This book is a history of the Soviet tours of European and American intellectuals, writers, bohemians, professionals, and political tourists who saw the “Soviet experiment” in the 1920s and 1930s. It ...provides a new framework for understanding the relationship between intellectuals and communism and the Soviet reception of foreign visitors, including the leading fellow-travelers who praised Stalin and Stalinism in the interwar period. The work is based on a far-reaching analysis of the declassified archives of agencies charged with crafting the international image of the first socialist society, including VOKS (the All-Union Society for Cultural Ties Abroad). The book brings this story into new focus as one of the great transnational encounters of the twentieth century. As many visitors were profoundly influenced by their Soviet tours, so too was the Soviet system itself: the experiences of building showcases and tutoring outsiders to perceive the future-in-the-making comprise a neglected international dimension to the emergence of Stalinism. Probing entanglements between far-left and far-right ideological extremes, the work pays special attention to the covert interaction between communism and fascism, including Soviet attempts to recruit German “National Bolsheviks” and fascist intellectuals. The unprecedented scope of Soviet efforts to mold foreign, particularly Western public opinion created a new chapter in the history of modern cultural diplomacy. Setting the revolutionary regime's innovations in the context of the entire history of foreign visitors in Russia, the book argues that Soviet mobilization for the international ideological contest directly paved the way for the cultural Cold War.
Showing how Britain tried--and failed--to maintain its political influence, economic ascendancy, and strategic position in Iraq after independence, this book presents a suggestive analysis of the ...possibilities and limitations of indirect rule by imperial powers in the Third World.
A measure of the relevancy of instruments used to estimate the coefficients of a linear multiple regression model is discussed. A method for computing the measure using only standard results from ...ordinary least squares and two- stage least squares estimation is described. The method is illustrated using an empirical example.
Rational-choice theories of the state have been used in attempts to explain how variations in policy result from differences in constraints. But these theories give little attention to how the state ...comes to know what the constraints are. This article provides a dramatic example of the process of discovering economic and political constraints by examining Iran's policies toward the opium trade during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi (1921–1941).
At the beginning of this century, Indonesia was still a completely agrarian land with some mining. People had handicrafts in towns and villages. There were the old native industrial activities which ...were employed-for the most part in cottage industry but a portion in small workshops-in trades like metal-and wood-working, prahu building, tanneries and leatherwork, pottery, batik, basketry and lime kilns. There was still no factory industry besides construction or repair workshops serving the plantations, railroads and shipping. Additionally, there were a few gasworks in large towns that were quickly followed by electric power stations. The first Encyclopaedia of the Netherlands Indies stated that in 1898, apart from a few printshops there were not more than 30 factories employing over 59 workers (Fruin, 1947:23).
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... between 1935 and 1939 ... We see an independent industry increasingly develop from the existing mechanised industries ... and from traditional small village industries (Sitsen, 1943:1).
As a consequence of the sharp fall in living standards of 1929 in this country, the question of the industrialisation of the Netherlands Indies has come to the centre of official and public opinion interest (Afdeeling Nijverheid, 1937:551).
We test the hypothesis that the Great Contraction would have been attenuated had the Federal Reserve not allowed the money stock to decline. We simulate a model that estimates separate relations for ...output and the price level and assumes that output and price dynamics are not especially sensitive to policy changes. The simulations include a strong and a weak form of Friedman's constant money growth rule. The results support the hypothesis that the Great Contraction would have been mitigated and shortened had the Federal Reserve followed a constant money growth rule.
Used an original data base on 50 small-town governments in rural Vermont. Considers more than 18400 elections over 20 years to test 3 hypotheses: first, that women's entrance into politics is ...governed by aspects of the socio-political culture; second, that women are elected only to certain kinds of offices that reflect their traditional roles; and third, that women's increased participation in government is related to variations in community size. Discusses findings. (Abstract amended)
Straja dragonilor este cea mai importantă operă a scriitorului și criticului Ion Negoițescu, printre puținele în literatura română care abordează explicit tema homosexualității.
Recenzie: „Straja ...dragonilor” de Ion Negoițescu. Cluj, Biblioteca Apostrof, 1994.
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