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Antonia Fraser on meeting Irina Ratushinskaya

In 1967 Irina Grekova's story "Na ispytaniiakh" was published in Novyi mir. The story depicts a unit of the Red Army on maneuvers in the summer of 1952 in a backwoods area of Russia. Grekova refrained from using the usual gloss reserved for such institutions as the Red Army and within several months was forced to resign from her job as professor of mathematics at the Zhukovskii Military Academy. The story was attacked by the party and, on orders of General Aleksei Epishev, chief of the political administration of the army, banned from army libraries. Twenty years later, in 1986, "Na ispytaniiakh" reappeared in a collection of Grekova's works entitled Porogi. The recent version of the story has been subject to various editorial changes, most of which concern the Stalin years. These revisions illuminate the party's changing attitude towards the Stalin era and specifically show which facets of Stalinism the party was more open about during the late Chcrnenko–early Gorbachev era and which were still too sensitive to be discussed openly.

This study examines characteristics and determinants of maternal mortality associated with induced and spontaneous abortion in the Russian Federation. In addition to national statistical data, the study uses the original medical files of 113 women, representing 74 percent of all women known to have died after undergoing an abortion in 1999. The number of abortions and abortion‐related maternal deaths fell fairly steadily during the 1991–2000 decade to levels of 56 percent and 52 percent of the 1991 base, respectively. Regional and urban–rural variation is limited. Nine percent of abortion‐related maternal mortality is due to spontaneous abortion; 24 percent is related to induced abortions performed inside and 67 percent to those performed outside a medical institution. In the latter group, older women, usually with a history of several pregnancies, are overrepresented. The high rate of abortion‐related maternal mortality is due largely to the number of abortions performed at 13–21 weeks' and 22–27 weeks' gestation both inside and outside medical institutions. Improving access to safe second‐trimester abortion, preventing delays during the abortion procedure, and adequate treatment of complications are key strategies for reducing abortion‐related maternal mortality.

The author of the article highly appreciates the monograph by I. V. Potkina "On the eve of the catastrophe. The state and economy of Russia in 1914–1917". The author of the book proposed a new approach to their study, which made it possible to identify features of the formation of the military-economic mobilization model and management of the national economy. I. V. Potkina classified eight main directions of the government's economic policy. Comparing the ways of regulating the economy of the tsarist and the Provisional Government, the author showed that these were different periods of the formation of the mobilization model, and it was the policy of the Provisional Government that led to the collapse of the economy. As a result, the author of the monograph came to a reasonable conclusion that the economic policy of the tsarist government was in line with the challenges of the time and pan-European trends. The author of the article considers the thesis about the so-called systemic crisis of the autocracy far-fetched. He connects the problems of the country's development in the late 19th — early 20th centuries with the fact that in 1861–1905 Russia tried to realize its first anti-capitalist utopia — that in the industrial age it is possible to be a "distinctive" great power, that is, to influence the destinies of the world, rejecting everything due to which competitors and opponents have achieved prosperity, primarily, the general civil legal system, the corresponding rights of all strata of the population and complete freedom of entrepreneurship. Only in 1906 did the transition to the rule of law begin.

La desobediencia radical de la artista venezolana Deborah Castillo es glosada, debatida y clarificada en este libro, editado por Alejandro Castro e Irina Troconis. Se trata de un volumen en el que también participanlas investigadoras Rebeca Pineda Burgos, Sara Garzón, Cecilia Rodríguez Lehmann y Diana Taylor. A partir de la contextualización de la obra de Castillo, el libro propone un diálogo desde la teoría crítica con las circunstancias políticas de la Venezuela actual.