Developmental psychology in the Soviet Union
Developmental psychology in the Soviet Union
In 2014, Russia-backed rebels in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) declared independence from Ukraine. In addition to establishing control over large swaths of territory in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, separatists took ov…
Throughout the period 1944-65, Britain confined itself to protecting its direct interests in Romania and these were fairly narrowly defined. Moreover, relations with Romania were always dominated by wider considerations of foreign policy and the state of the domestic economy. Th…
Psychiatry in communist Europe
by Savelli, Mat
fromMental health in historical perspective
"This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Soviet Union to East Germany. It brings together new research addressing understandings of mental health and disorder, treatments and therapies, and the interplay…
"This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Soviet Union to East Germany. It brings together new research addressing understandings of mental health and disorder, treatments and therapies, and the interplay…
This thesis offers a critical history of curation in Moscow in the period between 1974 and 1993, arguing that the history of curation can be used as a lens through which to examine how culture is negotiated during a period of social change and transformation. By making use of or…
Based on Soviet commission reports, news media, and other archives, the contributors examine the factors that led certain local residents to participate in the extermination of their Jewish neighbors; the interaction of Nazi occupation regimes with various sectors of the local p…
For historians and scholars alike, the 20th century is widely recognized as the bloodiest one-hundred-year period in human history. Despite previous human rights conventions before the 20th century, the African country of Namibia fell victim to systematic violence from 1904-1908…
Bitter Sea is the story of Masha, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants whose path to the U.S. was anything but direct (including stops in the USSR as well as pre- and post-independence West Africa). Her questions about diaspora, connection, and home, are challenged and enriched b…