The prerequisites for the study are relevant trends in modern humanities that “era of nostalgia”, “demand past” culture different regions world (Z. Bauman, S. Boym, D. Lowenthal and others), interest global science processes occur Russian culture. “taboo on nostalgia” (S. Boym) should be overcome intellectual milieu (the consequence revising Soviet sociocultural experience) as a factor introduc...

This essay investigates the explosive Soviet interest in space travel during the New Economic Policy (NEP) era of the 1920s, as expressed through amateur societies, the press, literature, painting, fi lm, and other popular culture. In recovering an obscured history of the roots of Russian cosmonautics, it shows how the cause of space exploration in early twentieth-century Russia originally stem...

Twenty-five years after the collapse of the communist regimes, there is a wide diversity among countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union when it comes to the methods they have adopted to confront their communist past, the timing of their transitional justice policies, as well as the progress they have registered to date. Some countries have adopted radical lustration programs bann...

Economic diversification is crucial for the socio-economic sustainability of single-industry communities in the Russian North. The single-industry towns in the Russian North were formed during the Soviet era under an ideology, which promoted large-scale resource extraction in the peripheries (Blakkisrud 2006, p. 39). However, in the contemporary era, the extraction of new deposits in the Russia...

As in most industrialized countries, sex ratios in the Soviet Union revealed little evidence of son preference: sex ratios at birth fluctuated around the biological norm of 1.05 males to females in the western republics as well as in the more traditional, less industrialized republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus. This is as expected in light of the Soviet state’s longstanding efforts to pr...

With the collapse of the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it appeared that the world system could be on the threshold of an era of unprecedented peace and stability. Politicians, diplomats, and academics alike began to forecast the imminent establishment of a new world order, increasingly managed by an integrated international system based on the principles of li...