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Navigating the Housing Bureaucracy in Late Soviet Moscow: A Housing Order as a Document of Socialist Desire
Europe-Asia Studies. 2024. Vol. 76. No. 8 . P. 1280–1298.
Many scholars have drawn attention to the large housing programme at play in the late Soviet period. However, this programme did not solve the housing shortage, and the housing order (zhilishchnyi order) remained an object of desire for Soviet citizens. This document was an official guarantee of accommodation in the USSR, where there was no housing market. Based on archival sources and interviews, this article focuses on the history of the housing order and people’s strategies for obtaining it. It reveals the specifics of the public housing delivery system and the means through which ordinary Soviet citizens navigated its bureaucracy.
This article was prepared within the framework of the Basic Research Program at HSE University. The authors are thankful to the team behind the project ‘Social Anthropology of Institutions of the Late USSR’, especially to Galina Orlova, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov and Roman Abramov for supporting and developing the ideas reflected in this article. The authors are also grateful to students Maksim Shulga, Aleksandr Pashchenko, Evgenii Vlasov, Maksim Gurin, Ruslan Khasanov and Tatiana Malchugina for help with the data collection and preparation.
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Nikolay Sarkisyan, Revolutionary Russia 2025 Vol. 38 No. 1 P. 1–23
This article examines the emergence and evolution of revolutionary museology in Imperial Russia between 1901 and 1917, addressing a previously understudied aspect of revolutionary culture. By analysing four successive attempts to establish revolutionary museums – the Russian Museum in Geneva (1901–1902), Maxim Gorky’s initiative on Capri (1912–1913), Vladimir Burtsev’s various projects, and the Petrograd House ...
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ИДВ РАН, 2026.
This paper addresses the issue perceiving the national Vietnamese costume as a tool of cultural representation in the context of official state events held in Vietnam and abroad. The study focuses on specific cases of protocol visits, meetings, forums, and beauty contests, where the ao dai and other types and elements of national clothing are ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Dadykina M., Известия Российской академии образования 2026 Т. 2 № 74 С. 50–65
In modern economic law, the concept of "business entity" refers to an individual or legal entity (or association) en- gaged in economic activity for profit. Since the concept of a legal entity in Russia only fully developed in the late 18th century, the use of this term in the context of the Russian economy of ...
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Kanaev A. A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2026 № 3(74) С. 159–168
The current article is dedicated to the specifics of how the image of the “East” correlated with Russian national identity in the political languages of Russian nationalists in the 1990s. The focus is on situations in which certain positive features of the imaginary “East,” as opposed to the “West,” were associated with the Russian nation. ...
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Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592
The article reconstructs the 'biography' of an alleged (in fact, non-existent) fragment of
4QDeutq said to contain a non-Masoretic reading of Deut 32 : 8. It traces how erroneous
references to the fragment emerged during the preliminary publication of the Scrolls in the
1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran
studies after the official ...
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Абзалов Л. Ф., Гатин М., Мустакимов И. А. et al., Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья 2026 № 22 С. 395–406
The article is devoted to the analysis of the office of mushrif in the states of traditional Orient. The sources and researches characterize this institution in different ways. One authors consider mushrif as a representative of a treasure office, others states that he was a kind of ‘undercover agent” who fulfilled ruler’s secret orders in ...
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Popov A., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 689–699
The article examines the export of Soviet oil to the CMEA countries in 1965–1985, relying on statistical data from declassified collections of Foreign Trade of CMEA Member Countries, which are being made available to scholars for the first time. The author argues that economic motives played a significant role in the expansion of Soviet oil ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143
The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...
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Khlevniuk O. V., Journal of Slavic Military Studies 2026 Vol. 39 No. 3 P. 447–466
The Gulag as a system of terror and forced labor was the
cornerstone of Soviet mobilization efforts in the 1930s.
Paradoxically, during the war with Nazi Germany, the
Gulag’s capacities and economic significance did not grow,
but in fact declined, contrary to what one would expect. The
massive use of prisoners as a source for replenishing the
army and the huge ...
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Selin A. A., Яблокова И. В., Вспомогательные исторические дисциплины 2026 Т. 45 № 3 С. 609–619
This article examines the possibility of reconstructing the archives of the Novgorod Prikaznaya Izba (office) from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the materials of which were partially destroyed and partially scattered across various archival repositories. Some of these materials have been introduced into scholarly circulation, while others remain unidentified. There is a debate ...
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Popov A., Pivovarov N. Y., Russian Review 2026 Vol. 85 No. 4 P. 461–477
This article challenges the conventional narrative that the transferable ruble was conceived as a Soviet means of challenging Western financial hegemony. Drawing on previously unpublished archival mate rial from Russian state archives, it argues that the currency emerged primarily from a pragmatic need to settle accumulated debts within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). ...
