Comparing post-socialist transformations: purposes, policies, and practices in education by Chankseliani, M

“…Spanning diverse geopolitical settings that range from Southeast and Central Europe to the Caucasus and Central Asia, the chapters in this volume offer analyses of education policies and practices that the countries in this region have pursued since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.</p> <p>This book explores three interrelated questions. …”

What happened to the Soviet University? by Chankseliani, M

“…This monograph explores how one of the largest geopolitical changes of the twentieth century—the dissolution of the Soviet Union—triggered and inspired the reconfiguration of the Soviet university. …”

Bir Geçiş Ekonomisi Olarak Kırgızistan’da Doğrudan Yabancı Yatırımlar ve Orta Asya Ülkeleri İle Kıyaslanması(Foreign Direct Investments in Kyrgyzstan as a Transition Economy and It... by Madina PASHALIEVA, Hamza KAHRİMAN

“…The countries which pronounced their independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and are endeavouring to shift to market economy are called transition economies. …”
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Chinese Reaction and Interpretation of 1991 Events in the Soviet Union by I. Y. Zuenko

“…The article is timed to coincide with two anniversaries: centenary of the Communist Party of China, and thirty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. According to the author’s idea, these two anniversaries correlate: analysis of the reasons and consequences of the USSR dissolution became one of the factors of current policy of Chinese communists. …”
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Nationality and Rationality: Ancestors, ‘Diaspora’ and the Impact of Ethnic Policy in the Country of Emigration on Ethnic Return Migration from Western Ukraine to the Czech Republi... by Luděk Jirka

“…I found that when the Soviet Union introduced an attractive policy for Ukrainians/Russians in terms of study or work opportunities and the inhabitants in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic were quick to proclaim themselves as Ukrainians or Russians, the dissolution of the Soviet Union quickly changed this motivation. …”
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Nation-building in post-Soviet Russia: What kind of nationalism is produced by the Kremlin? by Petr Panov

“…After collapse and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia faced typical problems of state-building and nation-building. …”
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Climate variability and change over Uzbekistan – an analysis based on high resolution CHELSA data by Makhmud Khaydarov, Lars Gerlitz

“…However, the observational network in Central Asia has significantly degraded after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, especially in the vulnerable high mountain regions (Unger-Shayesteh et al. 2013). …”

Independence or Unification with a Patron State? Not Such Dichotomous Ideas as One Would Think: Evidence from South Ossetia by Tomáš Hoch

“…Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, two referendums have been held in South Ossetia on the issue of state sovereignty (in 1992 and 2006). …”
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Türkiye’s Black Sea Policy for Energy Security by Mitat Celikpala, Erman Tatlioglu

“…After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War environment of military competition was replaced by an environment of cooperation and collaboration in the Black Sea region, combining political, economic, and cultural goals. …”
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Is Post-Soviet water management transformation successful in Kyrgyz Republic? Mapping of perceived problems by water experts by Daler Baitursunov

“…The water management issue in the Kyrgyz Republic has been an unresolved problem for many years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union due to its complex set of issues. …”
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Gauging the Implementation of Democratic norms for Nation-Building in Kazakhstan by Mukesh Kumar Mishra ᅠ

“…It was especially intensive in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan on the eve of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and during the very first stage of independence. …”
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Swedish Military Bases of the Cold War: The Making of a New Cultural Heritage by Per Strömberg

“…The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union completely transformed the military-political situation in the Nordic countries. …”
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Substitution or revolution? : an empirical analysis of the relationship between ICT and protests by Schuman, Joseph P

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Nuptiality in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia by Dommaraju, Premchand, Agadjanian, Victor

“…This study analyses nuptiality patterns in three Central Asian countries—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan—over two decades preceding and one decade following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, using census and Demographic Health Survey data. …”
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Self-determination, custodianship, and synthesis: Telic behavior in contemporary treaty succession by Bogden, G

“…Its central findings are that, (1) during decolonization, states renounced many preexisting treaties according to notions of self-determination, aimed at autonomously defining their relationship to the international community; whereas, (2) amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, quite divergent state behavior emerged, namely that states developed a competing approach based on custodianship to existing international legal relations. …”

Methodology of regional analysis of the Russian economic reseaerch market by V. M. Moskovkin, X. Sun

“…After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the transition to a market economy model in Russia, there has been observed a rapid growth for market economic studies challenge in ranking of its three segments, such as the economists market, scientific economic journals market, research training of economists market. …”
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Reconstructed Russian Fisheries Catches in the Barents Sea: 1950-2014 by Sarah Popov, Dirk Zeller

“…The jointly managed fisheries resources in the Barents Sea are a notable exception, wherein the Russian Federation (formerly Soviet Union) and Norway have relatively successfully managed fish stocks together since the 1950s, including during the high tensions of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Using ICES statistics as reported baseline landings, the total catch of the region by the Russian fisheries was reconstructed for the period 1950-2014. …”
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Are the Russian-Speaking Populations in the “Near Abroad” a New Diaspora or Repatriates? by Irina Molodikova

“…These persons arrived in Russia during the last ten years, i.e. in the period from the dissolution of the Soviet Union until the beginning of 2000. The main aim was to investigate decision-making processes pertaining to resettlement and adaptation. …”
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Social Sciences in Armenia: Rethinking Politics and International Relations After 1991 by Norayr Dunamalyan, Ruben Elamiryan

“…From this perspective, the article is analyzing the case of development of social sciences in Armenia starting from 1991, when it received independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The article argues, that in the case of Armenia (as well as some post-communist societies), we can see a change in discourse with shifting the emphasis from the historiographical paradigm to the sociocultural or humanitarian one. …”
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A infra-estrutura em informação científica e em Ciência da Informação na antiga União Soviética (1917-1991) <p>The infrastructure in scientific information and information science... by Roberto Lopes dos Santos Júnior, Lena Vânia Ribeiro Pinheiro

“…The study period extends from the rise of the Bolshevik party in Russia in November 1917, through development of information science in the country, in the decades from 1950 to 1970, until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, and also some information on the area after that date. …”
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