USSR in World War II by M. Yu. Myagkov

“…The signing of the Pact was preceded by the failure in August 1939 of the negotiations between the military mis­sions of Britain, France and the USSR, although Moscow took the Anglo-French-Soviet nego­tiations with all seriousness.The huge losses of the USSR in the summer of 1941 are explained by the following circum­stances: before the war, a large-scale modernization of the Red Army was launched, a gradu­ate of a military school did not have sufficient experience in managing an entrusted unit by June 22, 1941; the Red Army was going to bleed the enemy in border battles, stop it with short counterattacks by covering units, carry out defensive operations, and then strike a de­cisive blow into the depths of the enemy's territory, so the importance of a multi-echeloned long-term defense in 1941 was underestimated by the command of the Red Army and it was not ready for it; significant groupings of the Western Special Military District were drawn into potential salients, which was used by the Germans at the initial stage of the war; Stalin's fear of provoking Hitler to start a war led to slowness in making the most urgent and necessary decisions to bring troops to combat readiness.The Allies delayed the opening of the second front for an unreasonably long time. …”
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"Janus" Puzzle: a Case of Creative Application of Marxist Theory in the Soviet Lithuanian Historiography? by Aurimas Švedas

“…Bumblauskas (Communist pragmatism, Stalinism - Leninism, Marxism), the analysis regards this study as an effort to dissociate from the Stalinism-Leninism. …”
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The formation of periodization and the conception of Lithuanian history from 1940-1990 in emigrant historians' works by Algirdas Jakubčionis

“…From the years of postwar Stalinism to 1956, the period of re-emergence of national culture (R. …”
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A. A. ZINOVIEV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOVIET MANAGERIAL ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…The article reveals the ideological and social meaning of de-Stalinization as an inevitable, but morally defective administrative step, from the position of a philosopher. …”
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Clarté (1919-1928) : du refus de la guerre à la révolution by Alain Cuénot

“…Tout au long de cette expérience inédite, les écrivains soldats se sont appliqués, malgré les obstacles surgis sur leurs routes comme l’opposition du PCF en pleine bolchevisation en 1926, ou l’arbitraire de Moscou placé sous l’autorité de Staline, à servir avec constance la cause de l’intelligence révolutionnaire et du prolétariat.…”
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Ukrainian SSR police activities in combating crime in the late 1950s by V. A. Grechenko

“…The essence of the criminal law policy of the state in the first years of de-Stalinization has been highlighted. Since the mid-1950s, legislative activity in Ukraine has become more intense, the number of new regulations has increased rapidly, and their quality has improved. …”
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Experimental prosopis management practices and grassland restoration in three Eastern African countries by René Eschen, Ketema Bekele, Yohana Jumanne, Staline Kibet, Fernadis Makale, John Richard Mbwambo, Berhanu Megersa, Mahamood Mijay, Francis Moyo, Linus Munishi, Mickfanaka Mwihomeke, Winnie Nunda, Moses Nyangito, Arne Witt, Urs Schaffner

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