...Ángel Torres-Adán; Michael Gentile Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, some historical legacies of the communist system still influence individual political attitudes. This article explores how historical legacies influence individual political and geopolitical preferences in three...

...Rachel Mohr; Kate Pride Brown This study examines memory of the Soviet Union and political opinions in modern Russia through qualitative, semi-structured interviews across generations in two Russian cities. The study aims to explore the differences in memory and meaning of the Soviet Union across...

... Democracy Collective action Russia Soviet Union Identity time, for each successive exponent of this centrist strategy, an attempt to practice de- reserved. e en ced su onque of a rom a a pre and inaugurating ral view, common t, Daniel Treisman , and nuclear dis- armament, much went right. Still...

... Informal networks Mingrelian affair Soviet Union Keywords: Patron client relations Clientelism Beria Secret police most ice m ecret the secret police instilled in his colleagues among the Soviet leadership in the end allowed his main rival, Nikita Khrushchev, to outmaneuver him. Beria was arrested...

...Marianna Fotaki The transition ‘from planned to market economy’ in the former Soviet Union and in several countries in post-communist Europe is one of the most sweeping social transformations of the second half of the 20th century. It is widely accepted that this transformation was driven...

...Olena Nikolayenko Using an original survey of adolescents in post-communist Russia and Ukraine, this study analyzes attitudes toward the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The results demonstrate how contextual factors – the republic's position within the former Soviet Union and prior history...

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...Roger Sapsford; Pamela Abbott This paper looks at trust and confidence in people and institutions in eight of the countries that have undergone transformation since the breakup of the Soviet Union. While the questions are not identical to those asked in previous research in post-Soviet societies...

...Christopher Marsh While the Soviet Union imploded in the midst of its attempt to reform itself, more than a decade later China stands as a testament to the resilience of Communist rule. I suggest that one reason China has been able to stave off a regime collapse is that Chinese leaders have sought...

...Therese C. Reitan From the mid 1980s mortality levels have fluctuated greatly in the former Soviet Union. After dropping substantially during the late 1980s, mortality rose to unprecedented levels during the early 1990s. The sharp fluctuations in mortality are commonly linked to variations...