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In the \"Thaw\" following Stalin's death, probing conversations about the nation's violent past took place in the literary journal Novyi mir (New World). Readers' letters reveal that discussion of the Terror was central to intellectual and political life during the USSR's last decades. Denis Kozlov shows how minds change, even in a closed society.

This excellent reference source brings together hard-to-find information on the eighty-three constituent units of the Russian Federation. The introduction examines the Russian Federation as a whole, focusing on the evolution of the relationship between the central state and the regions, followed by a chronology, demographic and economic statistics, and a review of the Federal Government. The second section comprises territorial surveys, with a chapter on each of Russia’s federal subjects, each of which includes a current map. The third section comprises a select bibliography of books. The fourth section features a series of indexes, listing the territories alphabetically, by Federal Okrug and Economic Area. Users will also find a gazetteer of selected alternative and historic names, a list of the territories abolished, created or reconstituted in the post-Soviet period, and an index of more than 100 principal cities, detailing the territory in which each is located. Part 1: Introduction Russian Federalism, Regional Elections and Party System Change Dr Inga Saikkonen . Chronology of Russia. Statistics. The Government of the Russian Federation. Part 2: Territorial Surveys. Map of European Russia. Map of Asian Russia. Surveys of each of the 83 Federal Subjects. Part 3: Select Bibliography Part 4: Indexes 'I don't know of any other information source which describes this important country in such a compact and up-to-date fashion. ' - Reference Review

In the \"Thaw\" following Stalin's death, probing conversations about the nation's violent past took place in the literary journal Novyi mir (New World). Readers' letters reveal that discussion of the Terror was central to intellectual and political life during the USSR's last decades. Denis Kozlov shows how minds change, even in a closed society.

Zhuk explores the connections between cultural consumption and popular religiosity among the youth of Dnepropetrovsk during the Brezhnev era. Given its closed, sheltered existence, Dnepropetrovsk became a unique Soviet social and cultural laboratory in which various patterns of late socialism collided with the new Western cultural influences. Using archival documents, periodicals, personal diaries, and interviews as historical sources, Zhuk focuses on how the consumption of Western popular music among Dnepropetrovsk's youth stimulated their interest in religion and contributed to popular religiosity and various forms of religious identification.

In this article, Robert Weinberg explores the visual representation of Judaism and observant Jews in the Soviet journal Bezbozhnik u stanka (The atheist at the workbench), which appeared in the 1920s. In their efforts to promote atheism and undermine organized religion, the artists responsible for the images in this journal singled out the Jewish god to be depicted with inhuman, bestial, and bizarre features such as a single eye and a nose made out of a fist. This portrayal of Judaism and religious Jews drew upon the pervasive antisemitic tropes and motifs in Russian culture and society and served to demonize Judaism and its adherents.

Assesses possible positive and negative effects of Soviet efforts to downplay Stalinism as mechanism to promote liberalization.

In 1933, as Joseph Stalin was busy purging his enemies and building a murderous cult of personality, the New York-based left-wing magazine the Nation advised readers interested in traveling to Moscow that Intourist, the Soviet Union's official travel agency, employed as tour guides very interesting and attractive young women without hats, skilled in correcting misinformation spread by the capitalist media. These days, the young and progressive book travel online, eschewing tour groups and specialized travel agents. This leaves the task of a travelers' political education to guidebook empires like Lonely Planet and Rough Guides, both of which provide detailed, polemical asides on the political history and culture of the countries under review. There is an almost orientalist presumption that the citizens of places like Cuba or Afghanistan have made a choice in rejecting globalization and consumerism. Adapted from the source document.