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Russian Universities Amid the Collapse of the Old Regime : Corporate and Political Strategies. / Ростовцев, Евгений Анатольевич.

In: Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2020, p. 113-149.

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