Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism by Irina Sandomirskaja

“… “It is pertinent to ask to what extent certain cultural phenomena and intellectual currents from the Stalin era really were such unique features that can be branded as Stalinist…”. …”
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The essence and prospects of studying journalism of the Stalin era [Book review: Zhirkov G.V. Journalism of the Stalin era. 1928 − the 1950s] by A.Sh. Bik-Bulatov, D.V. Tumanov

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Administrative apparatus of Stalin era and Alekhin - Botvinnik failed match (1939-1940) by Dmitriy I Oleynikov

“…This article examines the fate of the well-known chess players of the middle of the 20th century - the “expatriate defector” Alexander Alekhine and the Soviet champion Mikhail Botvinnik - as one of the little-known stories related to the history of the contacts between the representatives of the Russian diaspora and the Soviet state of the Stalin era. The author examines the history of the failed match between these two outstanding chess masters in 1939-1940 and shows why the Alekhine-Botvinnik match, which had been initially approved at the highest party and state level, was not held, and find out what role the Soviet administrative apparatus played in this. …”
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The One that Wasn’t: Child and Youth Labour in the Post-Stalin Era in the Soviet Union by Marta Studenna-Skrukwa

“… This paper examines the phenomenon of child and youth labour in the post-Stalin era in the Soviet Union. The starting point for the consideration constitutes the analysis of the law adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1958 titled “On the strengthening of the link between school and life and the further development of people’s education in the USSR”. …”
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Dante Canonized and Discarded. Some Remarks on the Reception of the Divina Commedia in the Stalin Era by Kristina Landa

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Centre E Estate in Krakow’s Nowa Huta. The postmodern experiment in the heart of the Stalin era symbol by Michał Wiśniewski

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Publicistic articles on the pages of the 'Sovet Әdәbiaty' ('Sovetskaya Literatura') journal in the end of the Stalin era by I.F. Fattakhov

“…The paper is devoted to the study of the Tatar publicism during the end of the Stalin era based on the analysis of the monthly literary and socio-political journal “Sovetskaya Literatura” (“Soviet Literature”), the printed edition of the Union of Writers of Tatarstan of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. …”
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‘A dissonant note on the Neva’: Historical memory and city identity in Russia's second capital during the post-Stalin era by Catriona Kelly

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Tat’iana Dashkova: <i>Telesnost’ – Ideologiia – Kinematograf: Visual’nyi kanon i sovetskaia povsednevnost’</i> by Andrew Chapman

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The Attitude towards Man in the Official Soviet Political Culture of the Late 1920s – Early 1950s: The Construction of a Hero and the Mobilization of the Masses. by Fan, I.B.

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The Internal Affairs Agencies of the Soviet State in the Period of Stalinism in the Context of Russian Historiography by Alexander Kuzminykh

“…The post-Soviet period became a ‘breakthrough’ in the research of the history related to the internal affairs agencies of the Stalin era. The change in the nature of Russian historiography and its turn towards the coverage of difficult and ambiguous aspects in the development of the Soviet society had a favourable effect on increasing the scientific objectivity whilst studying the history of the internal affairs agencies of the Soviet state.…”
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Classics with a constructivist past by Василий Лисицин

“… The article traces the change in the style approach during the Stalin era, taking as an example the building of the East Siberian Railway Administration (7 Karl Marx St., Irkutsk). …”
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The Myth of Jambyl (Based on Contemporary Kazakh Press) by Sergey Akimovich Kibalnik

“…Brusilovsky and unveil the mystery of the creative work of Jambyl, a poet of the Stalin era. With reference to the material from a popular Kazakh newspaper Svoboda Slova, the author demonstrates how differently and at times painfully modern Kazakhstan perceives the demythologization of the renowned Kazakh akyn.…”
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Tsensuur kommunistlikus Poola Rahvavabariigis by Gaweł Strządała

“…The underground publications suppressed during the Stalin era as well as difficulties encountered by Polish historians after 1956 will be the subject of the analysis. …”
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Daily Routines under Constant Surveillance. West German Foreign Correspondents in Moscow in the 1950s and 60s by Matthias Müller

“…The essay focuses on West German foreign-correspondents in the USSR in the post-Stalin era of the 1950s and early 1960s and their efforts to create a normal perspective on the antagonist within the Cold War. …”
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Nõukogude Eesti nomenklatuurne kirjanduselu. EKP keskkomitee nomenklatuur ja liiduvabariigi kirjandusjuhid by Olev Liivik

“…The three most important literary leaders of the post-Stalin era – Juhan Smuul, Paul Kuusberg and Vladimir Beekman – were also hand-selected by the CC ECP. …”
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THE STALIN’S MITH: OFFICIAL IMAGE OF THE LEADER AT THE LITERATURE OF SOCIALIST REALISM by I Papadopoulou

“…The article explores the construction and the representation of the portrait of the leader in the Soviet literature of the Stalin era. The origins of the official image of Stalin are examined under the prism of the analysis of the modern mythologizing, as it has been described by Roland Barthes. …”
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Pulizia, giustizia e potere. Ruolo e significato del Terrore nell’esperienza staliniana by Filippo Ferrara ha conseguito la Laurea Triennale in Scienze della Comunicazione, indirizzo politico-istituzionale, presso l’Università degli studi di Roma Tor vergata. Attualmente è iscritto alla Laurea Magistrale in Scienze storiche dell’Università di Bologna.

“…This articles aims to point out the close connection between public repression and hidden purges through the example of the USSR during the Stalin era. In particular, we focused on the role played by the trials have comparing and relating it with stealt operations carried on in USSR. …”
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The Failure of the Stalinist Propagandist: the Trial of Yakov Alperovich, Editor of the Sovetskaya Sibir (1937–1938) by S. A. Papkov

“…The article introduces new historical facts and expands the knowledge about Siberia in the Stalin era.…”
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"People are Crying, but I Can’t Stop Laughing": Protest Reaction of the Deportees of Tomsk region to Joseph Stalin’s Death by O. V. Filippenko

“…The responsive actions of the Regional Department of State Security did not follow the new course of Soviet policy but rather the behavioral patterns formed during the Stalin era: violators were identified and punished severely and demonstratively.…”
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