Classical Universities in the Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Empire and the USSR: Leaving the Ivory Tower by M. V. Gribovskiy

“…These components include: the work of some departments (primarily the department of technology), the promotion of ideas of industrial development in Russia by the professors, participation in all-Russian manufacturing (art and industrial) exhibitions, and the implementation of research work by universities commissioned by industrial enterprises; It is shown how during the First World War the emphasis on the practical component of higher education activities increased, for which it itself was not quite ready.Particular attention is paid to the profound (and not entirely positive) transformation that universities underwent in the first Soviet decades. …”
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Keeping the memory of Napoleonic wars: forms of international cooperation between Russia and the German Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century by A. S. Lizogub

“…Based on archival documents, press materials and personal testimonies, the preparation, semantic content and attitude of society towards Russia’s participation in commemorative projects implemented on the territory of the German Empire on the eve of the First World War are analyzed. The focus is on considering the features and problems of building narratives about the joint military past of the two empires within the framework of the international exhibition in Breslau and the opening of monuments in Leipzig. …”
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Auch eine Gewerkschaft? Der Deutschnationale Handlungsgehilfenverband und die Angestellten by Martin Otto

“…Already before the First World War, the DHV moved towards a more pragmatic position. …”
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The Monroe Doctrine: Republicans’ Perspective in the Formation Years of the Versailles-Washington System by S. O. Buranok

“…The arguments of the Republicans against the ‘internationalist’ interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine that emerged in the face of the changing global context after the First World War are of particular interest. The study shows that at the initial stage of discussions (1920), the Monroe Doctrine was used by the Republicans primarily to criticize W. …”
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The logic of the nation: Nationalism, formal logic, and interwar Poland by David E. Dunning

“…Logic in Warsaw grew out of overlapping imperial legacies, launched mainly by Polish-speaking scholars who had trained in Habsburg universities and had come during the First World War to the University of Warsaw, an institution controlled until recently by Russia and reconstructed as Polish under the auspices of German occupation. …”
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George Desvallières et la Grande Guerre by Catherine Ambroselli de Bayser

“…At the start of the First World War, Desvallières joined up as a volunteer. …”
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«The officers who visited the war gained great deal of personal experience, and it would be very annoying not to take advantage of this». The circular of French Ministry of War for... by R. G. Gagkuev, S. G. Shilova

“…The document provided for the collection of information on the military experience of officers in the First World War. Information was also requested from officials of foreign missions in which the French military participated. …”
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WELTKRIEGSPHILOSOPHIE AND SCHELER'S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY by V. Y. Popov, E. V. Popova

“…For the first time in domestic historical and philosophical thought, it proved that the works by Max Scheler of the First World War played an outstanding role in the formation of philosophical anthropology as a separate philosophical trend. …”
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British Edition of the Monroe Doctrine versus ‘Com- munist Militarism’: Collisions between the USSR and the UK in Eastern Countries in the mid-1920s by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…For Great Britain, the principles of the Monroe Doctrine acquired new relevance after the end of the First World War. The prospect of unfettered Bolshevik expansion into British colonies and dependent territories in Asia and Africa became a matter of particular concern for the UK ruling circles. …”
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Phenomenon of Church-Religious and Secular Charity in the Urals in 1914-1918: The Ethno-Confessional Aspect by Elena Yu. Kazakova-Apkarimova, Olga S. Porshneva

“…Within their article, the authors consider the influence of church-religious and secular charity in the ethno-confessional environment of the Urals under the ongoing conditions of the First World War. Through their research, they have shown that there was clear interaction between the government and society in this regard, and that cooperation by representatives of ethno-confessional groups of the Urals were instrumental in helping the front, the needy, and the victims of the war. …”
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Piano Works by Dora Pejačević – A Personal Perspective of an Interpreter by Kyra Steckeweh

“…Central to the article is the exploration of Pejačević’s Piano Sonata, Op. 36, composed during the First World War. The interpretative perspective sheds light on the nuanced relationship between Pejačević’s compositional process and her personal experiences. …”
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Diasporas and Armed Conflicts: beyond Being “Third Party” by I. D. Loshkariov

“…The first case is the emergence and functioning of the 1st Polish Corps in 1917-1918 in Russia, which was formed when the Polish population of Russia was separated from their territory of origin as a result of the First World War. An analysis of the documents shows that the leadership of the corps quite clearly evaded political subordination to the Russian authorities and retained only military subordination, implying that the task of this unit was to participate in the restoration of Polish statehood. …”
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The German Days of Dora Pejačević by Domagoj Marić

“…Excluding shorter trips that are difficult to trace, e.g. during the First World War, Dora Pejačević stayed in Germany on two occasions – the first time from March 1909 (?) …”
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Procurement in the field of military property: to the activities of the Russian Supply Committee in America in 1917 by V. M. Tarelko

“…In the article has been attempted to consider the position of the Russian Supply Committee in America, the problems and the state of its structural units during the significant 1917 year of last active cooperation with the Allied powers in military procurement during the First World War. As the Russian Supply Committee is currently presented fragmentally in the scientific historical literature, the author has identified the following purpose of this article — to reduce and expand the available material on the activities of the Russian Supply Committee into a unified picture, paying special attention to the perception of its activities in the American press, the problem of transportation, the issue of the introduction of liquidation policy in relation to purchase order, efforts to purchase transport property. …”
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Anthology of Ukrainian Poetry “Strings” by Bohdan Lepky as a Text in Contextual Reading by Lilia Оvdiichuk

“…The historical context is the consequences of the First World War, which forced many peaceful Ukrainians to emigrate, and those who fought on the fronts as Russian subjects to acquire the status of prisoners of war. …”
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Imagist Novel’s Poetics: “Bid Me to Live” by H.D. by Yevheniya Chernokova

“…Friedman), typical for a lyric novel, focuses on the narrative-transformation of heroine at the moment of her deepest personal crisis both in the life of a woman and an artist against the catastrophic background of the First World War.    The novel’s poetics analysis proves that author's narrative strategy lies in searching and finding imagistic correlates of individual images, descriptions and whole scenes-situations. …”
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Soviet and British diplomacy at international conferences on the eve of the formation of the USSR by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…The paper examines the formation of the Soviet state and its place within the European international relations system in the first half of the 1920s both in the context of new principles of interstate and economic interactions and geopolitical transformations triggered by the First World War. In the case of Soviet Russia, the latter implied the need to break international isolation and economic blockade which pushed Soviet leaders to intensify efforts to restore economic and political ties with the Western states after the Civil War and intervention. …”
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The US liberal political and academic establishment on national-territorial transformation of Russia in 1917–1922 by V. V. Romanov

“…The paper examines the evolution of approaches and assessments of the US political and academic establishment regarding the national-territorial transformation of Russia at the final stage of the First World War, during the Revolution and the Civil War. …”
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The position of Lithuanian parties towards Poland in 1920-1926: from modus vivendi to permanent confrontation by Andrius Grodis

“… In the end of the First World War, Lithuanian (having just regained independence) international position was badly complicated by a terror conflict with Poland with respect to Vilnius that took place in 1919. …”
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University proceedings. Volga region. Social sciences by A.D. Gulyakov, A.Yu. Salomatin

“…It is noted that historically, Transcaucasia and the North Caucasus were the object of expansionist aspirations on the part of the Ottoman Empire and Iran, and at the end of the First World War – Germany and England, which made the restoration of Russian state-hood a particularly difficult task. …”