RUSSIAN ELITE IN SEARCH OF A NATION: SELECTIVE MEMORY POLITICS

Russian elite in search of a nation: selective memory politics

The problem of the value consolidation of the Russian nation is that its actual historical basis is the collapse of the USSR and defeat in the Cold War.Therefore, political elites, as inventors of a new Russian tradition, are forced to shift the foundation of the Russian nation to the distant past of the abstract and contradictory thousand-year his

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Cannot See the Wood for the Trees? Arnold von Harff’s Perception of the Natural World along the Mediterranean Roads (1496-1498)

Abstract Wondering how medieval people perceived their environment has long moved scholars onto untamed research paths.A strong focus on scholastic writings as sources has left an unfinished picture of medieval societies’ perceptions of nature.Pilgrimage accounts written by lay authors offer a rare opportunity to explore other perspectives on nat

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Distributed Support Vector Ordinal Regression over Networks

Ordinal regression methods are widely used to predict the ordered labels of data, among which support vector ordinal regression (SVOR) methods are popular because of their good generalization.In many realistic circumstances, data are collected by Handling Fee a distributed network.In order to protect privacy or due to some practical constraints, da

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