... almost analogous to the Salem Witch Trials here in America when people would almost arbitrarily choose who they thought were witches and sorcerers that they thought were guilty of klikushestvo (demon possession). The main thesis in Worobec's book is how klikushestvo made the elitist society in Russia perceive the Russian peasantry women who lived in the countryside. In any case, these ... ecstatic states were a way of expressing themselves in response the demon possessing their insides. There are other forms of art, so to speak that can be found similar to the possessed women, such as t...

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... foreign investments came from the International Monetary Fund in the form of loans amounting to more than $18 billion contingent upon Ukraine adopting reforms in almost all aspects of society,[39] including a raise in domestic gas-supply price to the global price. The revolution was followed by protests in some south-eastern regions, a standoff with Russia regarding the annexation of Crimea ... ...

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