World Literature and Mythology: Guarantees of Freedom of Man and Nation in Sigitas Geda’s Poetry by Karolina Bagdonė

“…The objective is to discuss how resistance to Soviet ideology could be constructed in mythological and world-literary contexts. …”
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War and negotiations. How Vietnam defeated the American Colossus by A. M. Vasiliev

“…The full support of Vietnam can be seen as a successes story of Soviet foreign policy.…”
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Uprising in Tashkent in October 1917 according to memoirs of S. V. Sazanov by E. A. Vorobyeva

“…At the same time, they do not contradict either the sources of 1917 (materials of the local press), or the post-Soviet historiography. With regard to the latter, S.V. …”
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British Policy and Strategy in the Middle East in 1941: Three Wars ‘East of Suez’ by A. M. Fomin

“…After the joint Anglo-Soviet military operation in August-September 1941, Iran was divided into occupation zones. …”
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Karakats: the Bricolage of Hybrid Vehicles that Skate and Swim by Patrick Laviolette, Alla Sirotina

“…The region of study was part of the Soviet Union so the phenomenon of self-assembled vehicles implies socialist and communist considerations. …”
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Russian Approach to Soft Power Promotion: Conceptual Approaches in Foreign Policy by Y. Nikitina

“…Russia has a coherent normative model of regional development for the post-Soviet space. For the global level Russia formulates rules of behavior that it would like to see at the international arena, but Russia does not formulate how Russian or regional post-Soviet models of development can contribute to world development.…”
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Financial support for the development of the northern territories of the country by V. V. Prokhorov, I. P. Rozhnov, Yu. V. Erygin

“…This article studies the issues related to the economic development of the Lower Angara region located in Krasnoyarsk Territory, analyzes the state programs for the development of the Soviet and post-Soviet era territory, and makes an attempt to determine the reasons for the unsuccessful implementation of it. …”
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Wyjść poza krąg. O przywracaniu pedagogiki Marii Rogowskiej-Falskiej i Wiery Schmidt by Wojciech Siegień

“…The comparative analysis took into account the voices of female educators from Poland and the Soviet Union – Maria Rogowska-Falska and Vera Schmidt. …”
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Revival of the Moral Traditions in Red Army During the Great Patriotic War by E. G. Guzhva

“…Thus, according to the order of People's Commissar of Defense of the September 8,1943 the hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov was enlisted in the lists of the 1st company of 254-th Guards Rifle Regiment. …”
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«Eastern Partnership» after the Vilnius Summit by A. Chernova

“…Among them is the ambiguous legacy of the European Neighbourhood Policy, lack of membership perspective in the EU as well as the nature of societies and elites in these post-Soviet states.…”
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Informal networks of corruption in contemporary Lithuania: Between practice and interpretation (an attempt to study evolution of blat) by Donatas Brandišauskas

“…In Soviet times, blat existed in shortage conditions and was an alternative for central distribution of state resources that became the legitimate feature of behavior and mentality. …”
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National interests in Russia’s foreign policy by V. P. Nazarov

“…The author conducts an in-depth examination of Russian perspectives on national interests during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as throughout the Soviet era, presenting an original periodization of conceptual approaches within Soviet Russia and the USSR. …”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Sociology of the Arts by Biggart John

“…This article is based on works by Bogdanov, few of which have been re-published in post-Soviet Russia and most of which are not available in other languages. …”
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The position of Lithuanian parties towards Poland in 1920-1926: from modus vivendi to permanent confrontation by Andrius Grodis

“…However, despite the hostility to Poland entrenched in society, the leaders of political parties who envisioned the greatest danger to the state's independence from Soviet Russia and Germany actively sought pacific means of resuming the historical capital of the state and for ways of friendly affiliation of interstate relations.  …”
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The Shaping of New Ethnic Clusters in Kalmykia, 1957–1991 by Sergey S. Belousov

“…Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, urgently evacuated Meskhetian Turks and Kurds were also resettled to the republic. …”
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Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė: Why Classic? by Dalia Čiočytė

“…Vanda Zaborskaitė wrote during the period of Soviet occupation, when Marxist criticism was obligatory. …”
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FUTURE TRENDS OF FORMATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGIME ON THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION SECURITY by E. S. Zinovieva

“…Russia can form a regional information security regime in the former Soviet Union on the basis of the CSTO and SCO and potentially on a wider Eurasian space. …”
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Formation of political organizations in Western Siberia during fragmentation and collapse of CPSU. 1989–1991 by S. V. Novikov

“…The actual material accumulated and processed in a series of dissertations and monographic West Siberian studies makes it possible to analyze the contribution of political forces that appeared during the years of perestroika to the destruction of the administrativecommand system for a long time ensuring the existence and development of the Soviet state. Even after 30 years, it is difficult to determine what these events were: the counter-revolution, the revolution, the Thermidorian upheaval.This situation is complicated by the differences in the interests of the political forces that took part in the collapse of the Soviet system of government, as well as a change in the attitude of the participants in the events themselves to their past experience…”
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INTEGRATION PROCESSES ON CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IN THE EURASIAN SPACE by G. A. Borshevskiy

“…The work is intended to become the basis for a broad international research on the development of civil service, which is the central mechanism for implementation the integration in the post-Soviet space.…”
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History of the Second World War: Countering Attempts to Falsify and Distort to the Detriment of International Security by V. G. Kiknadze

“…United States, European Union and Ukraine tend to distort the results of the Second World War to remove the history of the Great Patriotic War, the feat of the Soviet people, who saved the world from fascism, and the Soviet Union (Russian Federation), together with Nazi Germany put in the dock of history, accusing all the troubles of the XX century. …”
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