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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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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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Mikhail Gorbachev and the Politics of Perestroika
Russian History, 2023 Abstract Archie Brown notes how the meaning of perestroika, a concept Gorbachev used well before he became Soviet leader, changed over time. The focus is on Gorbachev as a politician operating in the Soviet domestic context. Contrary to widespread retrospective belief, the USSR was not in crisis when Gorbachev became general secretary, and he was not ...
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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Sad delusions: The decline and rise of Greater Europe
Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2021 The end of the Cold War was accompanied by the idea that the fall of the Berlin Wall represented the beginning of the unification of Europe. Mikhail Gorbachev talked in terms of a “Common European Home,” an idea that continues in the guise of the project
Richard Sakwa
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China's Reforms: Compared to Those of Mikhail Gorbachev [PDF]
, 2013 [[abstract]]專題演講 China's Reforms: Compared to Those of Mikhail Gorbachev Professor Thomas P. Bernstein 主題：China's Reforms: Compared to Those of Mikhail Gorbachev 演講者：Professor Thomas P.
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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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Ибероамериканские тетради, 2022 The results of the Caribbean crisis in the domestic and foreign literature have rarely been covered from the point of view of the Soviet-Cuban relations that influenced the internationalist policy of Cuba in Africa in the 1970s.
B. F. Martynov
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Shadow Education in the Soviet and Post‐Soviet Eras: A Political‐Economic Analysis of Changing Tides
European Journal of Education, Volume 60, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT Focusing on the shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring, this paper contains comparisons over time and place in the distinctive circumstances of the Soviet Union and the 15 independent countries that emerged following its collapse in 1991. The paper uses the lenses of politics and economics to understand changing tides in the
Mark Bray, Tatiana Mikhaylova
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Chinese Reaction and Interpretation of 1991 Events in the Soviet Union
Международная аналитика, 2021 The article is timed to coincide with two anniversaries: centenary of the Communist Party of China, and thirty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. According to the author’s idea, these two anniversaries correlate: analysis of the reasons and
I. Y. Zuenko
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