Public Administration Reform in Bulgaria: Top-down and Externally-driven Approach by Emilia Zankina

“…The results confirm previous findings that Bulgaria is among the EU countries with the poorest record in PAR, struggling to overcome communist legacies and high levels of corruption and politicisation. …”
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN THE LATE 80’S AND EARLY 90’S: COMETT, ERASMUS, PETRA, LINGUA, TEMPUS, AND EUROTECNET by Costel COROBAN, Cristina-Iulia MARINESCU (GÎLĂ)

“…LINGUA focused on enhancing foreign language skills, vital for fostering European integration, while TEMPUS facilitated educational reforms in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. EUROTECNET promoted innovation in vocational training by integrating new technologies but faced challenges related to consistency across member states. …”
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Technical standardization work in Leningrad industry (1928–1937) by A. V. Kolobova

“…Using a specific problem method, a systematic approach and structural-functional analysis, the management documentation of production associations and their subordinate enterprises, departments of the secretariat of the Leningrad Regional Committee and the city committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks was studied. As a result, it was concluded that, despite the relationship between the successful implementation of target figures and the quality of technical standardization work, the establishment of standards and prices contributed little to the development of feasible plans and target figures. …”
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La maison aux esprits : configurations spatiales, pluralité religieuse et syncrétismes dans l’espace domestique afro-cubain by Katerina Kerestetzi

“…In Cuba, Catholics, Protestants, and practitioners of Afro-Cuban religions meet everywhere and at all levels of society despite over half a century of communist rule. But what makes the Cuban case particularly interesting is that religious plurality is often found within a single household, which can accommodate as many religions as there are family members. …”
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Agitation and propaganda work and fight against defeatist sentiments in Khanty-Mansiysk National District at initial stage of the Great Patriotic War by E. V. Leshukova

“…The source base of the study is the office documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, stored in the Historical Archive of the Omsk region and the State Archive of Socio-Political History of Tyumen region. …”
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INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OF GREAT BRITAIN IN A GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT by Vitaliy Tereshchuk

“…It was revealed that the BBC World Service in different periods of its existence practised different models of broadcasting, realizing their inherent goals — colonial broadcasting (maintaining the unity of the British Empire), counter-propaganda in the interwar period and the period of the Second World War (countering informational influence alienation of Nazi Germany and the USSR), propaganda during the Second World War (formation of favourable public opinion regarding the activities of the anti-Hitler coalition) and the Cold War (anti-communist propaganda), in the times of the bipolar and post-bipolar world — positioning itself as a "surrogate" media that provides truthful news in countries where access to independent sources of information is limited by political regimes. …”
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Financial documents of Komsomol organizations as the source of Komsomol history in 1960s by E. V. Kamaeva

“…The financial and economic department of the administration of the Central Committee of the AllUnion Leninist Young Communist League was engaged in the preparation of the budget for the Komsomol organization and the distribution of funds for grassroots committees. …”
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Nicolai Vasilyevich Ivanov: addition to biography of chekist-transport worker by V. P. Vasilevsky, A. V. Sushko

“…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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Mass-political work of party and Komsomol organizations of the city of Omsk on the formation of the 75th Stalinist volunteer separate rifle brigade of Omsk-Siberians (July–Septembe... by N. V. Leader

“…The study is conducted on the basis of a set of published and unpublished records of the Omsk city and regional committees of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the NKVD for the Omsk region and the memoirs of brigade veterans. …”
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China’s Perceptions of Russia during the Ukraine Conflict by Srikanth Kondapalli

“…The article employs an inductive approach, analyzing China's predicaments at four levels: perceptions within the decision-making bodies of the Communist Party, the foreign ministry, think-tanks, and the media community. …”
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The attitude of the People’s Labor Union of Russian Solidarists and its subsidiaries to national administrative construction in 1987–1998 by M. S. Novikov

“…As a result, the organization collaborated with anti-communists from «Democratic Russia», influenced the formation of the Russian Christian Democratic Movement. …”
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«CULTURAL REVOLUTION» IN THE USSR IN 1929–1932 AND THE EARLY ATTACKS AGAINST N.I. VAVILOV’S SCHOOL. A STUDY BASED ON DOCUMENTS FROM ST. PETERSBURG ARCHIVES by E. I. Kolchinsky

“…Petersburg and from the collections of the Communist Academy held at the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. …”
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CHANGES IN SHEEP TRANSHUMANCE IN ROMANIA. A CASE-STUDY FROM MĂRGINIMEA SIBIULUI – SOUTHERN CARPATHIANS by SHIGERU SHIRASAKA, KAZUKO URUSHIBARA–YOSHINO

“…During the communist regime, cooperative sheep farms accounted for about half the total number of sheep in Romania. …”
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Legal and Organizational Principles of Militia Activities of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1956 by V. A. Grechenko

“…There was a change of the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR, which was another step in clearing the state leadership of the most odious Stalinist personnel and meant strengthening the control of the communist party agencies over the militia. The new leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs believed that the main shortcoming in the activities of the militia was the lack of activity in the fight against crime and the significant level of crime among police officers themselves. …”
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Cycles of History: China, North Korea and the End of the Korean War by Sheila Miyoshi Jager

“…Kim Il Sung's ability to play off the communist superpowers during the years of the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s largely guaranteed his independence once the war had ended. …”
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Developing Vietnam's human resources in the context of the current Industrial Revolution and international integration by Le Thi Huong, Vu Thi Thu Trang, Le Hong Quang

“…Vietnam has prioritized improving human resource quality as a strategic breakthrough to transform its socio-economic development model and enhance competitiveness in a globalized world. The Communist Party of Vietnam has issued policies emphasizing the integration of education and training with scientific research, technological innovation, and practical applications in production and business. …”
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Metamorphoses of memory of the the Russian-Serbian Brotherhood of War in Modern Serbia by A. Yu. Timofeev

“…In the 1990s the memories repressed during the communist years were set free and publicly debated. …”
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Cold War as Social Conflict, Iron Curtains and Application of Dѐtente Policy as Cold War Concept by Effiong Ekpo, Udeoji Ebele Angela

“… This paper is to evaluate the peculiarity of iron curtain that was to fortified borders in central Europe, because it was not used to describe similar border between communist and capitalist states basis. During the cold war iron curtain received prominence, why though it describe the boundary that separate the Warsaw Pact countries from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NATO countries from the beginning to the end of the cold war (1945- 1991). …”
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Testing Students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy as an Early Predictor of Entrepreneurial Activities. Evidence From the SEAS Project by Krzysztof Zięba, Jakub Golik

“…Due to the increasing interest in entrepreneurial self-efcacy research and the need to fll the gap in the literature with regard to European post-communist countries (and partcularly – Poland) (Drnovsek, Wincent, Cardon, 2010), in this paper we present a brief overview of ESE research and pose the queston whether ESE of Polish students can serve as an early predictor of their subsequent entrepreneurial actvites, potentally leading them to nascent entrepreneurship. …”
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Evaluation System and Empirical Research of Strong Maritime Province by WANG Yuxuan, ZHOU Lu, MAO Hanxuan, FENG Chengyu, QIN Shili

“…The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposes to develop the marine economy, protect the marine ecological environment, and accelerate the construction of a maritime power. …”
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