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Хулиганы в погонах: региональная кампания по идейно-политическому воспитанию милицейских кадров в послевоенный период (на примере Молотовской области)
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М.: РОССПЭН, 2015.
Sharova A. V., Одиссей: Человек в истории 2025 № 1 (34) С. 264–300
In 1952-1956 Academician E.A. Kosminsky was appointed the editor-in-chief of the “News” magazine, which was published in English in the USSR and addressed to a foreign audience. Thus, he became involved in the ideological struggle, the instrument of which was the Soviet periodicals. The medievalist not only wrote articles for “News”, but also took care ...
Added: November 23, 2025
Kuziner I., L., NY: Routledge, 2025.
This book explores the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believer-Wanderers during the period of rapid Late Imperial, Early Soviet, and Stalinist modernization.
The self-titled True Orthodox Christians believed the 17th-century reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church ushered in the reign of an invisible Antichrist. Rejecting the corrupted world, they advocated extreme asceticism ...
Added: October 14, 2025
Budnitskii O., В кн.: «Викторианский сборник»: К юбилею Виктории Мочаловой.: М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025. Гл. 10 С. 109–122.
The chapter is devoted to the role of Jews in Stalinist cinema art. ...
Added: May 23, 2025
Starkov A., Вестник Томского государственного университета. История 2024 № 87 С. 86–95
The article examines the features of the punitive policy of the Soviet justice authorities toward crime of anti-Soviet agitation (Article 58.10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR) on the material of Chelyabinsk region. The goal of the article is, on the one hand, to analyze the general directions of the judicial authorities against such ...
Added: March 13, 2024
Gužvica S., Historijski zbornik 2019 Vol. 72 No. 1 P. 139–164
This article deals with the hitherto unknown story of Kamilo Horvatin as a candidate for the position of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in 1937-1938. A veteran communist, Horvatin worked as a party representative to the Comintern at the time when the General Secretary of the party, Milan Gorkić, was ...
Added: November 17, 2023
Belan M., В кн.: История России с древнейших времен до XXI века: проблемы, дискуссии, новые взгляды: сборник статей Международной научно-практической школы-конференции молодых ученых (25–28 октября 2022 г.).: М.: Институт российской истории РАН, 2022.
The article examines the service of militiamen who entered in 1812 from the towns of the St. Petersburg province, focusing on the circumstances of their dismissal from the service of the rank and file in 1814-1815. The mechanism of dismissal are examined in detail. Based on the sources, coming from local council archives where the ...
Added: September 23, 2023
Khlevniuk O. V., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023.
В книге рассматриваются характерные черты советской теневой экономики на примере деятельности строительной организации Николая Павленко в 1948–1952 годах. Это было значительное нелегальное предприятие сталинского периода. По договорам с государственными структурами корпорация Павленко за несколько лет построила десятки участков шоссейных и железных дорог. На основании новых архивных документов в книге изучаются методы работы организации Павленко и ...
Added: October 23, 2022
Gelfond M. M., Новый мир 2022 № 10 С. 162–172
The article is devoted to Yu. V. Trifonov's story "The pigeon"s death" - one of the writer's first approaches to the cycle of "Moscow stories". The work carries out a historical reconstruction, which makes it possible to date the time of the story and correlate it with the creative path of the writer. The story is ...
Added: August 10, 2022
Поход Алексея Сидорцева против советского суда: свидетельства, аргументы и поиск материальной истины
Maria Starun, Soviet and Post Soviet Review 2022 Т. 49 № 2 С. 115–149
This article explores a repertoire of interactions between Alexei Sidortsev, a tenacious
Soviet worker defending his rights, and the Soviet legal bureaucracy up to the
Supreme Court. Using the Sidortsev case as an example, I plan to demonstrate the
judicial logic of interpreting the parties’ various arguments and evidence. This case
allows us to describe and analyze the range ...
Added: April 4, 2022
Starkov A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2022 № 3(58) С. 181–192
Based on the sources from the federal and regional archives of Russia, particularly on the materials of revisions of local bar associations by Peoples’ Commissariat of Justice, the reports of bar associations and the materials of disciplinary proceedings against guilty defenders, the article is devoted to the practices of the Soviet bar during the Great ...
