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WHEN TO STRIKE: EXPLORING THE VARIABLES THAT LEAD TO SUCCESSFUL DECAPITATION STRIKES
Title
WHEN TO STRIKE: EXPLORING THE VARIABLES THAT LEAD TO SUCCESSFUL DECAPITATION STRIKES.
Creator
Pierres, Renzo, Boutton, Andrew, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The purpose of this thesis is to determine how different variables can affect a terrorist group's reaction to a targeted leadership strike, known as a decapitation strike. Decapitation strikes often produce unwanted results, such as a splintering of the terrorist group, or a failure to destroy the group. It is important that we understand which variables can lead to a group's destruction after a decapitation strike, to maximize the decapitation's effectiveness. In my research I have...
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis is to determine how different variables can affect a terrorist group's reaction to a targeted leadership strike, known as a decapitation strike. Decapitation strikes often produce unwanted results, such as a splintering of the terrorist group, or a failure to destroy the group. It is important that we understand which variables can lead to a group's destruction after a decapitation strike, to maximize the decapitation's effectiveness. In my research I have determined that group size, group ideological extremism, and the role of the leader targeted all have a substantial impact on the success of the decapitation strike. Using these three variables, I will examine three groups which have varying size, extremism, and leadership, and determine whether the decapitation strikes were successful and how these variables affected the results.
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Date Issued
2019
Identifier
CFH2000488, ucf:45848
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000488
Where is the CIO going?: A program for militant trade unionism
Title
Where is the CIO going?: A program for militant trade unionism.
Creator
Morris, George
Date Issued
1949
Identifier
1927060, CFDT1927060, ucf:4813
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927060
Where to go in Florida
Title
Where to go in Florida.
Creator
Tyler, Daniel F., PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Description of Green Cove Springs, Florida.
Date Issued
1880
Identifier
AAA3369QF00012/20/200108/04/200516434BfamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2001-12-20, FIPS12019, FCLA url 20020626xOCLC, 50193642, CF00001582, 2565289, ucf:10689
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001582.jpg
Where's the Boss? The Influences of Emergent Team Leadership Structures on Team Outcomes in Virtual and Distributed Environments
Title
Where's the Boss? The Influences of Emergent Team Leadership Structures on Team Outcomes in Virtual and Distributed Environments.
Creator
Porter, Marissa, Salas, Eduardo, Jentsch, Florian, Joseph, Dana, Burke, Shawn, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The influence of leadership on team success has been noted extensively in research and practice. However, as organizations move to flatter team based structures with workers communicating virtually across space and time, our conceptualization of team leadership must change to meet these new workplace demands. Given this need, the current study aims to begin untangling the effects of distribution and virtuality on team leadership structure and subsequent team outcomes that may be affected by...
Show moreThe influence of leadership on team success has been noted extensively in research and practice. However, as organizations move to flatter team based structures with workers communicating virtually across space and time, our conceptualization of team leadership must change to meet these new workplace demands. Given this need, the current study aims to begin untangling the effects of distribution and virtuality on team leadership structure and subsequent team outcomes that may be affected by differences in conceptualizing such structures. Specifically, the goals of this study were threefold. First, this study investigated how the physical distribution of members may impact perceptions of team leadership structure, depending on virtual tool type utilized for communicating. Second, this study explored how different indices of team leadership structure may have different influences on team outcomes, specifically in terms of conceptualizing the degree to which multiple members are perceived as collectively enacting particular leadership behaviors via a network density metric, and conceptualizing team leadership in regards to the specialization of members into particular behavioral roles, as captured via role distance and role variety indices. Finally, this study expanded on current research regarding team leadership structure by examining how the collective enactment of particular leadership (i.e., structuring/planning, problem solving, supporting social climate) behaviors may facilitate specific teamwork processes (i.e., transition, action, interpersonal), leading to enhanced team performance, as well as how leadership role specialization may impact overall teamwork and team performance.Findings from a laboratory study of 188 teams participating in a simulated decision making task reveal a significant interaction for the influences of physical distribution and virtuality on perceptions of leadership structure, such that less distributed teams (i.e., those with fewer isolated members) were more likely to perceive their distributed members as participating in the collective enactment of necessary leadership responsibilities when communicating via richer media (i.e., videoconferencing, teleconferencing) than less rich media (i.e., instant messaging). However, virtuality and distribution did not impact the degree to which members were perceived as specializing in a particular leadership role, or the overall variety of leadership roles being performed. In terms of team outcomes, the perceived collective enactment of leadership emanating from distributed team members significantly predicted teamwork, while the perceived collective leadership of collocated members did not have a significant impact. Specifically, greater distributed team member involvement in the collective enactment of structuring/planning leadership positively impacted team transition processes, while the collective enactment of supporting the social climate positively predicted team interpersonal processes. Although the relationship between perceived leadership role specialization, in terms of role distance and role variety, and team performance was mediated by overall teamwork processes as expected, leadership role specialization had a negative impact on overall teamwork. Finally, while team action processes did not serve to mediate the relationship between perceived problem solving network density and team performance, team transition processes mediated the relationships between the collective enactment of structuring/planning for distributed members and team performance. The collective enactment of supporting the social climate by distributed team members and its relationship to team performance was also mediated by interpersonal teamwork processes. Together, these results reveal the importance in considering context, specifically virtuality and physical distribution, when designing, developing and maintaining effective team leadership, teamwork, and team performance. Furthermore, they provide unique insight regarding how different configurations of leadership may be possible in teams. Study limitations, practical implications, and recommendations for future research and practice are further discussed.
