Black Orpheus by Hlonipha Mokoena

“…Whereas in North America, citizens of the United States could breathe a sigh of relief that they no longer would stand accused of “un-American activities”, on the African continent the ideological fallout of the end of the Cold War still continues. …”
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The state of scientific research of militia activity in Ukraine during the period of partial liberalisation of the political regime in the USSR (1953–1962) by V. A. Grechenko, O. N. Yarmysh

“…For the first time, specialists in the history of law enforcement agencies were able to conduct historical research free from ideological attitudes. Over the past decades, a number of works by foreign scholars have been published that examine some aspects of the role of law enforcement agencies during the period of Stalin's totalitarian regime. …”
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The U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO under the Reagan Administration: A Multilevel Analysis by B. A. Avdeev

“…In conclusion, the author argues that the withdrawal decision was deliberately made by ideologically motivated politicians in the Reagan administration, despite the alternative voices from Congress, a number of government agencies and civil society. …”
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Brazilian criminal organizations as subjects of non-classical wars in the form of criminal rebellion by K. S. Strigunov

“…The specific of the situation in Brazil is that such an insurgency is carried out by non-state violent actors who formally do not pursue any political/ideological goals. However, due to their destructive potential they should be treated as if they had political goals.…”
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Education as a Resource for the Formation of “Soft Power” in Working with Young Compatriots Living in the CIS countries by T. K. Rostovskaya, E. N. Vasilieva

“…The discourse analysis revealed the transformation of the main policy strategies in relation to Russian-speaking compatriots justified both by geopolitical challenges and the final formulation of the ideological concept of Russia. Russian language and culture preservation and the development of public diplomacy were the main strategies in 2012-2014. …”
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The use of agencies by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR to control academic historical science in Soviet Ukraine (1953) by O. N. Yarmysh, V. A. Grechenko

“…Attention is focused on several main aspects: the agent work of state security agencies among the scientific intelligentsia and the state and development of historical science in the republic at one of the turning points in its history, because it was in the middle of 1953 that the issue of the main directions of further political, ideological and social development of the state was resolved. …”
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Gastronomy vs gastro-anomie? Japan’s foodscape by А. V. Malov, S. V. Chugrov

“…It has been found that the washoku’s ideological module was flexibly converted by the modern Japanese government, both for domestic and foreign policy of the state. …”
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The Role of Leaders in Formulation of the Foreign Policy Identity in Egypt by I. E. Ibragimov

“…The predominance of various elements in ideological as well as worldview in the age of the rule of a particular president has led to noticeable differences in Egypt's foreign policy at the current stage. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF THE NATIONAL HERO «QUONAKH» IN PAINTING AND GRAPHICS DURING THE CHECHEN CRISIS (90S OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY) by Zarema R. Khamzatova

“…In the visual culture of this time, images of national leaders appear, carrying at this stage not so much an aesthetic, but an ideological load. Beybulat Taimiev, Zelimkhan Kharachoevsky, Baysangur Benoevsky and other heroes become, in a certain sense, symbols of Chechen culture and are still present in it to nowadays. …”
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MATERIAL BASIS OF ETHICAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS DESIRE IN ANCIENT EASTERN RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS by S. V. Alushkin

“…Research of ethical attitude towards the desire in Ancient China and India allowed us to recreate the logic of social relations and the level of productive forces in that society. The ideological foundation of conservation and recreation of power and property relations was found in the religious doctrine of suppression of individual desires. …”
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Formation of the "Self-Made-Man" Idea in the Context of the Christian Middle Ages by V. Y. Antonova, O. M. Korkh

“…The conducted analysis allowed to draw a conclusion that, despite the still existing view of the Middle Ages as a kind of an ideological gap in the formation of the self-determination idea, the Christian philosophy of this period not only does not reject but also gives essentially the universal character of the ancient intention to recognize the individual’s right to self-determination and self-government, makes it not only religiously acceptable but also obligatory. …”
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Justification for Interference? The Role of the Monroe Doctrine in the Stigmatization and Legitimation of Intervention in the US Foreign Policy in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by I. A. Istomin

“…In this regard, the case of the Monroe Doctrine, a landmark ideological construct in the history of international relations and US foreign policy, provides a unique framework for an in-depth study of the practices of legitimization and stigmatization of interventions. …”
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A cognitive-stylistic study of deixis and deictic shifting in Iris Murdoch’s The Bell by Mohammad Ghaffary, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, Mohadesse Khosravi

“…In cognitive stylistics, “deixis” is deemed one of the core linguistic elements through which both the physical and ideological stances of the participants in fictional narratives, namely the narrator and the character(-focalizer)s, are demonstrated. …”
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Mnemonic diplomacy in Russian-Serbian relations: The limits of the possible by A. M. Ponamareva

“…The Balkan region has traditionally been of particular importance for Russia, and currently Serbia remains one of the few European countries potentially exposed, due to ideological affinity, to the influence of Russia’s soft power. …”
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Two-Semester Physics Course for Bachelors at Technical University by S. В. Pereslegin, A. A. Korolev, S. A. Kurashova

“…The article emphasizes the importance of maintaining completeness and ideological value of the course when revising the structure and content. …”
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METHODOLOGY FOR STUDYING THE PROBLEM OF WAR AND PEACE IN PERSONAL RELIGIOUS BELIEFS by Z. V. Shwed

“…Appealing to the problem of religious fundamentalism, in the context of rethinking the phenomena of war and peace, is associated with the actualization of these phenomena in the communicational, media and ideological spheres. That is why, in the context of this analysis, we take into account the main modern approaches in the provisions of religious traditions. …”
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Lithuania's Image in Modem History Schoolbooks of Russia by Nerijus Šepetys

“…Most of the schoolbooks lack conceptuality, and this shortage is being (consciously or unconsciously) counterbalanced with mythical and ideological "leading ideas," such as political messianism, deterministic apologetics, and nationalism of a superstate. …”
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The Republics of the Southern Caucasus on their way to the ‘Socialist federation’ (1917–1922) by L. S. Gatagova

“…Soviet historiography advanced an official view on the role of the Transcaucasian republics in the formation of the USSR, which came down to a number of ideological clichés that provided an impoverished and partly distorted image of this complex phenomenon. …”
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A Long Shadow of World War II: Development of the National Security Concept in the United States by V. A. Veselov

“…For successful functioning within this state, the government needs to rely on a wide range of tools of both economic and military-political and ideological nature. Based on the lessons from the war, national security was viewed as an ‘overarching structure’, aimed not only at integrating various components of the state’s policy, but also at eliminating any contradictions that may arise between them. …”
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EVOLUTION OF CONFLICT STUDIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CONTEXT IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA by A. I. Nikitin

“…Author postulates turning of the "New Political Thinking"paradigm elaborated by Gorbachev that allowed reconsidering Moscow's attitude towards various conflicts and rethinking of theoretical principles of conflict analysis, that are not anymore limited to class struggle and ideological contradictions. Introduction of more pluralistic concepts of "socio-political model" and "world order" instead of Marxist category of "socio-economic formation" led to remodeling of international relations along new lines, as well as study contradictions within one social system. …”
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