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The author analyzes the points of view of Russian authors on the history of privatization in Russia, and they are compared with the opinion of foreign researchers.
A. S. Vashchuk
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Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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Soviet Politics and Journalism under Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika and Glasnost: Why Hopes Failed
The terms perestroika (literally, "transformation") and glasnost (literally, "transparency ") refer to the social change that took place in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.
Dmitry Strovsky, Ron Schleifer
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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World
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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KGB activity against lithuanian emigree in national revival period (1988–1991)
Once started, the ‘perestroika’ (‘reform movement’) changed the established order in the Soviet Union. The Soviet security organs also had to adapt to the new changes. Their capacity for harsh action was severely limited, and the accompanying Lithuanian
Darius Juodis
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ABSTRACT Does studying mainstream microeconomics cause individuals to behave more like the textbook version of homo economicus? Most studies suggesting a positive answer have used student samples and focused on self‐interested behaviors in collective dilemma situations.
Mikhail Sokolov, Alexander Libman
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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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A Polanyian Framework for Analyzing a Diverse Black‐Market Economy in Cuba
ABSTRACT Inspired by Carmen Diana Deere's work, we examine how planned economies, markets and communal economies interrelate to co‐produce Cuba's agricultural economy. We show the variety of noncapitalist practices interrelated with and embedded in the black market and how these interactions produce diverse ethics.
Federica Bono, John C. Finn
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Settlements and Localities of Kalmykia: Administrative-Territorial Changes and Renaming, 1990–1991
Introduction. The period of perestroika was a time of active reform in all spheres of the Soviet state and society, which was reflected in changes in administrative and territorial structures throughout the country and its regions. Goals.
Evgeniy A. Gunaev
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Chinese Reaction and Interpretation of 1991 Events in the Soviet Union
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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