Added: December 13, 2021
Luks L., Вопросы философии 2021 № 11 С. 198–208
The common thread in the life history of Aleksander Wat is his skepticism toward absolute truths and their heralds. He was untrue to this principle for only a few years when he followed an “association” that supposedly held the truth – the communist movement. Wat regarded this relatively short “dogmatic sleep” as the biggest mistake of his ...
Added: November 29, 2021
Социальные характеристики репрессированных в годы Большого террора (1937–1938 гг.) в Карельской АССР
Lyagushkina L., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2014 № 3 С. 36–44
The paper analyzes the social portrait of the Great Terror victims (July 1937 - November 1938) in the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (KASSR) and compares it with the social features of the victims from other regions of the USSR. The main source of the research is a large-scale database - "The victims of the ...
Added: October 18, 2021
Lyagushkina L., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2015 № 8 (41)
The Great Terror had a significant scale in the Karelian ASSR, where the victims composed about 2 % of the population, and 85 % of the arrested were condemned to death. The article analyses the social structure of the victims using the database, created on the material of regional "Memorial book" called "Necrology of Karelia" ...
Added: October 18, 2021
Elie M., Osteuropa 2007 Vol. 57 No. 6 P. 369–386
On the periphery of the XXth Party Congress in 1956, Khrushchev introduced revision commissions. These were to review in decentralised fashion the countless prisoners in custody who were innocent. The commissions fulfilled their tasks only conditionally. They may have released a large number of prisoners, but they rehabilitated only very few. The members of the ...
Added: October 8, 2021
Elie M., H-Soz-Kult 2019 No. 2
On a famous poster from 1949, Stalin bends over a map of the Soviet Union representing the South-East of the country criss-crossed with gigantic shelterbelts. Dressed in full Generalissimo apparel, smoking the pipe and holding a pen to correct the map, the dictator displays the perspicacious smile of a sage who knows that the future ...
Added: October 8, 2021
Elie M., Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2006 Vol. 47 No. 1-2 P. 327–347
Policies concerning amnestied and rehabilitated former Gulag prisoners in the Novosibirsk oblast, 1953-1960
This article considers the policies implemented by the Soviet authorities to foster the social reintegration of former cons liberated en masse after Stalin’s death. It focuses on two groups of returnees in the Novosibirsk oblast : those liberated under the 1953 amnesty and former ...
Added: September 28, 2021
Tanis K., Балыкова А. А., Новое литературное обозрение 2022 № 175 С. 157–174
This article publishes data obtained during the research of the Moscow film distribution from 1947 to 1950. Counting screening days by the method POPSTAT, this paper reflects the practices of film exhibition in postwar Moscow. The article consists of the description of collecting and processing quantitative data, publication of the results, and concluding remarks. ...
Added: September 20, 2021
Kotkin S., University of California Press, 1991.
No one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation eventually affecting the entire postwar world order, are here chronicled from inside a previously forbidden Soviet ...
Added: July 30, 2021
Kotkin S., University of California Press, 1997.
This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly agricultural nation into a ...
Added: July 30, 2021
NY, Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.
This book focuses upon significant aspects of Stalinism as a system in the USSR. It sheds new light on established questions and addresses issues that have never before been raised in the study of Stalinism.
Stalinism constitutes one of the most striking and contentious phenomena of the twentieth century. It not only transformed the Soviet Union ...
Added: April 29, 2021
Yankovskiy R., М.: Эксмо, 2021.
Это первая современная иллюстрированная книга о Главном здании МГУ. Автор провел масштабную кампанию, в ходе которой ему удалось собрать огромное количество архивных материалов, схем и рассказов жителей города. Именно в этом здании появились первые стеновые панели, кондиционеры и скоростные лифты. Чудеса инженерной мысли воплотились в реальность тогда, когда у большинства москвичей даже не было горячей ...
Added: January 29, 2021