The collapse of the USSR in 1991 caused a rapture in the formerly hyper-centralized higher education system, allowing it to open up to the influences of globalization, marketization, and liberalization (Chankseliani, 2022, Huisman et al., 2018, Oleksiyenko et al., 2018). The dissolution of ...
前三章介绍各路heterodox Marxists对苏联的批判(因为年代限制其实都没有完全摆脱第二国际式的思维方式),以及各方对俄国革命及其后历史的不同看法。本书作者的分析观点继承自博尔迪加,最后一章论证合理但仍然存在问题,更多是依据资本主义生产方式的模板,解释了苏联生产方式中的“非资本主义性质”部分对于资本主义发展的作...
Daniel Chirot, "What Happened in Eastern Europe in 1989?" in Daniel Chirot, ed., The End of Leninism and the Decline of the Left (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991); Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993); Timothy Garton Ash, The ...
The information below pulls from our 1985 timeline video, part of Weird History’s Timeline Series. The year 1985 marked a significant period in history when the 80s found itself and started to manifest as its own iconic era. For many, this was the time of growth, coming of age, and ...
Australia : Triumph of the Optimists 101 Years of Global Investment Returns In the last two decades, the study of religiosity in the USSR has experienced a predictable boom. The unexpected growth in the influence of religious organizations in post-Soviet public space, plus the scale of previous ...
The Russian Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the USSR as a "workers' state" has dominated political thinking for more than three generations. In the past, it seemed enough for communists to define their radical separation with much of the "left" by denouncing the Soviet Union as ...
The Cold War was a decades-long conflict between the communist East and the capitalist West. It began shortly after World War II, ended with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. A Brief Overview of the Cold War The Cold War was an ideological and geopolitical struggle that was the main...
The Third Balkan War, also called the Yugoslav Wars, were a series of brutal wars from 1991 to 2001. These were civil, racial, and ethnic wars in... Learn more about this topic: Ethnic & Political Tension in Postwar Yugoslavia from ...
Here's what happened to the 15 republics in the decades after the USSR’s disintegration. Russia After the Soviet Union dissolved, its preeminent republic endured political dysfunction and struggled to privatize its central command economy. While oligarchs accumulated great wealth, most Russians faced ...
My entire childhood effectively ended up being spent in the USSR. In 1991 I finished 11th grade. This probably explains my fairly narrow range of needs and interests, which in those days could not be satisfied for obvious reasons. Most of them were purely consumerist – to do with food and...