“But it also relentlessly demanded that Soviet people think about themselves in national terms, and it placed ethnicity at the center of Soviet politics.” O’Keeffe says that when the Soviet Union broke apart along national lines in 1991, “politicians and ordinary people alike across Eurasia ...
This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the association between current smoking and voting behaviour and intentions in nine countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU). Data were analysed from 18,000 individuals aged≥18 in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, ...
The nation became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991 after years of rule and oppression. More than a million ethnic Kazakh people re-entered the country in the decade following its independence. Known for being the world’s largest landlocked country, the vast Kazakh Steppe is a famous ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the Soviet Union was established after the Russian Revolution of 1917. These were a series of revolutions starting with the February Revolution which overthrew the reigning Tsar Nicholas II and the establishment of a provisional government. This provisional ...
Nazi Germany occupied the Czech lands during World War II, and following the war, the newly reformed Czechoslovakia fell under the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence. The “Velvet Revolution” of 1989 pushed the Communist Party from power and returned democracy to the country. On Jan. 1, ...
Before it broke up in 1991, the USSR was by far the largest country in the world. While Russia is still the biggest, the 14 other republics are relatively small by comparison. This teaching tool is a great way to learn more about former Soviet Union. Hav
GDP per capita data for countries that were part of the Soviet Union and Poland was taken from Maddison Project Database57. The GDP data for the post-Soviet sphere is thus different from the rest of our sample, but because our analysis is concerned with relative, not absolute, changes in ...
Petri, Martin, Gunther Taube, and Aleh Tsyvinski, 2002, "Energy Sector Quasi-Fiscal Activities in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union," IMF Working Paper 02/60 (Washington: International Monetary Fund).M. Petri, G. Taube, and A. Tsyvinski, "Energy Sector Quasi-Fiscal Activities in the...
This article examines the evolution of intelligence and counterintelligence services in selected Eastern European countries, formerly part of the Soviet Union, in the two decades of independence. It emphasises transitional influences, the high level of secrecy and the lack of effective parliamentary oversi...
This article presents a selected set of standardised indicators concerning children for the 15 countries of the Former Soviet Union analysing and comparing the situation in each country. It reviews the indicators in terms of the major themes underlying the child survival development and protection ...