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Date Issued
2013
Identifier
CFE0004911, ucf:49603
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004911
Where, when, and how to catch fish on the east coast of Florida
Title
Where, when, and how to catch fish on the east coast of Florida.
Creator
Gregg, William H., Gardner, John, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Turn of the century illustrated guide to fresh and salt water fishing along the east coast of Florida.
Date Issued
1902
Identifier
AAA3225QF00011/15/200108/04/200516441BfamIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2001-11-15, FCLA url 20020205xOCLC, 49291454, CF00001554, 2555140, ucf:5873
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001554.jpg
Whetting Their Appetite: A Spatial Analysis of Seasonal Flooding and Raised Field Agriculture in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia
Title
Whetting Their Appetite: A Spatial Analysis of Seasonal Flooding and Raised Field Agriculture in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia.
Creator
Martin, Samuel, Walker, John, Branting, Scott, Duncan, Neil, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The Llanos de Mojos, a region of the southwestern Amazon, is a seasonally flooded savannah located in the Beni department of Bolivia. The area sustained a significant pre-Columbian population up to the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in the late 17th century. Local communities constructed agricultural landscape modifications to help cultivate crops such as maize, manioc, and sweet potato. Raised fields contributed to soil nutrient intensification and helped to manage flooding. This study...
Show moreThe Llanos de Mojos, a region of the southwestern Amazon, is a seasonally flooded savannah located in the Beni department of Bolivia. The area sustained a significant pre-Columbian population up to the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in the late 17th century. Local communities constructed agricultural landscape modifications to help cultivate crops such as maize, manioc, and sweet potato. Raised fields contributed to soil nutrient intensification and helped to manage flooding. This study examines the relationship between 40,766 raised agricultural fields which were digitized by the Proyecto SIG Arqueol(&)#243;gico del Beni using Google Earth and maps of surface flood coverage. Flood maps from 2012(-)2016 were analyzed using 14-day aggregates of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data provided by the Dartmouth Flood Observatory. These datasets were compared using ArcGIS to examine the extent and variability of yearly flooding as well as the number of raised fields which were subject to seasonal inundation on a year-by-year basis. It was found that despite significant portions of the region being covered by seasonal floods, only 5.79% of the fields were exposed to flooding in total. This study concluded that raised fields were more suited to the containment and dispersion of localized precipitation rather than the dispersion of riverine flooding. Several fields that have paleobotanical associations with maize, manioc, and sweet potato cultivation only experience flooding for 1 out of the 5 years analyzed, supporting their practicality for growing water-sensitive crops.
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Date Issued
2018
Identifier
CFE0007223, ucf:52234
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007223
" Which road for American workers, Socialist or Communist?": Norman Thomas vs Earl Browder
Title
" Which road for American workers, Socialist or Communist?": Norman Thomas vs Earl Browder.
Creator
Thomas, Norman, Browder, Earl
Date Issued
1936
Identifier
369316, CFDT369316, ucf:5416
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369316
Which way Israel: Crisis in the Middle East
Title
Which way Israel: Crisis in the Middle East.
Creator
Magil, Abraham Bernard
Date Issued
1956
Identifier
359823, CFDT359823, ucf:5218
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/359823
Which way Israel?: An eye-witness account by a Marxist educator
Title
Which way Israel?: An eye-witness account by a Marxist educator.
