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Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In this penetrating book, Sean McMeekin draws on previously undiscovered materials from the Soviet Ministry of Finance and other European and American archives to expose some of the darkest secrets of Russia's early days of communism. Building on one archival revelation after another, the author reveals how the Bolsheviks financed their aggression through astonishingly extensive thievery. Their looting included everything from the cash savings of private citizens to gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, icons, antiques, and artwork. By tracking illicit Soviet financial transactions across Europe, McMeekin shows how Lenin's regime accomplished history's greatest heist between 1917 and 1922 and turned centuries of accumulated wealth into the sinews of class war. McMeekin also names names, introducing for the first time the compliant bankers, lawyers, and middlemen who, for a price, helped the Bolsheviks launder their loot, impoverish Russia, and impose their brutal will on millions.

Finance, Public --- Pillage --- History. --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government --- Looting --- Plundering --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Sack (Pillage) --- Military offenses --- Robbery --- War crimes --- Currency question --- Public finances

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Tijdens WO II vond er een immense kunstdrainage naar nazi-Duitsland plaats. Voor het eerst wordt dat verhaal voor België verteld. Hoe konden schilderijen van Memling, Brueghel en Jordaens zomaar verdwijnen? De nazi's haalden woningen leeg, roofden en spendeerden miljoenen Reichsmark om kunst te kopen. Na 8 jaar onderzoek legt Geert Sels de puzzelstukken bij elkaar die hij aantrof in archieven in Parijs, Den Haag, Koblenz en overal in België. Verzamelaars, handelaars en veilinghuizengingen zonder veel reserves mee in de kunstverwerving van de nazi's. Dit boek brengt de trafieken in kaart waarlangs de kunst het land verliet. Schilderijen uit België vonden hun weg naar het Louvre, Tate Modern, het Getty Museum of de Yale Art Gallery. Zelfs Rusland blijkt nog altijd kunst te hebben die na de oorlog naar België had moeten terugkeren. Andere werken kwamen wel terug en hangen nu in Belgische musea, zonder dat de rechtmatige eigenaars werden opgespoord.

BPB9999 --- Criminology. Victimology --- Art --- History of Germany and Austria --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- world wars --- looting --- restitution --- anno 1940-1949 --- 935 --- nazisme --- Tweede Wereldoorlog --- kunsthandel --- nieuwste tijden 1789-1945 --- Art thefts --- World War, 1939-1945 --- National socialism and art. --- kunstroof --- oorlogsbuit --- repatriëring van kunst --- looting [social issue] --- roofkunst. --- Wereldoorlog II. --- nazisme. --- geschiedenis. --- kunsthandel. --- verzamelingen. --- 20ste eeuw. --- België. --- roofkunst --- Wereldoorlog II --- geschiedenis --- verzamelingen --- 20ste eeuw --- België

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Jeanne de Jussie (1503-61) experienced the Protestant Reformation from within the walls of the Convent of Saint Clare in Geneva. In her impassioned and engaging Short Chronicle, she offers a singular account of the Reformation, reporting not only on the larger clashes between Protestants and Catholics but also on events in her convent-devious city councilmen who lied to trusting nuns, lecherous soldiers who tried to kiss them, and iconoclastic intruders who smashed statues and burned paintings. Throughout her tale, Jussie highlights women's roles on both sides of the conflict, from the Reformed women who came to her convent in an attempt to convert the nuns to the Catholic women who ransacked the shop of a Reformed apothecary. Above all, she stresses the Poor Clares' faithfulness and the good men and women who came to them in their time of need, ending her story with the nuns' arduous journey by foot from Reformed Geneva to Catholic Annecy. First published in French in 1611, Jussie's Short Chronicle is translated here for an English-speaking audience for the first time, providing a fresh perspective on struggles for religious and political power in sixteenth-century Geneva and a rare glimpse at early modern monastic life.

Reformation --- Protestant Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- History --- Geneva (Switzerland) --- Genève (Switzerland) --- Genf (Switzerland) --- Ginevra (Switzerland) --- Jih-nei-wa (Switzerland) --- Ginebra (Switzerland) --- Cheneba (Switzerland) --- Geneua (Switzerland) --- Cenevre (Switzerland) --- Colonia Allobrogum (Switzerland) --- Genevra (Switzerland) --- Geneva (Republic) --- geneva, convent of saint clare, protestant reformation, cloister, religion, spirituality, catholicism, protestantism, conflict, sect, nuns, history, women, gender, autobiography, biography, diary, conversion, looting, pillage, apothecary, faith, piety, worship, annecy, monasticism, seclusion, nonfiction, memoir, pilgrimage, refugee.

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This volume examines the intersection between archaeologists working in the Maya area of Central American and local communities and agencies. It highlights issues of past colonial practice as well as issues involving modern tourism. The archaeologists involved in this volume attempt to suggest ways of bettering both community relationships and standards of practice for the field of Maya archaeology.

archaeology --- community museums --- gender and sexuality --- Maya --- Maya k’an glyph --- Tynanthus guatemalensis eugenol --- antidiabetic activity --- cultural heritage --- Maya archaeology --- indigenous critique of anthropology --- settler colonialism --- conservation --- experimental archaeology --- identity --- education --- Puuc --- collaboration --- descendant communities --- Afro-Caribbean history --- Creole --- Belize --- heritage management --- collaborative research --- consolidation --- stabilization --- looting --- culinary heritage --- celebrity chefs --- foodways --- tourism --- Yaxunah --- archaeological heritage --- education outreach --- community participation --- culture and nature Conservation --- community based heritage and preservation --- anthropological archaeology --- Caste War of Yucatan --- community archaeology --- community development --- archaeological ethics --- world heritage --- continuity --- public outreach --- Guatemala --- microfinance --- historical archaeology --- Yucatan --- tangible heritage --- engaged archaeology --- inequality --- contradictions --- Belizean archaeology --- n/a --- Maya k'an glyph

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This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges. It has been authored by prominent scholars, practitioners and journalists in the field and includes both overviews of particular art crime issues as well as regional and national case studies. It is one of the first scholarly books in the current art crime literature that can be utilised as an immediate authoritative reference source or teaching tool. It also includes a bibliographic guide to the current literature across interdisciplinary boundaries. Apart from legal, criminological, archeological and historical perspectives on theft, fraud and looting, this volume contains chapters on iconoclasm and graffiti, underwater cultural heritage, the trade in human remains and the trade, theft and forgery of papyri. The book thereby hopes to encourage scholars from a wider variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to art crime research.

Transnational crime. --- Terrorism. --- Police. --- Mass media and crime. --- Cultural heritage. --- Organized crime. --- Trafficking. --- Policing. --- Crime and the Media. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Organized Crime. --- Crime syndicates --- Organised crime --- Crime --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Crime and mass media --- Cops --- Gendarmes --- Law enforcement officers --- Officers, Law enforcement --- Officers, Police --- Police forces --- Police --- Police officers --- Police service --- Policemen --- Policing --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal justice personnel --- Peace officers --- Public safety --- Security systems --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Multinational crime --- Transborder crime --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Transnational crime --- Terrorism --- Mass media and crime --- Organized crime --- Criminology. Victimology --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Art --- crime [social issue] --- looting [social issue] --- kunstroof --- forgeries [derivative objects] --- forgers [criminals] --- Art thefts. --- Cultural property.