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Lev Vygotsky used an enticing mix of intellectual traditions in an attempt to provide an account of the social formation of the mind. This volume provides students with an accessible overview of his work, combining key journal and text articles with editorial commentary and sugg…
"Red Atom takes a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the Soviet Union's peaceful use of nuclear power. It explores both the projects and the technocratic and political elite who were dedicated to increasing state power through technology. And it describes the political, ec…
Prés. de l'éd.: Following Stalin's death in 1953, association football clubs, as well as the informal supporter groups and communities which developed around them, were an important way for the diverse citizens of the multinational Soviet Union to express, negotiate and develop …
In this book, John Keep gives a narrative history of the USSR from the last years of Stalin's despotic rule to the eventual collapse of the empire in 1991. During these years living standards slowly improved as various attempts were made to reform Communist rule. Although materi…
"Ce livre reconstruit les deux vies et les deux visages de l’URSS, en se fondant sur la documentation d’archives et sur les sources rendues disponibles par l’effondrement du pays, qui ont permis à l’auteur de composer une image nouvelle, et plus crédible, d’une histoire qui a fa…
This doctoral dissertation provides an in-depth analysis of Stalin's secret Party chanceller and of several other secret structures within the Soviet Communist Party, the Soviet State Security Service and the headquarters of the Communist International. Stalin's chancellery numb…
Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Ma…
4e de couv.: Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous r…
