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Tapping Productivity: Shock Work, Stakhanovism, and Working Class Identity in Central Asia
Vanderbilt Historical Review. 2018. No. 3. P. 12–20.
Aleksandr Fokin, European Journal of Women's Studies 2025 Vol. 32 No. 3 P. 349–352
Despite remarkable medical advances in The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment and prevention over recent decades, the epidemic remains a pressing global health challenge. This is particularly evident across post-Soviet territories, where a conservative turn in social and political spheres has intensified the marginalization of vulnerable populations. Contemporary healthcare policies in these regions frequently reflect ...
Added: August 8, 2025
Young P. I., Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2025 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 269–296
This article integrates an examination of major philosophies of the will, their interpretations by Bolshevik theorists, and their manifestations in the Stakhanovite movement. Through empirical analysis, it has distilled three major non-Marxist philosophical currents in the discourse on the Stakhanovite movement: Nietzsche’s will to power, Kant’s will as practical reason, and Rousseau’s general will. Each ...
Added: May 27, 2025
Chunikhin K., Вестник Пермского университета. История 2025 № 1(68) С. 173–186
The history of mountaineering is often reduced to a chronology of remarkable ascents. As a result, scholarly writing presents alpinism’s past as a sequence of triumphs and records. However, this schematic perspective ignores some crucial aspects of the history of mountaineering. For example, little is known about the history of everyday life in Soviet alpinism. ...
Added: May 12, 2025
Апальков Д. И., М.: АИРО-XXI, 2022.
На основе архивных документов, многие из которых впервые введены в научный оборот, в книге исследована борьба в высших эшелонах большевистской
партии в 1920-е – начале 1930-х гг. Автор рассматривает внутрипартийную
борьбу как процесс разрушения режима «коллективного руководства». Изучены
перипетии политической борьбы, факторы эскалации и сдерживания конфликтов внутри большевистского руководства. Книга может быть полезна историкам, политологам, студентам соответствующих направлений, ...
Added: September 11, 2024
Mladenović I., Gužvica S., Mouvements 2020 No. 4(104) P. 58–68
Using a case study of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, we try to present the multitude of different tactics that were applied under the communist strategy of the “Popular Front,” hence using the phrase in plural. Although the popular front is now seen primarily as a strategy of class compromise for the sake of struggle ...
Added: November 17, 2023
Vereshchagina N., Технологос 2022 № 3 С. 74–84
The anthology “To Each His Own Cinema” was created for the 60th Cannes Film Festival Anniversary. It included episodes by contemporary directors dedicated to the present and future of the cinema in the context of digital technologies and post-continuity. Aki Kaurismäki presented the three-minute episode “The Foundry”, which demonstrates the visual, auditory and narrative features ...
Added: January 18, 2023
Kantor V., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2022 Т. 5 № 4 С. 11–41
Vladimir Kantor talks about his father, a great philosopher — aesthetics, philosopher of history, art critic, author of books noted in Russia and abroad. The essay was written for the centenary of the birth of Karl Moiseevich Kantor, a kind of anniversary publication. The author of the article gives assessments of his work and his ...
Added: December 21, 2022
Yeghenian A. Y., L.: Sterndale Classics, 2012.
Originally printed in 1932, this book is a fascinating and rare account of the early years of the Soviet Armenian republic as seen through the eyes of a young Armenian American woman, Aghavnie "Ave" Yeghenian. Witty, charming, fun, and insightful, her text fits into the broader category of the history of the Soviet Union. This ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Shakarian P. A., H-Net Reviews 2021
Review of the book Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies, edited by James Ryan and Susan Grant. ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Shakarian P. A., Armenian Forum On-Line 2013
The environmental movement in Soviet Armenia served as a catalyst for the rise of the Armenian national movement during glasnost. Despite extensive studies of the collapse of Soviet power in Armenia, little research has looked at this movement as a major factor in Armenian civic and national expression. ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Shakarian P. A., Peripheral Histories 2021
Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw represented a major period of historical change for the Soviet Union, a period that included significant reform to the country’s nationality policy. In this regard, Soviet Armenian statesman, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, a close Khrushchev ally, played an indispensable role in shaping and defining the nationality policy during the crucial years following the ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Shakarian P. A., The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 2021 Vol. 49 No. 1 P. 104–108
Review of the book Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus by Krista Goff. ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Zatravkin S., Vishlenkova E. A., Quaestio Rossica 2022 Т. 10 № 2 С. 646–656
In this text, the authors debate the research carried out by D. Khristenko on early Soviet rural healthcare, questioning the trustworthiness of the sources, their interpretation, and the historical and biographical context of the narrative. The authors provide statistics that recorded a reduction in the Soviet healthcare system’s ability to treat the population. They analyse ...
Added: September 15, 2022
Golovlev A., Themenportal Europäische Geschichte 2022 P. 1–16
In this essay, theatre management and economic structure in the Bolshoi Theatre are investigated, firstly as elements of Stalinist cultural policies, and secondly as an expression of the Bolshoi’s institutional and economic subjectivity. Promoted to the stage of “Soviet opera”, and failing this task, the house nevertheless developed a highly functional and numerically efficient economy, ...
Added: September 7, 2022
Kozintcev M. A., Pochekaev R. Y., Письменные памятники Востока 2022 Т. 19 № 2 С. 86–98
The article presents the characteristic of the unfinished and unpublished work Travel Sketches: “A Tourist’s Notes” by Sh.M. Ibragimov (1841–1891), housed at the Archives of the Orientalists of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ф. 33. Оп. 1. Ед. хр. 225). The authors attempt to show the value of “A ...
Added: June 21, 2022
Lyagushkina L., Историческая информатика. Информационные технологии и математические методы в исторических исследованиях и образовании 2022 № 1 С. 128–139
The article describes various approaches to the classification of occupations in historical research, using the example of the database "Victims of political terror in the USSR". A brief overview of the methods by which this problem was previously solved is given: from manual assignment of certain occupations and professions of the repressed to different social ...
Added: April 29, 2022
Khlevniuk O. V., Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2022 Т. 63 № 1 С. 159–186
В последние десятилетия на основании новых документов о сталинском терроре и Гулаге написано огромное количество работ. Однако парадокс историографической ситуации заключается в том, что в литературе отсутствует ответ на вопросы, с которых логично начинать изучение проблемы: сколько было жертв террора и государственного насилия и на какие категории они разделялись. Можно назвать две причины такой необычной ...
Added: April 6, 2022
Dmitriev T., Rezensionen zur internationalen Forschung zur russischen und deutschen Geschichte – Rezensionsreihe des DHI Moskau 2021 Т. 12
Review of the book by the famous German historian, specialist in the history of Russia Dietrich Geyer (born 1928), dedicated to the history of Russia of the last four and a half centuries against the background of European history. The chronological framework of the narrative covers the period from the reign of Ivan IV the ...
Added: March 15, 2022
Platonova E., Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований 2021 Т. 13 № 3 С. 183–186
Рецензия на книгу специалистки по истории советского и европейского искусства и дизайна Юлии Карповой "Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s-80s" (Manchester University Press, 2020) ...
Added: December 6, 2021