The Investigation of Military Suicides in the 1930—1950 s. by D.N. Shkarevsky

“…The article formulates the following conclusions. The Soviet criminal law provided responsibility for bringing to suicide or assisting suicide and attempted suicide. …”
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Places Revisited: Transnational Families and Stories of Belonging by Pihla Maria Siim

“…Interviews were made with immigrants from the former Soviet Union living in Finland and their family members living in the country of origin (in Russian Karelia and Estonia). …”
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Hyperborea: The Arctic Myth of Contemporary Russian Radical Nationalists by Victor Shnirelman

“…After the disintegration of the Soviet Union Russians had to search for a new identity. …”
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Anton Nilsson et l’écho d’une bombe. Malmö, 1908-1917 by Lars Berggren, Roger Johansson

“…On Midsummer's Eve 1919, Anton Nilsson took an international flight certificate and went to the young Soviet state to become a pilot in the Red Army. He remained an agitator throughout his life and participated as a centenarian in the First of May demonstration in Stockholm, where he then lived and later was also buried.…”
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Mass Higher Education in Russia: Features of Dynamics by V. F. Pugach

“…The article considers the massification of higher education in post-Soviet Russia and shows its special aspects against the background of the studentship history in our country from 1917 to 2017. …”
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75 YEARS OF MEPHI’S HISTORY: CONTINUITY OF EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS by I. E. Zadorozhnyuk

“…Strikhanov) published in the series “Science in the Soviet Union: Through the difficulties to the stars” is devoted to the first 50 years of the history of MEPhI. …”
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The Pact of Baghdad on Account of its Effect to Relationship of Turkish - Arabian by Mustafa Bostancı

“…The base of Baghdad Pact, which was organized for the purposes of preventing penetration of the Soviet Union into Middle East, was laid by a convention entered by and between Turkey and Iraq on February 24, 1955, and Iran, Pakistan and England joined the pact at a later date. …”
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Anti-alcohol campaign in Gorky region in perestroika time by A. A. Fomenkov

“…The positive sides in the activities of the party and Soviet bodies of the Gorky region in the anti-alcohol campaign are indicated. …”
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Performative Translation: Latvia’s Orbita Group as a Post-Monolingual Heterotopia by Kevin M. F. Platt

“… The Orbita multimedia and poetry collective, based in Riga, Latvia, has succeeded in making poetry written in Russian an integral part of the Latvian cultural and literary scene, despite the burden borne by Russian language and culture in this society as a result of still unsettled and contested histories of Russian and Soviet imperial domination and cultural imperialism. …”
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Turkmen Students at Volgograd State Technical University by L. F. Belyakova, T. L. Sidorova, R. M. Petruneva, V. D. Vasilyeva

“…The article addresses the problems of language adaptation of foreign students who came from the former Soviet republics, mainly on the example of students from Turkmenistan.…”
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The Important Step for European Integration: “Council of Europe” and the Matter of Turkey’s Membership to Council by Ali Servet Öncü

“…After World War II, Europeans set up several organizations both not to suffer similar disasters anymore and to become more powerful against the Soviet Union making its power felt in Europe day by day. …”
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La situation de la langue ossète en Ossétie du Sud et le rôle des conflits de 1920, 1991-1992 et 2008 by Laurent Alibert

“…The abolition of an official status for Ossetic language (which was co-official with Russian and Georgian on the territory of the oblast during the soviet period) during the Gamsakhurdia period (first georgian government post-USSR) was, for Ossetian people one of the two main reasons for choosing independence – the other one being the territorial denial of South Ossetia (in Ossetic « Hussar Iryston ») and of its history in favor of the Georgian conception of the territory as Samachablo, a part of Shida Kartli. …”
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Reaching for Epistemic Humility by Lyudmila Bryzzheva

“…I take the reader through formative experiences as an emerging scholar in Soviet Russia and then as an academic researcher with significant epistemic privilege in the United States. …”
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New Geographical Regionalization of Russia by V. A. Gorbanyov

“…Under the leadership of the greatest scientists the Soviet Union was divided in to economic regions. After the collapse of the USSR and the emergence of a market economy, these regions have lost their meaning, and the new were not created. …”
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THE BATTLE OF KURSK: HOW THE WESTERN HISTORIANS APPRECIATE IT by A. A. Paderin

“…There are some arguments that the foundation for the forming ideas of western historians about the events on the Soviet German front in summer 1943 is in the workings of captured German generals and officers which were prepared by the task of military – historical service of US army. …”
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THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE FAR EASTERN STATE TRANSPORT UNIVERSITY (1937–1991) by A. S. Tsygankova

“…The present study addresses to the historical reconstruction of the students’ scientific research development in Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers of the Soviet period, as the students’ research was the most progressive form of training specialists with research and practical skills. …”
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Baltic Linguistics in Lithuania During a Century by Bonifacas Stundžia

“…The review concludes with an epoch of Soviet transformation and restored independence (ca. 1985 to the present), which liberated researchers and gradually led to international horizons. …”
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PROBLEMS OF INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN THE TRANSITION OF EASTERN BLOC COUNTRIES TO MARKET ECONOMY: EXAMPLES FROM SELECTED REGIONAL COUNTRIES by Yrd. Doç. Dr. Remzi Bulut

“…The Eastern bloc fell with the unification of Germany and the fall of Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. After the year 1991, the countries that consisted the old Eastern Bloc went in a pursuit of a new economical and political system. …”
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Contribution of the USSR State Committee on Science and Technology to development of agricultural science by A. V. Rychkov

“…The author comes to the conclusion that the activity of the SCST of the USSR outlined the direction of the processes of research and production integration in agriculture in the last Soviet decades…”
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GENDER STRUCTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING STAFF IN RUSSIA by Victoria F. Pugach

“…The paper shows the gender structure of higher education teaching staff in the post-Soviet Russia, and draws the results of comparison with foreign countries. …”
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