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Erection and Demolition of Monuments in Russian-East European Memory Wars

Image credit/license Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, East European states have sped up or begun the removal and relocation of Soviet monuments. The Russian government has responded by placing…

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Prevailing Soviet Legacies

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) The “curse” of the Soviet legacy continues to permeate post-Soviet nations in many ways. For instance, the Russian leadership actively draws on the Soviet past to justify…

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The Collapse of the Soviet Union | PONARS Eurasia Online Academy

It has been thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Its legacies are still present in the political, social, and ideological landscape of today’s Russia and the former…

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Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retrospective

(Demokratizatsiya) Excerpt: More than three and a half decades have passed since the start of the process of change in the Soviet Union known throughout the world as perestroika. The…

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The Soviets’ Dark Nuclear Romance

(War on the Rocks podcast) Once the Soviets got the nuclear arsenal Stalin had sought, they had to learn to live with the bomb – and all the dilemmas that came…

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Homo Post-Sovieticus: Reconstructing Citizenship in Russia

(Social Research) Abstract: It Seems odd to speak of transition in Russia. The problem is not just with the term itself, loaded as it is with normative expectations that Russia and…

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“The Dissolution of the Soviet Union: 25 Years On” – Open access articles from Taylor & Francis

To mark the 25 year anniversary of the dissolution of the USSR, Taylor & Francis has complied over 150 scholarly articles on the USSR and the post-soviet period. Many PONARS Eurasia members…

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On Russian vs. Soviet Performance

(Global Brief) How is the Russian man doing in 2013, nearly a century after the Russian Revolution and just over two decades after the fall of the USSR? Moscow, Europe’s…

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