Śladami „złotej kohorty” (Dmitrij Bykow, „Uniewinnienie”) by Aleksandra Zywert

“…Dmitry Bykov’s novel Justification, created within the convention of alternative history, is a story about a fruitless attempt to justify Stalin’s crimes. The work combines mythologizing and demythologizing tendencies, which makes it an interesting example of quasi-historical prose. …”
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The role of Nazi organizations in German repatriation from the Baltic states (1939-1941) by Ingrida Jakubavičienė

“… In 1939 the Baltic states became the victims of cruel Hitler and Stalin agreements. Hitler and Stalin agreed that the German minority from the Baltic states would repatriate to Germany. …”
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Legal and Organizational Principles of Militia Activities of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1956 by V. A. Grechenko

“…The year 1956 was significant both in the history of Ukraine and the USSR, but also for world history. The death of I.V. Stalin in 1953 marked the beginning of the partial liberalization of the political regime in the Soviet Union; the strongest impetus for the continuation and intensification of this process was in 1956, the year of the XX Congress of the CPSU and the CPSU Central Committee Resolution “On overcoming the Stalin’s cult of personality and its consequences”, where a lot of terrible truth about the Soviet past was told for the first time. …”
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Positions of Soviet secret service in totalitarian Soviet Union by Kristina Burinskaitė

“…While the Cheka, GPU, and KGB were strictly subordinated to the party, Stalin made it his instrument in fighting his personal enemies and used it against the party itself in the 1930s. …”
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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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Entre Rideau de Fer et Dégel : panorama des opéras soviétiques 1945-1970 by Tetiana Zolozova-Le Menestrel

“…The immediate post-war “Iron Curtain” years in the USSR were a time of artistic and cultural stagnation due to Stalin’s and Jdanov’s diktats denouncing musical formalism and exalting the method of socialist realism, with such victims as Prokofiev and Shostakovich among others, leading to stereotyped libretti subjects set to an impoverished standardized musical idiom. …”
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Burden and 30-day Outcomes of Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients Presenting with Hypertensive Crisis by Yeshwanth Mohan Yalavarthy, Stalin Viswanathan, Jayachandran Selvaraj

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The report of Chief of the General Staff of USSR marshal Alexander Jegorov about his visit in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on 15th-26th of February, 1937 by Zenonas Butkus, Magnus llmjarv

“…Jegorov to the Baltic States, Stalin wanted, first and foremost, to instigate Berlin's interest in Moscow and make it resume the slackening relations. …”
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Velká krize kolektivizace v Pardubickém kraji by Pavel Boštík

“… After Stalin’s and Gottwald’s death in March 1953 political changes occurred in the states of Eastern Bloc. …”
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La réception du XXe Congrès dans la région de Gorki by Jean-Paul Depretto

“…Il tente d’analyser la façon dont les communistes de base ont réagi au fameux discours secret de Khrouchtchev dénonçant Staline. Le retentissement à court terme du XXe Congrès a été réel, mais limité ; quand le thème du « culte de la personnalité » était évoqué dans les réunions, il était surtout lu à partir de préoccupations locales : sa critique servait à mettre en cause tous ceux qui détenaient quelque pouvoir : supérieurs hiérarchiques dans l’entreprise ou cadres du parti.…”
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A Life Threatening Rash, an Unexpected Cause by Dhiraj Jain, Stalin Viswanathan, Chandramohan Ramasamy

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Rare Cause of Seizures, Renal Failure, and Gangrene in an 83-Year-Old Diabetic Male by Stalin Viswanathan, Kandan Balamurugesan

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Alexandre Parkhomenko (Leonid Loukov, 1942) : la guerre civile en Ukraine revue et corrigée by Eric Aunoble

“…As it was quickly named as “patriotic” by Stalin, this war saw a long lasting inflection of the Soviet discourse toward more nationalism. …”
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Pulmonary Edema in Myasthenic Crisis by Uttara Swati Anand, Stalin Viswanathan, Jayanthi Arulneyam

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Immoral Obscenity: Censorship of Folklore Manuscript Collections in Late Stalinist Estonia by Kaisa Kulasalu

“…In the first years after the incorporation of the Republic of Estonia into the Soviet Union, anti-Soviet mainly meant politically sensitive materials such as jokes about Stalin, very patriotic texts or the names of some people. …”
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Transformations of the historical context in the linguistic consciousness: Ideas, idols, and ideals by M.A. Pilgun

“…Among the historical characters of the events of 1917, the images of Lenin and Stalin stand out. The study has also revealed the high efficiency of the sacred ideals of Christianity as the basis for the formation of a new world order idols in Russia.…”
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Fatal Fulminant Hepatic Failure in a Diabetic with Primary Dengue by Stalin Viswanathan, Nayyar Iqbal, P. Philip Anemon, G. Shyam Kumar

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A bajulação das massas by Franz Josef Brüseke, Héctor Ricardo Leis

“…Since the greek political philosophy passing through the theoretical work of Tocqueville, Le Bon, Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset and Heidegger, to acquire a curious political actualization with Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and others, the fl attered mass presents itself in the Latin American populism.…”
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Islam et nationalisme en Asie centrale au début de la période soviétique (1924-1937). L'exemple de l'Ouzbékistan, à travers quelques sources littéraires by Stéphane A. Dudoignon

“…The period under study here goes from 1924 with the carving up of Central Asia according to ethno-territorial divisions realised under the aegis of Stalin, up to 1936 with the purges and liquidation of all alternative modes of thought. …”
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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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