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Ice and Snow in the Cold War: Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments. Ed. Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma. The Environment in History: International Perspectives. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. viii, 330 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Figures. Maps. $120.00, hard bound.
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Akelev E., Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: История, филология 2026 Т. 25 № 8 С. 141–147
The article introduces an unpublished correspondence from Patriarch Adrian addressed to Peter I, dated 19 May 1696. A preliminary draft of the letter was preserved among the papers of Karion Istomin, a renowned poet, translator, and the patriarch’s secretary, who appears to have authored the document’s content. The purpose of the message, conveyed to the ...
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Akelev E., Исторический вестник 2026 Т. 61 С. 58–103
Beard tokens of the late seventeenth to the first quarter of the eighteenth century, intended for issuance to men who had paid the annual beard tax, have long been the object of close attention among phalerists. Nevertheless, many questions concerning the history of the creation of the three types of beard tokens (1698, 1705, and ...
Added: November 8, 2026
Akelev E., Quaestio Rossica 2026 Т. 14 № 3 С. 981–995
The sermon by Patriarch Adrian dedicated to the Streltsy uprising of 1698, one of the most important events of Peter the Great’s reign, has never been published or used by historians previously. The text is known from a single manuscript written by Karion Istomin, a prominent writer who served as the patriarch’s secretary and who was apparently ...
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М.: Елисаветинско-Сергиевское просветительское общество, 2026.
Сборник включает материалы XXVIII Елизаветинско-Сергиевских чтений, состоявшихся в Москве 1 ноября 2025 г., посвящённых 180-летию со дня рождения императора Александра III и 120-летию памяти великого князя Сергея Александровича, и завершающих культурную и научно-просветительскую программу выставки «Августейший хозяин Москвы» (организованной Фондом «Елизаветинско-Сергиевское просветительское общество» в Музее Москвы в июле — ноябре 2025 г.).
Сборник предназначен для историков, ...
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Tsendina A., Наука - Восточная литература, 2026.
Sagan Sechen's "Precious History" (17th century) occupies a special place in Mongolian historiographic tradition. It is the only Mongolian chronicle translated into Manchu and Chinese (18th century), printed in Beijing, and recognized by the Qing court as the official history of the Mongols. This work is of great value for reconstructing Mongol history as a ...
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Alexander V. Solovyov, Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2026 Vol. 2 No. 3 P. 107–144
This article seeks to redefine the Kim Pusik’s 金富軾 (1075-1151) Samguk sagi 三國史記 (Histories of the Three Kingdoms) as a more imaginative and literary text by foregrounding its “supernatural” elements (collectively referred to as “wonder tales”), rather than emphasizing the ‘Confucian’ orientation that has conventionally been prescribed to it. It reviews the extend of incorporation ...
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Kotov V., Природа 2026 № 10 С. 99–107
В 1934 году Академия наук СССР была переведена из Ленинграда в Москву. Николай Семенович Курнаков, назначенный директором вновь созданного Института общей и неорганической химии, привёз с собой в столицу своих лучших сотрудников, среди которых была и Наталия Сергеевна Домбровская, теоретик безводных соляных равновесий. Публикация знакомит читателя с биографией Н.С. Домбровской, составленной на основе литературных источников ...
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Туторский А. В., Этнография 2025 Т. 30 № 4 С. 136–153
This article provides an overview of the post-World War II development of the concept of cultural areas in the United States and the concept of “economic-cultural type” in the Soviet Union. It analyzes the main lines of criticism directed at these frameworks. It identifies three foundational aspects of the cultural area (CA) concept as it ...
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Markina E., Альпина, 2026.
Новинка из «Книжной серии Arzamas» — курс лекций по истории Ассирии, в котором историк Екатерина Маркина рассказывает о том, как эта великая империя появилась и исчезла, о древних столицах и дворцах, царях и торговцах, гадателях и евнухах, а также о европейских археологах, отыскавших империю. Вы узнаете, чем Северная Месопотамия отличалась от Южной, как ассирийские правители защищали божественный порядок, о чем могут рассказать древние рельефы их дворцов, как ассирийцы воевали и строили новые ...
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М.: Весь мир, 2025.
Коллективная монография представляет собой результат трехлетней исследовательской работы, объединившей учёных разных специальностей и возрастов в рамках одноименного исследовательского проекта РНФ №23-18-00621, который реализовывался на базе Института всеобщей истории РАН.
В книге представлен новый взгляд на географию и идеологию феномена «глобальной холодной войны» в период «долгих семидесятых» годов (1964-1982 гг.). Авторы уделяют особое внимание явлению «революционных столиц» ...
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Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
The article explores the unique role of American visual art in Soviet culture. ...
