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Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov
STASOV, VLADIMIR VASILIEVICH (1824–1906), music and art critic whose aesthetics of realist and national expression in the arts served as a model for socialist realism. Born into a prominent upper-class family (his father was a noted architect), Vladimir Stasov graduated in 1843 from the... Read more
United States. Special Operations Command United States. Special Operations Command
Special Operations Command, United States Special operations forces (SOFs) are elite units of the United States military services that are used for purposes that include counterterrorism, asymmetric warfare, forward reconnaissance, and preparation for landing by airborne... Read more
George William Curtis George William Curtis
George William Curtis American writer, orator, and, especially, civil service reformer, George William Curtis (1824-1892) was a patrician whose ideals and causes are blurred in historical retrospect by a personal elitism that bordered on priggishness and was out of step even in his own time.... Read more
Elites Elites
ElitesBIBLIOGRAPHYThe concept of elites is used to describe certain fundamental features of organized social life. All societies—simple and complex, agricultural and industrial—need authorities within and spokesmen and agents without who are also symbols of the common life and embodiments of the... Read more
Janissaries Janissaries
Janissaries [Turk.,=recruits], elite corps in the service of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). It was composed of war captives and Christian youths pressed into service; all the recruits were converted to Islam and trained under the strictest discipline. It was originally organized by Sultan Murad I.... Read more
Umayyad Umayyad
Umayyad , the first Islamic dynasty (661-750). Their reign witnessed the return to leadership roles of the pre-Islamic Arab elite, and the rejuvenation of tribal loyalties. The Banu Ummaya constituted the higher stratum of the pre-Islamic Meccan elite. Having entered into an agreement with Muhammad... Read more
Power Elite Power Elite
Power Elite BIBLIOGRAPHY In his 1956 work of the same name, American sociologist C. Wright Mills coined the term power elite to characterize a new coalition of ruling groups that rose to dominance in the post-World War II United States. Mills rejected the conventional view of a dispersed,... Read more
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knight service, a duty the medieval lay elite owed for tenure of their lands. Royal grants in Ireland were specific: in 1172 Hugh de Lacy received Meath for the service of 50 knights. In the late 13th century the entire service of Ireland was assessed as c.427 knights. Lords granted land on... Read more
Presidency Presidency
PRESIDENCY The presidency is the most powerful formal political institution in post-communist Russia. Except for the ceremonial title given to the head of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Union did not have a presidency until its waning years, although the adoption of one was discussed under... Read more

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