Memories of Discipline in Soviet Lithuania: Stories in Oral History by Jogilė Ulinskaitė

“…Interestingly, conscious reflection on disciplinary practises takes up only a small part of the life-stories of interviewed Lithuanians, as far as the memory of the post-Stalin era is concerned. The interviews that form the foundation for this paper were conducted during the summer of 2017 in three different districts in Lithuania. …”
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National originality of the architecture of Khreshchatyk as a unique ensemble of the period of totalitarianism by Oliynyk Olena

“…While it has a number of distinct characteristics of totalitarian architecture, Khreschatyk is the only architectural ensemble of the period to combine na-tional tradition with the exalted sentiment of Soviet architecture of the Stalin era. Also, it uniquely matched architecture and landscape. …”
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Political consciousness in Russia in 1950s: beginning of ideological and psychological crisis (materials of Western Siberia) by Maksim Petrenko

“…There was stable communication between society and authority in Stalin era, based on faith in the party and the charismatic leader. …”
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Political consciousness in Russia in 1950s: beginning of ideological and psychological crisis (materials of Western Siberia) by Maksim Petrenko

“…There was stable communication between society and authority in Stalin era, based on faith in the party and the charismatic leader. …”
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Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook: A Critique of Socialism or the Stalinisation of Socialism? by Sercan Hamza Baglama

“…This study will also focus on the role of the left-wing writer in a mid-fifties communist milieu and examine the dogmatisation of Marxism and the widening gap between theory and practice in left-wing politics during the Stalin era. This will provide a framework to discuss whether the novel is actually intended or functions more as a critique of socialism or specifically of Stalinism. …”
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'Rehabilitation' of M.N. Pokrovsky in the community of historians: Late 1950s – 1960s by V.S. Gruzdinskaya

“…Pokrovsky’s legacy that became popular in the historiography of the Stalin era at the level of party and political discourses, as well as among researchers. …”
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Stalinova verze marxismu a jeho "ortodoxní model". Dějiny VKS(b) po pětasedmdesáti letech: kapitola z historické sociologie by Miloslav Petrusek

“…The article deals with the 1938 treatise History of the All- Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), abbreviated AUCP(b) - an official treatise from the Stalin era of the USSR which was published on a mass scale. …”
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Kimchi, seaweed, and seasoned carrot in the Soviet culinary culture: the spread of Korean food in the Soviet Union and Korean diaspora by Changzoo Song

“…From Central Asia, these Soviet Koreans were further dispersed to other parts of the Soviet Union in the post-Stalin era. These multiple dispersions of Soviet Koreans not only transformed their culinary habit, but also helped Korean food spread among the peoples of the Soviet Union. …”
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National Resistance in Azerbaijan (1917-1930) by Vugar AKİFOĞLU

“…This research examines the effects of the political changes made during the Lenin-Stalin era on Azerbaijani Turks and their history. During the last years of Tsarist Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Union, some changes have taken place in the social, political and economic life of the Azerbaijani Turks. …”
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Stalinova verze marxismu jako jeho „ortodoxní“ model. Dějiny VKS(b) po pětasedmdesáti letech: kapitola z historické sociologie by Miloslav Petrusek

“…The article deals with the 1938 treatise History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), abbreviated AUCP(b) – an official treatise from the Stalin era of the USSR which was published on a mass scale. …”
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From ‘Ancient Slavialand’ to ‘Paradise Lost’: Rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage in Kaliningrad (late 1940s to early 1980s) by Il'ia Dement''ev

“…Knowledge of the prewar past was prohibited from the very beginning, and Stalin-era propaganda formed the founding myth of the Kaliningrad region with reference to the notion of ‘a Slavic land from time immemorial’. …”
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‘Stalinist Russocentrism’: An Interview with David Brandenberger about the Second Russian Edition of his Monograph National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of... by David Brandenberger

“…He is the author of books on the formation of Russian national identity during the Stalin era and on the infl uence that party propaganda and mass culture had on that process. …”
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Comrades in Arts: The Soviet Dekada of National Art and the Friendship of Peoples by Isabelle R. Kaplan

“…The second draws largely on periodical sources to consider the ways in which the larger currents of Stalin-era culture are refl ected in the dekady of national art and, in particular in the national operas that served as the centerpieces of the dekady. …”
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On the Last - for the Future (On the Book by R. M. Nureev and Y. V. Latov «Economic History of Russia (Experience of Institutional Analysis)») by Girsh I. Khanin

“…Analyzing the Soviet economy, we support the authors’ thesis that rejecting the “New economic policy” was inevitable and the outcomes of modernization in the Stalin era were positive. However, we take a critical look at the author’s basis on the macroeconomic estimates given by CIA and present some alternative macroeconomic estimates. …”
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Social mobilisation and national consciousness in 20th century Ukraine by Krawchenko, B, Krawchenko, Bogdan Alexander

“…Ukraine lagging economic development, large-scale Russian immigration and the Russification of Ukraine's educational system created a highly competitive environment in the republic which served as the social backdrop for a recrudescence of Ukrainian nationalism in the post-Stalin era. While the Ukrainian intelligentsia were the most vocal exponents of national claims, they were often backed by the new generation of Ukrainian political leaders who, having been trained for responsible positions, were anxious to assume them free from excessive interference from the centre. …”

Teaching Russian classics in secondary school under Stalin (1936-1941) by Malinovskaya, O

“…I conclude with a discussion of the relation of this to long-term political effects, including the re-appraisal, in the twenty-first century, of Stalin-era teaching methodology as an effective way of instilling patriotic sentiments in students, and the legacy of Soviet perceptions and practices in the expression of personal and collective identities in the post-Soviet period.…”

DISTORTION OF ORTHOEPIC AND ACCENTUATION STANDARDS AS THE WAY TO REPLACE THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE BY UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN DIALECT (ON THE BASIS OF LINGUISTIC STUDIES BY S. KARAVANSKYI) by О. І. Южакова

“…, 2010; “Idiocies of the Stalin Era Russisms in the State Language of Ukraine”, 2016) describes orthoepic and accentuation mistakes made by the speakers living in Ukraine. …”
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Children's Healthcare in Soviet Russia During Soviet Famine of 1932-1933 (Following Moscow and Samara Data) by Valery Yu. Albitskiy, Stella A. Sher, Roman S. Serebryaniy, Oksana V. Yaremchuk

“…The results of historical and medical research reflecting one of the most tragic pages in the Soviet history and Stalinism era — the famine of 1932-1933 that covers several regions of the country — are presented. …”
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