Red Sports Culture Integrated into Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities Value Characteristics and Implementation Path by Feifei Liu, Rongde Liu, Xiaoying Huang, Changxin Luo, Zuwei Mi

“…Findings: Red sports culture refers to the sports and cultural activities led by the Communist Party of China. Red sports culture has gone through three stages: germination, basic establishment and further growth. …”
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Brain-inspired multimodal motion and fine-grained action recognition by Yuening Li, Xiuhua Yang, Changkui Chen

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«For any work at the congress, it is important to have a united mass, in other words, as we usually call all kinds of groups — the opposition»: from the history of the Komsomol opp... by R. V. Rybakov

“…This publication is devoted to the consideration of a separate episode in the development of the youth movement in the territory of the Omsk province related to the attempt of a group of active workers to remove the current leaders of the provincial committee of the communist union. The paper analyzes reasons that prompted Komsomol members to express distrust of the governing apparatus. …”
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Une transition économique inattendue : vers le « cupidalisme » ? by Wladimir Andreff

“…Originating in post-communist economies in transition asset grabbing has spread throughout the global economy through public assets transferred to private owners (privatisations), predatory real assets stripping by finance, the emergence of shadow finance (of which shadow banking), namely in all the black holes of global finance (tax and judiciary havens). …”
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Talent Management in the Public Sector – Empirical Evidence from the Emerging Economy of Romania by Barrington Everton Graham

“…In the case of Romania, implementation is hindered by the bureaucratic structure of the public sector and the legacy of previous communist regime. Originality/Value: The study represents one of the initial attempts to investigate the impact of talent management practices in the Romanian public sector, leveraging empirical evidence to support its findings.   …”
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Mikhail Gorbachev's First Visit to Britain: 30 Years on by K. V. Shlykov

“…Later statements of Lady Thatcher and Gorbachev's critics on the meeting being defining for the foreign policy of the perestroika era should be seen as exaggerated, as the demise of the Communist system and the USSR were not foreseen by anyone in 1984, either in London or in Moscow.…”
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A Ship Emerges in the Distance... People Stand and Applaud. The (Un)obvious Contexts of the Wrocław Sea Festival Celebrations in June 1945 by Joanna Nowosielska-Sobel

“…The aim of this article is to attempt to answer whether the celebrations of secular holidays and ceremonies sponsored by the emerging communist governments in Poland can be reduced solely to the implementation of ideological tasks leading to the political subjugation of the nation. …”
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Civilizational Analysis in Historical Sociology and Explanations of the “Soviet Collapse" by M. V. Maslovskiy

“…In the first half of the 1990s, Arnason applied his model of imperial modernization to the Soviet system, but later emphasized the civilizational aspects of communist modernity. This can also be seen in his evaluation of the Soviet collapse. …”
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„Uprzejmie donoszę” — metody pracy tajnych informatorów wobec kleru katolickiego w okresie Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej na terenie Dolnego Śląska by Edyta Włodarczyk-Czech

“…Among all the organisations operating in the Polish People’s Republic, religious associations — which were guided by a doctrine completely different from the Marxist-Leninist thought propagated at the time — were particularly important for the communists. Hence, the Catholic Church, as the largest church in Poland, was of interest to the Security Service throughout the entire period of the Polish People’s Republic. …”
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On the problem of adjusting calculations of punitive policy of the Soviet state on labor front during the Great Patriotic War by Yu. G. Belonogov

“…The study is carried out on the basis of an analysis of both the changed legislative framework in the studied area and the office documentation of the Committees of the Communist Party in the Molotov region. Studying the real practice of applying laws in certain large enterprises of the Molotov region, the author concludes that there is a discrepancy between the number of actual labor crimes and the number of workers convicted of them.…”
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International connections of the Ecuadorian Amazonian forest colonization process 1960-1970 by Pablo Campaña

“…The article uses diplomatic, legal and bureaucratic reports in order to disclose the administrative transnational strategies that were active in promoting the migration of landless peasants towards the Amazonian wilderness, as part of an effort to neutralize the risk of communist political revolutions.…”
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Reconversion of Mono-Industrial Urban Areas (Case Study – Beclean City) by Cristian Nicolae BOȚAN, Ion-Horațiu PAVEL, Silviu-Florin FONOGEA, Viorel GLIGOR

“…Following the collapse of the communist regime in Romania, the country’s economy went through deep transformations, which negatively impacted the standard of living of the population. …”
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HUMAN RIGHTS, FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS AND UNIVERSAL VALUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by L. S. Voronkov

“…The article traces the role of struggle for liberal political human rights and civilian freedoms in the dismantling of the feudal-absolutist regimes as well as the challenges of radical left-wing (communist) and far right-wing (national-socialistic) threats to be met by the supporters of liberal political rights and civil freedoms in the interwar period. …”
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Modern Conflicts Features in Latin America. The Role of the OAS in the Settlement of the Falklands Conflict by Y. I. Strashko

“…Created on the verge of the Cold war the OAS was considered by the States as a barrier to the spread of communist threat in the Western Hemisphere and in such a capacity the organization went on up to detente policy implementation. …”
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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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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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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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