Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History: A Guide
…an on-line database listing its many fonds. To order materials from RGASPI in advance, a scholar should send an email a week prior to his/her arrival, and attach an official…
Read More…an on-line database listing its many fonds. To order materials from RGASPI in advance, a scholar should send an email a week prior to his/her arrival, and attach an official…
Read More…true test of whether they will or can remain a political force. The party platform rejected by the Justice Ministry is reproduced below in Russian and in a translation provided…
Read More…that parliament elect the president by a three-fifths majority. The amendment was run through by the Communists who had a supermajority to do so – and to elect the president…
Read More…and Russian politics, this is a force to follow if only for its high-profile leadership and constant media attention. ДЕКЛАРАЦИЯ ОБ ОБРАЗОВАНИИ ОБЩЕРОССИЙСКОГО НАРОДНОГО ФРОНТА (ПРОЕКТ) DECLARATION OF THE FORMATION…
Read More…a foreign force was considered, understandably, ridiculous and a little offensive. Anti-Kremlin Protest on Russia Day. The signs read ‘Yes To A Free Media’ and ‘No To Kremlin Propoganda.’ In…
Read More…founded the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, also known as BYuT, with left- and right-leaning parties: Batkivshchyna, Sobor, the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party, and the Ukrainian Republican Party. The bloc gained twenty-two…
Read More…heads. Through her stewardship of Russia’s Central Bank, Russia has been able to steer through the Russian financial crisis of 2014. When she was appointed, the forces of that crisis…
Read More…in purges and other government actions to suppress the rebellion and enforce collectivation. Chechens were also heavily targeted in the purges of 1936-1937. In the late 1930s, Chechnya was coupled…
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