Creator
Lumer, Hyman
Date Issued
1966
Identifier
2667388, CFDT2667388, ucf:4992
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2667388
Which Way to the Jook Joint?: Historical Archaeology of a Polk County, Florida Turpentine Camp
Title
Which Way to the Jook Joint?: Historical Archaeology of a Polk County, Florida Turpentine Camp.
Creator
Ziel, Deborah, Walker, John, Howard, Rosalyn, Barber, Sarah, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The extraction and distillation of pine sap for the naval stores industry reached its apex of production in the early decades of the twentieth century. Post-emancipation, the industry employed African American labor in the long leaf pine forests of the southeastern United States under a system of debt peonage that replaced the master-slave dynamic with a similar circumscriptive construct. Laborers rented company housing and were paid in scrip, a monetary system that limited their purchase of...
Show moreThe extraction and distillation of pine sap for the naval stores industry reached its apex of production in the early decades of the twentieth century. Post-emancipation, the industry employed African American labor in the long leaf pine forests of the southeastern United States under a system of debt peonage that replaced the master-slave dynamic with a similar circumscriptive construct. Laborers rented company housing and were paid in scrip, a monetary system that limited their purchase of the basic goods of subsistence to the company commissary at inflated prices, resulting in an endless cycle of debt. Despite the oppressive circumstances of debt peonage labor, African Americans developed venues known as (")jook joints(") for the expression of agency through leisure. The jook was a structure where laborers congregated on weekends to socialize, dance, drink, gamble, and fight. The Polk County, Florida turpentine camp of Nalaka was in operation from 1919 until 1928. In 1942, the Nalaka site, and thousands of surrounding acreage, were purchased by the United States Government for use as an Air Force training range in anticipation of US involvement in World War Two. Although no structures survive, artifact scatters from the 1920s remain in situ. No known records exist to document the spatial arrangement of the structures at Nalaka. This study reconstructs the layout of the camp based upon artifact provenience, secondary ethnographic sources, and historical documents, to determine whether or not Nalaka supported a jook joint, and if so, where was its location.
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Date Issued
2013
Identifier
CFE0005080, ucf:50734
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005080
WHILE AMERICA SLEPT
Title
WHILE AMERICA SLEPT.
Creator
Fischer, Mark, Dolan, Christopher, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This study briefly examined the terrorist attacks that occurred between the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that occurred on September 11, 2001. Specifically, this study examines the reactions of the public and press to the attacks on the military barracks in Riyadh, the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Zambia and Kenya, and the attack on the U.S.S Cole in Yemen. This study examines the effect public opinion had on...
Show moreThis study briefly examined the terrorist attacks that occurred between the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that occurred on September 11, 2001. Specifically, this study examines the reactions of the public and press to the attacks on the military barracks in Riyadh, the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Zambia and Kenya, and the attack on the U.S.S Cole in Yemen. This study examines the effect public opinion had on the President and Congress and their reactions to the public pressure. The primary purpose of this thesis is to briefly examine the reactions of Presidents and Congress to the attacks on Americans at home and abroad, and that effect on their efforts to prevent further attacks on the United States. Did the President use his office to activate and motivate public officials and the public to the dangers of terrorist attacks? Was the public effective in persuading Congress to enact legislation to increase funding for terrorist prevention? And, how effective was the press in its role to educate and define the issues surrounding terrorist attacks on Americans.
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Date Issued
2006
Identifier
CFE0001293, ucf:46879
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001293
White and Black Womanhoods and Their Representations in 1920s American Advertising
Title
White and Black Womanhoods and Their Representations in 1920s American Advertising.
Creator
Turnbull, Lindsey, Lester, Connie, Sacher, John, Dandrow, Edward, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The 1920s represented a time of tension in America. Throughout the decade, marginalized groups created competing versions of a proper citizen. African-Americans sought to be included in the national fabric. Racism encouraged solidarity, but black Americans did not agree upon one method for coping with, and hopefully ending, antiblack racism. White women enjoyed new privileges and took on more roles in the public sphere. Reactionary groups like the Ku Klux Klan found these new voices...
