OBChSS — unikalʹnaja, edinstvennaja v mire specslužba, borovšajasja s samymi izvorotlivymi prestupnikami sovetskogo vremeni — s torgovoj mafiej, so spekuljantami i falʹšivomonetčikami, s valjutčikami i temi predstaviteljami nomenklatury, kotorye putali ličnyj karman s...

This article attempts to show how East Asian art was sold and bought in Russia in the first decade after the revolution 1917 by taking the example of the State Museum of Oriental Art (SMOA) in Moscow. The emergence of the SMOA itself was a consequence of political change. East Asian art objects...

Taken together, the Russian census of 1897 and the Soviet censuses of 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 constitute the largest collection of empirical data available on that country, but until the publication of this book in 1986, the daunting complexity of that material prevented Western scholars from...