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New research by Kateřina Lišková places eastern bloc countries at the forefront of the 20th-century push for gender equality

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For many people, the Moscow protests of 2012 were about falling in love – with the promise of freedom, and with each...

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Russian women marrying Muslim men convert to Islam in the certainty that a shared religion will strengthen their...

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In the North Caucasus, traditional and modern expectations of relationships are more chequered than a patchwork...

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What we know as love can change fast. In Czechoslovakia, the state’s idea of marriage went from an utopian ideal to...

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The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in a revolution of the intimate. To open our series on Romantic regimes, we...

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