Brain-inspired multimodal motion and fine-grained action recognition by Yuening Li, Xiuhua Yang, Changkui Chen

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Entre poésie et politique by Gérard Raulet

“…At the other end of the political spectrum is a poem by the communist author Johannes R. Becher. First printed in 1942, it appeared in mid-1943 in his poetry collection Dank für Stalingrad. …”
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Chinese Funding: A Curse to Africa by Chido T Chipfakacha

“…Though some scholars would suggest that China`s contribution was as a result of the hostility that was there in the times of the cold war between the self-acclaimed democrats of the Western bloc and the Communist Eastern bloc. Philosophers like Marx Engel, Karl Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong had a major influence on the liberation of Africa. …”
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«For any work at the congress, it is important to have a united mass, in other words, as we usually call all kinds of groups — the opposition»: from the history of the Komsomol opp... by R. V. Rybakov

“…This publication is devoted to the consideration of a separate episode in the development of the youth movement in the territory of the Omsk province related to the attempt of a group of active workers to remove the current leaders of the provincial committee of the communist union. The paper analyzes reasons that prompted Komsomol members to express distrust of the governing apparatus. …”
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Une transition économique inattendue : vers le « cupidalisme » ? by Wladimir Andreff

“…Originating in post-communist economies in transition asset grabbing has spread throughout the global economy through public assets transferred to private owners (privatisations), predatory real assets stripping by finance, the emergence of shadow finance (of which shadow banking), namely in all the black holes of global finance (tax and judiciary havens). …”
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Talent Management in the Public Sector – Empirical Evidence from the Emerging Economy of Romania by Barrington Everton Graham

“…In the case of Romania, implementation is hindered by the bureaucratic structure of the public sector and the legacy of previous communist regime. Originality/Value: The study represents one of the initial attempts to investigate the impact of talent management practices in the Romanian public sector, leveraging empirical evidence to support its findings.   …”
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Prise en otage des victimes et usages publics de l’histoire : le cas de la Résistance italienne by Stéfanie Prezioso

“…In short, in the name of a presumed indistinctness of the victims – all sacrificed on the altar of deadly ideologies (fascist ideology as much as communist ideology) – current analyses of the Italian resistance evade fundamental problems linked to the role of violence in history. …”
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Mikhail Gorbachev's First Visit to Britain: 30 Years on by K. V. Shlykov

“…Later statements of Lady Thatcher and Gorbachev's critics on the meeting being defining for the foreign policy of the perestroika era should be seen as exaggerated, as the demise of the Communist system and the USSR were not foreseen by anyone in 1984, either in London or in Moscow.…”
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A Ship Emerges in the Distance... People Stand and Applaud. The (Un)obvious Contexts of the Wrocław Sea Festival Celebrations in June 1945 by Joanna Nowosielska-Sobel

“…The aim of this article is to attempt to answer whether the celebrations of secular holidays and ceremonies sponsored by the emerging communist governments in Poland can be reduced solely to the implementation of ideological tasks leading to the political subjugation of the nation. …”
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Civilizational Analysis in Historical Sociology and Explanations of the “Soviet Collapse" by M. V. Maslovskiy

“…In the first half of the 1990s, Arnason applied his model of imperial modernization to the Soviet system, but later emphasized the civilizational aspects of communist modernity. This can also be seen in his evaluation of the Soviet collapse. …”
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„Uprzejmie donoszę” — metody pracy tajnych informatorów wobec kleru katolickiego w okresie Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej na terenie Dolnego Śląska by Edyta Włodarczyk-Czech

“…Among all the organisations operating in the Polish People’s Republic, religious associations — which were guided by a doctrine completely different from the Marxist-Leninist thought propagated at the time — were particularly important for the communists. Hence, the Catholic Church, as the largest church in Poland, was of interest to the Security Service throughout the entire period of the Polish People’s Republic. …”
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INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION IN ROMANIA - OVERCOMING OR SUCCUMBING TO PAST WEAKNESSES AND THREATS? by Oana-Rica POPA, Norica-Felicia BUCUR

“…By briefly outlining both the tendencies and realities of initial teacher education at international and European levels and by presenting the evolution of initial teacher education in Romania in the post-communist era, we lay the basis for our small-scale investigation. …”
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On the problem of adjusting calculations of punitive policy of the Soviet state on labor front during the Great Patriotic War by Yu. G. Belonogov

“…The study is carried out on the basis of an analysis of both the changed legislative framework in the studied area and the office documentation of the Committees of the Communist Party in the Molotov region. Studying the real practice of applying laws in certain large enterprises of the Molotov region, the author concludes that there is a discrepancy between the number of actual labor crimes and the number of workers convicted of them.…”
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International connections of the Ecuadorian Amazonian forest colonization process 1960-1970 by Pablo Campaña

“…The article uses diplomatic, legal and bureaucratic reports in order to disclose the administrative transnational strategies that were active in promoting the migration of landless peasants towards the Amazonian wilderness, as part of an effort to neutralize the risk of communist political revolutions.…”
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Reconversion of Mono-Industrial Urban Areas (Case Study – Beclean City) by Cristian Nicolae BOȚAN, Ion-Horațiu PAVEL, Silviu-Florin FONOGEA, Viorel GLIGOR

“…Following the collapse of the communist regime in Romania, the country’s economy went through deep transformations, which negatively impacted the standard of living of the population. …”
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Can cryptos hedge against inflation? Evidence from biwavelet analysis by Thai Hong Le, Duc Anh Nguyen, Dung Anh Le

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HUMAN RIGHTS, FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS AND UNIVERSAL VALUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by L. S. Voronkov

“…The article traces the role of struggle for liberal political human rights and civilian freedoms in the dismantling of the feudal-absolutist regimes as well as the challenges of radical left-wing (communist) and far right-wing (national-socialistic) threats to be met by the supporters of liberal political rights and civil freedoms in the interwar period. …”
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At the Borderline of Public and Private Law: The Restitution of Cultural Property Held in Public Collections in Hungary by Vanda Vadász, Viktória Verebélyi

“… During the Second World War, and thereafter until the end of the communist regime in 1989, a massive amount of privately owned works of art came into the possession of the Hungarian state. …”
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Modern Conflicts Features in Latin America. The Role of the OAS in the Settlement of the Falklands Conflict by Y. I. Strashko

“…Created on the verge of the Cold war the OAS was considered by the States as a barrier to the spread of communist threat in the Western Hemisphere and in such a capacity the organization went on up to detente policy implementation. …”
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Investigating the Moral, Social, Economic, Cultural and Political Rights of Women and the Family in the Human Rights Charter (Islamic Scholarship with Secular Science in the Eyes o... by Zahra Mosavi, Tayebeh Mahrosadeh, Mohammad Seyfi

“…In the end, the result was that the way to cure and to escape the moral harm arising from the human rights charter and women's rights conventions that are themselves based on secular, humanistic and communist views is Islamic and ethical.…”
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