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Practices of public debates during perestroika (discussing the film Emergency of the District Scale) [PDF]

, 2023
Arseniy D. Moiseenko
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 233-245, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
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Helmut Kohl: Facing the challenge of history

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2017
In modern history, when reality is subject to rapid and radical change, the role of personality – whether a statesman or a politician – can be very significant in the process of making such changes and in achieving specific results.
Boris Petelin
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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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History of the Physical Culture and Sports Movement in the Kemerovo Region in the Mid-1980s

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2020
The article features the changes and reforms in the sphere of physical culture and sport in 1980s. It focuses on the case of the All-Union amateur sports society of the labor unions of the Kemerovo region. During the perestroika period, this organization
Yu. V. Vorozko, O. P. Cherveva
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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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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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Video Assistant Referee(ndums): A Populist Weapon or Effective Tool to Stop Autocrats in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America?

Latin American Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, video assistant referee systems have been increasingly used to correct unfair decisions in sports. Similarly, I argue that constitutional referendums play a corrective role in hybrid or competitive authoritarian regimes, where the electoral referee is biased and the government enjoys unfair advantages.
Muhammet Derviş Mete
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Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together?

The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 4, Page 628-645, October 2025.
Abstract In Russia, positive attitudes toward a free market economy and competition are firmly associated with the “Western” intellectual imports the country experienced in the 1990s. Anti‐Western intellectuals and politicians typically embrace an anti‐market stance calling for an economy with greater level of governmental interventions.
Alexander Libman
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Mikhail Gorbachev's First Visit to Britain: 30 Years on

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014
The article explores the significance of Mikhail Gorbachev's first journey to the UK in December 1984 for the East-West relations. The visit was initiated by Margaret Thatcher who wanted to get acquainted with the potential Soviet leader as she hoped to ...
Konstantin V. Shlykov
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