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The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
wiley   +1 more source

The leader cult in communist Romania 1965-1989: constructing Ceaușescu's uniqueness in painting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This study focuses on Ceaușescu’s cult in painting. Its aim is to demonstrate that in spite of obvious similarities with the master cult of Stalin, the Romanian leader's cult was not a simple adaptation of Stalin's cult, but it had its own ...
Mocanescu, Alice Carmen Rodica
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The orphaned orchard in Crimea, the dead poets, and the persistence of Ukrainian cultural legacy

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract This essay draws from the author's personal experiences to examine how forgetting and remembering operate in Ukrainian society following the totalitarian era, particularly under the ongoing full‐scale Russian invasion. It draws on ideas from Paul Connerton, Alexander Etkind, and Tamara Hundorova regarding memory and the effects of violence on ...
Julia Buyskykh
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Mobilisations, Interventions, and Cultural Policy

open access: yes, 2012
There are four themes that weave their way through the research thread on Mobilisations, Interventions, and Cultural Policy in this issue. First, there is concern with intervention—intervention into the politics and practices of social movements and ...
Emma Dowling
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SEMIOTICS OF GENOCIDE: CURRENT PRACTICES IN THE DESTRUCTION OF IDENTITY

open access: yesСтратегічна панорама
The article addresses the issue of genocide against Ukraine, perpetrated by the Russian Federation. Acts of extreme mass violence are accompanied by a clear symbolic component which operates with signs and meanings, weaponizing them.
Borys Parakhonsky, Galina Yavorska
doaj   +1 more source

IMPLICATION IN YOUNG ADULT NOVELS ABOUT THE GDR: HISTORICAL FICTION FOR A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 472-494, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the pedagogical potential of young adult literature about East Germany to help readers reflect on the legacies of authoritarian rule and questions of responsibility, accountability and agency. Drawing on Michael Rothberg's concept of the implicated subject, I argue that young adult literature exploring implication offers ...
Kristin Rebien
wiley   +1 more source

Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 478-494, October 2026.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Palliative Care into the Health System in Lebanon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
K2P Policy Briefs bring together global research evidence, local evidence and context-specific knowledge to inform deliberations about health policies and programmes.
Souiedan, Sara   +2 more
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(Re)inventing Genocide: Legal and Political Implications of the “Genocide of Soviet People” in (Post‐)Soviet Russia

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 513-529, October 2026.
Abstract This article examines the emergence and instrumentalization of the concept of the “genocide of the Soviet people” in both Soviet and post‐Soviet contexts, tracing its historical evolution and contemporary use in chronological perspective.
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Irina Rebrova
wiley   +1 more source

The state of scientific research of militia activity in Ukraine during the period of partial liberalisation of the political regime in the USSR (1953–1962)

open access: yesLaw and Safety
The historiography of militia activity during the years of partial de-Stalinisation is divided into two stages: the Soviet period and the period of Ukraine’s independence.
V. A. Grechenko, O. N. Yarmysh
doaj   +1 more source

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