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The Death of Europe? Continental Fates after Ukraine
International Affairs. 2015. Vol. 91. No. 3. P. 553–579.
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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. ...
Added: September 10, 2026
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 ...
Added: August 24, 2026
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 ...
Added: August 24, 2026
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 ...
Added: June 28, 2026
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 ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Grigoryev L. M., Buryak E., Golyashev A., Вопросы экономики 2014 Т. 2014 № 9 С. 30–52
Социально-экономический кризис на Украине длится уже давно, что привело к открытому социально-политическому конфликту. Цели постсоветской трансформации не получили одобрения населения Украины, у граждан постоянно возникало чувство разочарования, пропадали доверие к власти и вера в будущее страны. Роль денежных переводов трудовых мигрантов нередко занижают, хотя личное потребление и стабильность в стране во многом связаны именно с ...
Added: March 5, 2026
Ганин А. В., Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии 2024 Т. 19 № 1-2 С. 42–53
The article is dedicated to the biography of Colonel N.F. Sokolovsky, a mysterious historical fi gure who played a signifi cant role in the Russian Civil War. In 1919, Sokolovsky was a military expert serving in the Kiev Provincial Military Commissariat and the People’s Commissariat for Military Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. At ...
Added: February 24, 2026
Лебедев С. В., Novik N., Suslov D., Актуальные проблемы Европы 2026 № 129 С. 185–206
The article examines the economic logic of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy and its impact on the transformation of transatlantic relations, the collective security system, and Russia’s strategic positioning in the context of the redefinition of US global priorities. The authors proceed from the hypothesis that D. Trump’s foreign policy course does not represent ...
Added: February 14, 2026
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 ...
Added: January 28, 2026
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, ...
Added: January 28, 2026
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 ...
Added: January 27, 2026
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. ...
Added: January 27, 2026
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
Рябов О. В., Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4: История. Регионоведение. Международные отношения 2024 P. 6–15
Introduction. The article focuses on the changes that happened in the portrayal of U.S. characters in Soviet Thaw cinema. The contribution of the article in the field of cultural Cold War is threefold: for the first time, it studies the American characters' images through the prism of the concept of rehumanization; establishes common and particular ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Женщина в российском обществе 2025 № 4 С. 115–126
The article analyzes representations of Soviet women’s labor in the discourse of American anti-communism during the Cold War. The sources for the study are the works of American anti-communist ideologues, propaganda books, and issues (more than 200 in total) of The American Legion Magazine , Freedom’s Facts , Life , and Look , founded in ...
Added: January 27, 2026
Royce D. P., Russia in Global Affairs 2026 Vol. 24 No. 1 P. 15–41
Drawing on official public communications, memoirs, and declassified/leaked documents, this article contends that Cosmopolitan-Liberalism, and a desire to contain/weaken Russia, drove the U.S. to expand NATO into the Baltics, Ukraine, and Georgia (BUG). This Cosmopolitan-Liberal Anti-Russian BUG Expansion was latent from the moment that the USSR collapsed, was officially adopted on 18 October 1993, and ...
Added: January 5, 2026
Romanova T. A., Baltic Region (Russia) 2025 Vol. 17 No. 3 P. 4–22
The start of the Special Military Operation (SMO) created a conceptual vacuum in the European Union’s policy toward Russia. By classifying Moscow as a strategic threat, Brussels curtailed all contacts with it, instead prioritizing sanctions and support for Ukraine. The aim of this article is to examine how decolonization, understood as a socio-political category, has ...
Added: November 24, 2025
Alontsev M., Титова В. С., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2025 № 4 С. 176–187
This article examines the discourse of victimization and collective trauma in Iranian media during the early 1950s, particularly in relation to the Coup of August 19, 1953. This event is crucial in modern Iranian history, profoundly impacting the relationship between the government and society, as well as shaping contemporary Iran's foreign policy. The coup, supported ...
Added: November 10, 2025
Popov A., Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2025 Т. 66 № 3 С. 463–488
The article examines the processes of planning and implementation of imports of Western equipment on commercial credit terms during the reign of N.S. Khrushchev. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of the conditions, motives and consequences of the use of foreign currency borrowings in the context of the plans of the country's leadership to ...
Added: October 18, 2025