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Research Grants Awarded In Past Years

Year 2004

• The “Operation “Ring” – the last war of the Soviet Army
• Nuclear Renunciation in the Post-Soviet Space
• Samizdat and Dissident movement in the Soviet States
• The cooperation between international organizations and post-Soviet states in the field of Human Rights – 1991-1997
• The Americans in Prague, 1945-1953: US-Soviet Competition in Central Europe
• The influence of the Helsinki Process on American Foreign Policy – Soviet-American relations
• Emigration, Refugees and Ethnic Cleansing during Yugoslavia’s Disintegration: Ethnic Nationalism and Creation of the National States (postponed for 2005)
• Russian Conservative Utopia – Russian right wing dissident movements

Year 2003

• Catalogue of Samizdat
• History Teaching and Education Practices in the Socialist Republic of Romania. Prescription, Elusion, Negotiation
• ‘To Be Impounded! Book Censorship in Eastern Europe after WWII: The Bulgarian Model’ (A comparative study)
• Archives of he Radio Free Europe – Primary Source for the ‘Romanian Cultural Revolution’ of the 1970s’
• Alternative periodicals and their role in the formation of multi-party system in Russia (1987-1996)’
• History and Importance of the Assembly of Captive European Nations (ACEN) during the Cold War
• Civil War in Tajikistan (1992-1997)
• Czechoslovak Television news broadcasting between 1953-1989
• Civic Initiatives as Integration Actors in Multiethnic Societies (Comparative perspective on NGOsďż˝ activities in Latvia, Croatia and Russia)
• Post-WWII American Containment Policies

Year 2002

• Unsolved Environmental Problems of the USSR
• Russian entrepreneurship, the privatization of enterprises and market development in Russia
• The Karabakh Conflict in the Western and Soviet Press in 1988-1990
• Warchitecture: Constructions of Political Violence in the Former Yugoslavia
• The Phenomenon of Institutional Nationalism -Nationalist Revival in Post-Communist Central Eastern Europe
• Censorship in Bulgaria under Communism
• Women, War, and Welfare: Military Conflict and the Construction of Gendered Welfare Regimes in Israel, France and Yugoslavia
• Attitudes of the Western States toward Lithuania in period of Soviet Occupation and annexation
• Sexuality and Eros under Communism
• Systematisation and Spatial Development in the period 1968-1989 in Socialist Romania
• The files of Romanian Communist Secret Service in Comparative Context. A case of Pseudo-amnesia
• The Chronotope and the Enunciation of Exiled Writers from Eastern Europe
• Muslim Communities in the Balkan
• Police Aesthetics: Culture and Confinement in 20th Century Eastern Europe

Year 2001

• State Response to Public expressions of Nationalism in the USSR
• Political Power and American Culture in Communist Romania 1950-1971
• GULAG and Its role in the Marginalisation of the work-gender relations in Russia
• Private Entreprenuership in Russia in the Twentieth century
• Media, Violence, and Politics of Military Intervention
• The History of the Humanities in Poland 1950-1980
• Problems of contemporary art of St. Petersburg from 1960's to present date. Undergroud life of artists in the Soviet period
• Corpus Communismi Mysticum: Continuity and the Real in Communist Hungary
• Media Representation of the Czech Literary Institutions
• Unsolved Environmental Problems of the Soviet Union. Evolution of the environmental policy of the Soviet Union 1970-1991
• Testimonies between the Blindness and Insight. Patriotic War in Croatia, aspects of cultural anthropology, history and literary theory
• Repressions, freedom and right violaton of Turk speaking folks of the former USSR.
• Communist parties of the post-war period Archival resources of recruitment, the functioning of local party organs, the individual motives and life-strategies within and around the party
• Polish Representatives of Natural and Exact Sciences in the OSA Documents, 1945-90
• Deportation in Hungary during the Rakosi Regime
• The New Religious Movements in Leningrad: 1953-1988

Year 2000

• 1956 Hungarian Revolution
• The Role of Cultural Factors in the Transition of Bulgaria and Hungary
• The Balkan Crisis:Ethnic, Political and Geopolitical Aspects, Communisma and Cold war
• Cold War in Poland, Labor Camps in Poland
• Prisoners Of War and Internment in USSR and in Countries of Eastern Europe after WW II
• Religion and Civil Society: The Case of Eastern Europe
• East and Central European Historiography under Communism. Romanian Historiography in Comparative Context
• The History & continuity in the development of leisure traditions in the countries of West and Eastern Europe
• The Problems of National and Ethnic Minorities in Central Russia. The study of Diaspora
• Collecting materials for book titled"Pere..- Seven chapters from the Soviet Life 1985- 1991. Private life of USSR citizens, youth problems, freedom of speech, ethnic qeustion.
• Soviet dissident movement in the 80's and its pursuing in the 90's. History of Soviet Human Rights Movements
• Classification, types and information potential of documents on the history of the dissident movement in the USSR in the 1960's-80's
• Development of a Description of the Environmental Laboratory Collection and presentation of the searchable database in the internet.
• Impact of Nazi & Soviet Occupation on Baltic National Identity:Reaction on Postwar Trials of Nazi war criminals and indigenous collaborators, 1945-1965

