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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 390-405, March 2026.
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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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
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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La perestroika: qué hacer con la historia [PDF]

, 1989
"El proósito de este ensayo es agregar a los estudios sobre la Perestroika el punto de vista de un observador que, sin ser ajeno al destino del pueblo soviético, ve desde adentro la agitación de una sociedad en su intento por reasimilar la ...
Macias, Luis Fernando
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Glasnost, Perestroika and Eastern Europe

, 1988
Examines the correlation between economic and political changes in Russia and Eastern Europe. Impact of Russian-style reforms on societies of East European states; Objective of the perestroika reform program; Enhancement on political role of ...
Mason, David S.
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Is Homo Economicus Performative? Evidence From a Beauty Contest Experiment With Mainstream and Non‐Mainstream Academic Economists

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 38-52, February 2026.
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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A Polanyian Framework for Analyzing a Diverse Black‐Market Economy in Cuba

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.
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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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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Inicio de la perestroika [PDF]

, 2019
El autor cuenta sus experiencias en la Unión Soviética cuando perestroika y glásnost comenzaban. Es decir, las profundas reformas de un sistema para revitalizarlo procurando que, al mismo tiempo, conserve sus rasgos ...
Torre, Asdrúbal de la
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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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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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