The article reflects on the achievements of Rodrigo Slaviņš, a graduate Faculty Chemistry (1963) Riga Polytechnic Institute (RPI), an engineer, Officer Order Three Stars, three-time champion Union Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Master Sports in orienteering, development orienteering sports traditions, his work at Latvian Olympic Committee (LOC), as well activities Head Orienteering Federati...

Three important myths about Soviet nationality policy have been exploded since 1988. Most Soviet scholars and Western scholars admit that, contrary to Marxist-Leninist postulates, ethnic consciousness does not necessarily decline as society moves toward modernization or "socialism." In recent years in the U.S.S.R. ethnic consciousness has greatly expanded or surfaced. Second, the assertion that...

Galina Ivanova Ustvolskaya was born in 1919 in Petrograd and has lived there throughout her life.1 She had her formal musical training in the Leningrad Conservatory between 1937 and 1950, where she studied with Shostakovich. 2 Later she worked as a teacher in the same institution for most of her life. Although the Soviet Union possessed an elaborate system of music education (Schwarz, 1965, p. ...

a new era of relations has begun between iran and the newly established republics of the soviet :union: such as georgia. transformation in power distribution system at international level, collapse of the soviet :union: as an important northern neighbor of iran and formation of several republics alongside iran’s northern borders are among the reasons behind the new ties. georgia’s declaration o...

The issue of misuse of psychiatry as a means of political coercion is invariably linked to the history of the Soviet Union after the Second World War. It was at the end of Stalin's reign that a system of political abuse of psychiatry was developed, whereby political and religious dissidents were diagnosed to be of unsound mind and sent to psychiatric hospitals, often for many years of torturous...

History's nasty habit of repeating past tragedies in the form of a modernized farce threatens to confirm itself in the destiny of the Commonwealth of Independence States (CIS). This knowingly shaky and hurriedly tailored formation appeared on the ruins of the old Soviet Union in December of 1991 due to the efforts of three leaders of former Soviet republics--the presidenta of Russia and Ukraine...

Despite 30 years of market reforms, the main difference between housing sector in Russia and other post-socialist countries that advanced Western nations lies tenure distribution. In former states, outright homeowners with property mainly built planned economy dominate market. At same time, latter countries, majority households pay rent or take out a mortgage (these types account for three-quar...