Karakats: the Bricolage of Hybrid Vehicles that Skate and Swim by Patrick Laviolette, Alla Sirotina

“…It focuses on the social factors that allow karakat culture to change. The region of study was part of the Soviet Union so the phenomenon of self-assembled vehicles implies socialist and communist considerations. …”
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On The New Russian Eastern Policy by A. V. Torkunov

“…For more than a quarter of the century Russia has been pursuing a regional leadership in building among post-soviet states a mutual space for common interests open for other members of international community. …”
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“Новая литература не возникает как пистолетный выстрел в ночи”. Об институциональных границах первых советских массовых писательских объединений... by Dar’ia Moskovskaia, Vagif Guseinov

“… The article discusses early Soviet literary institutions that took on the mission of uniting the writers’ forces: VAPP (the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers), whose institutional practices exhibit a pronounced sectarian nature and confrontational strategies, closely related to the early Proletkul’t, and demonstrate a distinctly ‘creative’ class-based nature; FOSP (the Federation of Soviet Writers), whose institutional nature was instrumental and artificial, this institution being “the first real example of the party’s concern for establishing basic conditions for the growth of new culture in the early years of the new regime” (Metcalf); and the Organizing Committee of the Union of Soviet Writers (SSP), which, despite sharing some similarities with FOSP, fundamentally differed from the latter through direct party leadership and funding, and gradually became a state structure – the Union of Soviet Writers. …”
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Features of social and psychological adaptation of foreign students from far and near abroad by A. A. Gorozhankin, M. V. Iontseva

“…The age of the respondents ranged from 17 to 28 years old, 58 % of students came to Russia from near abroad countries, and 42 % came from countries that were not part of the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse. For the social and psychological adaptation study we used the “Adaptation of personality to a new social and cultural environment” questionnaire and methodology by L.V. …”
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Al confine tra ufficialità e underground. Forme di istituzionalizzazione della ‘seconda cultura’ sovietica by Alice Bravin

“…These institutions represented a forum for discussions and interaction between the members of the unofficial culture, but at the same time they were under the jurisdiction of Soviet law and combined functions and features like any other official Soviet institution. …”
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Assessing the Role of Soft Power in India-Russia Relations by Rashmi Doraiswamy

“…Culture has played an important role in the multi-layered bilateral relations between India and the Soviet Union. …”
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Adaptation Practices of Young Central Asian Migrants in Tatarstan: A Socioanthropological Survey by Tatiana A. Titova, Vadim E. Kozlov, Elena V. Frolova

“…The recent thirty years have witnessed a significant structural shift determined by that most newcomers never lived in the once unified state ― Soviet Union. Different strategies of sovereign sociocultural development adopted by currently independent countries of Central Asia have led to increased cultural distances between their citizens and Russia’s natives. …”
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CHRISTIAN THINKERS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND GIORGIO LA PIRA) by T. V. Zonova

“…The author analyzes their views on international relations, in particularly on the western policy towards the Soviet Union, the use of nuclear weapons, the war in Vietnam and the communist issue. …”
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Russians among the Peoples of the Baltic States: the Origins of Mutual Perceptions and Relations by R. H. Simonyan, T. M. Kochegarova

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Tangential Points: Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein Revisited by Tikka Pia

“…In the newly founded Soviet Union, Aleksandr A. Bogdanov and Segei M. Eisenstein, each in his own way, struggled to make sense of the world by means of the most recent findings in the sciences. …”
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Tendencies in the Historiography of Latvian Philosophy by Andris Hiršs

“…After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the term “history of ideas” gained popularity in the Latvian cultural discourse. …”
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The Important Step for European Integration: “Council of Europe” and the Matter of Turkey’s Membership to Council by Ali Servet Öncü

“…After World War II, Europeans set up several organizations both not to suffer similar disasters anymore and to become more powerful against the Soviet Union making its power felt in Europe day by day. …”
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La dimension vocale de la propagande by Oksana Bulgakowa

“…This article contextualizes Soviet voices of some War Propaganda Films, the “disembodied voice of Soviet history”, situated at the intersection of the political, ideological, cultural and biological models. …”
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De quelle nostalgie l’utopie andalouse d’Aragon est-elle le miroir ? by Stéphane Baquey

“…The representation of a dreamed Andalusia allows the writer, who is also a communist leader and ideologue, to deliver an indirect speech about the history of his time, mainly about the consequences of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and about the Algerian War. This strategy of allusive speech leads the study to try to find out the contextual relevance of the poem on the basis of a collation of different speech genres, between the poem itself and other Aragon’s public utterances. …”
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"Showing respect" in Bible translation by R. van der Spuy

“…It discusses the likely influence of the well known Russian Synodal Translation on other translations in the former Soviet Union regarding the usage of the 2nd person personal pronouns. …”
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The dream that never dies: the ideals and realities of cosmopolitanism in science, 1870–1940 by Robert Fox

“…A “national turn” during the 1920s assumed a darker form in the 1930s, as totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Spain associated science ever more closely with national interests. …”
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ANIMALS IN ADVERTISING (LITERATURE REVIEW) by Yuliya V. Massalskaya, Anastasiya V. Nikolaeva

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Deciding the Destiny of World War II Refuges from Lithuania by Vygintas Bronius Pšibilskis

“…Lithuanian organizations such as the Lithuanian American Council (ALT), United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America (BALF), and Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania (VLIK) provided invaluable moral and financial support. Overcoming the Soviet Union's intentions to "return Soviet citizens" and standing up against the propagandists of the Soviet regime in America, the destiny of Lithuanian refugees - a specific part of the huge international problem of refugees - was decided during the several years following the war. …”
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The Concept of Greater Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok: Problems and Perspectives by E. Yu. Il’In

“…It is reflected in the plans to form a pan-European union, drawn by Charles De Gaulle and Michail Gorbachev. …”
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Ethnocultural Factor of Inclusive Education Development (by the Examples of the Russian Federation and Kyrgyz Republic) by M. A. Suchkov

“…The author emphasizes the signs of our time – language assimilation in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is shown that many parents in the north of Kyrgyzstan send their children, including children with disabilities, to study at Russian schools, and it causes additional barriers in learning, along with the barriers caused by physical and intellectual disabilities.…”
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