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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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Gorbachev, the Generals and the "Turn to the Right" [PDF]
, 1991 This thesis attempts to guage the effects, on Soviet Western relations and East European stability, of the conservative turn taken by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in late 1990, early 1991.
Corrigan, Michael J.
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Sobre a história da política externa da Rússia: o “paradigma” de Primakov
TopoiRESUMO Baseada na leitura das obras publicadas do antigo chanceler e primeiro-ministro russo Evguêni Primakov, com destaque na sua atuação nos governos de Mikhail Gorbachev e Boris Yeltsin, o artigo debruça-se sobre alguns vetores fundamentais da ...
Alexander Zhebit
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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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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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Eastern Review, 2016 If in the West perestroika and its initiator, Mikhail Gorbachev evoke, almost involuntarily, mostly warm and positive connotations, Russians’ attitude and assessment towards them are, more and more explicitly and unequivocally, strongly negative ...
Marian Broda
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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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Representative Les AuCoin meets Mikhail Gorbachev
, 1986 Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue meet Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union. In typed notes about the image, AuCoin writes: "Sue and I were members of Speaker Jim Wright's 1986 mission to Moscow. At the Kremlin, I talked briefly with
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Studia Maritima, 2016 The article presents the concept of the British foreign policy towards the states of Central and Eastern Europe, made by Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe at the end of 1980s, when the cold war was just about to be over.
Paweł Leszczyński
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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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