East Prussia was a region populated by people of many different ethnoses, confessions and languages. Initially settled by Germans after the Teutonic Knights had conquered native Pruthenians, it quickly became a melting pot of newcomers from different regions of Europe.East Prussian diversity took a serious hit after the unification of Germany in 1871. The homogenisation policies adopted by the aut

CFE-Paper A5 ver 7 1Bo Petersson–National Self-Images among Russian Regional Politicians National Self-Images among Russian Regional Politicians: Comparing a Pilot Study on Perm and the Case of St. Petersburg. Dr. Bo Petersson Bo.Petersson@svet.lu.se Bo Petersson, Ph D, is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. He has in his previous research dealt extensively w

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The organization Memorial visits Lund | The Subject of History 21 Mar The organization Memorial visits Lund 21 March 2025 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Alexandra Polivanova from Memorial and Violetta Fitsner, Memorial Human Rights Defence Center, will talk about the history and activities of the organization, demonstrate its digital archive and give examples of material that may be of interest from a res

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The organization Memorial visits Lund | The Subject of History 21 Mar The organization Memorial visits Lund 21 March 2025 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Alexandra Polivanova from Memorial and Violetta Fitsner, Memorial Human Rights Defence Center, will talk about the history and activities of the organization, demonstrate its digital archive and give examples of material that may be of interest from a res

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The Russian federation has experienced significant changes during the last century. Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and today's democratic Russia are three entirely different societies, with different economic and legal realities. The transition from planned economy to market economy, from communism to democracy has not been easy and has demanded significant changes in the legal system. Civil

In 1617, after seven years of war between Sweden and Russia and talks facilitated by English and Dutch diplomats, the peace treaty of Stolbovo was signed. This important but little-studied document was to form the basis for relationships between Sweden and Russia for the next one hundred years, before it was replaced by the Peace of Nystad in 1721, and it had a huge influence on the lives of the p

The Russian media system was during most of the 20th century part of the state institutions. During glasnost and perestroika, the media became gradually more independent of the state. However, the subsequent apex of journalistic freedom in the late 1980s and the early 1990s was followed by stagnation and a pronounced democratic setback following Putin’s accession to power. Despite this, the findin

The link “modernization-fertility” is an important object for analysis. Modernization changes every society economically, culturally, demographically. I analyze the empirical data for two Russian regions based on Easterlin-Сrimmins theoretical model and make conclusions concerning the strength of possible modernization-fertility relationship in Russia. I consider gross fertility to investigate

The organization Memorial visits Lund | The Subject of History 21 Mar The organization Memorial visits Lund 21 March 2025 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Alexandra Polivanova from Memorial and Violetta Fitsner, Memorial Human Rights Defence Center, will talk about the history and activities of the organization, demonstrate its digital archive and give examples of material that may be of interest from a res

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The organization Memorial visits Lund | Department of History 21 Mar The organization Memorial visits Lund 21 March 2025 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Alexandra Polivanova from Memorial and Violetta Fitsner, Memorial Human Rights Defence Center, will talk about the history and activities of the organization, demonstrate its digital archive and give examples of material that may be of interest from a rese

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Although the Red Army left the Danish island of Bornholm 76 years ago, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought the memories of those events to life again. This small island, stretched between Sweden and Poland and not so far away from Kaliningrad Oblast, is rediscovering the meaning of its recent past. Miłosz Jeromin Cordes met with Jakob Seerup, a PhD, researcher and curator at Bornholm’s Mus

The article analyses the narrative structures in which the Holocaust has been situated in Russian historical culture.

The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of to

Kvartal English Version ‘The West, and especially America, is principally responsible for the crisis which began in February 2014’ John J. Mearsheimer, 19th March 2022 Who is to blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? The simple answer is the man who ordered the invasion, Vladimir Putin. Moving up one level of analysis, one could reasonably cite Russian neo- imperialism, fueled by booming hydrocar

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This thesis researches the Swedish conservative intellectual magazine Svensk Tidskrift and their view on Russia, between the years of 1915–1919. It further examines how the view changes over the years. The research also analyses the view on Russia in Svensk Tidskrift from a perspective of center-periphery. Sweden and Russia have a long relationship that goes way back to several centuries before, a

Western scholars of Tsarist Russia emphasize the continuity of collectivism on the Russian plain. Numerous endogenous factors explain the human clustering that occurred as kinship structures evolved into territorial agrarian communal patterns. In my Dissertation, combining the Westernizers and Slavophiles' conceptualization of the mir-the village commune-it is argued that precarious climatic condi