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As Seen on TV: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Russia and America
By Johnny Amundson Few conflicts are as aptly described to be in a state of permacrisis as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The years 2018, 2014, 2005, 1987, 1982, 1973, 1972, 1967, 1956, and 1948 signify their own crises. 2023, for its part, was a particularly deadly year in occupied Palestine even before Hamas’ attack on October…
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Soviet Women’s Acceptance of Infantilization as a Means of Compromise, Resistance, and Denial on the Frontlines of World War II and Beyond

By Julia-Maria Xavier Content Warning: Sexual Assault Abstract World War II was marked by the violent acquisition of land, shaping, and re-shaping of territories and populations both in its immediacy and aftermath. For citizens of the Soviet Union, like most other nations, defending their territory was an issue of patriotism, in which all citizens were…
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The Voices of a Few: Women in the Gulag

Shack from Gulag- Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. Photo: Marcin Szala/Wikimedia Commons. No changes made. View the license here. By: Julia Maria-Xavier The Stalinist era saw millions of people caught within the penal system, whether in prisons, labour camps, forced labour colonies, or exile, and millions more who bore the traumatic experience of being…
