Belonging to the Land in Tura: Reforms, Migrations, and Indentity Politics in Evenkia by Olga Povoroznyuk

“…The establishment of Evenk autonomy, with the centre in Tura, in 1930 strengthened Evenk ethnic identity and unity through increased political and cultural representation, as well as through the integration of migrants from other regions. In the post-Soviet period, the community witnessed a population loss, a declining socio-economic situation, and the abolition of autonomy. …”
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Inégalités dans l’accès et dans le financement des soins au Tadjikistan : le rôle des stratégies informelles et des migrations by Sandra Pellet

“…Informal payments to healthcare professionals in post-soviet health systems persisted, despite the healthcare reforms. …”
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Past deformations of "Brezhnevian stagnation" in Lithuanian cinema and TV fiction films (1968-1980) by Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė

“…On the other hand, the analysis of archival origins helps to reconstruct the Soviet film industry system of Lithuania (censorship, the specific "control-gear" of films) and contextual analysis, which identifies the main political and creative displacements. …”
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Do romance ao romance histórico: algumas considerações sobre a teoria marxista do romance de György Lukács by Rafael da Rocha Massuia

“…In the sequence, we will resume the Lukácsean broader conception of the novel, specially highlighted in the paper “The novel as Bourgeois epic”, published in 1935, and then to delve into the more specific issue of the novel subgenre that combines History and Fiction, recorded in the book The historical novel, published in 1937, both during Lukács’ exile period in the 1930’s on the Soviet Union.…”
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L’ouverture contrastée d’un front écologique dans la Russie post-soviétique : la ceinture verte de Fennoscandie by Ian Florin

“…This article shows how actors united under the banner of the Fennoscandian Green Belt (GBF) combined environmental discourse and international relations to influence nature conservation policy in post-Soviet Russia. Based on documentary research and nearly seventy interviews, it traces how the GBF concept motivated and justified the opening of an ecofrontier along the borders between Russia, Finland and Norway in the name of protecting a supposedly pristine nature preserved by Cold War access restrictions. …”
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On the fundamental social changes in Lithuania in the 19th and 20th centuries by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…These social changes were determined by fundamental political changes in the system that were due to a new political geography in the Baltics and Eastern Europe. Russian and Soviet reforms had their effect on Lithuanian social history, as Russia determined the social development of conquered Lithuania. …”
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State institutes and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1948–1953 by Adéla Jůnová Macková

“…The incorporation of state institutes into the Academy of Sciences thus gives a clearer picture of the centralization of sciences in the 1950s, arranged according to the Soviet model. …”
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Joseph Moiseevitch Tchaikov. De la Ruche des Makhmadim à l’idéologie soviétique (1910-1937) by Marie Vacher

“…The reliefs decorating the propylaea of the Soviet pavilion at the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris were recently rediscovered on French soil, along with their sculptor, Iosif Chaykov (1888-1979). …”
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A Troubled North Caucasus: What`s Ahead? by V. V. Degoev

“…In the article the author revisits the neverending post-soviet discourse on the burning issue – the North Caucasus threats to Russia`s statehood. …”
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FROM AND AFTER 1990: ON LITHUANIAN MENTALITY AND MODERNIZATION by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“… The article is brought to bear on the political and cultural implications of radical communist modernization to the emerging democracy in post-revolutionary Lithuania as well as in postcommunist world on the whole. First, soviet industrial totalitarianism was not pieced together as a deviation from the western model of modernization, but, conversely, it represents the most violent enhancement of the latter. …”
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What <i>Does</i> Matter?: Idols and Icons in the Nenets Tundra by Laur Vallikivi

“…This paper examines a mission encounter in the Nenets reindeer herders’ tundra. In post-Soviet Arctic Russia, Pentecostal and Baptist missionaries of Russian and Ukrainian origin have been fighting against idolatry and trying to persuade the Nenets to burn their sacred images or khekhe’’. …”
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Założenia programowe jako kontekst kultury szkoły (w perspektywie prawdy i czasu) na przykładzie Polski i Ukrainy by Beata Adrjan

“…It means that our countries (Poland and Ukraine) after almost 25 years of freedom from soviet ideology up to now are at the same stage of thinking about school. …”
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Legal Consciousness in the Polish People’s Republic: The Epistemological Roots of the High Consensus Concept by Tomasz Raburski

“…Three distinct traditions – Western, Soviet, and Polish – are identified, each with varying levels of scholarly consensus and diverse sources of that consensus. …”
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La Lutte des classes face à l'internationalisme sportif. by Lorenzo Jalabert D'Amado

“…Among those, Uruguay's Communist Party chose to totally reject the government's project while at the same time promoting an alternative model for sports, directly inspired by the Soviet Union's example. With the analysis of this communist stance we seek to participate in the efforts to historicize the first edition of the now FIFA's flagship tournament. …”
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Analysis of the current state program INNOVATION SUBJECTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by M. Abramova, S. Manakhov

“…The paper shows and gives justification to the definition «program» which wasn't used earlier in case of state planned economy of the Soviet period, and legislatively snugged at the moment within an economical and managerial profile as a complex of the interconnected projects and actions united by a common goal and coordinated jointly for the purpose of increase in general effectiveness and controllability. …”
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Nenets Folklore in Russian: The Movement of Culture in Forms and Languages by Karina Lukin

“…The article deals mainly with the research history of Nenets folklore studies and examines critically two of its paradigms, namely the so-called Finno-Ugric paradigm and the Soviet studies. It is argued that in these paradigms there existed biases that prevented the students to study certain kind of folklore material. …”
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Revolução e religião: as relações entre a Igreja e o Estado na Cuba contemporânea by Marcos Antonio da Silva, Guillermo Alfredo Johnson

“…In this sense, it examines three key moments: the tension and distance in the context of the transition to socialism developed in the country; the reapproaching that culminated with the visit of Pope John Paul II in the 90s, still under the impact of the fall of the Soviet bloc and the international isolation faced by the country, and finally the more recent relationships, marked by the visit of the Pope, now emeritus, Benedict XVI and the affirmation of the Catholic Church as the main internal interlocutor with the Cuban government. …”
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Official Status As a Tool of Language Revival? A Study of the Language Laws in Russia’s Finno-Ugric Republics by Konstantin Zamyatin

“…This study explores the legal and institutional position of Finno-Ugric languages according to the language laws of the national republics in post-Soviet Russia. The aim is to understand whether the republican authorities intended to use the official designation of state language as a policy device with which to ensure the revival of titular languages. …”
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La morale des libres penseurs prolétariens : entre dénonciation de la pédophilie du clergé et promotion d’une approche alternative de la sexualité (France, années 1920-1930)... by Laura Pettinaroli

“…They also regularly emphasized sexual issues from different angles, ranging from vigorous denunciation of clerical pedophilia to defense of neo-Malthusianism, feminism, and the Soviet achievements on divorce and abortion legislation. …”
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Ethnocultural Factor of Inclusive Education Development (by the Examples of the Russian Federation and Kyrgyz Republic) by M. A. Suchkov

“…The author emphasizes the signs of our time – language assimilation in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is shown that many parents in the north of Kyrgyzstan send their children, including children with disabilities, to study at Russian schools, and it causes additional barriers in learning, along with the barriers caused by physical and intellectual disabilities.…”
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