Yalta 1945: the Black Sea Straits and the War in the Far East by M. S. Monakov

“…Behind this processes were certain political goals, and when the war began Stalin stopped work on the first "big shipbuilding program" though it did not mean that he refused them. …”
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DOSTLUKTAN KRİZE: İKİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI SÜRECİNDE TÜRK-RUS İLİŞKİLERİ by Yaşar SEMİZ, Birol AKGÜN

“…Buna karşın, ikinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Türkiye’nin savaş dışı kalmaya yönelik denge politikası İzlemesi, bu çerçevede Almanlarla ticari ve diplomatik ilişkilerini kesmemesi ve Rusların savaşın galipler cephesinde yer alması gibi nedenlerle Moskova-Ankara ilişkileri savaşın sonuna doğru giderek kötüleşti. Özellikle Stalin’in Montreux sözleşmesinde tadilat yapılarak Ruslara Türk Boğazlan üzerinde kontrol hakkı tanınması ve Türkiye’nin doğu sınırlarında Ruslar lehine değişiklik yapılması gibi talepleri krizi derinleştirmiştir. …”
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DOSTLUKTAN KRİZE: İKİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI SÜRECİNDE TÜRK-RUS İLİŞKİLERİ by Yaşar Semiz, Birol Akgün

“…Buna karşın, ikinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Türkiye’nin savaş dışı kalmaya yönelik denge politikası İzlemesi, bu çerçevede Almanlarla ticari ve diplomatik ilişkilerini kesmemesi ve Rusların savaşın galipler cephesinde yer alması gibi nedenlerle Moskova-Ankara ilişkileri savaşın sonuna doğru giderek kötüleşti. Özellikle Stalin’in Montreux sözleşmesinde tadilat yapılarak Ruslara Türk Boğazlan üzerinde kontrol hakkı tanınması ve Türkiye’nin doğu sınırlarında Ruslar lehine değişiklik yapılması gibi talepleri krizi derinleştirmiştir. …”
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EVOLUTION OF STATE FAMILY POLICY IN RUSSIA FROM SOVIET TIMES TO THE PRESENT by A. V. Noskova

“…They are: the post-revolutionary model (1917-1926), the «Stalin» model (1927-1953), the "welfare" Soviet model (1954-1991), the yearly post- Soviet model (1991-2005), the modern model (since 2006). …”
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The tragedy of the South-Western Front: Kyiv disaster of 1941 by O. K. Maliutina, K. Z. Maliutin

“…Among the main ones, the following have been highlighted: incorrect assessment of Germany’s strategic priorities at the initial stage of the war; unpreparedness for a defensive war on one’s own territory; the advantage of the enemy in the tactics of fighting; lack of coordination of actions between military branches; loss of command of troops at all levels, from the General Staff to corps and division commanders; wrong personnel policy, as a result of which unprofessional persons who met the “main” criterion, such as personal loyalty to Stalin, came to the leadership of the Red Army; gross mistakes of the command, incompetence and voluntarism in setting tasks on the part of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command (the highest military leadership of the country), etc.…”
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Cuestión nacional, cuestión colonial y antiimperialismo en la tradición marxista: de la I Internacional a la Conferencia de Bakú (1864-1920) by Javier García Fernández, Ramón Grosfoguel

“…El presente artículo elabora una revisión crítica del pensamiento marxista desde autores como Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kaustky, Eduard Bernstein, Otto Bauer, Iosef Stalin, Rosa Luxemburgo, Vladimir Ilich Lenin y Manabendra Nath Roy en torno a la cuestión nacional, colonial y antiimperialista. …”
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Activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR on Combating Economic Crime in the Middle of 1950s by V. A. Grechenko

“…The original experience of combating economic crime was gained in previous years, but especially specific in this case were the 1950s, when there was departure from Stalin’s criminal policy, when the liberalization of the political regime and economic reforms began. …”
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U.S. plans to internationalize the containment of the USSR in the Balkans in the first half of the 1950s by A. A. Kalinin

“…The improvement of the situation in the Balkans after the death of Joseph Stalin led to the collapse of the Balkan Pact. The analysis of American policy in the Balkans made it possible to contribute to the study of the means and methods used by the United States to internationalize military conflicts in various regions of the world in the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.…”
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Nicolai Vasilyevich Ivanov: addition to biography of chekist-transport worker by V. P. Vasilevsky, A. V. Sushko

“…Ivanov makes it possible to cast doubt to the popular postulate that in 1937 all the «old school checklists» were destroyed by J. V. Stalin. N. V. Ivanov was a communist, distinguished himself in struggle against banditry, approved himself as a good professional in the eyes of the governing body. …”
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The Conditions of Public Opinion Action in Soviet Lithuania by Valdemaras Klumbys

