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, 2015 This article examines selection procedures for common citizens’ letters to Stalin, and the practices of reacting to these letters. Letters to power in general and to Stalin in particular were one of the key channels of communication between state and ...
Oleg Khlevniuk, Khlevniuk, Oleg
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Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, 2019 Tarik Cyril Amar’s review “Politics, Starvation, and Memory” of Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine. Stalin’s War on Ukraine, a book about the Holodomor, was published in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (vol. 20, no. 1, 2019).
Taras Kuzio
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Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism
Nordisk Østforum, 2023 “It is pertinent to ask to what extent certain cultural phenomena and intellectual currents from the Stalin era really were such unique features that can be branded as Stalinist…”. This is the question that motivated the anthology Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism under review here.
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Apartheid South Africa and Israel: Cold War Outposts of US Empire
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT This essay demonstrates how both Apartheid South Africa and Israel operated as outposts of US imperialism during the Cold War in related, connected, and changing ways. In addition, heightening conflicts with their respective liberation movements in the 1980s played directly into the negotiations of the Oslo Accords and the transition from ...
Gillian Hart
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The dictator’s dilemma: to punish or to assist? Plan failures and interventions under Stalin [PDF]
, 2007 A dictator issues an order, but the order is not carried out. The dictator does not know whether the order failed because the agent behaved opportunistically, or because his order contained some mistake.
Markevich, Andreĭ
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Notes from the Underground: A Letter to Stalin in Defense of Dostoevsky [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журналThe article publishes a previously unknown letter to Joseph Stalin in defense of Dostoevsky’s legacy, written in 1948. Until now, this document was preserved in the archival collection of the prominent Dostoevsky scholar A.S.
Petr A. Druzhinin
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A Causal Map Framework to Explain Support for Strong Leaders in Politics
International Social Science Journal, Volume 76, Issue 261, Page 743-758, September 2026.ABSTRACT The article introduces a computational theory explaining why some people support strong leaders in politics, arguing that this support sometimes arises because people view a strong leader as means to address social problems. The theory proposes that people develop a causal map concerning the consequences of the rise of a strong leader.
Francesco Rigoli
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A Theory of Leadership Meta‐Talk and the Talking‐Doing Gap
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2861-2893, September 2026.Abstract We identify managers' meta‐level talk about the positive purpose, meaning, and significance of their actions as an overlooked type of leadership behaviour and call it leadership meta‐talk. We outline why leadership meta‐talk is not necessarily truthful or deceptive, but selective and loosely coupled with leadership practice.
Thomas Fischer, Mats Alvesson
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Soviet industry and the red army under stalin : a military-industrial complex? [PDF]
The paper considers some of the views of the Stalin–era relationship between Soviet industry and the Red Army that are current in the literature, and disentangles some confusions of translation.
Mark Harrison
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WISDOM, 2016 The current mode of life in Russia combines the features of desperately daring steps in geopolitical domain with an amazing shyness of thought when facing the tiniest changes in theoretical constructs.Today, crowds of laymen, officials and many “learned” dignitaries in the West and in the East face the need to reject the prejudices concocted using ...
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