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...Kevin M. F. Platt Latvia presents a unique and counterintuitive case in the history of postsocialist ethnic relations. Despite the USSR's having annexed Latvia by fiat and armed force in the 1940s—and despite the population transfers of so many Russians and other Soviet peoples to the region...

... examines how the West was invented in the USSR from shards of information, taken from Hemingway and Remarque, Fellini and Bergman, that happened to cross the Iron Curtain. The lifespan of this imaginary West was from 1957 to 1991, from Khrushchev s thaw and the World Festival of Youth and Students...

..., art, warfare, space exploration—all these spheres in Russia and the USSR have been and remain abundantly philosophical, subordinated to certain philosophical tasks, though philosophy as such has never been as developed and sophisticated as in the West. As a discipline, Western philosophy “outsourced...

... in intent and effect: they were intentionally equivocal, which was subversive enough in Stalin s USSR. Anyone interested in these films must read this book, but must then return to the films. Kevin M. F. Platt doi 10.1215/0961754X-8192920 ...

... culture, the Albanian communist leader, Enver Hoxha, took advantage of the Soviet-Yugoslav split to achieve an improbable Cold War autonomy for his tiny country. Perhaps the most powerful of Naimark's seven case studies is Finland, exposed due to its long border with the USSR and its strategic importance...

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... at the heart of Gnosticism, Russian Old Belief, Dugin's Eurasianism: the world, wallowing as it is in evil, ruled by Satan—or by the West as a manifestation of him—should be destroyed. There can be no question of what the post-Stalinist USSR called peaceful coexistence. In his Kremlin speech announcing...

... by unfamiliar poets, replete with their reckless and terrifying biographies. (Consider only one example: Vladimir Kemetsky, pro-Soviet son of a white émigré family, voluntarily returns to the USSR, is arrested within the year, sent to Solovki, then shuttled between prisons before being shot in 1938. His poems...

... “situated”—positioned between hard facts that no longer exist on a foundation of iron that vaporized overnight. “It is possible to imagine,” Konrád writes, “the gradual, controlled transformation of the Soviet empire—the USSR and its dependent allies—into a community of nations capable of behaving like...

... heavily on her knees in front of him and started to kiss his hands. Uncle was frightfully embarrassed.” The reception of this famous prodigal son was a sensation in the USSR, but the officials of the Composers’ Union kept the unpredictable Yudina at arm's length. It was Stravinsky's biographer Robert...

... with Wittgenstein cial considerations with my typing the letter under her dictation. So the story impressed 1969.” 11 future. February the in nearest Cornford hope thatto answer I may visit to the USSR. But I think such considerations are unfounded. In any case, allow me special considerations prevent you...

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