El estudio de la conocida como Reforma Agraria Liberal ha resultado fundamental para comprender el cambio de la sociedad del Antiguo Régimen al Estado Liberal. En este trabajo pretendemos estudiar las fuentes y documentación fundamental para su análisis y las aportaciones metodológicas más...

Review of the edited volume: André du Pisani, Reinhart Kössler, and William A. Lindeke (eds.), The Long Aftermath of War: Reconciliation and Transition in Namibia (Freiburger Beiträge zu Entwicklung und Politik, 37), Freiburg: Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, 2010, ISBN 978-3-928597-55-5, 437 pp.

Russia decided to invade Chechnya at the end of 1991 and provoked an appalling situation in the Caucasian region. This article deals with the history of those two Russian invasions of Chechnya --from their origin until the current situation-- through the Russian film industry of this conflict....

Not aside the discussion on the compatibleness between the up-to-date and the objectiveness, arguments are brought on support of three hypotheses: (1) from the middle of 1930 decade unless his death in 1973, Salvador Allende embodies the best the historical continuity and the Popular movement...

The Soviet ruling elite, the nomenklatura, used both cooption and political repression to encourage loyalty to the communist regime. Loyalty was critical both in defusing internal opposition to the rule of the nomenklatura and in either deterring or defeating foreign enemies of the Soviet Union....

Based on first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971 in the Republic of...