Janina Kwiatkowska, Through Kazakhstan and Stalinist Poland to London – an emigrant’s story
The article is the result of field research carried out by the author in Great Britain in 2013. It is a study of one of 21 accounts recorded with the oldest living Polish emigrants in London.
Ewelina Olaszek
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Stalinist Cosmopolitanism [PDF]
Review of Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941 by Katerina Clark. Cambridge, MA: harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. 432.
Lee, Steven S
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Cruelty and Health Inequity. [PDF]
Chin MH, Muramatsu N, Pollack HA.
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Bonbons and Bolsheviks: The Stigmatization of Chocolate in Revolutionary Russia [PDF]
This essay examines how and why how the official Party attitude toward chocolate changed rather dramatically during the first two decades of Communist rule.
LeBlanc, Ronald D.
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The temple of the new faith. Film images of the construction of the Palace of Culture 1952–1955
The first study of its kind, Marek Hendrykowski’s paper examines frame by frame the symbolic role of the construction of the Palace of Culture in the ideological context of the Stalinist period and its emergence into the realm of public discourse in the
Marek Hendrykowski
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The Impact of Vavilov's Concept of the Centres of Crop Origin and Diversity on Research, Conservation, and Utilisation of Plant Genetic Resources Today: A Review on the Occasion of Vavilov's 135th Anniversary. [PDF]
Loskutov IG, Ebert AW, Diederichsen A.
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The Ethnic 'Other' in Ukrainian History Textbooks: The Case of Russia and the Russians [PDF]
This paper examines portrayals of Russia and the Russians in two generations of Ukrainian history textbooks. It observes that the textbooks are highly condemning of Ukraine's main ethnic other in the guise of foreign ruler: the tsarist authorities and ...
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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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“A Great President”: Alexander A. Troyanovsky’s Unpublished Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
This article examines previously unpublished typescripts by Alexander A. Troyanovsky, the first Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1933–1938), preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI).
V. V. Vorotnikov, E. S. Pankov
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Z dziejów francuskiej debaty o kinie stalinowskim
From the French debate about Stalinist cinema Through the juxtaposition of texts by Andre Bazin and Georges Sadoul, the author reconstructs a stormy debate on the reception of Soviet cinema from the Stalinist era in 1950s France.
TADEUSZ SZCZEPAŃSKI
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