Show moreThe 1920s represented a time of tension in America. Throughout the decade, marginalized groups created competing versions of a proper citizen. African-Americans sought to be included in the national fabric. Racism encouraged solidarity, but black Americans did not agree upon one method for coping with, and hopefully ending, antiblack racism. White women enjoyed new privileges and took on more roles in the public sphere. Reactionary groups like the Ku Klux Klan found these new voices unsettling and worrisome and celebrated a white, native-born, Protestant and male vision of the American citizen. Simultaneously, technological innovations allowed for advertising to flourish and spread homogenizing information regarding race, gender, values and consumption across the nation. These advertisements selectively represented these changes by channeling them into pre-existing prescriptive ideology. Mainstream ads, which were created by whites for white audiences, reinforced traditional ideas regarding black men and women and white women's roles. Even if white women were featured using technology or wearing cosmetics, they were still featured in prescribed roles as housekeepers, wives and mothers who deferred to and relied on their husbands. Black women were featured in secondary roles, as servants or mammies, if at all. Concurrently, the black press created its own representations of women. Although these representations were complex and sometimes contradictory and had to reach multiple audiences, black-created ads featured women in a variety of roles, such as entertainers, mothers and business women, but never as mammies. Then, in a decade of increased tensions, white-created ads relied on traditional portrayals of women and African-Americans while black-designed ads offered more positive, although complicated, visions of womanhood.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFE0004612, ucf:49939
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004612
White chauvinism and the struggle for peace
Title
White chauvinism and the struggle for peace.
Creator
Perry, Pettis
Date Issued
1952
Identifier
1927061, CFDT1927061, ucf:4814
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1927061
White Light Continuum for Broadband Nonlinear Spectroscopy
Title
White Light Continuum for Broadband Nonlinear Spectroscopy.
Creator
Ensley, Trenton, Hagan, David, Vanstryland, Eric, Zeldovich, Boris, Christodoulides, Demetrios, Schulte, Alfons, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Supercontinuum (SC) generation, oftentimes referred to as white-light continuum (WLC), has been a subject of interest for more than 40 years. From the first observation of WLC in condensed media in the early 1970s to the first observation of WLC in gases in the mid-1980s, much work has been devoted to developing a framework for understanding the complex nature of this phenomenon as well as discovering its utility in various applications. The main effort of this dissertation is to develop a...
Show moreSupercontinuum (SC) generation, oftentimes referred to as white-light continuum (WLC), has been a subject of interest for more than 40 years. From the first observation of WLC in condensed media in the early 1970s to the first observation of WLC in gases in the mid-1980s, much work has been devoted to developing a framework for understanding the complex nature of this phenomenon as well as discovering its utility in various applications. The main effort of this dissertation is to develop a WLC for the purpose of broadband nonlinear spectroscopy and use it in spectroscopic measurements. The ability to generate a high-quality, high-spectral-irradiance source of radiation confined in a single beam that spans the visible and near-infrared spectral regimes has great utility for nonlinear measurement methods such as the Z-scan technique. Using a broadband WLC instead of conventional tunable sources of radiation such as optical parametric generators/amplifiers has been shown to increase the efficiency of such measurements by nearly an order of magnitude. Although WLC generation has many complex processes involved, and complete models of the process involve highly complex numerical modeling, simple models can still guide us in the optimization of systems for WLC generation. In this dissertation the effects of two key mechanisms behind WLC generation in gaseous media are explored: self-phase modulation (SPM) and ionization leading to plasma production. The effects of SPM are largely dependent upon the third-order nonlinear refractive index, n2, of the gaseous medium whereas the effects of plasma production are dependent upon many parameters including the initial number density, ionization potential/energy, and the rate of ionization production. It is found that in order to generate a stable WLC suitable for nonlinear spectroscopy, the phase contributions from SPM and plasma production should be nearly equal. This guided our experiments in inert gases using mJ level, 150 fs-FWHM (full-width at half-maximum) pulses at 780 nm as well as 40 fs-FWHM pulses primarily at 1800 nm to create a stable, high-spectral-irradiance WLC. The generated WLC is shown to have sufficient spectral energy and spatial quality suitable for nonlinear spectroscopic measurements. In addition to extending the WLC bandwidth by using a long wavelength (1800 nm) pump source, it is found that by using a secondary weak seed pulse with a peak irradiance three orders of magnitude less than the main pulse, the spectral energy density is enhanced by more than a factor of 3 in Krypton gas for a WLC spectrum that spans over 2 octaves. Numerical simulations are presented which qualitatively describe the experimental results. The spectral enhancement of the WLC by seeding is also demonstrated for other inert gases and condensed media. Other efforts described in this dissertation include the development of the Dual-Arm Z-scan technique and its extension to measuring thin film nonlinearities in the presence of large substrate signals as well as predicting the n2 spectra of organic molecules (where we can approximate their behavior as if they were centrosymmetric) from knowledge of the one-photon and two-photon absorption spectra using a simplified sum-over-states quantum perturbative model by utilizing a quasi 3-level and quasi 4-level system.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
CFE0005608, ucf:50264
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005608
White Males in Black Fraternities: Life Experiences Leading White Males to Join a Historically Black Fraternity
Title
White Males in Black Fraternities: Life Experiences Leading White Males to Join a Historically Black Fraternity.