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This collection presents papers from the 17th All-Russian Scientific Conference (2026), attended by staff and students from Russian higher education institutions, school teachers, and professionals from libraries and archives engaged in research on national history and historiography. ...
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Поликарпова Д. А., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 432–441
This article is a review of Natalia Samutina's collection of texts «This Music is Too Beautiful: texts on cinema and more» (Moscow: Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie, 2025), edited by the author's colleagues, Boris Stepanov and Irina Kaspe. Considering the volume as a «seismograph of time», the author reconstructs the intellectual context of Russian film theory in ...
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Вебер М., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 318–353
In the concluding part of the Second Anti-Critique (1910), Max Weber summarizes the substantive
findings of his own contributions to the debate with the historian Felix Rachfahl. In doing so, he uses the response to his relentless critic as an opportunity to articulate once again, in an explicit manner and for both his own benefit and that of the ...
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Kamenskii A. B., Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2026.
This volume has been prepared to mark the anniversary of the distinguished Ural scholar Dmitry Alekseyevich Redin. It presents research and published source texts contributed by Dmitry Alekseyevich’s colleagues, friends, and students. The diverse range of studies—covering various aspects of Russian social history from the late 16th through the 18th century, as well as issues ...
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Kamenskii A. B., Quaestio Rossica 2026 Т. 14 № 3 С. 939–959
This article examines one of the significant figures in the system of governance of Russia during the reign of Catherine II: Prince Alexander Alekseevich Vyazemsky, Prosecutor General of the Senate, who held this post for approximately thirty years. During this period, the scope of his activities continually expanded to encompass the administration of finances; various construction ...
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Grishina D., Исаева В. М., Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2026 Vol. 2 No. 3 P. 47–64
The second half of the nineteenth century became a time of many dramatic events on the Korean peninsula. With opening the country to trade and diplomacy with Westernized (Japan) or Western (USA, France, Great Britain) countries led to a division within Korean society, since the 1880s Chosŏn (Korea) has entered the age of political and ...
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Кузнецов М. А., В кн.: Альманах социально-гуманитарных наук: сборник научных статей: 3 квартал 2025.: Ульяновск: Зебра, 2025. С. 30–36.
The article examines the peculiarities of the housing policy of the USSR in the post-war
period using the example of Leningrad, where low-rise construction was actively developing. «Low-rise
towns» – this is what the low-rise residential buildings were called in the Bolshevik newspaper. This referred
to the fact that this type of construction would fill the city and ...
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Ганин А. В., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025.
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Dommarco M. C., М.: Институт святого Фомы, 2022.
Исследование значительной части архивных документов, доступных на сегодняшний день, рассказывает о беспрецедентном событии в истории дипломатических отношений между Святейшим Престолом и большевистским правительством. Как показывает автор, дипломатические и человеческие последствия присутствия папских посланников в России в тот конкретный исторический момент были многообразны и превзошли ожидания Ватикана и ленинского правительства. ...
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Фокин А. А., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2026.
The Soviet project existed not merely in slogans: it was materialized in metal, plastic, paper,sound, and rituals. This collection demonstrates how material objects and infrastructuresserved as mediators between the state, society, and everyday life—ranging from theelectrification drive and the dream of a unified power grid to the humble ballot and ballotbox, from “Muzprom” to a children’s toy, from a homemade board game to a vodka label.
What were the roles, networks, and practices of production, consumption, and exchangethrough which the material system of the USSR was created and reproduced?
The historians, anthropologists, and art historians whose contributions make up this volumeinvite us to see material things as full‑fledged participants in political, aesthetic, and socialprocesses. These processes explain why certain technologies became symbols of thefuture, others reinforced civic rituals, and still others have returned today to museums, fleamarkets, and television shows. ...
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Son Z., Brill, 2025.
This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the history of Soviet Koreans (1920s-1930s), focusing into their experiences in the USSR. It examines the impact of Stalin's foreign and domestic policies on
Soviet Koreans, their role in the socio-economic development of the Far East, and their contributions to the Red Army, as well as the cultural ...
Added: December 25, 2025
Kozlov D., Антропологический форум 2025 № 67 С. 297–311
THe book by Benjamin Nathans suggests an innovative approach to the study of Soviet dissidence of the 1960s and 1970s . Political protest is presented as a multifaceted communication in which such important concepts as freedom, law, civil rights, responsibility, and political participation are redefined between the dissidents, repre- sentatives of party and state power, ...
Added: December 15, 2025
Glushkov A., Козлова К. О., Новые исследования Тувы 2025 № 4 С. 107–121
The analysis conducted in the study allowed the authors to trace the evolution of Soviet agitation in the first post-war decade, identify the main campaigning techniques that were notable for their diversity, and conclude that at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, in the context of voluntary resettlement campaigns, the state was forced to ...
Added: December 1, 2025