New Geographical Regionalization of Russia by V. A. Gorbanyov

“…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 FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE FAR EASTERN STATE TRANSPORT UNIVERSITY (1937–1991) by A. S. Tsygankova

“…The students’ scientific research has gone through several stages in its development, regulated by the resolutions of the Communist Party congresses and the documents of the Ministry of higher and vocational education of the USSR. The analysis of the archival and documentary materials of the period 1937–1991 shows that the students’ scientific research in Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers passed through several stages in its development from the disparate scientific unions to the system of scientific research involving up to 90% of students to scientific research and has become an important and necessary part in the training of highly qualified specialists. …”
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RELIGIOUS EXPANSION OF TURKEY IN TATARSTAN IN THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD by R. R. Suleymanov

“…With the collapse of the USSR Ankara began to pursue an active policy in the Volga region, strengthening its influence there. …”
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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 article studies the different types of literature from Central Asia in the interwar period as a source for the political history of the region, in particular from the point of view of intercommunitarian relations within the USSR as well as those concerning the Islamic world. …”
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Tat[o]ueur : pouvoirs du tatouage dans Little Tulip, de Jerome Charyn et François Boucq by Sophie Vallas

“…This graphic novel moves back and forth between the USSR of the 1940s and 1950s and New York City in the 1970s to tell the story of Paul, a US-born tattoo artist who spent his childhood in a Gulag colony in Siberia where, as Pavel, he learnt his craft. …”
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RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT by A. I. RUDSKOY, A. I. BOROVKOV, P. I. ROMANOV

“…The solution of these tasks is impossible without a broad public and professional discussion based on the analysis of the history of engineering education development in Russia and in the USSR, its achievements and problems of modern engineering education, materials and documents on public policy in this field. …”
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National interests in Russia’s foreign policy by V. P. Nazarov

“…The author conducts an in-depth examination of Russian perspectives on national interests during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as throughout the Soviet era, presenting an original periodization of conceptual approaches within Soviet Russia and the USSR. In addition to its historical inquiry, the article critically assesses the implications of national interests of contemporary Russia’s foreign policy. …”
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School of International Relations by M. M. Narinskii

“…The chair of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia (former USSR) plays organizational and coordinating role in the development of scientific school of International relations at MGIMO. …”
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Monograph review: Kabytov P.S., Fedorova N.A. «Professor Ivan Mikhailovich Ionenko: personality and time» (Kazan: Izdatel’stvo Kazanskogo universiteta, 2024, 224 p.) by V. A. Tyurin, M. M. Leonov

“…Ionenko is a prominent Kazan historian, one of the founders of the study of the events of 1917 in the Volga region, a specialist in the field of agrarian history, head of the Department of History of the USSR at Kazan State University. The second edition of the monograph was prepared on an updated and expanded source base, including materials from central and regional archives, periodicals, numerous memoirs of students and colleagues, and new data about the scientist’s personality. …”
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A re-examination of information seeking behaviour in the context of activity theory by Wilson T.D.

“…</b> Activity theory, developed in the USSR as a Marxist alternative to Western psychology, has been applied widely in educational studies and increasingly in human-computer interaction research. …”
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THE RISING NATION - STATES AND THE POLITICAL STANCE OF THE HEGEMONY: A THEORETICAL REVIEW by ETOR CHARITY

“… After the USSR fell apart, the US exerted masterful economic pressure to stop the expansion of capitalism and reorganise the international system, opening it up to all countries. …”
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Strategic Partnership between Russia and India from the Perspective of National Elites by Alexey Kupriyanov

“…This attitude has been shaped by historical factors, such as the formation of the Indian elites under the influence of British political, economic, and military culture, and the reckless admiration of the victors of the Cold War by the Russian elites, which attempted to abandon the Soviet legacy after the collapse of the USSR. Despite declarations of strategic interest in forming a polycentric world and developing bilateral Russian-Indian relations, economic ties have not supported these intentions. …”
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A. A. ZINOVIEV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOVIET MANAGERIAL ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…Zinoviev, social types of managers inherent in the early and late periods of the life of the USSR. The study shows that the Leninist and Stalinist leaders, according to the sociologist’s worldview, were inspired by the spirit of communism, widely attracted people to government and controlled the growth of the bureaucracy. …”
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Reorganization of Moscow Divisions of People's Militia into Rifle Ones in August - September 1941 by Alexey Yurievich Bezugolny

“…The research is based on archival sources, most of them are introduced into scientific use for the first time: documents of management and record keeping of the Moscow Military District and the Reserve Front, accounting and statistical materials of the highest military authorities, and an array of documents of the Commission on the History of the Great Patriotic War from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The documents show that shortcomings revealed already during the first field exercises, such as the inadequacy of some personnel for the requirements of combat service, low qualifications of the command staff, diversity of small arms and artillery weapons, poor rear service of divisions, etc., were in fact a common occurrence. …”
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Formation of political organizations in Western Siberia during fragmentation and collapse of CPSU. 1989–1991 by S. V. Novikov

“…The events of the 1980s, perestroika in the USSR and the rapid process of politicization of relations between social groups, require further analysis. …”
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COOPERATION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND BAHRAIN IN THE FIELD OF REGIONAL SECURITY by A. Khaled Mohamed Ali

“…The author analyzes the bilateral agenda between Moscow and Manama in the broad context of the legacy of the USSR in the region, the wide-ranging course of the Russian Federation towards the Middle East in general and the states of the Persian Gulf in particular. …”
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Legislative Regulation of Labor Relations of Professional Athletes and Coaches in Russia: History and Present State by G. A. Popov

“…After the collapse of the USSR, the regulatory regulation of labor relations of sports subjects went through several stages, each of which had an invaluable impact on the development of professional sports in the Russian Federation. …”
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Applied Analysis at MGIMO-University by A. A. Orlov, A. L. Chechevishnikov

“…This kind of research always attracted considerable interest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and other executive institutions of the government and received their support. …”
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Civilizational Narrative and Philosophy at Higher Education Institutions by N. V. Kuznetsov, A. M. Sokolov

“…According to the authors, on the one hand, the presence of philosophy as a mandatory element of the higher education system in the USSR testified to the creative potential of the new civilizational initiative; on the other hand, this philosophy has not reached a sufficient degree of maturity to correspond to the level of Soviet society development.…”
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INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CONFLICT AS A CHALLENGE TO PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA by ANTHONY IMEH UMOH, BARINAADAA NWINKOL

“…It blames the Cold War rivalry between the capitalist United States and the communist USSR as it were, where attempt by the African allies to delink from either of the ideologies to favour the other, always led to intervention by these powerful nations. …”
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