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The international discourse long depended on the term 'post-Soviet' to refer to the 15 sovereign states that emerged and re-emerged from the Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. The list includes European and Asian countries with contrasting backgrounds. Rooted in the context of the Cold War, the term fails to capture the crucial ongoing metamorphosis and challenges of these states for the past thirty years. For Lithuania and the Baltic region at least, the NATO Summit in Vilnius in July 2023 is a chance to emphasize the strong European identity and to challenge the deep colonial mindsets, which overlooks Eastern European perspectives in favor of those built in Moscow since the beginning of the 20th century.

We're treated to a rumination on how the world should be managed: Human 'behavioural crisis' at root of climate breakdown, say scientistsOr the paper itself: In the present paper, we have examined this more deeply, and explore the behavioural drivers of overshoot, providing evidence that overshoot is itself a symptom of a deeper, more subversive modern crisis of human behaviour. We work to name and frame this crisis as 'the Human Behavioural Crisis' and propose the crisis be recognised globally as a critical intervention point for tackling ecological overshoot. The argument becomes, effectively, that we need a new humanity.True, they miss a significant point when they talk about trying to reduce population growth. That ship has already sailed, peak population is a decade or three away already. We've done that. They are right that it's population times consumption which is the global total, but this is absurd: Meanwhile, the quarter of the global population who live below the USD $3.65 poverty line, and the almost half, 47%, who live below the USD $6.85 poverty aspire to achieve equivalent high-end lifestyles, encouraged, in part, by the constant barrage of advertising.Advertising is what makes humans desire three squares, a roof over their heads and a change of clothes? We think they might be misunderstanding human beings there.Their call becomes an insistence that we must propagandise everyone into a new mode of existence. Even, brainwash.Which really isn't going to work now, is it? New Soviet Man never did turn up to make socialism work despite many decades of actual totalitarianism. Systems which attempt to change humans don't work, systems which direct human impulses to beneficial ends do. We do think that there's a useful point to this paper though. Systems which try to propagandise humans into particular patterns of behaviour are called "religions". Given that the call here is to propagandise the species into a different pattern of behaviour we think it fair to now point out that this ecological regrowth idea is simply a religion. And, of course, as impervious to factual evidence as any other such.

Karl Marx (1818-1883) remains one of the most highly cited authors in academic literature, 140 years after his death. But when did his writing become especially prominent? During his lifetime or after? And how has his prominence trended in recent decades? Philip Magness and Michael Makovi discuss the history and offer some measurements of how … Continue reading The Reputation of Karl Marx and the Soviet Revolution of 1917
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Plaques commemorating victims of Stalin's repressions are being taken down in Russian cities. News about vanishing plaques comes amid almost weekly arrests of activists for anti-regime or anti-war stances.

Like the history of the Soviet repressions itself, this Cascade Memorial remains largely neglected, which is something a handful of Armenians are now trying to change.

by Andrii Nekoliak, Cindy Wittke, Maryna Rabinovych A Symposium on troubled nexuses between international and domestic law explores the multi-dimensional interplay of law(s) on the domestic, regional, and international levels before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Conceptualizing post-Soviet Eurasia as a 'laboratory of troubled nexuses', the Symposium explores complexities and interconnections of country-specific policies, practices and discourses pertaining to (international) law. The Symposium has been published in Review of Central and East European Law, Volume 47: Issue 3-4 (Dec 2022). For […]

In 1939, Poland was invaded on both sides: by Germany from the west and by the Soviet Union from the East. Germany controlled Poland during much of World War II, but with Germany’s defeat, the Soviet Union stepped in and established control of both its politics and economy. Although Soviet control was shaken at various … Continue reading Poland since 1938: Into a Planned Economy and Back Again
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Vladimir Lenin (Soviet propaganda poster).

In March 1990, as the Soviet Union was dissolving, Lithuania regained its independence. Soon thereafter, the United States began providing vital development aid to help the country democratize following its 50 years under Soviet occupation. In 2004, Lithuania joined the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mark of Lithuania's extraordinarily fast […]
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The Buryats left the Soviet Union for Mongolia in three waves in the beginning of the 20th century.

Hayek lived long enough to see the rise and fall of fascism, national socialism, and Soviet communism.

"Each round of flawed elections was a lost opportunity for Azerbaijan to step away from post-Soviet autocracy towards democracy."

The Apple TV+ film tells the story of an entrepreneur who helped bring a Soviet designer's game to the world.

In just 15 months of fighting in Ukraine, three times more Russian soldiers have died than Soviet troops did over 10 years in Afghanistan.