Late Stalinism, the period between the end of the Second World War and the death of the dictator in 1953, was the most isolated period of Soviet history. The political leaders saw the world as divided into two parts, and everything outside their own camp as ruled by unalterably hostile capitalist and imperialist war-mongers, eager to annihilate the Soviet Union. Internationalism, once a fundame...

although russian studies existed in world academies in preceding centuries in different styles, it was only in the second half of the 20th century that major academic centers in europe and the united states paid serious attention to understanding the soviet :union: and its current developments by attracting some emigrant soviet authors and scientists. for these academic centers, recognizing the...

While Western nations remain strongly wedded to Cold War era controls on weapons exports, to ensure that problem regimes do not procure advanced weapons technology, Russian and Chinese industries and those of many former Soviet republics operate without such constraints, as long as their national governments do not object to the sale on other grounds. The problem is multi-dimensional and presen...

The collapse of the Soviet Union and Chechen wars were for German Sadulaev, a writer origin, starting point broad reflection on identity nationality in post-Soviet era. This paper aims to scrutinise how issues related are addressed two works by author, collection short stories Ja – čečenec! [I Am Chechen, 2006] novel Šalinskij rejd [The Raid Shali, 2010]. Specific attention is paid role that na...

This PDF document preserves the page numbering of the printed version for accuracy of citation. When viewed with Acrobat Reader, the printed page numbers will not correspond with the electronic numbering. The Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (BPS) is a leading center for graduate training on the Soviet Union and its successor states in the United States. Founded in 1983 as par...

In this chapter, I explore the impact of the post-Soviet political and socioeconomic transitions on women in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus. I review the impact of Soviet policies on gender roles and relations in order to contextualize post-Soviet developments. The central segment, which examines gender roles and relations after socialism, is divided into two secti...

The subject of this research is the history relations between Prishvin and Kalinin – a prominent revolutionary party leader Soviet era, who was head state for many years after October Revolution. author observes that biographical material about communication contained in works writer memoirs their contemporaries sufficiently studied, while his diary notes significantly change represen...

Literature regarding the post-Soviet period has commented extensively on the difficulties of post-Soviet governments in extricating themselves from command economies and centralised polities and moving toward market economies and democratic government. For the most part, such writing has emphasised the economic variable. Essentially, the argument has concentrated on a consensus that the post-So...

The paper represents the memories of an active participant of development of the first Soviet computers in Kiev, Ukraine. The process of creating electronic computing machines such as MECM, BESM and SESM is described in detail. The outstanding role of S.A. Lebedev (head of the research group) is specially stressed as well as his impact on subsequent progress.