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The Soviet Union Outgoing Tourism In 1955-1985: Volume, Geography, Organizational Forms
Basic Research Programme
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2014.
No. WP BRP 50/HUM/2014.
In this paper, the institutional component, the volume and geography, and the specific forms of Soviet outgoing (foreign) tourism from 1955 – 1985 is reconstructed using documents from four central state archives on the basis of Soviet, post-Soviet and foreign historiography. A neoinstitutional approach allows the author to show the dependence of the above mentioned parameters from the essential principles which were the basis for the activities of tourism institutions being responsible for organizing foreign tours for the Soviet citizens and the ideological control
Dorchester : Ashgate, 2013
In 1991 the Soviet empire collapsed, at a stroke throwing the certainties of the Cold War world into flux. Yet despite the dramatic end of this 'last empire', the idea of empire is still alive and well, its language and concepts feeding into public debate and academic research. Bringing together a multidisciplinary and international group ...
Added: October 26, 2013
Lukin A., Survival 2016 Vol. 58 No. 1 P. 91-112
Near the turn of the twenty-first century, one of the two poles of the system that had prevailed since the end of the Second World War destroyed itself. The Soviet communist project had become uncompetitive, leading to its failure. Soviet ideology had cornered itself. Derived from the Western Enlightenment tradition, its ...
Added: February 12, 2016
Andreev E. M., Hoffmann R., Carlson E. et al., European Society 2009 Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 161-185
Until recently data on mortality by socioeconomic status were not available for the initial period of mortality increase in the former Soviet Union from 1965 to 1979. Newly discovered data from the Russian State Archive of Economics allow us to close this gap and to compare mortality trends in urban Latvia and several urban areas ...
Added: January 25, 2013
Gorizontov L., Славяноведение 2014 № 5 С. 24-31
Покинув СССР в середине 1950-х гг., историк М.Я.Геллер более десяти лет провел в Польше, откуда эмигрировал во Францию. В 1969-1996 гг. он регулярно публиковал в польском эмигрантском журнале "Культура" свои аналитические обзоры советской (российской) печати, уделяя повышенное внимание отношениям СССР с Польшей и делая пространные исторические экскурсы. Особый интерес представляет политическая хроника 1980-х гг., явившихся ...
Added: May 8, 2014
Kuzminkov V., Японские исследования 2018 № 1 С. 60-70
This paper undertakes a comprehensive historical analysis of modern Japanese historiography debates over the territorial delimitation between Russia and Japan, an issue that is extremely important for understanding the course and consequences of bilateral relations in the near and medium term future. The author highlights and evaluates the main arguments in the Japanese historiography on ...
Added: April 2, 2018
David-Fox M., Новое литературное обозрение 2016 № 140 С. 19-44
David-Fox`s article addresses the diversity of approaches to the concept "modernity" in historiography (mostly Anglo-American) of pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Although the concept of modernity is foundational for most historians, its meaning is still contentious. David-Fox lays out four basic approaches to modernity in application to Russia. Representatives of the first approach reject the ...
Added: September 20, 2016
Khlevniuk O. V., Российская история 2019 № 2 С. 52-70
The supply crisis in the USSR and Russia in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the result of the Soviet planned economy’s development as a whole and the failure of M.S. Gorbachev's economic reforms in particular. For several years before the liberalization of prices in January 1992, the Soviet population had various options for ...
Added: May 8, 2019
Murtazin M. F., Аль-Файсал 2007 No. 373-374 P. 58-73
В публикации изложены материалы, раскрывающие историю ислама в России, место ислама в современном российском обществе, а также показывающие проблемы мусульманского сообщества России в условиях открытого общества. ...
Added: January 4, 2013
Davidson A. B., East-West Review: Journal of the Great Britain-Russia Society 2014 Vol. 13 No. 2 P. 5-11
Mutual understanding between Russian and British historians has significantly improved since the end of the Сold war. Among other things it has improved in the sphere of African studies. ...
Added: March 18, 2015
Kantor V., Вопросы философии 2010 № 4 С. 91-109
In his article Vladimir Kantor explores the destiny of Russia intelligentsia within the context of cultural crisis that took place at the turn of XIX and XX centuries, analyzing the Vekhovs, a group of leading intellectuals who ran a collection of essays, titled "Vekhi", studying their relationship towards that Russian cultural phenomenon. To author, the ...
Added: September 29, 2012
Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
This collection of essays, all by Russian scholars, is the first of its kind to address a broad English-speaking audience. It presents the theories and methodologies employed by Russian national historiography to make sense of Russian gender and women’s history. The essays in this volume discuss women’s and gender history in Russia, highlighting sensitive areas ...