“…Political changes after the death of Stalin and changes of the USSR international position forced KGB to use the means of psychological influence, pressure besides physical repression, actions of falsehood, discreditation, various provocations, and intimidation. …”
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Metamorphoses of memory of the the Russian-Serbian Brotherhood of War in Modern Serbia by A. Yu. Timofeev

“…The terror unleashed by Tito in the first postwar decade in 1944-1954 was proportionally bloodier than Stalin repressions in the postwar USSR. The number of emigrants from Yugoslavia after the establishment of the Tito's dictatorship was proportionally equal to the number of refugees from Russia after the Civil War (1,5-2% of prewar population). …”
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Self-Sacrifice of a Scientist in Soviet-Russian Cinema by S. M. Medvedeva

“…Nevertheless, it is possible to separate out three periods of picturing of self-sacrifice according to implicit sense of action: 1) period of Stalin’s cinema (1930th-1950th); 2) period of Thaw and Stagnation (1960th-1980th); 3) postsoviet cinema (until now). …”
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The state of scientific research of militia activity in Ukraine during the period of partial liberalisation of the political regime in the USSR (1953–1962) by V. A. Grechenko, O. N. Yarmysh

“…Over the past decades, a number of works by foreign scholars have been published that examine some aspects of the role of law enforcement agencies during the period of Stalin's totalitarian regime. They analyse some of the causes of crime and its evolution in the USSR at that time, and examine the social and cultural impact of the Thaw on relations, decision-making and policy-making in the Soviet Union during the period when N. …”
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Changes in the policy of the MIA of the USR SSR regarding the Ukrainian national liberation movement in march-june 1953 by V. A. Grechenko

“…This historical period was chosen by the author because after the death of the long-term leader of the USSR, Y. Stalin, certain changes in the international and domestic policy of the state began to take place, known in historical literature as the “Beria thaw”. …”
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KGB Struggle with Antisoviet Manifestation in Lithuania and Abroad: People's Discreditation by Kristina Burinskaitė

“…Political changes after the death of Stalin and changes of the USSR international position forced KGB to use the means of psychological influence, pressure besides physical repression, actions of falsehood, discreditation, various provocations, and intimidation. …”
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The Millenium of Lithuania: Two Eliminated Alternatives by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…It influenced the ideology of the national rebirth in the second half of the 19th century, and in 1920-1924 directly contributed to the formation of the anti-Polish ideology, as well as the evaluation of the year 1921 from the perspective of the 12th of July 1920 - the 10th of October 1939, that is, from the perspective of returning Vilnius to Lithuania from Stalin's Russia. Hence, a typological, and partly genetic, connection between 1791, 1921, and the modern anti-May and anti-humanistic tendencies both in political and historical culture is discovered. …”
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The Anti-Hitler Coalition: From Enmity to Military Alliance — A Formula for Success by A. Yu. Borisov

“…The author emphasizes that at such crucial moment of history I.V. Stalin, F.D. Roosevelt and W. Churchill raised to that challenge, demonstrating realism, common sense and willingness to cooperate. …”
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Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti’nde Sovyet Revizyonizmi’ne Karşı Kitapların Propaganda Amaçlı Kullanımı by Tuğba Baytimur, Mehmet Sezai Türk, Özkan Avcı

“…Araştırmanın özündeki tarihsel geçmiş incelendiğinde Sovyetler Birliği’nde Joseph Stalin’in ölümünden sonra ülkenin liderliğine gelen Nikita Kruşçev döneminde destalinizasyon sürecine girildiği ve dış siyasette Sovyetler Birliği ile ABD arasındaki ilişkilerin uzlaşı temelinde ilerlemesine çalışıldığı görülmektedir. …”
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Coup (d'etat) in the Baltic States (1926, 1934): Similarities and Differences by Zenonas Butkus

“…The international situation was different as well: growing activity of the right-wing radicals after fascists took power in Germany and consolidation of Stalin’s dictatorship in the USSR. The most significant difference is thought to lie in the fact that the 1926 coup was directed against the reforms that were planned or undertaken by the left-wing coalition, while the 1934 political upheavals attempted to prevent a possible takeover by the right-wing extremists, though some data can be found that by means of a coup K. …”
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Neglected Questions on the “Forgotten War”: South Korea and the United States on the Eve of the Korean War by Mark Caprio

“…Documents from these archives demonstrate an active correspondence between the three communist leaders in Northeast Asia—Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Kim Il Sung—regarding the planning and orchestration of this war fought primarily among the two Korean states, the United States, and China.3 This new evidence has encouraged scholars to reformulate fundamental views of this war, particularly its place in Cold War history.The timing of the documents’ release—just as the Soviet-as-enemy image faded, and the post-Cold War rogue state-as-enemy image emerged—is intriguing. …”
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