American Studies by V. O. Pechatnov

“…Alexey Efimov - Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1938, Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History and Dean of the Historical School at the Moscow State University - one of the first professors of the Faculty of International Relations MGIMO. …”
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Chile-Perú: discursos contrapuestos y sus manifestaciones geopolíticas by Lester Cabrera Toledo

“…And while various elements of cooperation are observable in bilateral relations discourse, these are sidelined thanks to a mutual discursive tendency to maximize the negative and minimize the positive in their contemporary history.…”
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The genesis and development of ideological and theoretical aspects of the formation of the concepts of the “third way” in the East by Sergey A. Voronin

“…The main results of the study can be in demand and used within the framework of research activities, during lectures and seminars on the modern and contemporary history of Asian and African countries.…”
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Financial documents of Komsomol organizations as the source of Komsomol history in 1960s by E. V. Kamaeva

“…The source base for the study is composed of documents from the financial departments of Komsomol organizations deposited in the funds of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, the State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan and the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Ulyanovsk Region. The purpose of the article is to analyze a wide range of financial documents and determine their historical worth when studying the history of the Komsomol in the 1960s. …”
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There are no Foodstuffs in Grocery Stores, Everything is Very Difficult to Obtain: Women’s Everyday Life in the Provincial Soviet City in the 1950-1960s by Natalia L. Pushkareva, Irina V. Bogdashina

“…The main sources of their work are: personal documents (unpublished diaries and memoirs), materials from recipe books that were in almost every home at that time, information from periodicals (magazines), archival materials from the funds of the State Archives of the Volgograd Region and the Center for Documentation of the Contemporary History of the Volgograd Region, and specific office documents - reports of inspections of district committees of people's control and confirming facts of abuse in the sphere of public catering. …”
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‘An Important Exercise of Care and Attention’: How the International Geological Expedition Was Established in Mongolia by Narma A. Kamandzhaev

“…The source base for the study comprises both published and unpublished materials from the Russian State Archive of Economy and Russian State Archive of Contemporary History. Results. The approval of the Expedition’s establishment was a relatively long and non-linear process. …”
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Contemporary magical practices: An empirical “case” (part 2) by I. V. Trotsuk, M. V. Tsymbal

“…The fi part presents a reconstruction of the stages of the “magical renaissance” as a stable social-cultural phenomenon in contemporary history and identifi the most obvious and signifi features of esoteric practices, which determined their current mass manifestations with a set of easily ‘readable’ social functions and as only pretending to be traditional and even archaic. …”
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The Long Echo of Conflict: The Memory of 1990s Black Decade in the Modern Political Culture of Algeria by A. I. Vasilenko

“…This paper examines the role of traumatic post-conflict experience in shaping modern Algerian political culture.The author outlines four periods in the contemporary history of Algeria, each of them corresponding to different stages in post-conflict reconstruction of the country. …”
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History of Lithuania in Cinema and Television. Peculiarities of discourse construction by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“… The aim of the article was to take a look at the peculiarities of construction of historical discourse in documentary cinema and television from the perspective of the contemporary history science. The raised goal was specified by the following tasks:   1. …”
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Juozas Jurginis in 1961 was criticized by Moscow by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…In that case, the General schoolbook of the USSR (from the ancient kingdom of Urartu until Contemporary history) could have lost its significance. This is why Moscow reacted sharply, but with discretion, without abandoning the idea of having separate history schoolbooks for Soviet republics. …”
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طوابع البرید التذکاریة المصریة عبر الحقب التاریخیة المختلفة کمصدر من مصادر المعلومات غیر التقلیدیة : دراسة ببلیومتریة... by د. نها محمد عثمان

“…It also commemorates the personalities who played a greatrole in Egypt's modern and contemporary history.The study aims at identifying the reality of Egyptian commemorativepostage stamps as a source of non-traditional information, and the numerical,qualitative and linguistic trends of these stamps. …”
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Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of the Capitalist World-System by Darius Žiemelis

“…Wallerstein (b. 1930), who started his career researching the contemporary history of Africa, is one branch of the CHS. …”
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