THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT AS A CULTURAL TRAUMA OF UKRAINE by Ya.O. Yakovlieva

“…The growing interest in the historical past, promoting access the modified concepts historicizing and collective memory phenomenon contributed to a broader discussion of the impact of "Chernobyl situation" in the post-Soviet identity in the region, the impact of the release of the fact of the accident on the formation of social consciousness and thus the political representation of the past, forming interactions' communication between ethnic memory and "traumatic" legacy of the communist era. The disappearance of the "Soviet bloc" has given new impetus to the interest of researchers the Postchernobyl info shock as a mass phenomenon radiophobia that approved the legality of a finding rethinking the Chernobyl accident as "cultural trauma" of Ukrainian history. …”
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The functioning of the Crimean Tatar language in the authorities and administration of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the context of the policy of indigenizati... by Grigorii Kondratjuk

“…The creation of the Crimean autonomy was supposed to demonstrate that the needs of the Turkic peoples could be resolved in the Soviet Union, but not in the principles of Kemalism, but in the Communist Party. In this task, the Crimean Tatars were to act as conductors of Bolshevik ideas. …”
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The Conflicting Soviet Responses to the Lausanne Process (1922-1924) by R. Matos Franco

“…The research demonstrates that when the Swiss government prevented the Soviet counterpart from participating as a legal party in the process, Moscow resorted to non-traditional foreign projections, which encompassed actions beyond formal diplomacy, and even involved non-communist actors to present the USSR in a positive and "objective" light at Lausanne. …”
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The sport and Lithuanian national identity by Ingvaras Butautas, Rasa Čepaitienė

“…So we may raise a hypothesis whereby the last-mentioned ability reflects Lithuanian communist leaders and/or sport functionaries' acceptance of such kind of "nationalism." …”
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Relations between Russia and Lithuania in the contemporary Lithuanian historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

“…This tendency is strengthened by the fact that the communist era has never been legally or morally evaluated on the international scale. …”
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LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN POLAND by Monika Król

“…In Poland, both in the interwar period, and throughout the communist period, the government policy relating to agriculture marked as the primary goal ensuring the public food security in terms of quantity. …”
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Regulating the Urban Commons: A Romanian Case Study of Improving Building Facades by Anamaria Vrabie, Rodica Ianole-Călin

“…We interpret the results of this exploratory case study as a first step towards building a more comprehensive approach to serve as a toolkit in examining the development of innovative local policies in post-communist environments, through a combined research framework including also the significant contribution of behavioural insights, next to the traditional rational actor theories. …”
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Activities of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR Pavlo Yakovlevych Meshyk (1953) by V. A. Grechenko

“…At the same time, a policy was implemented to rid the state security agencies of their dependence on the influence of the Communist Party. At the same time, P. Meshyk came into conflict with some party officials, including the then leader of the republic, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CP(B)U, L. …”
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SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS OF NATIONAL HISTORY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF THE MEMORY POLICY OF THE SOVIET STATE by Isabella S. Ogonovskaya

“…Esakov, presented in the form of an article, materials of the periodical press (the magazines "The Struggle of Classes", "The Marxist Historian", "Teaching History to Schools"), as well as resolutions of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the Ministry of Education / Education of the USSR, considered on the basis of historical-descriptive (as the main), historical-chronological, historical-systemic, historical-comparative, problematic and other methods of historical research. …”
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Models of Historical Memory and past Representation of Vilnius University in the 19th-20th Centuries by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…On the other hand, the different developmental periods witnessed not the "pure" nationalistic models of historical memory - such as the "Polish", "Russian", "Lithuanian", as well as the communist model - but rather a compromise of different models. …”
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Humanitarian Aid of the Red Cross and Other Public Organizations of the Netherlands To Soviet Russia During the Famine of 1921–1923 by G. G. Tsidenkov

“…In addition to sending humanitarian supplies, the Dutch Red Cross equipped its own expedition to Samara province;2) Associations of trade unions of the Second International, which participated in the financing of an independent expedition of the "International Federation of Trade Unions" to the Chuvash Autonomous Region;3) communist trade unions and associations of the Netherlands, acting through the organization "International Workers' Aid", which took part in the restoration of the Soviet national economy, and also maintained numerous orphanages in Soviet Russia;4) Religious societies of Dutch Mennonite Protestants, which sent humanitarian aid to the places of settlement of their co-religionists, where, at the insistence of the Soviet government, they provided aid to all those in need, regardless of religion.All the activities of various Dutch organizations and individual citizens in Soviet Russia and the Ukraine showed the readiness of the population and political forces of the Netherlands to maintain close contacts and interaction between our peoples, regardless of the official relations of states and political differences.…”
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Post-Socialist Ethnic Symbolism, Suppression of Yugoslav Social Memory, and Radical Populism Psychology by Faruk Hadžić

