OUTSTANDING RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS: DIMITRY AND ELENA WENTZEL by V. I. LEVIN

“…Wentzel in the field of ballistics, his contribution to publishing textbooks for military universities, his experience in training highly qualified personnel (candidates, doctors, academicians), his scientific and organizational activities (the creation of the Faculty of Armaments in the VVIA, the foundation of the Academy of Artillery Sciences of the USSR and others). The special aim of the paper was to recreate the human images of Elena and Dimitry Wentzel.…”
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Juvenile delinquency in the 1960s and the activities of the militia to prevent it by V. A. Grechenko

“…The presence of a large number of crimes committed by juveniles indicated significant shortcomings in the militia's activities in this area, but the objective root cause of such phenomena was the social conditions of life in the USSR.…”
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UKRAINIAN PEASANTRY AS AN OBJECT OF AGRARIAN REFORMS by G. G. Krivchik

“…The author uses the following methods: dialectical – in the depiction of the controversial nature of agrarian reforms; retrospective – in determination of the main stages of agrarian transformations inUkraine; comparative – in revealing common and different features in the agrarian policy of theUSSR and modernUkraine.The scientific novelty is in the substantiation of the natural unity of economic and social policies in agriculture, the use of a variety of historical sources for this purpose. …”
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Some issues of adaptation of the post-soviet managerial elite to new social relations (socio-cultural aspect) by D. V. Maslov

“…The problem of adaptation of the post-Soviet administrative elite to the social relations formed as a result of reforms in the USSR - Russia at the end of XX century - in the beginning of XXI century. …”
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A new monograph by Konstantin Frumkin [Review: Frumkin K.G. Admiring the Academic Class: Reflection of the Social History of Soviet Science in Literature, Art, and Public Rhetoric.... by D.E. Martynov, Yu.A. Martynova

“…The author describes it as a “class mythology” characterized by undisguised elitism and “talent-centric racism.” The collapse of the USSR did not destroy Russian science, but the public enthusiasm for it practically dried up. …”
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The introduction of the metric system of weights and measures in the Omsk district in the 1920s by I. V. Makarov

“…The article is devoted the process metric reform of the 1920s, which is one of the most important parts of the history of Russian and Siberian metrology and an integral part of the socio-economic modernization of the USSR, in the Omsk district. The purpose of the article is to establish the circumstances of the metric reform in the Omsk district, as well as to identify the problems and difficulties that arose during the transition to the metric system of weights and measures. …”
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Mobilization of plant genetic resources from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan by N. P. Loskutova, T. M. Ozerskaya

“…From Pakistan 338 samples were received, mostly through the USSR Ministry of Agriculture. Only 28 accessions were added to the Institute’s collection from Bangladesh. …”
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Features of childhood in rear Siberian city during the great Patriotic War (on the example of Omsk) by M. S. Nosova

“…Extreme organizational and pedagogical conditions of schools, increased attention to the organization of Patriotic education of children in relation to the problems of wartime, difficulties in buying or sewing clothes, as well as the lack of basic toys for children were fully manifested in Omsk and were also inherent in other rear regions of the USSR. A feature of the Omsk region was the fundamental importance of helping children in agricultural work. …”
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Exploring Lessons from Soviet Diplomacy and Western Allied Cooperation in World War II by V. O. Pechatnov

“…It also acknowledges dissenting voices in Anglo-American political spheres who advocated for a more equitable relationship with the USSR. However, these perspectives did not significantly alter the overarching direction of Western policy.…”
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POLAND’S “EASTERN POLICY”: FROM “UKRAINE, LITHUANIA, BELARUS” TO THE «EASTERN PARTNERSHIP» by Anna V. Chernova