Year 1999

• Democratization, Civil Society and Ethnic Peace Constituencies: East European and Post-Soviet Perspectives
• Coming to terms with the Past: Ethnic Restructuring and its Aftermath in the Baltic States
• Populism and Postcommunist Europe since 1989
• The Balkan crisis in the foreign policy of the EU and Russia
• Turkestan Re-Union: National Identity and Regional Integration in Central Asia
• National Movement of the Soviet Jewry 1960-1980's.Soviet Jewish activists stuggle for the right of emigration and repatriation to Israel
• The Interplay of the Communism and Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union (Case of Armenia)
• Yugoslav Theatre and 1968 Student Protest
• Bessarabia in the Non-diplomatic Soviet-Russian dispute in the 1960's-1970's
• National History & Nationalist Myth: A case study of the historical thought of Ukrainian Dissidents, 1960s-1980s
• The Systemic Discrimination of Roma and Criminal Justice Reform in Hungary: A Critical Sociological Approach
• The Basic Attitudes towards Europe (1975-1980) Comparative analysis, Belarussian and Russian cases.
• The Roots of Collapse: Soviet "Sixties" and the End of Communism

Year 1998

• Humanr rights issues/violatons after WW II.
• Historical events in Russia in the genetics field 1935-1965 1950 repression and its consequences
• Human rights and the Women in the context of the Balkans
• The International Community. The dissolution of Former Yugoslavia and the emerging Conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Post Communist Soldiers and States: Institutional Creation and Change in a Democratizing World
• Minority Rights as a Branch of Human Rights - Multiculturalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Russians Abroad: Memoirs, Diaries, Letters. 1917-1991
• Policy of the Soviet Union towards Eastern Europe 1953-1958
• Change and the transformation of elites in Bulgaria 1988-1993
• Human Rights movements in the former USSR Phenomenon of Andrei Sakharov
• Cold war Propaganda Images The case of USA-Bulgaria relations
• Effectiveness of the International Law of Armed Conflicts-The Problem of Reprisals
• Caricature as a Source for Nationalism Studies The Image of the Balkan Neighbour as Seen by the Bulgarian Political Caricature (1910-1970)
• The macedonian Question: Nationalism and Communism in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in the wider Cold War context (1958-1989)
• Parallel Polis - The control of public space by the state socialist regime in Czechoslovakia and the implication of that form of control for civil society
• Political Communication before and after the Cold War: Structural changes, perception and European Foreign Policy Decision Making
• Dissident movement in the former USSR in 1950-1960 years
• Polish and Russian Samizdat - Alternative Press
• Hungarian Revolution
• The relationship between nationalism and state-building - Comparative study of Czech Republic and Slovakia
• Index on Censorship Balkan Audio-visual Collection
• The Stalinism and the Political System of Bulgaria 1949-1956
• Marxism-Leninism and Non-conformist Intelligentsia:years of resistance and revival of Russian national consciousness
• History of Samizdat 1985-1995
• Romanian Historians under Communism
• Experience of the Russian Sixties and the Cold War
• Educational Policy in the Socialistic countries on the period after the second war.

Year 1997

• The impact of the Hungarian revolution in the West
• Alternative Macroeconomic policies for Transitional Economies: The case of Poland
• Exploration of state and nation - building process in comparative perspective - Lithuania and Poland
• Stalinist Technology and Russia's Environmental crisis
• Mass Media in the Civil Conflicts - Eastern Europe and Former USSR
• The reasons and the consequences of the disintegration of Yugoslavia (1985-1996)
• Polish Foreign Orientation in the 20th century
• US Policy towards Poland and Central Europe during the Cold War and The history of the Polish anti-communist emigres after 1945
• Different Responses of the Eastern European Countries to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war
• Collectivization in the 1970s and 1980s: The case of Zamagurie, Slovakia
• Sociopolitical thought of the opposition and dissent movements in the former USSR in the context and comparison of the Central and the East Europe: tendencies and search for alternatives (1950-1980)
• Ethnicity and the Structuration of the Political Field in Bulgarian Transition
• Minorities in the Communist Romania

Year 1996

• The Russian Patriarchate and  the Slavonic Orthodox Churches during the period of the Cold War
• Worse than radiation-Chernobyl stories
• Transmission of values  in the Hungarian Political Programs of the Radio Free Europe (1950-1993)