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The Sino-Soviet Split and Soviet Policy towards Southern African Liberation Movements in the early 1960s
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Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023.
Marina M. Panikar, Beloshitskaya N., Polar Journal 2026
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
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
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
Voevodskiy A., , in: Communist Actors in African Decolonial Transitions. Comparative Perspectives.: Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. Ch. 4 P. 61–92.
This chapter examines and compares the changing perceptions, policies, partnership criteria, the nature of relationships (egalitarian, vertical, preferential, or secondary), and the selection and evaluation of outcomes by Soviet officials in relation to local political leaders. The author focuses on two southern African countries: Bechuanaland (Bostwana), neighboring South Africa, and Basutoland (Lesotho), an "enclave island" ...
Added: October 20, 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
Batyuk V., М.: Весь мир, 2024.
This monograph examines Russian-American relations over the last third of the century – from the early 1990s to 2024. At that time, there was a steady degradation of Russian-American relations. If in the early 1990s, at the end of the first cold War and the entry of the Russian Federation into the international arena as ...
Added: June 29, 2025
Voevodskiy A., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2025 Т. 16
The article analyses the dynamics of changes in the image of Lesotho Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan (1966—1986) in the Soviet press. The significance of this topic is due to the historical context of the period under study — in the 1960s — 1980s. Lesotho was an important center of the national liberation struggle in Southern ...
Added: February 20, 2025
Fedorov N., Юго-Восточная Азия: актуальные проблемы развития 2024 № 3(64) С. 279–290
The article examines the formation of the Vietnam’s image in the USSR in the period of the First Indochina War. The research was conducted on the basis of publications in the Soviet magazines “Vokrug sveta”, “Krokodil” and “Ogonek”. The attention to the First Indochina War and Vietnam was intensified in the USSR after Moscow officially ...
Added: February 10, 2025
Российский государственный педагогический университет им. А.И. Герцена, 2024.
Сборник содержит статьи по материалам докладов, сделанных на Всероссийской научной конференции «Имагология Холодной войны: «Свои» и «чужие» в массовой культуре СССР и США», которая состоялась 3–5 октября 2024 года в РГПУ им. А. И. Герцена. ...
Added: January 8, 2025
Orlova G., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2024 Т. 66 № 3 С. 197–213
The article is devoted to the rhetorical, political and ethical entanglements of the atomic age, embodied into a new understanding of the world as well as into new fragilities and responsibilities. Noting the epistemological challenges of exploration the discursive production of the peace in the USSR, which was identified as one of the most indoctrinated ...
Added: October 2, 2024
Клещенко Л. Л., Латинская Америка 2021 № 8 С. 92–101
The article presents the results of a study of Cuba's cinema images in Soviet and American cold war cinema. The study aimed to compare the ways of representing Cuba in the Soviet and American cinema of this period. Materials for the study were Soviet and American films made in the period 1945-1991. It is shown ...
Added: September 23, 2024