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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Brezhnev"”.
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Entre lo Doméstico y lo Sistémico: La Transformación del Vínculo Ruso-Israelí de Brezhnev a Putin.
Este trabajo analiza el cómo y por qué de la transformación de las relaciones bilaterales de Rusia e Israel entre la época de mayor tensión durante la Guerra Fría (1967-1974) y la situación actual, sobre todo a partir del retorno de Vladimir Putin a la presidencia de Rusia en 2012. Esta evolución …
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The attrition of dogma in the legal press under Brezhnev : Literaturnaya gazeta (Second Section), 1967-1971
… to the debunking of official dogmas during the Brezhnev years. Launched in 1967, the second section of Literaturnaya gazeta has frequently been dismissed as a mere safety valve, highly controlled by the authorities, to placate the educated middle classes demoralized by the conservative backlash. …
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Stepping over the threshold of time: The Brezhnev era and the rise of the heritage temporality (1964-1982)
… Taking as its case study the example of the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union, the study examines the relationship between changing notions of time and the rise of a sensibility for heritage preservation in the Soviet 1960s to 1980s. The thesis offers a historical discourse analysis based on visitor …
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Soviet religion policy through religious dissidents from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev : a comparative study of Aida Skripnikova and Valeri Barinov.
… four changes in Soviet leadership from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev. By examining Skripnikova's and Barinov's lives and trials, an understanding, and perhaps even a pattern of liberalization, can be seen in the religion policy of the Soviet Union from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.
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When a Pound Weighed a Ton: The Cotton Scandal and Uzbek National Consciousness
During the reign of Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Soviet Union, corruption was hardly uncommon. Even by the standards of the era, the web of illegal activity that developed in the Uzbek S.S.R. was astonishing. Sharaf Rashidov was the man largely held as responsible for bringing about …
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Political protest and dissent in the Khrushchev Era
… acts, across the eras of Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. In the early Khrushchev years a large proportion of the political protest and criticism that took place remained essentially loyal to the regime and Marxist-Leninist in outlook, though this declined in later years as communist utopianism …
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Revisiting Eric Nordlinger: The Dynamics of Russian Civil- Military Relations in the Twentieth Century
… by addressing the middle years of Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Both reformed the military in its relation to the party and state and made the armed forces a more corporate and professional institution. Chapter four pinpoints the drastic changes in both the state and armed forces during Gorbachev's …
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Gilded City
… utilitarian architectural doctrine of the Brezhnev and Khrushchev years, Brodsky and Utkin began to produce fantastical landscapes and structures in exquisite and detailed drawings. Imaginative, light-hearted, subversive, their body of work freely referenced historical precedents ranging …
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It Takes A Union To Raise A Soviet: Children's Summer Camps As A Reflection Of Late Soviet Society
… by the rule of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev as the time of transformations of Soviet state and society. The goal of my project was to closely analyze how these transformations affected Soviet children using the example of children’s summer camps. Khrushchev’s ascendance to power …
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Reforming The Cold War State: Economic Thought, Internationalization, And The Politics Of Soviet Reform, 1955-1985.
… consolidation of a conservative hegemony under Brezhnev. Further, I suggest that despite fraying between 1985 and 1993, the conservative direction in economic thought continues to structure contemporary Russian and Post-Soviet politics. This work is based on primary research in the State Archive …
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Life Between Two Panels: Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
… of artists who reached artistic maturity in the Brezhnev era and began forging connections in the West. The first two chapters of the dissertation center on works that were, by and large, produced before emigration to the West. In particular, I explore the growing awareness of artists like Oleg …
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A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
… President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT II treaty in the summer of 1979, intending to start a third round of negotiations within two to three years. This treaty proved to be a turning point in the relations between the two Cold War superpowers, and a thorn in the …
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A Chinese exploration of Sino-Soviet relations since the death of Stalin, 1953-1989.
… and found ample evidence in the behaviour of Brezhnev. The Soviet Union's policy towards China in the 1970s seemed to want to knock together an `Asian collective security system', aimed at isolating China; to build up its armed forces in the Far East to put pressure on China and Japan in order …