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Comparative Advantages and Limitations of Qualitative Strategy of Comparison as Applied to Russian Cases of Perestroika Period's Representation in History Textbooks

open access: yes, 2014
The paper is devoted to the analyses of the results of the comparative research of perestroika periodrepresentations in Russian textbooks on history. Research design and research results are discussed in aframework of distinction between qualitative and ...
A. Gorylev   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dynamic changes in the structure and concentration of the international grain and oilseed trading industry

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 1561-1582, September 2025.
Abstract This paper aims to describe the evolution of firm and industry strategies and to analyze detailed transaction data on the structure of the international grain trading industry. Specifically, data are developed from vessel nominations, and these were used to derive measures of concentration and determine how these change across selected ...
William W. Wilson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Patterns in Private Writing: Computational Insights into Russophone Diaries

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 484-501, July 2025.
Abstract Diaries seem to contain almost anything; how could it be otherwise, given the diversity of their authors, the variety of contexts in which they are authored, and the range of reasons for authoring them? But examining diaries en masse, using computationally assisted reading, discloses large‐scale commonalities obscured by the local variance ...
Tatyana Gershkovich   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why perestroika? [PDF]

open access: yes
Soviet ...
Ramon Moreno
core  

The Yenisei Makes the Weather: The Microclimate of the Krasnoyarsk Dam and Its Research, 1960s–1990s

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 2, Page 249-266, April 2025.
Abstract When Soviet authorities began building the Krasnoyarsk Dam in 1956, the Yenisei River had an ice‐free period of only 112 days a year. The thick and long‐lasting ice impeded dam building and navigation. However, as the dam rose, it produced an environmental anomaly; for more than 200 kilometers downstream, the Yenisei became ice‐free year‐round.
Mariia Koskina
wiley   +1 more source

Football's coming home ? digital reterritorialization, contradictions in the transnational coverage of sport and the sociology of alternative football broadcasts. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article critically utilizes the work of Manuel Castells to discuss the issue of parallel imported broadcasts (specifically including live-streams) in football.
Baimbridge   +34 more
core   +4 more sources

A Dormant Giant: Renewable Energy in the Soviet Union and Russia (1970s–Present)

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 2, Page 267-282, April 2025.
Abstract In spring 1981 the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party officially sanctioned the start of an “alternative” renewable energy development program in the Soviet Union. Throughout the following decade, some two hundred organizations in the USSR were involved in research and development activities and installing test facilities for ...
Benjamin Beuerle
wiley   +1 more source

Draft deferments and higher education: New evidence from a totalitarian state

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 87-114, March 2025.
Abstract Previous studies report mixed results regarding the relationship between military conscription and educational incentives. We provide new evidence from a distinct institutional environment—the Soviet Union, a totalitarian and centrally planned superpower.
Vahe Lskavyan
wiley   +1 more source

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