Introduction to “Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities”

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Migration and Restructuring in Post-Soviet Russia

W hen Russia became independent in 1992, it inherited from the Soviet Union a spatial distribution of its population that was incompatible with its emerging market economy. Internally the largest migration stream has been out of the overpopulated Russian north and Far East toward central Russia. At other geographic scales, as a result of decades of Soviet labor policy, there were numerous citie...

The Soviet anti-plague system: an introduction.

This article describes the composition of the Soviet Anti-plague (AP) system and presents the methodology used by the authors in their study of the AP system.

Unraveling the Threads of History: Soviet-Era Monuments and Post-Soviet National Identity in Moscow

New Realities: Libraries in Post-Soviet Russia

The transition away from communism toward a more democratic society and the move to a market economy had profound effects on Russian libraries. Using the main public library in Bryansk, the Bryansk Region Scientific Library, as a case study, this article examines the changes in library service, including information access and the opening of previously closed collections, funding issues, the li...