Game of Thrones: Cultural Pessimism as a Winning Formula
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عنوان ژورنال: Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1728-192X
DOI: 10.17323/1728-192x-2020-1-183-192