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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.
Slavic Review. 2020. Vol. 79. No. 1. P. 232-234.
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Паникар М. М., Белошицкая Н. Н., Journal of Cold War Studies 2024
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 the ...
Added: January 15, 2024
Kashnikov B., The Hague : Springer, 2022
This unique two-volume book covers virtually the whole spectrum of international conflict and security law. It proceeds from values protected by international law (Part I), through substantive rules in which these values are embodied (Part II), to international and domestic institutions that enforce the law (Part III). It subsequently deals with current challenges in the ...
Added: June 15, 2022
Ermishina Ksenia, Corvinus Journal of International Affairs, Hungary 2020 Vol. 5 No. 1 P. 10-16
The paper discusses the so-called «anti-Israel» campaign which the USSR started after the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab countries. The focus of the analysis is on the connection of this campaign and the general dynamics of the Cold War. The paper introduces the main lines of propaganda that sought to frame the ...
Added: October 20, 2020
Ivan Krivoushin, R/evolutions: global trends & regional issues 2014 Vol. 2 No. 1 P. 342-353
The article examines the history of relations between France and its former colonies in Western and Central Africa after independence, and the Françafrique as a neo-colonial phenomenon and a specific Gaullist instrument of great power politics. The author studies the main trends in France’s African policy, its objectives, postures and bottlenecks, and he tries to ...
Added: March 1, 2015
Irina Filatova, Apollon Davidson, Johannesburg, Cape Town : Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, 2013
The book covers the history of relations between Soviet Russia and South Africa, which, for many decades, remained hidden even from those who were a part of it. It is devoted mostly to the Soviet period, although the first, introductory, chapter presents the history of relations between the two countries in the previous three hundred ...
Added: May 17, 2013
Zykova G. V., Зейфман Н. В., Знание-сила 2018 № 1 С. 40-48
The article reports previously unreleased archival and memoir data on E.B.Chain and V. I. Zeifman roles in organization of penicillin industrial production in the USSR; ideological context of this historical episode is discussed. ...
Added: July 19, 2018
Batyuk V. I., М. : Весь мир, 2018
ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of the cold war arose as a consequence of the manifold changes that took place in the world as a result of the second world war. Only the USSR and the USA emerged from the flames of the second world war as powerful and independent world powers, thus becoming pillars of the bipolar ...
Added: August 20, 2019
Krivushin I., Новая и новейшая история 2017 № 2 С. 203-205
Рецензия на кн.: C. В. Мазов. Холодная война в «сердце Африки»: СССР и конголезский кризис, 1960–1964. М.: Университет Дмитрия Пожарского, 2015. 132 с. ...
Added: May 27, 2017
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
Kochetkova E., Pokidko P., Scandinavian Economic History Review 2019 Vol. 67 No. 3 P. 269-282
This article examines the industrial wastes and environmental effects of Soviet technological development through the history of the Karelian Isthmus, a border territory that had previously been Finnish. Focusing primarily on the history of two large enterprises – the Svetogorskii (former Enso) and Sovetskii (former Johannes) pulp and paper making plants, the authors illustrate the ...
Added: January 24, 2019
Kormina J., Heo A., Journal of Religion 2019 Vol. 99 No. 1 P. 1-17
This introduction article is divided into three parts that together provide an overview of concepts which guide this special issues overarching vision. First, we interrogate the idea of the “Cold War” as a discrete historical period and narrative frame for understanding religion's histories and politics. When doing this, we point to asymmetries in experiencing the ...
Added: January 24, 2019
Doel R., Friedman R. M., Lajus J. et al., Journal of Historical Geography 2014 Vol. 44 P. 60-80
From the 1930s through the 1950s—the decades bracketing the second and third international polar years—research in the physical and biological environmental sciences of the Arctic increased dramatically. The heroic, expedition-based style of Arctic science, dominant in the first decades of the twentieth century, gave way to a systematic, long-term, strategic and largely statefunded model of ...
