The use of arguments containing increasingly technical materials has grown significantly in the recent years. Specifically, arguments that are used to justify military expenditures or to allege violations of international agreements are becoming more sophisticated. This study ex…
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The thesis chronologically presents the slow improvement of relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, starting with Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, through their full normalization in 1955 and 1956, to the renewed ideological confrontation at the end of 1956. The normal…
This paper examines the dynamics of the secession. In particular, it asks why political actors decide to withdraw from the political center, how they go about it, and what makes the effort successful. The process is examined from the perspective of elite circulation. It is hypot…
The Horn of Africa borders on the southern edge of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. The region's strategic position has made it a perfect target for the two superpowers (U.S. and USSR). From the Horn, it is possible to control the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, the…
When the militantly atheist, socialist Russian revolution reached the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia, it encountered a profoundly alien society: deeply religious, rigidly stratified, and inflected by dynamics and tensions most Bolsheviks understood nothing of. Many of the first…
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Photography, introduced to Russia in 1839, was nothing short of a sensation. Its rapid proliferation challenged the other arts, including painting and literature, as well as the very integrity of the self. If Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky greeted the camera with skepticism i…
What function can a science of psychology serve in a utopian society whose ideological foundations already contain a theory of human nature? This is the question that has dominated the history of Soviet psychology - a history that Alex Kozulin decodes in this book. Following an …
