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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Siberia"”.
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The agricultural development of Siberia, 1890-1917.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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American-Japanese Relations Regarding the Intervention in Siberia
… and Japan during the Allied intervention in Siberia. In presenting this material, it was thought necessary to discuss the different interpretations of the Lansing-Ishii Agreement to serve as a background to show that the Siberian intervention was one more step in Japan’s policy to extend her …
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Imperial dilemma : the Japanese intervention in Siberia, 1918-1922.
The Siberian intervention, 1918-1922, served as a testing ground for Japan in search for a new kind of imperialism which attuned to the democratic ideals of the postwar world order. Pressured by Wilsonianism from without and 'Taisho democracy' from within, Japanese leaders tried alternatives, …
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The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953
“The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953” examines the history of forced labour during the Stalin era in Western Siberia, or present-day Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo Provinces. The region was a key site of Stalin-era repression, as it was home to numerous Gulag camps including …
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Print, power and personhood: Newspapers and ethnic identity in East Siberia
… investigates the relevance of non-Russian Siberian culture and identity both for the state institutions in the regions concerned, and for the Russian Federation’s central government. As the first chapter describes, Sovietera policy towards the Soviet Union’s non-Russian peoples brought …
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The Vendian-Cambrian system of Siberia : correlation, tectonics and petroleum geology
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1997.
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Paleomagnetic dating of climatic events in Late Quaternary sediments of Lake Baikal (Siberia)
Der Baikalsee ist ein ideales Klimaarchiv für die Mitte Eurasiens. In dieser Arbeit wurde gesteinsmagnetische und paleomagnetische Analysen an hemipelagischen Sequenzen von vier Lokationen analysiert. Die Kerne erreichen ein Alter von maximal 300 ky. In Kombination mit TEM, XRD, XRF und …
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Agents of Evil: Curse Accusations and Shamanic Retaliation in Post-Soviet Tuva (Siberia)
… with curses in the Republic of Tuva, south Siberia (Russia). Based on a sample of consultations between shamans and clients regarding curse-inflicted misfortunes, as well as on sociological and statistical sources about post-Soviet Tuva, this thesis identifies a significant incidence of …
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Paleoecology and Taphonomy of Ediacaran macrofossils from the Khatyspyt Formation, Olenek Uplift, Siberia
The Ediacaran Period (635 – 541 Ma) is a critical transition in the history of the Earth and life. It is marked by the appearance of enigmatic Ediacara-like fossils and macroalgae, which had existed since the early Proterozoic, but started to diversify morphologically and ecologically during this …
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Human anxieties, bovine solutions: Political subtexts of native cattle conservation in north-eastern Siberia
… years the Turkic-speaking Sakha of north-eastern Siberia have lived uneasily in a colonial relationship with the Russian/Soviet state. Since the 1990s, there has been a strong ethnic de-colonising backlash which has struggled to find an appropriate form, from attempts to revive shamanism to …
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DETRITAL-ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGIC PROVENANCE ANALYSES THAT TEST AND EXPAND THE EAST SIBERIA - WEST LAURENTIA RODINIA RECONSTRUCTION
… Several reconstructions involving Laurentia and Siberia have been proposed, including the east Siberia-west Laurentia connection. The east Siberia-west Laurentia Rodinia reconstruction includes lithostratigraphic correlations of conjugate rift miogeocline sediments located in SE Siberia and SW …
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DETRITAL-ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGIC PROVENANCE ANALYSES THAT TEST AND EXPAND THE EAST SIBERIA - WEST LAURENTIA RODINIA RECONSTRUCTION
… Several reconstructions involving Laurentia and Siberia have been proposed, including the east Siberia-west Laurentia connection. The east Siberia-west Laurentia Rodinia reconstruction includes lithostratigraphic correlations of conjugate rift miogeocline sediments located in SE Siberia and SW …
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Modelling the Thermal Dynamics of Polygonal Soil Structures in the Permafrost of the Lena Delta, Northern Siberia
… in an Arctic tundra wetland in Northern Siberia. A two-dimensional model formulation in cylindrical coordinates is implemented and coupled to a surface energy balance model. The model performance is assessed by a comparison with analytical solutions and field measurements of soil …
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Isotopic, geochemical, and geochronological constraints on the origin and evolution of Cenozoic volcanism, Baikal Rift Zone, Siberia
… situated along a suture between the Archean Siberian craton and younger Paleozoic fold belts. Oligocene to Recent age volcanic rocks and associated mantle xenoliths are distributed in three major regions of the rift zone: the Udokan volcanic field in the northeast, the Vitim volcanic field …
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Palaeodietary analysis of the Bronze Age and early Iron Age populations from the Minusinsk Basin, southern Siberia, Russia
… dietary changes in the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia. The main objective of the study is to understand the dietary changes that occurred between the prehistoric populations of the area, and also to investigate the consumatory differences between the people of different sexes, ages and social …
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Characterisation and evolution of periglacial landscapes in Northern Siberia during the Late Quaternary : remote sensing and GIS studies
… with the most extensive continuous permafrost is Siberia. In northeast Siberia, the ice- and organic-rich permafrost deposits of the Ice Complex are widely distributed. These deposits consist mostly of silty to fine-grained sandy sediments that were accumulated during the Late Pleistocene in an …
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The fluvial geochemistry of the rivers of Eastern Siberia and implications for the effect of climate on weathering
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1998.
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