Titular Identification of Russians in Former Soviet Republics [PDF]
THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION provoked a dramatic change in the status of the 25 million Russians residing in the 14 non-Russian successor states. Overnight they became ethnic minorities. They lost their dominant position to the titulars, i.e. the national populations after which the newly independent republics are named.
Poppe, E., Hagendoorn, L.
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Soviet federalism from below: The Soviet Republics of Odessa and the Russian Far East, 1917–1918
In early 1918, the Bolshevik-dominated Third Congress of Soviets declared the formation of a new composite polity—the Soviet Russian Republic. The congress’s resolutions, however, simultaneously proclaimed a federation of national republics and a ...
Tanja Penter, Ivan Sablin
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A Note on Measuring the Unofficial Economy in the Former Soviet Republics [PDF]
This note argues that the most commonly used estimates of the size of the unofficial economies in the former Soviet republics are flawed. Most important, they are based on calculations that disregard the variation in unofficial economic activity across ...
Michael Alexeev, William Pyle
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Generational effects of culture and digital media in former Soviet Republics
In public opinion, social and digital media provide means for influence as well as sorting according to pre-existing values. Here we consider types of media usage versus opinion using new polling results in the former Soviet republics (FSRs) of Belarus ...
Benjamin D. Horne +10 more
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The article discusses the specifity of the relations between the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR in 1919–1929. The authors present the relations between the goverments of the two republics and actions of the Russian side aiming to transforme into the unitary
Vladylena Sokyrska +2 more
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Language policy in Former Soviet Republics
The article considers the changes in the language policy of the neighbouring countries aimed at strengthening national interests and reducing the importance of the Russian language. The authors analyze several post-Soviet countries with different levels of integration of the Russian language under the influence of both political and economic factors ...
N. V. Yudina, M. V. Melnichuk
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The Role of Small Countries in Post-Soviet Territorial Restructuring: the Baltic Case [PDF]
This author analyses the 2013 Lithuanian presidency of the EU in the context of the Ukrainian crisis and evaluates the contribution of Latvia and Estonia (the former Soviet republics set to preside over the EU in 2015 and 2018) to the shift in the power ...
Smirnov V.
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition [PDF]
How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet ...
Brown, J. David, Earle, John S.
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K voprosu o roli malyh stran v processah perestrukturirovanija postsovetskogo prostranstva (na primere Pribaltiki) [PDF]
This author analyses the 2013 Lithuanian presidency of the EU in the context of the Ukrainian crisis and evaluates the contribution of Latvia and Estonia (the former Soviet republics set to preside over the EU in 2015 and 2018) to the shift in the power ...
Smirnov V.
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Intercultural Relations, Identities, Psychological Well-Being: Post-Communist Experience
Almost 30 years have passed since the dissolution of the USSR into 15 independent states in 1991. About 25 million Russians remained to live in former Soviet republics with different trajectories of post-Soviet development and different ideologies for ...
Lebedeva N.M.
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