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This dissertation examines narrative poems (poemy) written in commemoration of the ten-year anniversary of the October Revolution by Nikolai Aseev and Vladimir Mayakovsky. These poets, experimenting with the theory of factography (faktografiia) advanced in 1927 by the Left Front…

The question of the nature of women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment was advertised for and viewed during the 1920s and 30s in…

In the 1920s and early 1930s, elites in the public and private sectors in Mexico and the United States who had diverse political and economic interests circulated constructs of national identity by way of writings, photographs, fine art, and popular arts. However, there were inc…

Marie al-Khazen was a Lebanese photographer who lived between 1899 and 1983. Her photographs were mostly taken between the 1920s and 1930s in the North of Lebanon. They were compiled by Mohsen Yammine, a Lebanese collector who later donated the photographs to the Arab Image Foun…

Despite the huge amount of research on European cinema of the 1920s, little attention has been paid to the influence of cross-cultural encounters on the trajectory of national film histories. This study argues that Soviet film was shaped by the reception of German film to an ext…