...Marina M. Lebedeva Social sciences largely reflect how one’s own society and the world are perceived. The article discusses the development of social sciences in the USSR, and then in Russia, focusing on four disciplines: political science, sociology, international relations, and psychology...

... the Cold War and current geopolitical tensions, exploring how relations between the US, China, and Russia have evolved since the 20th Century. Early in your career, you mainly focused on the history of the Cold War, China-Russia relations and the history of the Chinese Civil War and the Chinese Communist...

... democratic majorities characterized neoliberal ideas far more than antistate laissez-faire economics or apolitical technocratic visions. The article presents historical evidence from Chile and Russia from the 1960s to the 1990s to make the case that global varieties of neoliberal ideas were created...