and characteristic schizophrenic anomalies, present or past, have been manifest. The terms indicate that this is the best place to classify some other poorly defined varieties of schizophrenia."" Although some Soviet psychiatrists manifestly resist what they find to be abuses of their profession,"3 9 in Britain and the West there is a range of opinion among psychiatrists, from belief that their...

The international character of the problem of smoking has become widely recognised.'-5 Although it is the fourth largest producer of tobacco in the world, relatively little has been written about the problem in the USSR. Since the economy is centrally planned and marketing of tobacco products is under direct government control it might be expected that the Soviet Union would implement different...

This paper derives from a wider research programme on comparative performance management techniques in a range of open economic systems, which explores new and unconventional approaches to understanding complexity in modern public service organisations. The paper focuses upon performance management within the Soviet Union in its final years, a period during which the long-established command-an...

Russia after the collapsing of Soviet Union ignored and left behind the Caspian Sea for a short time due to giving preference to relationship with West. Discovery of new sources of energy in the Caspian region and the significance of the geopolitical position of this region in Europe, Asia and the Middle East and the key role that plays in the power balances in the world, also West attention sp...

the caucasus has seen numerous crises since the region gained independence following the collapse of the soviet :union:. some of these crises have not been resolved yet as evidenced by recent russia-georgia conflict. this paper seeks to analyze such crises within the framework of significant geopolitical changes unfolded by the collapse of the soviet :union:. the author argues that in the post-...

erators (RTGs) are deployed along the Russian Federation’s Arctic coast to power remote lighthouses and navigation beacons. Similar RTGs were also used as power sources in other remote locations in the Russian Federation and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. All Russian RTG’s have out-lived their lifespan and are in need of decommissioning. Radioactive incidents involving such sources, such...

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...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the memory of World War II has been used in state-led nation-building processes of post-Soviet countries to foster a sense of national belonging. This paper provides an insight into the offi cial discourse of World War II in Russia and Ukraine by concentrating on a comparative analysis of World War II representations in Russian and Ukrainian school histor...

The article analyses the institutional landscape of doctoral education in Soviet Union last years its existence as well countries post-Soviet space. We describe practice academic personnel training countries, highlighting general characteristics determined by legacy, along with unique patterns countries. empirical base study is formed archival statistical data, legal acts, and data services, mi...