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“It’s Disrespectful for People Abroad to Call Us Mercenaries When Here We’re Considered Heroes”: Colombian Fighters in Russia’s Full-Scale War Against Ukraine, Part II
“It’s Disrespectful for People Abroad to Call Us Mercenaries When Here We’re Considered Heroes”: Colombian Fighters in Russia’s Full-Scale War Against Ukraine, Part I
Excerpt from Timothy K. Blauvelt's "Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba," Part II
The relationship between the central Soviet leadership and the local national elites often resembled that of a grantor with a grantee: before the finalist selection has been made, the grantor...
Excerpt from Timothy K. Blauvelt's "Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba," Part I
With a vast territory to control and a small number of trusted cadres in the periphery, in the new “national” republics of the emerging ethno-territorial system, the Bolshevik central leadership...
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