New Realities: Libraries in Post-Soviet Russia

New Realities: Libraries in Post-Soviet Russia

The transition away from communism toward a more democratic society and the move to a market economy had profound effects on Russian libraries. Using the main public library in Bryansk, the Bryansk Region Scientific Library, as a case study, this article examines the changes in library service, including information access and the opening of previously closed collections, funding issues, the li...

New concepts and words in post-Soviet Russia.

The research of Anglicisms in European languages is a part of the project supervised by the scholars from the University of Cologne. The adaptation of loan words in the Russian language possesses some social and cultural peculiarities in contrast to other European countries due to the drastic political changes and dynamic introduction of the market economy. The investigation is based on the lin...

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

‘Situating’ Western Planning Ideas Within the Post-Soviet Realities. The Case Study of Perm, Russia

While the past several decades have witnessed major changes in urbanisation patterns across the whole world, in Russia and other post-socialist countries these changes were absolutely drastic. The abrupt transformation from the command into a market-oriented system brought dramatic changes to all spheres of life and introduced an entirely new urban context – new actors and new rules of the game...

Migration and Restructuring in Post-Soviet Russia

W hen Russia became independent in 1992, it inherited from the Soviet Union a spatial distribution of its population that was incompatible with its emerging market economy. Internally the largest migration stream has been out of the overpopulated Russian north and Far East toward central Russia. At other geographic scales, as a result of decades of Soviet labor policy, there were numerous citie...