Added: October 22, 2015
Krickovic A., Weber Y., International Studies Review 2018 Vol. 20 No. 2 P. 29-30
Although a general task of social science is to measure and predict change, international relations (IR) paradigms and theories have been unable to keep up with the rapid pace and destabilizing effects of change in international politics. When addressing Russia, IR’s “change problem” becomes clearer: the world’s largest country is treated as an object struggling ...
Added: September 28, 2018
L. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This book is the first study to engage with the relationship between cosmopolitan political thought and the history of global conflicts. Accompanied by visual material ranging from critical battle painting to the photographic representation of ruins, it showcases established as well as emerging interdisciplinary scholarship in global political thought and cultural history. Touching on the ...
Added: February 23, 2018
Suny R. G., Perspectives on Politics 2017
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Kanaev E., Luzyanin S., Legvold R. et al., M. : Advanced Solutions, 2022
The monograph is the outcome of the III International Conference “East and West at the Stage of New Transformations: the Post-Covid Changes”, organized by the School of Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, on November 17—18 2021. ...
Added: January 26, 2023
СПб., Волгоград : Волгоградский государственный университет, 2017
The main subject of the current compilation in the "Americana" series is the history of the Cold War. Among the articles there are authors from Volgograd, Saint Petersburg, Tokio, Saragossa and other international research centers. The works comprise the history of the struggle against the recognition of the USSR by the USA in the 1930s ...
Added: December 11, 2019
Dybo A., Васильев С. А., Березкин Ю. Е. et al., Этнографическое обозрение 2013 № 3 С. 2-21
The origin of native Americans is one of the most intriguing issues in world history. This article presents a synthesis of environmental, geological, archaeological, biological, linguistic, and folkloric evidence relevant to this issue as well as facts concerning prehistoric art. The totality of data indicates an Asian homeland situated anywhere from the Altai-Sayan to eastern ...
Added: November 14, 2019
Estraikh G., Oxford : Legenda, 2008
Yiddish-speaking groups of Communists played a visible role in many countries, most notably in the Soviet Union, United States, Poland, France, Canada, Argentina and Uruguay. The sacrificial role of the Red Army, and the Soviet Union as a whole, reinforced the Left movement in the post-Holocaust Jewish world. Apart from card-careering devotees, such groups attracted ...
Added: June 13, 2017
Karneev A., Kozylov I., RUDN Journal of World History 2023 Vol. 15 No. 4 P. 393-402
The deterioration of political and ideological ties between China and the Soviet Union, known as the Sino-Soviet split, is considered a pivotal moment in Cold War history. Extensive scholarly study has been conducted over the past few decades to uncover its causes, but researchers have yet to reach a consensus. This study explores the views ...
Added: February 1, 2024
Vasilyev P., Petrenko A., Tayukina V., European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health 2021 Vol. 78 No. 2 P. 377-391
This paper discusses several ethical issues related to clinical trials within the Soviet system of drug development and testing, which reflected larger ideological principles of healthcare organization in the ussr, with its focus on eradicating market elements from drug development. The centralized state-controlled system was thought to combat such drawbacks of free-market drug development as high ...
Added: December 13, 2021
Bobrovnikov V., Kalinovsky A., Die Welt des Islams 2021 Vol. 62 No. 1 P. 21-52
Fazliddin Muhammadiev’s Dar on dunyo (“In the other world”), first published in Tajik
in 1965 and later translated to Russian, Uzbek, and many other languages, is the only
known fictionalized account of the ḥajj produced in the Soviet Union. Based on a trip
made by the author in 1963, the novel provided the Soviet reader a rare glimpse ...
Added: November 2, 2020
Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023
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Göttingen : V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2016
Austria's international position in the Cold War is eversince a subject to controversial debates. This volume presents the current state of research and highlights existing desiderata. The various chapters on recent questions of Cold War History – all of them written by young historians – are well embedded into current international debates. The volume delivers ...
Added: October 3, 2018