...Nelly Bekus Some of the state's recent initiatives have sought to reappropriate ethno-cultural and pre-Soviet history and tradition, shaping a new politics of identity. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Belarus identity...

...Theodore P. Gerber “The fall of the Soviet Union sparked hopes that a Russian middle class would emerge and thrive, but so far it has not.” Second in a series on social mobility around the world . © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California...

... Shavkat Mirziyoyev Islam Karimov democratic reforms Soviet Union authoritarianism Islam Central Asia labor migration 277 [L]abor migration brought the country to a point of no return: millions of the poorest Uzbeks could no longer be cut off from the rest of the world . . . Uzbekistan...

... The Vory Russia's Super Mafia organized crime Russia Soviet Union corruption Vladimir Putin Donald Trump Hundreds of books, in dozens of lan-guages, have been written about the so-called Russian Mafiya and the vory, the thieves of Soviet and post-Soviet organized- crime gangs. Many...

...Jeremy Friedman Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its independence from the West. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Jeremy Friedman Soviet Union Russia...

...Ronald Grigor Suny The Soviet Union was an empire within which nations old and new developed, changed, and eventually became self-sufficient enough to opt out. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Ronald Grigor Suny Vladimir...

... for greater flexibility in managing their workforces. THE WORKER S STATE After World War II, East European communist regimes adopted the Soviet model of labor rela- RUDRA SIL is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Labor Shifts Sixth in a series Labor s Travails in Postcommunist...

...Joshua Lustig In her latest and most ambitious work, the oral historian Svetlana Alexievich assembles a chorus of ambivalent memories of an empire's collapse and the wrenching quarter-century since. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets , by Svetlana Alexievich Random House , 2016...

... Soviet Union workers peasants labor relations Vladimir Putin industrialization monotowns communism capitalism 264 Workers form the exemplary class of economic, social, and psychological losers of the postcommunist transition. Working-Class Resilience in Russia JEREMY MORRIS Ever since...

...Oxana Shevel The fundamental dilemma in Ukraine's decommunization process is how to undo the legal, institutional, and historical legacy of the Soviet era without repeating the Soviet approach of mandating one ‘correct’ interpretation of the past … © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved...

...Marianne Kamp While Soviet efforts to promote gender equality are not openly celebrated, the idea planted in the region during that now-disdained era—that men and women should be equal under the law—is still holding fast. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents...

... Kaliningrad oblast enclave exclave Crimea Soviet Cold war testing leadership network presence Terras force Wales Article 108 Nearly every senior official in Poland and the Baltic countries expressed great unease. Political leaders and military commanders in the region increasingly warned...

... national self-determination nationalism internationalism hegemony world war one Europe civilization globalization great war trenches France Germany Russia czar czarist dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet Clark...

... politics in ways not possible at the League (in 1945, this was the price for US and Soviet participation). The UN s declarations and resolutions remain unjusticiable, just as the legitimacy of its international machin- ery (including the World Court) has no basis in compulsory jurisdiction or judicial...

... the United States and the Soviet Union, when the consequent genocides or politicides, according to one study, proliferated at a rate of roughly one a year. Toynbee had seen what was coming much earlier, noting during the Asia Minor struggles how quickly the powers were prepared to jetti- son pawns when...

... in a major state. Anti-Bolshevik hysteria swept conservative circles across Europe and North America. In fact, while the Soviet Union preached international revolution, it had to settle for socialism in one country, as Joseph Stalin proclaimed in 1924. Yet class ideology allowed it to preserve much...

... civilization globalization great war France Germany Russia czar czarist debt reparations dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet Clark suffering cost Japan Turkey parallax united states US 1918 1914 324 The modern...

... in Russia. Some analysts have posited closer parallels, logically enough, between Putin s approach to the Russian near abroad after the fall of the Soviet Union and the destabilizing effects of German irredentism in the 1930s. For me, the Ukrainian crisis calls most readily to mind the Crimean War...

... order, he contrasts with it both the compromises (even an alliance) that the new Soviet state was willing to make with autocratic Germany and the impossible hubris of America s uncompromising president. He thus rearranges the dynamics that have often featured in popular narratives of the World War I era...

... one of the worst-governed states in the world for almost a quarter of a century since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 if not quite the failed state of Russian propaganda. Under Yanukovych, who won a reasonably free election in 2010, Ukraine became a dystopia of state-organized extortion...