“…Moreover, the approach toward the fascist ideology symbols disregards the communist social memory of stability and human security and a collectivism-oriented community. …”
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Problema protocronismului. Precizări by Edgar Papu

“…His idea about the Romanian aesthetic forms anticipating or preparing currents, motives or procedures that were later to be experienced and dealt with by the Western culture was published twice before (1977 and 1989), but this one is the first uncensored text diffused after the fall of the communist regime in Romania. Running chronologically, the paper starts with a 16th c. work – contemporary to Machiavelli’s The Prince (1513) – due to the Lord of Walachia, Néagoé Bassarab, entitled The Lectures meant for his son Theodosius (1519-1521), which establishes a canon of reigning principles and skills at hand to his heir to the throne, considered by the author Edgar Papu to anticipate the appearance of the Baroque type of “hombre secreto” described in the treaties of the Jesuit monk Baltasar Gracián, called El Discreto (1646) and Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647). …”
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Legal foundations of the organization and activities of the Ukrainian SSR police in 1949–1950s by О. V. Brusakova, V. A. Hrechenko

“…The activities of the police were controlled and regulated by decisions and resolutions of the Communist Party of Ukraine. First of all, it concerned the selection of personnel and education of police personnel. …”
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East Central Europe in the Federalist-Regional Concepts of the Polish Emigrants of the Second Half ofthe 20th century by Barbara Stankevič

“…The developments of World War II and post-war periods conditioned a half-century-long dualistic division of Europe into the democratic West and the Communist East, which left a deep imprint in the world historiography. …”
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CHRISTIAN THINKERS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND GIORGIO LA PIRA) by T. V. Zonova

“…The author analyzes their views on international relations, in particularly on the western policy towards the Soviet Union, the use of nuclear weapons, the war in Vietnam and the communist issue. The legacy of the two thinkers is highly topical in front of the ethical dimension of choices in international politics today. …”
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KULTŪRINIS ŽYDŲ ĮVAIZDIS LIETUVOJE IR TAUTININKŲ IDEOLOGIJA by Bernaras Ivanovas

“…Firs of all Nationalist's propaganda concentrated on the group of liberal Jews and on the usage of Russian language in Jewish community, but on another hand the image of Jewish communist was not very popular. Generally, all negative features were attributed to the Jews, who wanted to integrate to Lithuanian society and who wanted to take positions, that, according to the ideology of nationalists, were attributed just for Lithuanians. …”
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KULTŪRINIS ŽYDŲ ĮVAIZDIS LIETUVOJE IR TAUTININKŲ IDEOLOGIJA by Bernaras Ivanovas

“…Firs of all Nationalist's propaganda concentrated on the group of liberal Jews and on the usage of Russian language in Jewish community, but on another hand the image of Jewish communist was not very popular. Generally, all negative features were attributed to the Jews, who wanted to integrate to Lithuanian society and who wanted to take positions, that, according to the ideology of nationalists, were attributed just for Lithuanians. …”
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‘LONG-SUFFERING LANDS’ BETWEEN POLAND AND BELARUS. POLITICS OF STATE HISTORY IN BELARUS ABOUT SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1939, WORLD WAR II, AND BUILDING THE NATION by Florin ANGHEL

“…Belarus has experienced, since the mid-1990s, a return to Soviet interpretations of historical events, being an extreme case of rehabilitation and glorification of the communist legacy. Especially the so-called Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) has become a center point of Belarusian memory and identity. …”
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Soviet Politics and Diplomacy in the Far East: Strategies and Alliances on the Eve of and During World War II by Yu. A. Dubinin

“…The period spanning from 1927 to 1932, marked by an initial deterioration in relations between the Soviet government and the Kuomintang administration following the 1927 split between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China (CPC). This phase also witnessed the 1929 conflict on the Chinese Eastern Railway and culminated in the reestablishment of Sino-Soviet relations, all set against the backdrop of escalating Japanese aggression in Northeastern China (Manchuria). …”
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