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  • Individual volumes focus on various topics, from the reactions of ordinary citizens to forced-draft industrialization and collectivization to the history of the Communist International Comintern, from the last days of the Romanovs to the Gulag system, from victory in the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet bureaucracy in the Brezhnev period.

    Yale University Press mines data from Soviet archives 2006

  • Individual volumes focus on various topics, from the reactions of ordinary citizens to forced-draft industrialization and collectivization to the history of the Communist International Comintern, from the last days of the Romanovs to the Gulag system, from victory in the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet bureaucracy in the Brezhnev period.

    Yale Press Log: 2006

  • Mr. Huntington further claims that I said he "favors" eliminating the Viet Cong constituency by bombardment, whereas he only states that such "forced-draft urbanization" may well be "the answer to 'wars of national liberation'" that we have stumbled upon in Vietnam.

    A Frustrating Task Huntington, Samuel P. 1970

  • Thus he says that "forced-draft urbanization and modernization," Vietnam-style, may well be "the answer" in general to mass-based peasant revolutions.

    A Frustrating Task Huntington, Samuel P. 1970

  • The "forced-draft urbanization and modernization" that he believes may be the answer to peasant revolution was, as he makes clear, effected primarily by American military force.

    A Frustrating Task Huntington, Samuel P. 1970

  • Here again we see the tactic of "forced-draft urbanization" at work.

    A Special Supplement: A Visit to Laos Chomsky, Noam 1970

  • Up in the north, where it gets cold, they learned a lot about metallurgy and ceramics, and about forced-draft pneumatics, from having to keep fires going all winter to thaw frozen food.

    Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

  • One forced-draft fan (built by the Buffalo Forge and Blower Company), driven by an 8 by 10-in.

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke

  • A forced-draft fan has been installed at one side of the hand-fired boiler, to provide air pressure when coal is being burned at high capacity.

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 Herbert M. Wilson

  • Up in the north, where it gets cold, they learned a lot about metallurgy and ceramics, and about forced-draft pneumatics, from having to keep fires going all winter to thaw frozen food.

    Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

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