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The USSR State Leader in the U.S. Superhero Comic Strips in the 1980s: Constructing and Broadcasting Stereotypes About “Russians” in the Historical Context of the Cold War

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения
Introduction. There has been a rich tradition of using stereotypes and cliches of Russians in U.S. comic strips since the 1940s. Russian characters represent statehood, cultural dominants, and ethnic stereotypes. They convey the political agenda
Nina Sputnitskaya
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One Europe or None

open access: yesDebater a Europa, 2018
The European post-Cold War order assumed monist forms. Instead of the geopolitical and ideological diversity sought by Mikhail Gorbachev as he brought the Cold War to an end in the late 1980s, a type of monist cold peace was imposed in which Atlantic ...
Richard Sakwa
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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the collections of old Sakha objects produced by Indigenous craftsmen in the north of the Russian Empire and now located in many museums around the world. For several centuries, objects representing Sakha material culture were taken away from their place of origin by explorers, scholars, collectors, and missionaries ...
Tatiana Argounova‐Low
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Media image of the death of Mikhail Gorbachev and Elizabeth II. in the Czech press

open access: yes, 2023
This master's thesis focuses on analyzing the media image of two significant political and cultural figures, Mikhail Gorbachev and Queen Elizabeth II. Both figures passed away shortly after each other in 2023.
Beranová, Monika
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Les ambivalences ouest-allemandes face à la question yougoslave de l’Ostpolitik à l’unification

open access: yesCahiers du MIMMOC, 2017
In his article on the West German ambivalence regarding Yugoslavia in the period from the Ostpolitik to the German Unification, Julien Thorel recalls the important role that the “third world” played with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) facing the bipolar ...
Julien THOREL
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A Privilege That Can Be Withdrawn: Regulation of Exit in Russia and Other Post‐Soviet Republics

open access: yesInternational 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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Perestroika and the Collapse of the USSR. Some Reflections

open access: yesІсторико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу
This 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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The evolutionary process of normalization of Soviet-Chinese relations and its historical significance

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2019
The normalization of Sino-Soviet relations reflects the gradual release of Chinas foreign policy from the framework of strategic thinking that emerged during the Cold War and reflects a new diplomatic concept that has developed and enriched by Chinese ...
Lu Chunyue
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DAMPAK KEBIJAKAN NAVOYE NYSCHELENIYE MIKHAIL GORBACHEV TERHADAP REUNIFIKASI JERMAN 1989 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Skripsi ini berjudul “Dampak Kebijakan Navoye Nyscheleniye Mikhail Gorbachev Terhadap Reunifikasi Jerman 1989”. Tulisan ini bertolak dari keresahan penulis mengenai adanya anggapan sebagian besar orang bahwa kebijakan yang berpengaruh besar terhadap ...
Ratu Dinda Rosdiana, -
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“Your Hands, Malenkov, Are Covered in Blood…”: Nikita Khrushchev and the Instrumentalization of the 1949–1952 Leningrad Affair

open access: yesThe 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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