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The Internal Affairs Agencies of the Soviet State in the Period of Stalinism in the Context of Russian Historiography

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2019
The article examines Russian historiography related to the history of the internal affairs agencies in the period of Stalinism. Based on the analysis of publications by Soviet and modern Russian historians, it describes the main stages, problems and ...
Alexander Kuzminykh
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The History of Political Repression in the Vologda Region (1918–1953): the last monograph by Professor V. Konasov

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2021
The monograph under review considers the tragic pages of mass terror and the activity of special settlements, prisons and labor camps in the territory of Vologda Oblast in the period between 1918 and 1953 against the general historical background.
Alexander L. Kuzminykh
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The orphaned orchard in Crimea, the dead poets, and the persistence of Ukrainian cultural legacy

Anthropology 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
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An act of gathering: Scholarship from posttotalitarian contexts

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Researching a community living through violence and its aftermath reshapes the ethical stakes of the work and challenges claims to academic objectivity by foregrounding insights drawn from the lived experience of the field. My discussion here is structured around three such insights. The first is that a community after violence is not simply a
Olena Sobolieva
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IMPLICATION IN YOUNG ADULT NOVELS ABOUT THE GDR: HISTORICAL FICTION FOR A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE

German 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
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RUSCISM AS A NEW VERSION OF TOTALITARIANISM

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна: Серія "Питання політології", 2022
This paper is devoted to clarifying the essence of ruscism as a phenomenon of modern socio-political reality. It is noted that the concept of ruscism appeared in public and scientific circulation as a result of the formation of Putin's regime in Russia ...
Oleksandr Romanyuk
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GENDER, POWER AND IMPLICATION IN ANTJE RÁVIK STRUBEL'S NOVEL BLAUE FRAU

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 537-556, October 2026.
Abstract By bringing Michael Rothberg's notion of the ‘implicated subject’ into conversation with feminist scholarship, this article examines Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau, a novel that addresses both structural violence and specific instances of sexualised violence in a European context.
Friederike Eigler
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

The 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
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Stalin’s cult in Georgian colours: historical narratives and cultural work in the production of Georgian Stalinism, 1924–1956

This thesis explores the complex relationship between Stalinism and Georgian nationalism, which has attracted growing scholarly interest in recent years. However, it goes beyond merely describing the persistence of pro-Stalinist sentiments in Georgia and
Kartsivadze, Megi
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The Dynamic of Repression: The Global Impact of the Stalinist Model, 1944-1953

The Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2014
No abstract available. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/mjia.v0i10.123 The Mongolian Journal of International Affairs; Number 10, 2003, Pages 120 ...
Szalontai Balazs
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