Soviet History

Future Ruins: Time, Memory and History in the Work of Komar and Melamid

by Allison Leigh

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

Demography: Jewish Women in the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation and other Successor States

by Mark Tolts

Published in: Paula E. Hyman and Dalia Ofer, eds., Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing; Jewish Publication Society of America. CD-ROM edition, 2006.

Оживление религиозных настроений в советском обществе в первые послевоенные годы. На материалах Башкирской АССР

by Marat Migranov

Общественные настроения в российской деревне во второй половине 40-х гг. ХХ в. (по материалам Башкирской АССР)

by Marat Migranov

FROM CONDUITS TO COMMANDERS: SHIFTING VIEWS OF WORKER CORRESPONDENTS, 1924–26

by Jeremy Hicks

Yiddish in the Former Soviet Union Since 1959: A Statistical-Demographic Analysis

by Mark Tolts

Paper presented at the conference “Yiddish in the Contemporary World”, University of Oxford, 19-21 April 1998 [Revised as of 4 May 2012]

This paper is based mainly on the results of the post-war Soviet censuses concerning respondents’ native language and... more This paper is based mainly on the results of the post-war Soviet censuses concerning respondents’ native language and second language. The statistical data on Yiddish were studied for the former union republics of the USSR and their capitals. For Belorussia, Ukraine and the Russian Federation, the data were also studied for their different regions. In the 1994 Russian microcensus, a question on the primary language of conversation at home was asked for the first time, and the respective data concerning Yiddish in the city of Moscow and Birobidzhan (“Jewish”) oblast were analyzed.

Symbols of Power in Rituals of Violence: The Personality Cult and Iconoclasm on the Soviet Empire’s Periphery (East Germany, 1945–61)

by Alexey Tikhomirov

published in: Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 2012, pp. 47-88.

“Red Laughter”: On Refined Weapons of Soviet Jesters

by Serguei Alex. Oushakine (Сергей Ушакин)

Social Research Vol. 79 : No.1 : Spring 2012

Увидеть союз иначе. Альтернативный проект объединения советских республик (1919 г.)

by Serhiy Hirik

This paper was presented at the conference "Constructing the Soviet? - 2012" (the European University at St.-Petersburg, April 20-21, 2012) and published in the collection of its materials). Конструируя "советское"? Политическое сознание, повседневные практики, новые идентичности. Материалы научной конференции студентов и аспирантов (20-21 апреля 2012 года, Санкт-Петербург). - СПб: Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2012. - С.33-38.

The Soviet Censuses of 1937 and 1939: Some Problems of Data Evaluation

by Mark Tolts

Paper presented at the International Conference on Soviet Population in the 1920s and 1930s, Toronto, 27-29 January 1995 [Revised as of 30 May 2009]

This paper revealed double-counting in the 1937 and 1939 censuses as a serious problem which should not be ignored in... more This paper revealed double-counting in the 1937 and 1939 censuses as a serious problem which should not be ignored in any evaluation of these census data.

Review of: S. Gorshenina-S. Abashin (eds), Le Turkestan russe: une colonie comme les autres?, Russian review, 71:1, 2012, pp. 162-163

by Beatrice Penati

Annist, A. 2009. Outsourcing Culture: Establishing Heritage Hegemony by Funding Cultural Life in South Eastern Estonia

by Aet Annist

Published in Lietuvos etnologija: socialinės antropologijos ir etnologijos studijos. 2009, 9(18), 117–138.

The following article compares the Soviet and post-Soviet processes of hegemony creation. Based on long-term... more The following article compares the Soviet and post-Soviet processes of hegemony creation. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I describe how in Estonia, where highly formalised cultural sphere was a norm already in the 19th century, Soviet cultural hegemony was never properly established. The Soviet system of blanket-funding unintentionally enabled the perseverance of nationalist cultural counter-hegemony. In contrast, the current system of project based funding is more effective in creating cultural hegemony. I provide ethnographic examples of how such new practices of governmentality are outsourcing the establishment of emblematic
hegemony of a small cultural group, Setos.

Five sentences about Soviet art

by Alise Tifentale

Published in 'Dizaina Studija,' 2011

"The art of the past is usually understood using the conventions of the present, therefore the art of the past is... more "The art of the past is usually understood using the conventions of the present, therefore the art of the past is misunderstood.”
Sol LeWitt

Indentitites in Formation; Nationality, Religion, and Regional Security in former Sovier Central Asia

by Mustafa Aydin

Milletlerarası Münasebetler Türk Yıllığı, 1997

Auto-ethnography of my food habits

by Oleg Nekrassovski

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Спекуляцыі замест сур'ёзнага даследавання.

by Christian Ganzer

Review: Rostislav Aliev: Brestskaya krepost'. Dokumenty i vospominaniya. Moskva 2010.
Published in: "ARCHE pachatak" 11-2011, pp. 162-172.

Рецензия: Ростсислав Алиев: Брестская крепость. Документы и воспоминания. Москва 2010.
Опубликованна в "ARCHE пачатак" 11-2011, стр. 162-172.

Review (and my samokritika): N. Pianciola, "Stalinismo di frontiera" [Frontier Stalinism. Agricultural colonisation, extermination of the nomads, and State-building in Central Asia (1905-1936)], Roma 2009

by Beatrice Penati

This is a much longer version of the review I wrote for Central Eurasian Reader.
I post it online for two reasons: first, because I think this is an important book that deserves to be known beyond the small circle of those who read Italian; second, because in my review for Central Eurasian Reader I misunderstood a passage (p. 486 top). The author pointed this out, and this is my way to do a thorough samokritika.

Under A Red Veil: Staging Afghan Emancipation in Moscow

by Timothy Nunan

Le bakhtinisme est un inhumanisme

by Yan Hamel

Il s'agit d'un compte rendu critique du livre Bakhtine démasqué de Bronkhart et Bota récemment paru chez Droz. Publié dans le dernier numéro de la revue @nalyses.