Linking housing and capital markets in the former Soviet Bloc : the status of residential mortgage bond and secondary markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia by Lloyd, Douglas Steven

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CHRISTIAN THINKERS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND GIORGIO LA PIRA) by T. V. Zonova

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Demographic and ethnographic changes in Transcaucasia, 1897-1956 by Pipes, Richard

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The nationality question in present-day Transcaucasia by Pipes, Richard

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Notes on the Caucasus by Pipes, Richard

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The Spiritual Dimensions of the Permaculture Movement in Cuba by Rose T. Caraway

“…Following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, Cuba experienced an acute economic crisis in the 1990s known as the “Special Period„. …”
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L’articolazione dello spazio pubblico nella città post-socialista. I quartieri residenziali di periferia a Sofia tra progetti di riqualificazione e trasformazione bottom-up by Aleksandra Uzunova

“…The present work aims to explore the transformation of public space in East European cities after the fall of the Soviet Bloc. The choice of peripheral neighbourhoods as case study is dictated by two factors. …”
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Three Nostalgias by Dennis Alan Bartels, Alice L. Bartels

“…Nostalgia for this expectation now coexists with nostalgia among NATO hawks and conservative politicians for Cold War confrontation, and with nostalgia in the former Soviet Bloc for socialism. Relations between these nostalgias are explored in this commentary.…”
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COASTAL ARCHITECTURES AND POLITICS OF TOURISM : Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt / by Bozdoğan, Sibel, editor 201149, Pyla, Panayiota I. (Panayiota Ioanni), editor 650538, Phōkaidēs, Petros, editor 650539

“…Postwar leisure tourism evokes a rich array of architectural spaces and altered coastal landscapes, which is explored in this collection through discussions of tourism developments in the Mediterranean littoral, such as Greece, Turkey, and southern France, as well as compelling analyses of Soviet bloc seaside resorts along the Black Sea and Baltic coasts, and in beachscapes and tourism architectures of western and eastern hemispheres, from Southern California to Sri Lanka, South Korea, and Egypt. …”

A Proletarian Classics? by Henry Stead

“… The relationship between the study of Greek and Roman classics and European communism, particularly in the USSR and the Soviet bloc, has attracted increasing critical attention over the past decade. …”
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Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany by W.F. STOLPER

“…The German Democratic Republic has developed into a powerful member of the Soviet bloc, and yet little attention has so far been paid to it. …”
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Handbook of Spacecraft Technology, Components and Space Programs / by Miller, Zavier, author 648411

“…Most satellites have simple reliable chemical thrusters (often monopropellant rockets) or resistojet rockets for orbital station-keeping and some use momentum wheels for attitude control. Soviet bloc satellites have used electric propulsion for decades, and newer Western geo-orbiting spacecraft are starting to use them for north-south stationkeeping. …”
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Pianificazione ed integrazione internazionale nella Germania Orientale. (Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany) by W.F. STOLPER

“…The German Democratic Republic has developed into a powerful member of the Soviet bloc, and yet little attention has so far been payed to it. …”
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SOME GENDER ASPECTS OF SOCIALISM by Margarita Karamihova

“…The author firmly believes that such a comparative study is timely and necessary to be developed in all countries of the former Soviet bloc in terms of revealing similarities and differences in ideologies, economies, and policies. …”
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Kitchen without the debate: The Yugoslav exhibition of consumer goods in Moscow, 1960 by Marko Miljković

“…National Exhibition in Moscow, the Yugoslavs managed to deliver yet another propaganda blow to the Soviet prestige, showcasing that even socialism outside the Soviet bloc and in close collaboration with the United States was not only possible but also better.…”
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Hungary’s Pragmatic Diplomacy in the Age of Détente: The Case of the African Opening between 1956 and 1970 by Solymári Daniel

“…Following the change of the political systems that swept across the former Soviet Bloc region toward the end of the 1980s, it was obvious for the ex ‑satellite states that they would direct the major (re)orientation in their foreign policies towards the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. …”
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Spacecraft Propulsion and Reusable Spaceflight Launch Systems / by Harr, Inocencia, author 648080, Rojas, Renato, author 648081

“…Most satellites have simple reliable chemical thrusters (often monopropellant rockets) or resistojet rockets for orbital station-keeping and some use momentum wheels for attitude control. Soviet bloc satellites have used electric propulsion for decades, and newer Western geo-orbiting spacecraft are starting to use them for north-south stationkeeping. …”
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Kom se privoleti bloku: jugoslovensko-kubansko rivalstvo u Pokretu nesvrstanih i globalni Hladni rat krajem 1970-ih by Jovan Čavoški

“…This was a conceptual conflict between the two dominant lines within the Movement, one that advocated rapprochement with the Soviet bloc, and it was presented in the face of Cuba and its allies, while the other one, dominated by Yugoslavia and consisted of many other non-aligned countries, strived to preserve the previous non-bloc and independent orientation of this organization. …”
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Anglo-Cuban Diplomacy: The Economic and Political Links with Britain (1945–60) by Servando Valdés Sánchez

“…Finally, the combination of factors that interacted to upset this dynamic will be evaluated: US pressure, British promises to the American government and the growing close relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Bloc.…”
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Revolução e religião: as relações entre a Igreja e o Estado na Cuba contemporânea by Marcos Antonio da Silva, Guillermo Alfredo Johnson

“…In this sense, it examines three key moments: the tension and distance in the context of the transition to socialism developed in the country; the reapproaching that culminated with the visit of Pope John Paul II in the 90s, still under the impact of the fall of the Soviet bloc and the international isolation faced by the country, and finally the more recent relationships, marked by the visit of the Pope, now emeritus, Benedict XVI and the affirmation of the Catholic Church as the main internal interlocutor with the Cuban government. …”
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