This article studies the integration process of the region known as “Inner Mongolia” into the People’s Republic of China. The main argument is that the identification of Inner Mongolia as an important geostrategic zone by the Chinese government is based on the notion of “separatism”, for which the theoretical concept of “buffer-zone” is proposed an...
The purpose of the paper is to study whether there are any democratic tendencies in Belarus. The question that the paper intends to answer is, are there any signs of democracy in Belarus. The paper is based on a qualitative case study where the paper is assessed with Juan J Linz and Alfred Stepans (1996) theory about five interactive arenas where t...
Pričujoče magistrsko delo obravnava mladinsko subkulturo, ki se je v Sovjetski zvezi oblikovala kmalu po drugi svetovni vojni. Gre za obrobni mladinski pojav, ki se je oblikoval znotraj sovjetske povojne resničnosti, vendar ni bil skladen z uradno mladinsko kulturo, ki jo je določala oblast. Svetla oblačila, kravate z vzorci, nenavadni plesni gibi,...
Published in HUMOR
Soviet writers Yuli Daniel (aka Nikolay Arzhak) and Andrey Sinyavsky (aka Abram Tertz) published several satires anonymously in capitalist countries during the Cold War. In 1965 both writers were arrested in the Soviet Union and they were put on trial in February 1966. They were charged under Article 70 of the Penal Code that criminalized libel and...
Published in History of psychiatry
In the mid-twentieth century in the Soviet Union, latent schizophrenia became an important concept and a matter of research and also of punitive psychiatry. This article investigates precursor concepts in early Russian psychiatry of the nineteenth century, and examines whether - as claimed in recent literature - Russian and Soviet research on laten...
Im zweiten Teil des Quelleninventars werden Briefe als eine der Quellengattungen des schriftlichen Nachlasses von Friedrich Schmidt-Ott (1860-1956) vorgestellt, die er noch selbst zu seinen Lebzeiten begann, in eigenen Sammelbänden zusammenzuführen. Kern der Auswertung bildete die Briefregistratur „Exzellenz persönlich“ aus den Jahren von 1920 bis ...
Published in Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism
Contemporary left-wing antizionist discourse reproduces with stunning fidelity some of the central tropes of Soviet antizionist propaganda, which demonized Israel and Zionism. The article explores the background of these tropes, looks at the biographies of the rightwing Soviet ideologues who developed them, and examines the mechanisms through which...
Published in Iic; International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law
The launch of the Russian Sputnik vaccine in 2020 echoed the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1957 and reminded the world once again that Russia is a sophisticated technological power. Most inventions in the Soviet Union were managed by the system of inventor’s certificates which ensured open flows of knowledge among the scientific network...
This study critically reconstructs the history of one of the many groups that, from the Russian community in Argentina, gave life to an intense editorial activity: the right-wing nationalists who published the newspaper Russkaia Gazeta in 1937. The hypothesis proposed here consists of pointing out that, contrary to the mutualist objective it had or...
