The Soviet communist regime had devastating consequences on the state of Russian twentieth century science. Country Communist leaders promoted Trofim Lysenko--an agronomist and keen supporter of the inheritance of acquired characters--and the Soviet government imposed a complete ban on the practice and teaching of genetics, which it condemned as a "bourgeois perversion". Russian science, which ...

This article explores the social and political background of the emergence of major national surveys on the domestic violence against women and presents the main characteristics and results of the two most important surveys done in 1999 and 2002. The analysis of risk factors associated with partner violence shows that both the questioning of the traditional bourgeois family model and the empowe...

 is article analyses the erotic relationships between sexes depicted in Arundhati Roy’s novel  e God of Small  ings in the binary opposition: those based on bourgeois patriarchal dominance and that based on equality and mutual respect. It focuses on the relationship between Ammu and Velutha as love, in diametrical contrast with the former pattern, based on independent choices and guided and ...

Micro-enterprises make up the majority of firms in most countries. In New Brunswick, micro-enterprises represent around 73% of all firms (Bourgeois and Dulipovici, 2003). Canada has about one-half million micro-enterprises, representing around 77% of all Canadian firms (Industry Canada, 2001). The proportion of micro-enterprises within the population of firms is even larger when owner-operated ...