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Constructed identities
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Constructed identities

В dictionaries there is some confusion regarding the concepts of «patriotism», «nationalism», «Nazism», «racism», «fascism» ...

What is a propaganda machine and how does it work
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What is a propaganda machine and how does it work

To be able to distinguish deception from truth, we must, among other things, examine the ...

Who are conservatives
Who are conservatives

The concept of conservatism still does not have clear boundaries, as noted by Pyotr Struve, ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

“The Bolsheviks started the Civil War”
“The Bolsheviks started the Civil War”

A very widespread claim is that the Bolsheviks unleashed the Civil War in Russia, and ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Yury Mukhin, the Falsifier
Yury Mukhin, the Falsifier

One of the pillars on which the Stalinist legendarium rests is the publicist Yury Mukhin. ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

The lies of Vladimir Putin and the russian nomenklatura
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The lies of Vladimir Putin and the russian nomenklatura

In one of our articles, we already examined that Russia is governed by the nomenklatura ...

The City of the future from a social democratic perspective
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The City of the future from a social democratic perspective

Of course, it is unlikely that, from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century, ...

Short theses in propaganda practice
Short theses in propaganda practice

While studying a specific issue for scientific purposes requires the most detailed consideration possible with ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Why the death penalty must be banned
Why the death penalty must be banned

If we reason superficially, drawing conclusions under the influence of fleeting emotions and anger, the ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Direct or representative democracy?
Direct or representative democracy?

It is sometimes assumed that direct democracy is a more democratic, more “left-wing” system than ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Why planned economies are inefficient
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Why planned economies are inefficient

Socialists, having achieved successes in some sectors of public life in Soviet Russia (and committing ...

Privileges of the soviet nomenklatura
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Privileges of the soviet nomenklatura

Thanks to the efforts of the remnants of the former propaganda apparatus of the Communist ...

Russia is still ruled by the nomenklatura
Russia is still ruled by the nomenklatura

In today’s Russia, there is very little awareness that the nomenklatura created by Joseph Stalin, ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Joseph Stalin’s coup d’état
Joseph Stalin’s coup d’état

If someone had claimed back in 1922 that Joseph Stalin would become the leader of ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Nomenklatura as a of exploiters
Nomenklatura as a class of exploiters

When jokes began to appear that “capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

“Nomenklatura privileges are not inherited”
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“Nomenklatura privileges are not inherited”

Defenders of Stalin’s system of socialism often list among its supposed advantages the claim that ...

What is the nomenklatura
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What is the nomenklatura

In our view, the failure to acknowledge the shortcomings of the USSR or to justify ...

Myths About Social Democrats
Myths About Social Democrats

Russia is a country with an exceptionally high concentration of myths about social democrats, largely ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

“There Was No Corruption Under Stalin”
“There Was No Corruption Under Stalin”

The conclusion that there was no corruption under Joseph Stalin is often drawn from the ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

What Is Social Democracy?
What Is Social Democracy?

We have arrived at the core question our journal seeks to address: what is social ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov