Galina Ivanova Ustvolskaya was born in 1919 in Petrograd and has lived there throughout her life.1 She had her formal musical training in the Leningrad Conservatory between 1937 and 1950, where she studied with Shostakovich. 2 Later she worked as a teacher in the same institution for most of her life. Although the Soviet Union possessed an elaborate system of music education (Schwarz, 1965, p. ...

In today’s era of globalization and marginalization we are sometimes struck by the seeming paradox of examples of exceptional development in still marginalized regions, or “counter-geographies”. One such example is the purported clustering of centenarians (those who have surpassed 100 years) in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet States. This paper explores purported centenarian clustering...

This study provides a detailed analysis of the existing problems with nuclear safeguards and material accounting in Russia by comparing the existing situation both to U.S. methods and to the system of controls that existed in the Soviet era. It also examines recent U.S. efforts under the Nunn-Lugar initiative to improve safeguards and the system of material accounting and control. Finally, it c...

The article considers the phenomenon of collective memory as a resource social interaction, legitimization practices. In particular, attention is paid to aspects reconfiguration content Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Societies remember differently. Ukrainian society has traumatic experience gained result transformational processes collapse Union, formation an independent state, democratic poli...