Fiction books translations for children: publishing in Lithuania in 1940-1990 by Vita Mozūraitė

“…There were many challenges associated with translations, most of which were dictated by central departments in Moscow that regulated all publishing activities in the Soviet Union. …”
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Interethnic relations between Belarusians and Poles under the conditions of the new state identity development in 1921–1939 by N.A. Markelov

“…The omission of this fact in both USSR's and after-war Poland's government strategies concerning the region complicated the integration of Western Belarus into the Soviet state (in the BSSR), extended the period of instability after the World War II (in the whole region), consolidated the profound and hidden unfriendliness between the neighboring Slavic nations – Poles and Belarusian (in the part of the region controlled by Poland).…”
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NATURE-USE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by V. A. Gorbanyov

“…The relationship of the concept of rational nature-use, developed by Soviet scientists in the mid-twentieth century, and the concept of sustainable development, suggested by Western scientists is studied. …”
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ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL REGIME OF THE NORTHERN DELIVERY AS A FACTOR OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTH AND THE ARCTIC ZONE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION by Galina V. Goncharuk

“…At different periods of time, different delivery schemes were used to supply such territories - with a greater or lesser degree of state participation. Thus, during the Soviet period, northern deliveries were carried out entirely at the expense of the state. …”
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Interaction of Linguistic and Literary Aspects in the Context of the Cultural Diversity of the Turkic Peoples of Central Asia by Omorov Aitmamat, Chokoeva Dilbar, Kalchakeyev Kubanychbek, Sheripbayev Amangeldi, Kochorova Gulumkan

“…The results showed that the Turkic languages have gone through a difficult path of evolution under the influence of various cultural and political factors, such as the Mongol conquests and Russification in the Soviet period. The languages were significantly enriched with borrowings from Persian, Arabic, and Russian, which affected their vocabulary and grammar.…”
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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“… As the Soviet historical archives became accessible to Western scholars beginning in the 1980s, renewed scrutiny was placed on the imperial-colonial policies of the Russian Empire toward its borderlands. …”
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Belief and Disbelief in the Space Between, 1914-1945 by Jean-Christophe MURAT

“…In his particular case, this meant turning his back on the middle-class nonconformist milieu he had been born into, and which had shaped his initial project to become a Methodist preacher, and deciding instead to help forward the civil war that should lead to a Soviet-inspired revolution in Britain. Hyde’s communism, however, never sat comfortably with the official line, despite the fact that he spent almost two decades tirelessly organising all sorts of Party-led campaigns, and about ten years working as news editor for the Daily Worker. …”
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RISKS OF LOSING CONTROLLABILITY WHILE LIBERALIZING THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY by Yu. S. Petrusha

“…The recapitulation of the Russian Federation power industry privatization substantiates concerns of the liberal ideas poor survivability in the ex-Soviet territories. The results of degradation of the secure-functioning environment demonstrate affinity of the mechanisms that triggered the Chernobyl NPP, Fukusima NPP, and Sayan-Shushenskya HPP disasters. …”
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CENTRAL ASIA IN SEARCH FOR ITS OWN WAY OF INTEGRATION by E. V. Makhmutova

“…It can be seen by the updates in the foreign policy concepts of most of the post-Soviet Central Asian countries. Another driver of the issue is the growing international activity of Uzbekistan which is due to the new President of the republic elected in 2016. …”
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The Development of the US National Missile Defense and its Impact on the International Security by J. Yu. Parshkova

“…The United States and the former Soviet Union made huge efforts to reduce and limit offensive arms. …”
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Land Reforms in Post-Socialist Mountain Regions and their Impact on Land Use Management: a Case Study from the Caucasus by Alexey Gunya

“…The land reforms of the 1990s in the former Soviet republics led to the elimination of the state’s monopoly on the ownership of land, a revival in local communities and a rise in business activity. …”
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DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT OF US INVOLVMENT IN THE KOREAN WAR JUNE 25 – JULY 6 1950: CRISIS RESPONSE EXPERIENCE by V. Yungblud, D. Sadakov

“…Washington’s actions were justified by its resolutions adopted thanks to a boycott of the UN SC by the Soviet representative. At the same time, the history of local conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries show that the US can use other rather weak excuses for military interventions.Along with legitimization of intervention, in the early days of the Korean War, American diplomacy worked on localization of the conflict, isolation of the theater of war, formed an UN based international coalition to participate in war, neutralized Washington’s political opponents in the international arena, and coordinated assistance to Republic of Korea. …”
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A new source of S.I. Archangelsky's biography by K.V. Fedoseeva

“…These new data enable a more complete restoration of the early stage of life of Sergei Ivanovich Arkhangelsky, who was one of the most famous Soviet historians of medieval times (specializing in the history of England). …”
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Structural shifts in the Baltic States’ foreign trade by Vladimir G. Varnavskii

“…Professor Gennady Fedorov, Doctor of Geography and a distinguished Soviet and Russian researcher, made a significant contribution to the study of economic development in the Baltic states, particularly in their economic relations with Russia. …”
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Transforming Novosibirsk into the capital of Siberia in the early 1920s by S. A. Papkov

“…Radical measures were taken to solve the difficulties: emergency commissions were set up to search for and distribute premises, mass evictions outside the city of residents not connected with service in Soviet institutions were carried out. But these measures had only a minor effect — the housing crisis and the shortage of office space persisted for decades. …”
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The activities of the Ukrainian SSR militia in combating crime in the early 1960s. by V. A. Grechenko

“…Striking were the figures showing a large number of premeditated murders of newborn children, which indicated the low moral level of some Soviet people and their social disadvantage. As in previous years, the militia used mainly operational measures to combat crime, and also carried out some preventive work among the population to identify and verify signals of death threats, as well as criminal intentions and intentions of individual citizens. …”
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The impact of centralization on structural changes in healthcare: when it works by Sergey Shishkin, Igor Sheiman, Elena Potapchik, Vasily Vlassov, Svetlana Sazhina

“…PurposeAfter a decade of post-Soviet decentralization of the healthcare in Russia the opposite trend has been dominating. …”
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Technical standardization work in Leningrad industry (1928–1937) by A. V. Kolobova

“…Abstract: The question about the planned nature of the Soviet economy, as well as standard of living of production workers in the late 1920-ies and early 1930-ies remains controversial in science. …”
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Baltic States in NATO: Results of the Decade by V. V. Vorotnikov

“…In the post-Soviet period participation in NATO was one of the major goals of euro-atlantic integration for the Baltic states. …”
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FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL ELITES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES by Роман КОЗАЧЕНКО

“…The problem of democratic legitimacy of political elites in the conditions of postmodernism, especially in post-Soviet countries, where political elites are influenced by both internal and external factors, is highlighted. …”
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