offene Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 hat der westlichen Öffentlichkeit die Wichtigkeit der ukrainischen Kulturgeschichte bewusst gemacht. Es mangelt allerdings an grundlegenden Handbüchern. Auf Deutsch liegt keine ukrainische Literaturgeschichte...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-04-12
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‘Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past’ Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried - and failed - to wipe off...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2025-04-10
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Während der westeuropäische Humanismus im zaristischen Russland nur wenig Resonanz fand, ging er seit den dreißiger Jahren als proletarischer und später als sozialistischer Humanismus in die politische Rhetorik der Sowjetunion ein und wurde...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-04-07
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Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-14
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«This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurgent and reactionary modern movements, to the Cold War and on to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-06
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