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Tatiana B. Riabova, Liudmila L. Kleshchenko, Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4: История. Регионоведение. Международные отношения 2026 Vol. 31 No. 2 P. 165–177
Introduction. For the first time, the article examines the contemporary Russians’ and Americans’ social views on how the Soviet and US Cold War mass culture represented “us” and “them”. Materials and methods. The article is based on an analysis of data from an in-depth interview conducted in the USA and Russia (n = 27, autumn ...
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Клещенко Л. Л., Общественные науки и современность 2026 № 3 С. 100–111
The issues of unequal access to nuclear resources and unequal distribution of the burden from the exploitation of the atom today are of interest not only to researchers but also to cinematographers. The purpose of this study is to identify the features of visual representations of the nuclear threat in the cinema in the new ...
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Nikonov A., Technology and Language 2026 Vol. 7 No. 2 P. 104–117
This article focuses on the notion of authenticity as a characteristic of a specific vocal technique that has its own specificity in relation to Estrada song. The significance of vocal authenticity in the Soviet context is shaped by cultural, technological, and ideological factors functioning within specific historical circumstances. As a case study, the article examines ...
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Marina M. Panikar, Beloshitskaya N., Polar Journal 2026 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 145–161
The article attempts to explore the process of formation of a new sphere of relations between the USSR and the countries of the Arctic region in the period from 1986 to 1990. The April Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1985 laid the groundwork for a profound transformation in both the domestic and ...
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Di Puppo L., Roy Chowdhury A., Globalizations 2026 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 1–9
In this special issue, we bring together the post-colonial and post-socialist conditions of the post-Soviet space and the Indian subcontinent through the study of human–nature relationships. Not only are these two regions entangled through the Eurasian geography, but they also both represent hybrid modernization trajectories characterized by varying socio-political responses to Western modernity and the ...
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Рябова Т. Б., Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4: История. Регионоведение. Международные отношения 2024 Vol. 29 No. 1 P. 16–25
Introduction. The article is the first to study the use of the symbol of childhood by the USSR and the USA songs for the representation of Cold War issues. Methods and materials. Based on the methodology of constructivism, the author analyzes the reasons for the politicization of the image of childhood and the role of ...
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Рябов О. В., Quaestio Rossica 2020 No. 2 P. 536–550
This article deals with the US Cold War cinematographic construction of the Soviet enemy. The researcher focuses on the means of dehumanising the communist enemy, external and internal, by equating it to a machine. The author applies Nick Haslam's dual model of dehumanization (2006), according to which dehumanization is visible in two main forms: animalistic, ...
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Рябов О. В., Journal of Cold War Studies 2017 No. 1 P. 193–219
Analyzing Soviet films and film criticism from the late Stalin period, this article shows how Soviet cinematographers exploited gender discourse to produce Otherness. Cinematic representations of U.S. femininity, masculinity, love, sexuality, and marriage played an important role in constructing external and internal Enemies. Cinematography depicted the U.S. gender order as resulting from the unnatural social ...
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Рябов О. В., Диалог со временем 2021 № 77 С. 277–290
The article dwells upon evolution of the ways in which the U.S. Cold War films represented the USSR: from dehumanization of the image of enemy in 1940-1950s to deconstruction of this image in 1960s. The author applies Nick Haslam's dual model of dehumanization, aс-cording to which dehumanization is visible in two forms: animalistic by associating ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 2021 No. 2 P. 122–138
This article deals with an analysis of the representation of American cities in Soviet animated films of the Cold War (1946–63). The space-oriented discourse of popular geopolitics was a resource for constructing the Cold War enemy. The authors point out that the images of skyscrapers served as the main signifier of Americanness in Soviet animation. ...
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Рябов О. В., Куликова М. Н., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Теория языка. Семиотика. Семантика 2023 No. 3 P. 719–731
The study examines how the US Cold War cinema employed linguistic means to construct images of the USSR and American communists. The research relevance is determined by: the need to study the techniques of creating the enemy image as one of the crucial issues in international relations; and the importance of the topic amidst the ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Рябов О. В., Имагология и компаративистика 2024 No. 1 P. 259–275
The article deals with an analysis of the Soviet Thaw films that contain love stories of USSR and USA citizens. Hollywood released a number of films that told the stories of love between representatives of the two hostile blocs; following the canon established in Ninotchka, they served as a part of the “struggle for hearts ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Женщина в российском обществе 2024 № 1 С. 4–22
The paper deals with the analysis of using the Motherland symbol by the Soviet popular songs in order to represent the Cold War issues. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the authors examine more than 1500 Soviet songs (1946-1991); 350 of them employ this symbol. The article demonstrates that the “Soviet Motherland” served as one ...
Added: January 27, 2026