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Perestroika and the Collapse of the USSR. Some Reflections
Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світуThis text offers some reflections related to perestroika and glasnost – two flagship projects of the era of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev – the last leader of the Soviet Communist Party.
Norbert Frejek
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 390-405, March 2026.Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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A Privilege That Can Be Withdrawn: Regulation of Exit in Russia and Other Post‐Soviet Republics
International Migration, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The former Soviet Union's restrictions on citizens' foreign travel or emigration were notoriously draconian. Yet what replaced them in the fifteen independent states of the post‐Soviet region has not been well analysed. Outside the Baltic republics, the monolithic and prohibitive policies of the Soviet past have given way to a patchwork of ...
Matthew Light, Leonid Kosals
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MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 1996 I opbrudsperioden efter 1987 var de sovjetiske massemedier medvirk- ende til at skabe åbenhed og transparens - glasnost. Pressen var med til at understøtte de progressive kræfters kamp for at åbne det lukkede system.
Andrei Gratchev
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De la restructurarea URSS la independența RSSM (1985-1991) [PDF]
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2022 The transition of Moldavia from a Soviet Socialist Republic to an independent and democratic nation was a process that spanned (roughly) from 1985 to 1991. In this paper the author presents the relations between the reforms undertook by Mikhail Gorbachev
Sergiu MUSTEAȚĂ
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 233-245, January 2026.ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
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The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 37-51, January 2026.Abstract This article analyzes how the Leningrad Affair, one of the most poorly understood of Joseph Stalin’s purges, was weaponized by Nikita Khrushchev and his comrades‐in‐arms in order to consolidate power during the 1950s and early 1960s. An exposé of how Khrushchev accused four different people of being responsible for the purge over the span of ...
David Brandenberger
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Self-reflection in Ukrainian Soviet historiography during the period of perestroika
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные наукиThis study focuses on the self-reflection in Ukrainian Soviet historiography during perestroika. It was a paradoxical period marked by the flourishing of Marxist historiography and yet the beginning of its decline, which resulted in a massive rejection ...
V. V. Puzanov
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ISLAM IN THE POLICY FORMATION IN THE COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL ASIA
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2016 During the existence of theSoviet Unionthe influence of Islam on politics was minimized. In Soviet times, Islam in the Central Asian republics felt some oppression until the late 1950s.
J. J. Komlyakova
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The Courtroom Sketch: Journalism and Justice in Literaturnaia gazeta
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 52-68, January 2026.Abstract In the decades following Stalin’s death, the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta shaped Soviet legal culture through the genre of the courtroom sketch (sudebnyi ocherk), a blend of fact‐based reportage, personal memoir, literary narration, and social commentary aimed at the task of working through thorny questions of morality and legality.
Rebecca Reich
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