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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Travels in Capitalist Russia and Eastern Europe -- 1. The Prerevolutionary Russian Tourist: Commercialization in the IX I Nineteenth Century / McReynolds, Louise -- 2. Russian Military Tourism: The Crisis of the Crimean War Period / Layton, Susan -- 3. From Friends of Nature to Tourist-Soldiers: Nation Building and Tourism in Hungary, I873-I9I4 / Vari, Alexander -- 4. Slavic Emotion and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Yugoslav Travels to Czechoslovakia in the I920S and I930S / Sobe, Noah W. -- 5. "One Breath for Every Two Strides": The State's Attempt to Construct Tourism and Identity in Interwar Latvia / Purs, Aldis -- Part II: Socialist Tourism -- 6. The Proletarian Tourist in the I930S: Between Mass Excursion and Mass Escape / Koenker, Diane P. -- 7. Al'pinizm as Mass Sport and Elite Recreation: Soviet Mountaineering Camps under Stalin / Maurer, Eva -- 8. "Where Each Stone Is History": Travel Guides in Sevastopol after World War II / Quails, Karl D. -- 9. Marketing Socialism: Inturist in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s / Salmon, Shawn -- 10. Time Travelers: Soviet Tourists to Eastern Europe / Gorsuch, Anne E. -- 11. Books and Borders: Sergei Obraztsov and Soviet Travels to London in the 1950s / Gilburd, Eleonory -- 12. Adventures in the Marketplace: Yugoslav Travel Writing and Tourism in the 1950s-1960s / Bracewell, Wendy -- 13. East German Nature Tourism, 1945-1961: In Search of a Common Destination / Moranda, Scott -- 14. Coping with the Tourist: Planned and "Wild" Mass Tourism on the Soviet Black Sea Coast / Noack, Christian -- List of Contributors -- Index

The urgency of the problem under study is conditioned by the need to study the state of interethnic and interreligious relations in polyethnic and poly-confessional regions of Russian Federation. The aim of the article is to analyze the situation in the sphere of interethnic and interreligious relations in the Republic of Tatarstan in 2016. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the poly-paradigm methodology. The article gives the description of interethnic and interconfessional relations in the Republic of Tatarstan in 2014-2016, the comparative data on the largest cities of the republic are given. A particular attention is paid to the analysis of migrant perception peculiarities by the local population. The materials of the article can be useful for ethnologists, social and cultural anthropologists, political scientists, as well as for the representatives of the bodies and structures responsible for the issues of interethnic interaction. ; peer-reviewed

Wang Siu-ha. ; Thesis submitted in: December 2003. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-150). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Chapter Chapter I : --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter Chapter II : --- Peasant women before the Revolution --- p.18 ; Chapter Chapter III: --- "The Bolsheviks on the ""Women Question""" --- p.46 ; Chapter Chapter IV : --- Mobilizing Peasant Women --- p.71 ; Chapter A. --- Educating Peasant Women ; Chapter (I) --- Formal education --- p.72 ; Chapter (II) --- Informal education --- p.76 ; Visual political propaganda: poster ; Chapter B. --- Coercing Peasant Women ; Chapter (I) --- Dekulakization --- p.83 ; Chapter (II) --- The Anti-Religious campaign --- p.85 ; Chapter Chapter V : --- Peasant Women Respond to Collectivization --- p.91 ; Chapter A. --- Educating Peasant Women ; Chapter (I) --- Peasant Women Respond to Formal Education --- p.93 ; Chapter (II) --- Peasant Women Respond to Informal education --- p.108 ; Chapter B. --- Coercion ; Chapter (I) --- Dekulakization --- p.112 ; Chapter (II) --- Anti-religious measures --- p.115 ; Chapter (III) --- Introduction of Secular Rites for Religious Rites --- p.119 ; Chapter Chapter VI: --- Conclusion --- p.131 ; Chapter A. --- Rationalists --- p.136 ; Chapter B. --- Rationalist-Romantics --- p.138 ; Chapter C. --- Romantics --- p.139 ; Appendix 1 --- p.143 ; Appendix 2 --- p.144 ; Appendix 3 --- p.145 ; Bibliography --- p.146

BELARUS MOVED THE STRATEGIC ARMS REDUCTION TREATY (START I) ONE STEP CLOSER TO IMPLEMENTATION ON FEBRUARY 4, 1993, WHEN ITS PARLIAMENT RATIFIED THE ACCORD. THE PARLIAMENT ALSO VOTED TO ACCEDE TO THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY AS A NON-NUCLEAR-WEAPON STATE. THUS, UKRAINE REMAINS THE ONLY PARTY TO START I THAT HAS NOT YET APPROVED THE TREATY. KIEV HAS STATED THAT IT WILL NOT DO SO UNTIL SEVERAL DEMANDS, INCLUDING SECURITY ASSURANCES FROM RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES, ARE MET.

Abstract: This article seeks to trace the evolution of the sociopolitical stance of the intelligentsia of the European North of Russia under the conditions of the 1917 revolution and the anti-Bolshevik regime that followed (1918–20). The study utilizes a sociohistorical and cultural approach, according to which the intelligentsia is understood as a self-developing group of people professionally engaged in intellectual creative work and performing a socially significant role in the sphere of spiritual culture. The research is based on documents held at the State Archive of the Arkhangel'sk Region and periodicals published during the years 1917–20. The authors conclude that the bulk of the northern intelligentsia, who shared the values of the February Revolution, reacted cautiously and even negatively to the events of October 1917. However, the stance of the intelligentsia underwent a transformation during the Civil War as a result of their recognition of the lack of alternatives to the Bolsheviks.

How do electoral authoritarian regimes claim popular support? Since Vladimir Putin came to power, Russia watchers have ascribed the regime's staying power to a combination of cronyism and coercion. Following mass protests of the State Duma elections in December 2011, however, the Kremlin granted a major concession in restoring gubernatorial elections after an eight-year interlude of presidential appointments. The first gubernatorial elections in October 2012 provide an opportunity to examine the regime's claims to legitimacy in the wake of the federal elections. This study uses computer-assisted content analysis of the pro-regime press during Russia's gubernatorial campaigns to identify varieties of legitimation strategies used by incumbent governors. The results show an expected consistency with the Kremlin's narrative of economic growth and stability under Putin in incumbents' claims to superior management of regional economies. However, interesting variations in treatments of procedural legitimacy and regional identity point to variations in degrees of competitiveness in gubernatorial elections. One also finds that nationalism, which featured so prominently in the 2011–12 federal elections, almost completely disappeared from the gubernatorial campaigns.

A steady stream of literature observes the business internationalization phenomenon from various perspectives. This article aims to contribute by highlighting the fact that success and failure in foreign market entry often depends on the company's intangible assets such as knowledge and skills. This is especially true for Small- and Medium-Size Enterprises (SMEs) due to their limited capabilities in utilizing the few tangible resources they might have. The focus of this paper is on the experience of thirty Finnish SMEs that in 2005-08 attempted market entry in Russia. The authors come to the conclusion that in most cases the success or failure of these attempts have clearly depended upon the level of knowledge and skills demonstrated by the people involved in the process. Furthermore, the article suggests a set of consecutive steps that might constitute the basis of an SME's successful entry strategy for the Russian market. This article could be of use for both companies and business support policy makers as it sheds light on the bottlenecks and challenges in supporting SMEs' internationalization.