...Kirill Molotov; Daria Khlevniuk Stalin’s era in Soviet history is one of the darkest. Nevertheless, despite numerous historical research, nonfiction and fiction, movies, and museum exhibitions exposing and discussing Stalin’s atrocities, a sizable portion of the Russian population is neutral...

...Matthew Blackburn; Daria Khlevniuk It is often asserted that the values and attitudes of Homo Sovieticus, marked in the rising “popularity” of Stalin, live on in contemporary Russia, acting as a negative factor in social and political development. This article critiques the argument that attitudes...

...Robert P. Hager, Jr. Although much IR theory focuses on balancing, this paper examines a version of the wedge strategy, what Stalin allegedly called being “the laughing third man in a fight.” This is the practice of advancing one’s goals by setting up other states to fight each other. The first...

..., hypernationalism, and re-Stalinization. Although such an agenda has some support among incumbent elites and in society, it remains subordinate in terms of political influence as of early 2016. Instead, the regime is now extending support to groups in society and the political establishment which favor a critical...

.... © 2015 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Collective memory Image of the Soviet Union Soviet nostalgia Stalin Students’ political attitudes Post-Soviet collective memory...

... the same underhanded tactics which are used against the liberals. © 2011 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Communist Putin Election Democracy Russia Stalin Ideology...

... of the University of California. Keywords: Lenin; Stalin; Putin; Foreign threat; Anti-Americanism; Legitimacy; Regime; Encirclement; Propaganda; Color revolutions Democracy in Russia Introduction: a foreign threat to the regime The interaction between domestic and foreign policy has been an issue for political...

... as president of the Russian Federation showed in various ways his concern about the life of Jews in his country. 2008 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Regents of the University of California. Keywords: Putin; Soviet Union; Authoritarianism; Jews; Anti-Semitism; Anti-Americanism; Stalin; Khrushchev...

...-Stalin succession contest in the spring of 1953. © 2008 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2008 The Regents of the University of California Patroneclient relations Clientelism Stalin Beria Khrushchev Soviet Union works...

... and Silver who contended that killings were unlikely to exceed a few million and could not be more than 4.8 million victims. This essay disproves both these contentions by introducing new demographic evidence proving that Stalin killed at least 5.2 million Soviet citizens 1927-1938, with a best estimate...