“…Throughout Poland’s history this region was of a prominent role, at times being a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and at other times some kind of a “no-man’s land”, while taking its current shape only after the USSR and the Eastern block collapse.Though Russia is often considered to be a part of Poland’s “Eastern Policy”, the difference is clear in the nature of relationship between Warsaw and Moscow and that of the “ULB” (Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus). …”
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Contradictions of Collective Security Model: Modern Historiography on the Evolution of the Versailles System of International Relations in the 1930s by A. A. Vershinin

“…Historians see the reasons for its failure in an incorrect assessment of Hitler's policy due to thinking in the spirit of collective security. The position of the USSR is more contested among historians. In recent works, however, there appears the consensus that the reason for the failure of the project of a military-political alliance aimed at containing Germany was the unwillingness of the West to strategic interaction with Moscow and its adherence to the principles of «new diplomacy» at a time when it already lost their relevance.…”
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Une justice rendue sous silence : juger les collaborateurs des nazis en Pologne dans les années 1950 et 1960 by Audrey Kichelewski

“…Nevertheless, they reveal the evolving judicial narrative on local collaboration during the Holocaust in the 1960s, while pointing at the intense circulations of information within the Eastern bloc (many trials dealt with crimes committed in territories now located in the USSR) and at times also with the West. My paper will focus on one specific trial, which involved the direct participation of Jewish survivors who initiated and came to testify in person or through letters from the USA or Israel, against the chief member of the local police of Braslaw, a border town in postwar Soviet Belarus. …”
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ON VARIETY OF INTEGRATION PROCESSES IN EUROPE by L. S. Voronkov

“…In case the idea of reestablishment of an unified state on the remains of the former USSR, linked to the necessity to hand over the recently acquired sovereignty to it, is laid down to the ground for practical measures of integration, this kind of integration will hardly be attractive to the potential post-Soviet participants. …”
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Features of Legal Regulation of Employment Contracts with Seasonal and Temporary Employees by A. Ya. Radzividlo

“…The norms of the decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Rada of the USSR “On working conditions of temporary employees and officials” dated from September 24, 1974 No. 311-09 and “On working conditions of employees and officials engaged in seasonal work” dated from September 24, 1974 No. 310-09 have been analyzed . …”
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The Czechoslovak Crisis of 1948 in the Perception of American Diplomats and Media by A. V. Zorin

“…It directly impacted the US containment policy towards the USSR and the escalation of the Cold War. Based on archival documents and newspapers articles, the research studies these events through their perception by American media and diplomats, whose opinions and interpretations had great and decisive importance for the US public opinion and its government official reaction. …”
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The Official Lithuanian Language in the Interwar Years by Aldonas Pupkis

“…The article aims to show the state of the Lithuanian language in the years of the national movement at the turn of the 20th century and its functioning in the restored independent Lithuanian state from 1918 up to 1940 when it was occupied by the USSR. Under the rule of the Russian Empire, the Lithuanian language was confined to the domestic setting: the press in the Latin script was banned and the use of Lithuanian in public was prohibited. …”
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«Conceptually, we should write not about how we won, but about how we fought on a long journey and through losses came to the Great Victory...» by A. A. Zdanovich

“…Aleksander Aleksandrovich Zdanovich — Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, veteran of the KGB of the USSR and the FSB of Russia, retired lieutenant general, professor of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, the author of several monographs on the history of Russian special services and the Great Patriotic War. …”
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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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History of the FGBI “ARRIAH” international cooperation on foot-and-mouth disease (on occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Institute) by V. М. Zakharov

“…It consisted of the specialists of the veterinary services, research and educational institutions from all the republics of the USSR.A common research programme aimed at the development and implementation of effective tools and methods for FMD control was worked out. …”
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THE METHODOLOGY OF COST MANAGEMENT IN THE MODERN SOCIETY by P. Labzunov

“…The top-down administrative system for industrial enterprises' activity and cost management, which functioned in the USSR, is destroyed even in the 90's of past century, and industrial enterprises, large companies preserved only the separate elements of cost management system, they mainly use the methods of limitation and expenditures control, while the integrated system for expenditures management is necessary. …”
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