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Current Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2025): Constructing the “Soviet”? Regional Diversity and the Search for Identity

Published: 21.10.2025

Guest edited by
Roman Bugaev and Rauf Shumyakov

Introduction

Constructing the “Soviet”? Regional Diversity and the Search for Identity

Roman Bugaev, Rauf Shumyakov
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Articles

All-Russian Union of Maimed Soldiers in the Struggle for the Right to Speak Out: The Order of Discourse of the Central Organization and Regional Branches in 1917–1918

Olga Okhotnikova
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Page 25-55
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“A Warm Welcome”: Rituals of Nikita Khrushchev’s Trips Around the USSR (1957–1964)

Tatiana Petrova
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Page 56-81
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“Two Lonelinesses Just Met”: Late Soviet Loneliness and Management of Contacts

Mikhail Kulagin
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Page 82-111
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Essays

Carpet and Slogan: Bricklayers’ Craft on the Margins of Soviet Housing Industry

Ivan Sapogov, Vadim Danilov
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Page 112-138
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Book Reviews

Aleksei Konakov. Ubyvaiushchii mir: Istoriia “neveroiatnogo” v pozdnem SSSR. Moscow: Muzei sovremennogo iskusstva “Garazh”, 2022

Irina Kaspe
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Page 139-144
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Oleg Khlevniuk. Korporatsiia samozvantsev: Tenevaia ekonomika i korruptsiia v stalinskom SSSR. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2023

Valery Kossov
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Page 145-147
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Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig, Elena Zubkova, pri uch. Wolfgang Eichwede. Grabezh i spasenie: Rossiiskie muzei v gody Vtoroi mirovoi voiny. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2024

Ekaterina Melnikova
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Page 148-156
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Ksenia Tatarchenko. Soviet SCI_BERIA: The Politics of Expertise and the Novosibirsk Scientific Center. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Mikhail Maklakov
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Page 157-161
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Sheila Fitzpatrick. Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024

Julia Zelikova
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Page 162-168
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Sylvain Dufraisse. Une histoire sportive de la guerre froide. Paris: Nouveau monde éditions, 2023

Gregory Dufaud
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Page 169-172
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Helge Blakkisrud and Pål Kolstø, eds. Political Legitimacy and Traditional Values in Putin’s Russia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Igor Ushparov
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Page 173-178
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Zuzanna Bogumił and Tatiana Voronina. More than Alive: The Dead, Orthodoxy and Remembrance in Post-Soviet Russia. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023

Anna Chepurnova
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Page 179-184
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Walter Sperling. Vor den Ruinen von Grosny: Leben und Überleben im multiethnischen Kaukasus. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2023

Alexey Uvarov
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Page 185-189
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Christina E. Crawford. Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022

Oksana Zaporozhets
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Page 190-195
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Pavel Khazanov. Rossiia, kotoruiu my poteriali: Dosovetskoe proshloe i antisovetskii diskurs. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2025

Maria Sakaeva
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Page 196-200
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Pål Kolstø. Family, Sex, and Faith: The Biopolitics of the Russian Orthodox Church. Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, 2025

Ekaterina Kolycheva
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Page 201-205
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Authors

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