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Статья посвящена проблеме смерти в советском атеизме. В частности, автор анализирует попытки советского руководства заместить религиозные обряды, связанные со смертью, новой социалистической обрядностью. В качестве примера берется... more
Rutland and Smolkin-Rothrock russian history 41 (2014) 299-306 2 For example, in 2013, the Levada Center released statistics where Brezhnev had a 56% positive rating, ahead of Lenin with 55%, Stalin 50%, Nicholas II 48%, Khrushchev 45%,... more
When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist... more
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The main task of the historian is to understand how individual people in the past have acted and why. The great unfinished business of social history, that is, of the kind of history that makes the full range of our dead predecessors its... more
This paper attempts to outline and illustrate a basic version of actor network theory as articulated by Bruno Latour, John Law, and Michel Callon and then to apply it to a later medieval English circumstance, namely the evolving complex... more
Historians need to understand the nature of historical agency and how animals relate to this central if contested historiographical concern. Focusing on the specific context of the Napoleonic Wars and in particular the Duke of Wellington... more
Katherine Hayles's How We Became Posthuman matches its rhetoric to its argument by highlighting anxiety in its cybernetic subjects as we face the prospect of disembodied humanity. Medievalists should be sympathetic since embodiment is key... more
Inscribed in the stone of fifteenth-century St Mary's Hospital Aberdeen were the words: " Providing for the poor was a bishop's glory. " 1 This essay is an attempt to decide whether it was a glory achieved and how often. It was a worry... more
The goal of this paper is to explore the character and relationship of the source and the text in historical work. By considering these 'concepts' through their practices in specific case studies, we'll be able to see the unavoidable... more
1 How important and common were the practices of comparing in medieval England (1150-1500)? Focusing on activities that tended to have a pragmatic rather than purely logical intention , this chapter first considers medieval comparing on... more
The self is historical, a long-lived concept that we need to understand anew, as a function of networks of ideas, things, animals, and bodies rather than as a subject or simple psyche. The self is in a way a series of actions and... more