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Satire and Silence under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
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Book Review: Mikhail S. Gorbachev: An Intimate Biography [PDF]

, 1989
Book Review of: Mikhail S.
Clifford, Guy
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Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 888-906, September 2026.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 310-326, June 2026.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World

Museum 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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Perestroika and the Collapse of the USSR. Some Reflections

Історико-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

RUDN 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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Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell (eds.): Alcohol: Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters

Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, 2020
Review of ALCOHOL: Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters (ed. by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell, 2017).
Evgenia Trufanova
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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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Building the Future: Metaphors of Construction in the Political Discourse of M. S. Gorbachev

, 2021
В статье рассматривается моделирование строительных метафор в политическом дискурсе М. С. Горбачева.In modern linguistics, studies of metaphors in political discourse are quite common, but among them there are relatively few in which the construction ...
Чжан Тинтин, Zhang Tingting, Tingting Zhang   +2 more
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