Lessons of World War II and Strategic Planning of the Big Three (1945–1949) by I. E. Magadeev

“…Indeed, the experience of WWII had greatly influenced the strategic and operational planning in the USSR, the USA and Great Britain in 1945–1949. Moscow prepared to face the potential aggression on its Western borders or in the Far East in order to avoid the mistakes of 1941. …”
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Relations between Russia and Lithuania in the contemporary Lithuanian historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

“…The situation of historical research during the last twenty years on Lithuanian-Russian relations, and especially on the collapse of the USSR and liberation of Lithuania, is the most dynamic and the most complicated at the same time. …”
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The passport database of VIR’s bean collection as a tool for systemizing bean genetic diversity, studying the collection’s history, and monitoring the crop’s worldwide breeding (an... by T. V. Buravtseva, G. P. Egorova, M. A. Vishnyakova

“…The biggest replenishments of VIR’s bean collection in its entire long history happened in the times of the USSR (2129 entries). The passport DB also makes it possible to conduct worldwide monitoring of the breeding work with beans, because it provides a comprehensive overview of the history of bean breeding and its present-day status in foreign countries, the ex-USSR republics and the Russian Federation. …”
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Philosophy and Sociology Studies by S. A. Kravchenko, A. V. Shestopal

“…After graduating from MGIMO, he worked at the Foreign Ministry of USSR, and then served as a rector of the Academy of Social Sciences and chief-editor of the journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism" in Prague. …”
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Censure, éthique et propagande au sein de la revue URSS en construction by Jessica Watson

“…The photographic magazine URSS en construction was produced from 1929 to 1949 for propaganda purposes with the aim of showing Western countries the industrial and ideological power of the USSR. Certain eminent artists such as El Lissitzky and Aleksandr Rodchenko were contributors and, through their photomontages conveyed a utopian image of Stalinist society of the 1930s. …”
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Soudružské soudy jako nástroj socialistické demokracie ve vybraných státech východního bloku by Petra Zapletalová

“…In the introduction, this social organisation is mentioned in Czechoslovakia, but then the paper provides brief information on the similar institutions in USSR, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The work is divided into thematic parts based on countries, where the legislative development and the organisation of comrades’ courts are included, but also this paper contains information on procedures and sanctions. …”
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El modelo soviético en los años 1930: los viajes de María Teresa León y Rafael Alberti a Moscú by Allison Taillot

“…In this article, we will study the relationship between these two phenomena through the analysis of the life and creative trajectories of Rafael Alberti and María Teresa León, two revolutionnary intellectuals emblematic of this period, who travelled three times to the USSR: in 1932, 1934 and 1937.…”
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Un Triángulo vital para la República: Gran Bretaña, Francia y la Unión Soviética ante la Guerra Civil española by Enrique Moradiellos

“…Its fundamental conclusion is that the prickly « Spanish problem » revealed throughout the profound cleavage between the « policy of collective security » as it was understood by the USSR and the « policy of appeasement » as it was practised by the French and British governments. …”
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Le sort des « lumumbistes » chiliens face aux enjeux de la guerre froide (1964-1973) by Rafael Pedemonte

“…However, living in the USSR provided a rich experience for these students who, back in their country, finally succeed in integrating into Chilean professional circles, at least until Pinochet’s coup d’état in 1973.…”
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„Меня ждет на улице дождь” – анализ мотива дождя в творчестве Виктора Цоя by Jędrzej Melchior Paulus

“…Viktor Tsoi and his band KINO were some of the most well-known musicians of the late 1980s in the former USSR. Their influence on Russian rock-culture has been quite large and their output started being analyzed a few years ago. …”
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Preface by CTA Editorial Board

“…During that time, he made a lot of effort to maintain close collaboration with Institutes of Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science and its predecessor - the Academy of Science of the USSR. In 1987, he organized a joint laboratory with the Institute of Electrophysics. …”
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Visit of the Soviet Union journalists' delegation to Finland and the Baltic countries in 1937: the report of the leader of the delegation, Boris Michailov, to Stalin and Molotov by Zenonas Butkus, Magnus llmjärv

“… The article presents the leader's of the USSR journalists' delegation, Michailov's, report to Stalin and Molotov on the July 19-August 10, 1937 visit to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which was found in the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, Molotov's Stock (f. 82, i. 2, r. 1020, p. 4-16). …”
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Juozas Jurginis in 1961 was criticized by Moscow by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…Jurginis' educational literature could have led to complications in the entire history of the USSR and have had a potential negative impact on other Soviet republics. …”
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Latvia and Estonia's View to the Separation of Klaipėda from Lithuania in 1939 by Zenonas Butkus, Magnus llmjärv

“…Estonian leaders also assumed that the most dangerous enemy of Estonia was the USSR, which could also be resisted with the help of Germany. …”
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Diplomacy by Russia, Diplomacy by Serbian. The First Soviet’s Representatives in Belgrad, and the First Yugoslav’s representatives in Moscow by A. Y. Timofeev

“…USSR and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia didn’t have any diplomatic relations till 1940 from the moment of their creation after the First World War. …”
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Regular and epoch-making innovations in national urban planning by Kolyasnikov Victor A.

“…The development of innovative urban planning in Russia and the USSR in the 18th – 20th century is considered. Innovative urban planning is defined as an activity to create innovations and introduce them into practice to obtain a specific effect. …”
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THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY: MODERN STAGE by G. Ryazanova, P. Tolkachev

“…The thesis is substantiated that the chosen after the collapse of the USSR economic model oriented to market relations has exhausted itself. …”
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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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End of the INF Treaty: Are We Entering a New Cold War Era? by Şafak OĞUZ, Mehmet Seyfettin EROL

“…This article analyzes possible consequences of the abolition of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed between the US and the USSR in 1987 and banning developing, testing and deploying intermediate-range missiles. …”
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Synonymy of Leonomyrma Arnoldi 1968 With Chalepoxenus Menozzi 1922 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Alfred Buschinger

“…Arnoldi (1968) erected the genus Leonomyrma for a single new species, L. spinosa, which he had collected in July, 1949, near Peremetriaja, East-Kasachstan (USSR), at the lower course of Ural River. Up until present, only the type series of 4 ♀♀ and 14 ♂♂ have been known; no ☿☿ were found. …”
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