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Repressions in 1930s Soviet Armenia

open access: yes, 2010
One of the characteristics of Soviet history is the mass political repression that began in Russia in 1917 when the Bolsheviks came to power. Soviet power was established in Armenia at the end of 1920 following the collapse of the First Republic of Armenia (May 1918 - November 1920).
Melkonian, Eduard
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Under the Weight of the Soviet Legacy and Political Repressions: The Radical Left in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

open access: yesThe Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2021
Abstract Mass protest movements of the early 2010s, particularly the Occupy movement, stimulated the rise of radical left organizations globally. In Southern Europe, radical left parties celebrated their first electoral successes. In Russia, radical left organizations were also influenced by this upsurge of social protest movements and participated in ...
Sergey Sergeev, Alexandra Kuznetsova
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Repressions of the OGPU-NKVD-NKGB against Gypsies 1932–1941: On newly discovered materials from Ukrainian archives

open access: yesRomani Studies, 2023
This article deals with a little-explored part of the history of the Gypsies: the repressions against them by the Soviet state security organs in the 1930s and 1940s.
ANDRII ZHYVYUK
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Soviet Armed Forces in Lithuania in 1939–1941

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija, 2021
During the first period of bringing the Soviet armed forces into the country, Soviet officers remained neutral in Lithuania for some time, however, they violated the Lithuanian border on the frontier, kidnapped our ordinary citizens and officials under ...
Gintautas Miknevičius
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Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union [PDF]

open access: yesIMF Working Papers, 2000
The Soviet ruling elite, the nomenklatura, used both cooption and political repression to encourage loyalty to the communist regime. Loyalty was critical both in defusing internal opposition to the rule of the nomenklatura and in either deterring or defeating foreign enemies of the Soviet Union.
Hershel I. Grossman, Dmitry Gershenson
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The Legacies of Soviet Repression and Displacement

open access: yes, 2023
This book explores the ways in which memories of Stalin-era repression and displacement manifest across times and places through diverse forms of materialization. The chapters of the book explore the concrete mobilities of life stories, letters, memoirs, literature, objects, and bodies reflecting Soviet repression and violence across borders of ...
Samira Saramo, Ulla Savolainen
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Stalin’s Repressions and Rehabilitation of the Victims in the Politics of Memory in Uzbekistan

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija
This article is devoted to the analysis of how Stalin’s repressions are represented in the politics of memory in Uzbekistan, becoming part of the process of constructing a national ideological discourse.
Azim Malikov
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The role of judicial authorities in criminal proceedings for political crimes in the Stalinist period: modern historiography

open access: yesПравоприменение, 2019
The subject. Historiography of the participation of the judicial authorities in mass repressions in Soviet Union in the 1930s-1950s.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove the hypothesis that the number of studies of the historical ...
Alexander Ya. Kodintsev
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“Actually, they used to pay no notice of”: Soviet Law Enforcement and Gender-Related Violence Problem in Historical Sources

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija, 2019
After occupation and annexation of Lithuania, soviet government started to reorganize such institution like police and courts. Repressed former juridical elite, qualified independent jurist were changes by unqualified immigrants or by other loyal to ...
Monika Kareniauskaitė
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The Legacy of State Repression on Contemporary Trust: Indiscriminate versus Targeted Repression in Soviet Russia [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Indiscriminate state repression leaves long-term negative consequences on interpersonal trust and trust in state institutions. In this paper, we investigate whether a variation in density of Soviet police forces, which governed the level of selectivity in repression execution, lead to heterogeneity in long-term trust response to repression.
Nemanja Cocic   +2 more
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