...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...

... to punish the Western governments for their disrespect for the regime with an aggressive and uncooperative foreign policy. Lenin Stalin Putin Foreign threat Anti-Americanism Legitimacy Regime Encirclement Propaganda “Color revolutions” Democracy in Russia 5th century BC, talked about...

... by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2008 The Regents of the University of California Putin Soviet Union Authoritarianism Jews Anti-Semitism Anti-Americanism Stalin Khrushchev Gorbachev Israel Zionism Available online 24 April 2008 shared values in their policies. None of them...

...-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...