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Grundlinien und Wendepunkte der sowjetischen Bildungspolitik 1917-1960, dargestellt in einer Sammlung chronologisch geordneter russischer Dokumente in deutscher Übersetzung: Beschlüsse und Verordnungen der obersten Staats- und Parteigremien, amtliche Dokumente zu Einzelbereichen des Bildungswesen und bildungspolitische Äußerungen Lenins, Stalins, Chruscevs sowie führender Schulpolitiker. Deskriptive Darstellung mit einer ausführlichen Einleitung aus westlicher Sicht zur Gesamtentwicklung der sowjetischen Bildungspolitik, Schemata und Literaturhinweisen. BIOst/Ghr

"Nach dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts ist die Welt nicht ein ruhigerer Ort geworden, wie von vielen vorausgesagt. Eher im Gegenteil. Zahlreiche Krisenherde und Konfliktfelder sind zu registrieren. Globalisierung führt nur teilweise zu Integration und Homogenisierung. In vielen Bereichen und Regionen fragmentiert sich die Weltgesellschaft. Sogenannte neue Risiken verschränken sich mit älteren. Die Themenbeiträge widmen sich den Neuen Kriegen und gewaltförmiger Konfliktaustragung; demographischen Veränderungen; den Kontextfaktoren Energie und Umwelt; Aids, stellvertretend für gesundheitliche Risiken; dem Komplex der neuen Wissensdifferenzen und Zugangsschranken; der Gefährdung von Infrastrukturen; der Bedeutung von Strömen (flows) - an den Beispielen von Kapital und Kommunikation; der Bedeutung von Identitäten und deren Irritationen; der Rolle und dem Ge- und Missbrauch von Medien; der verbleibenden oder auch neuen Rolle von Politik; und, damit verbunden, aber auch Unterschieden, den residualen Funktionen von Staaten." (Textauszug).

The paper analyses the strategic narrative as one of the tools of legitimisation of authoritarian regimes. Using Russia's strategic narrative as an example, the author shows how this type of political communication can be used by autocrats to justify the regime's aggressive actions in the eyes of domestic audiences. The main argument of the article is that authoritarian regimes can involve external actors in this process, namely representatives of non-authoritarian states. The paper uses such qualitative research methods as document analysis, content analysis and frame analysis. The empirical material of the work is based on the analysis of speeches of representatives of pro-Russian Ukrainian parties in the talk show "60 Minutes" on the Russian state television in the period 2019-2022, which allowed to determine the role of these politicians in the process of legitimisation of the Russian authoritarian regime and its actions in preparation for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The reduction of weekly working hours can lead to more gender equality on household level. In mixed-sex, two-adult households, the working hours of each household member have a significant effect on gender equality relevant variables. This was elaborated with a cross-sectional analysis of 2019 German Socio-Economic Panel data using OLS regressions with instrumental variables. Working hours have a strong negative effect on one's own household- and care time. Men or women having a reduced full-time work contract (32-36 hours per week stipulated in the work contract) creates more symmetry of paid- and unpaid work per sex. A partner's work time has a significantly negative effect on an individual's work time but a woman's work time is more influenced by her male partner's working hours than the other way around. The thesis finds evidence that if a man has a reduced full-time work contract, this encourages women to work more paid hours per week; for men it is the other way around. The effect of a partner's working time on an individual's labor force participation is in all cases very small but significantly negative. The partner working under a reduced full-time work contract creates opposite results for men and women: It increases women's likelihood to participate in the labor market whereas it decreases men's probability to participate in the labor market.

The paper investigates how the Russian authoritarian regime managed two disastrous forest fires episodes Russia experienced in 2010 and 2021. It identifies key characteristics of the authoritarian forest fires management, as well as performs content analysis in order to identify the common features and the peculiarities of the forest fires management in both cases. It covers both response to disasters and the subsequent recovery. The paper both identifies the key characteristics of the official communication regarding forest fire management and looks at the general discourse about two forest fires episodes in the Russian media, including the role of different levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy in combatting forest fires and organizing recovery.