Creator
Butts, Christopher, Cintron Delgado, Rosa, Owens, James, Boyd, Tammy, Welch, Kerry, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This study was conducted to explore the phenomenon of White male membership in a historically Black fraternity. The researcher utilized a qualitative research methodology to investigate the pre-collegiate experiences of White males that influenced them to seek membership in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Due to the national pool of potential participants, interviews were conducted with White male members of this fraternity using video chat software. The researcher utilized social identity...
Show moreThis study was conducted to explore the phenomenon of White male membership in a historically Black fraternity. The researcher utilized a qualitative research methodology to investigate the pre-collegiate experiences of White males that influenced them to seek membership in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Due to the national pool of potential participants, interviews were conducted with White male members of this fraternity using video chat software. The researcher utilized social identity theory (SIT) as the framework for this study based on the premise that in-groups might prove to be significant. Examining the participants' pre-collegiate in-groups, diversity of family and family friends, and home environment provided insight into participants' reasoning for seeking membership. Additionally, exploring the participants' pre-membership perceptions of their eventual fraternity revealed further detail as to the extent to which individuals became members of the in-group associated with that fraternity. Findings for this study were that participants' comfort levels with diverse backgrounds and individuals allowed them to feel comfortable seeking membership in a Black fraternity. It was also found that shared traits of service and the opportunity for growth were reasons why White males sought membership in a Black fraternity.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFE0004342, ucf:49430
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004342
WHITE OPINIONS OF UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION: TESTING RIVAL HYPOTHESES, 2004
Title
WHITE OPINIONS OF UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION: TESTING RIVAL HYPOTHESES, 2004.
Creator
Bulkley, Celeste, Knuckey, Jonathan, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Few issues in the contemporary American political and social environments are as salient and emotionally charged as the debate over immigration. The thesis tests several competing hypotheses concerning the determinants of public opinion – among white respondents – on immigration issues. These include: the contextual considerations of southern residence and proximity to large numbers of Hispanic immigrants, as well as the individual-level factors of economic insecurity, political...
Show moreFew issues in the contemporary American political and social environments are as salient and emotionally charged as the debate over immigration. The thesis tests several competing hypotheses concerning the determinants of public opinion – among white respondents – on immigration issues. These include: the contextual considerations of southern residence and proximity to large numbers of Hispanic immigrants, as well as the individual-level factors of economic insecurity, political knowledge, national identity, group pride, and racism. Using data from the 2004 American National Election Study, the thesis provides a critical test of the competing hypotheses using multivariate analysis. Furthermore, conditional relationships are posited, facilitating a more refined analysis of the structure of attitudes on immigration issues. The results indicate that racism, group pride, symbolic patriotism, ideology, and isolationism are the most consistent and significant predictors of immigration policy preferences. The use of four distinct dependent variable questions also highlights the inconsistency in public opinion regarding immigration and the division between public perception of documented and undocumented entries. Future research should focus on the interrelationship between variables that are used by the individual to define group associations, as well as the change in national and personal identity brought about by the events of September 11th, 2001.
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Date Issued
2006
Identifier
CFE0001407, ucf:47075
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001407
Whitewater bobsled
Title
Whitewater bobsled.
Abstract / Description
Aqualympics: Lifeguards demonstrating the whitewater bobsled in Wet'N Wild, Orlando, Florida.
Date Created
1978
Identifier
DP0020437
Format
Image (JPEG)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0020437
Whither Germany?
Title
Whither Germany?.
Creator
Merker, Paul Friedrich
Date Issued
1943
Identifier
2669181, CFDT2669181, ucf:5010
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2669181
Who are the Aryans?
Title
Who are the Aryans?.
Creator
Schlauch, Margaret
Date Issued
1940's
Identifier
359829, CFDT359829, ucf:5224
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/359829
" Who are the falsifiers?": Documentary evidence proving correctness and authenticity of the S.L.P. translation of Frederick Engels' introduction to "Class struggles in France"
Title
" Who are the falsifiers?": Documentary evidence proving correctness and authenticity of the S.L.P. translation of Frederick Engels' introduction to "Class struggles in France".
Creator
Weekly people
Date Issued
1926
Identifier
369317, CFDT369317, ucf:5417
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369317

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