Karakats: the Bricolage of Hybrid Vehicles that Skate and Swim by Patrick Laviolette, Alla Sirotina

“…The region of study was part of the Soviet Union so the phenomenon of self-assembled vehicles implies socialist and communist considerations. …”
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Russian Approach to Soft Power Promotion: Conceptual Approaches in Foreign Policy by Y. Nikitina

“…Russia has a coherent normative model of regional development for the post-Soviet space. For the global level Russia formulates rules of behavior that it would like to see at the international arena, but Russia does not formulate how Russian or regional post-Soviet models of development can contribute to world development.…”
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Financial support for the development of the northern territories of the country by V. V. Prokhorov, I. P. Rozhnov, Yu. V. Erygin

“…This article studies the issues related to the economic development of the Lower Angara region located in Krasnoyarsk Territory, analyzes the state programs for the development of the Soviet and post-Soviet era territory, and makes an attempt to determine the reasons for the unsuccessful implementation of it. …”
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Ироническое начало в фельетоне Киев-город Михаила Булгакова by Antoni Bortnowski

“…It is noticeable in the title of the feuilleton, as well as in the names of its parts. The ironic image of Soviet Kiev stands in stark contrast to the vision of the city captured in the novel The White Guard. …”
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Wyjść poza krąg. O przywracaniu pedagogiki Marii Rogowskiej-Falskiej i Wiery Schmidt by Wojciech Siegień

“…The comparative analysis took into account the voices of female educators from Poland and the Soviet Union – Maria Rogowska-Falska and Vera Schmidt. …”
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Revival of the Moral Traditions in Red Army During the Great Patriotic War by E. G. Guzhva

“…Thus, according to the order of People's Commissar of Defense of the September 8,1943 the hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov was enlisted in the lists of the 1st company of 254-th Guards Rifle Regiment. …”
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«Eastern Partnership» after the Vilnius Summit by A. Chernova

“…Among them is the ambiguous legacy of the European Neighbourhood Policy, lack of membership perspective in the EU as well as the nature of societies and elites in these post-Soviet states.…”
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(De)canonization of Pushkin and Pavić: Between the status of national and world literary classics by Bulatović Boris D.

“…Such tendentious and simplified evaluations of the representative writers' of two Slavic literatures largely arise from the image of the Yugoslav and (post)Soviet crises starting at the end of the 1980s, as well as from geopolitical efforts to rearrange the mentioned areas politically, culturally and nationally. …”
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Informal networks of corruption in contemporary Lithuania: Between practice and interpretation (an attempt to study evolution of blat) by Donatas Brandišauskas

“…In Soviet times, blat existed in shortage conditions and was an alternative for central distribution of state resources that became the legitimate feature of behavior and mentality. …”
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National interests in Russia’s foreign policy by V. P. Nazarov

“…The author conducts an in-depth examination of Russian perspectives on national interests during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as throughout the Soviet era, presenting an original periodization of conceptual approaches within Soviet Russia and the USSR. …”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Sociology of the Arts by Biggart John

“…This article is based on works by Bogdanov, few of which have been re-published in post-Soviet Russia and most of which are not available in other languages. …”
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(Nie)zwyczajna kremlowska codzienność - Fabien Nury, Thierry Robin: "Śmierć Stalina. Prawdziwa historia... radziecka" by Marcin Kowalczyk

“…Marked by dread and uncertainty, the everyday reality in the Kremlin during Joseph Stalin’s era is one such case evocatively presented in Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin’s graphic novel The Death of Stalin: A True Soviet Story. The article demonstrates how history can be artistically reworked through the comic medium. …”
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The position of Lithuanian parties towards Poland in 1920-1926: from modus vivendi to permanent confrontation by Andrius Grodis

“…However, despite the hostility to Poland entrenched in society, the leaders of political parties who envisioned the greatest danger to the state's independence from Soviet Russia and Germany actively sought pacific means of resuming the historical capital of the state and for ways of friendly affiliation of interstate relations.  …”
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‘LONG-SUFFERING LANDS’ BETWEEN POLAND AND BELARUS. POLITICS OF STATE HISTORY IN BELARUS ABOUT SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1939, WORLD WAR II, AND BUILDING THE NATION by Florin ANGHEL

“…Belarus has experienced, since the mid-1990s, a return to Soviet interpretations of historical events, being an extreme case of rehabilitation and glorification of the communist legacy. …”
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The Shaping of New Ethnic Clusters in Kalmykia, 1957–1991 by Sergey S. Belousov

“…Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, urgently evacuated Meskhetian Turks and Kurds were also resettled to the republic. …”
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Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė: Why Classic? by Dalia Čiočytė

“…Vanda Zaborskaitė wrote during the period of Soviet occupation, when Marxist criticism was obligatory. …”
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FUTURE TRENDS OF FORMATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGIME ON THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION SECURITY by E. S. Zinovieva

“…Russia can form a regional information security regime in the former Soviet Union on the basis of the CSTO and SCO and potentially on a wider Eurasian space. …”
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The theory of «pairs of cities» in Old Russian state genesis (using the example of the «pair» Chernihiv – Shestovitsa in Ukrainian historiography) by V. V. Kovelya, E. A. Shinakov

“…Particular attention is focused on the Ukrainian historiography of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, presented in the works of such historians as F.A. …”
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A Critique on the Book History of Iranian Studies in Russia by Abbas Panahi

“…Given that the book The History of Iranian Studies in Russia is one of the most recent works in the field of Iranian studies in Russia, the author was expected to critique the achievements of Russian Iranologists with an analytical approach; especially for the fact that, during the communist era, the Russians attached special importance to Iranian studies in line with the plans and policies of the ruling Soviet party. Because in the Soviet period, Iranian studies were based on the course of historical one-line theory and the proof of historical determinism. …”
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La jamaʿat al Tabligh en Asie centrale : réactivation des liens islamiques avec le sous continent indien et insertion dans un islam mondialisé by Bayram Balci

“…However, when Central Asian post-Soviet republics became independent in 1991, they renewed all kinds of links with the Indian subcontinent. …”
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