Added: November 27, 2014
Турьинская Х. М., Азия и Африка сегодня 2014 № 8 С. 64-66
On the initiative and with the participation of the Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) a round table «Diplomatic relations between Ethiopia and Russia» was held at the Institute for African Studies RAS. Institute staff members and members of other scientific and educational institutions, Russian and Ethiopian diplomats, representatives of state, public ...
Added: October 16, 2014
David-Fox M., Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015
Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, he challenges the polarizing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared ...
Added: September 23, 2015
Starkov A., Soviet and Post Soviet Review 2021 Т. 48 № 1 С. 3-33
The outbreak of the Great Patriotic War led to an unprecedented evacuation of the Soviet population to the East as well as a significant growth of social conflicts. Consequently, open manifestations of anti-Semitism increased greatly, which were often connected with defeatism and anti-Soviet moods. This article analyzes the reasons for this phenomenon and is based ...
Added: October 5, 2020
Gurkov I. B., Saidov Z., Journal of Eurasian Studies 2021 Vol. 12 No. 2 P. 155-168
This paper retraces the development of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of Western multinational corporations from the late 1980s until 2019. Using secondary sources and a unique hand-crafted database on significant extensions of manufacturing facilities of Western multinational corporations in Russia during 2012–2018, we present the position of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of Western multinational corporations before and ...
Added: January 26, 2020
Demidenko S. V., Российский совет по международным делам (электронный журнал). Российская Федерация. 2014
A comprehensive study of the regional policy of Iran in the context of the warming of its relations with the Western world. The study in this regard the prospects of cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. Who we are - allies or rivals? ...
Added: May 30, 2015
Lukin A., Kashin V., Сравнительная политика 2019 Т. 10 № 2 С. 135-151
The authors argue that Russian-Chinese rapprochement is a fundamental feature of the current changing system of international relations. The two countries are effectively enabling each other to conduct independent foreign policies often in direct opposition to the West. There is a degree of complementarity between the two sides with Russia having comparative advantage in the ...
Added: May 25, 2019
С. Смирнов, Вопросы экономики 2013 № 7 С. 138-153
Calculation of the aggregated “consensus” industrial production index has made it possible to date the cyclical turning points and to measure the depth and length of the main industrial recessions for the last century and a half. The most important causes of all these recessions are described. The cyclical volatility of Russian industry is compared ...
Added: April 29, 2013
Skiperskih A., Вопросы литературы 2016 № 5 С. 176-190
Human nature’s complexity and contradictoriness, accentuating the enigmatic essence of the Russian mentality, receives a unique depiction in Dostoevsky’s works. Often we read about strange specimens, whose thoughts and actions would bear typical features of Russian culture. The article sets out to examine these features: in particular, duality and a combination of mutually excluding qualities. ...
Added: December 16, 2016
К. А. Ильина, Вопросы музеологии 2021 Т. 12 № 2 С. 150-163
The article focuses on the reconstruction of the research understanding of the phenomenon of the «university museum». Originated as study rooms for students University museums were eventually opened to the public and included in the missionary activities of the university and began to serve as an intermediary between the closed university and the community. University ...
Added: September 23, 2021
С. Смирнов, Вопросы экономики 2013 № 6 С. 59-83
The trajectory of the industrial output of the Russian empire – the USSR – the Russian Federation for more than 150 years has been carefully investigated through official statistics as well as dozens of alternative estimates made by Russian and foreign experts. Alternative estimates are compared with official data and the usefulness and credibility of ...
Added: April 29, 2013
Lukin A., Весь мир, 2016
Настоящая книга – плод размышлений автора, известного российского по- литолога А.В. Лукина, над проблемами изучения политики в целом и россий- ской политики в частности за без малого три десятилетия: с конца 80-х гг. ХХ в. до сегодняшнего дня. Все работы, написанные за эти годы, разделены на три раздела. В первом разделе помещены статьи и материалы научного ...
Added: July 7, 2016
Harshman D. R., Journal of Contemporary History 2019 Vol. 54 No. 1
Seth Bernstein has produced a valuable institutional history of the Soviet youth organization, the Komsomol. By tracing the Komsomol from its origin after the October Revolution, through the years of high Stalinism in the 1930s and World War II, and into the immediate post-war period, Bernstein argues that the group went from being an iconoclastic ...
Added: December 17, 2018
Zaretsky Y., Social & Political Philosophy eJournal 2012 Vol. 5 No. 185
The article offers a broad historical overview of the university policy of the Russian state. It suggests that such a general picture could shed some fresh light not only on the role of the state in shaping the Russian university model throughout two and a half centuries, but also on the way of its functioning ...
Added: December 26, 2012