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Skeletons in the closet : transitional justice in post-Communist Europe
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ISBN: 9780511815362 9780521514453 9780521735506 9780511679308 0511679300 9780511676796 0511676794 0511815360 0521514452 0521735505 1107206227 1282525891 9786612525896 0511678053 0511681283 051168326X Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book tackles three puzzles of pacted transitions to democracy. First, why do autocrats ever step down from power peacefully if they know that they may be held accountable for their involvement in the ancien régime? Second, when does the opposition indeed refrain from meting out punishment to the former autocrats once the transition is complete? Third, why, in some countries, does transitional justice get adopted when successors of former communists hold parliamentary majorities? Monika Nalepa argues that infiltration of the opposition with collaborators of the authoritarian regime can serve as insurance against transitional justice, making their commitments to amnesty credible. This explanation also accounts for the timing of transitional justice across East Central Europe. Nalepa supports her theory using a combination of elite interviews, archival evidence, and statistical analysis of survey experiments in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.


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After authoritarianism : transitional justice and democratic stability
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ISBN: 1316513432 1009072544 1009075349 1009075543 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Transitional justice - the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist - has direct implications for democratic processes. Mechanisms of transitional justice have the power to influence who decides to go into politics, can shape politicians' behavior while in office, and can affect how politicians delegate policy decisions. However, these mechanisms are not all alike: some, known as transparency mechanisms, uncover authoritarian collaborators who did their work in secret while others, known as purges, fire open collaborators of the old regime. After Authoritarianism analyzes this distinction in order to uncover the contrasting effects these mechanisms have on sustaining and shaping the qualities of democratic processes. Using a highly disaggregated global transitional justice dataset, the book shows that mechanisms of transitional justice are far from being the epilogue of an outgoing authoritarian regime, and instead represent the crucial first chapter in a country's democratic story.


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Lustration and transitional justice : personnel systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
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ISBN: 9780812243314 Year: 2011 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press


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Lustration and transitional justice : personnel systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland
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ISBN: 1283896915 0812205766 0812243315 Year: 2011 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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How do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with prior governments? Should they be excluded or should they be incorporated into the new system? In Lustration and Transitional Justice, Roman David examines major institutional innovations that developed in Central Europe following the collapse of communist regimes. While the Czech Republic approved a lustration (vetting) law based on the traditional method of dismissals, Hungary and Poland devised alternative models that granted their tainted officials a second chance in exchange for truth. David classifies personnel systems as exclusive, inclusive, and reconciliatory; they are based on dismissal, exposure, and confession, respectively, and they represent three major classes of transitional justice.David argues that in addition to their immediate purposes, personnel systems carry symbolic meanings that help explain their origin and shape their effects. In their effort to purify public life, personnel systems send different ideological messages that affect trust in government and the social standing of former adversaries. Exclusive systems may establish trust at the expense of reconciliation, while inclusive and reconciliatory systems may promote both trust and reconciliation.In spite of its importance, the topic of inherited personnel has received only limited attention in research on transitional justice and democratization. Lustration and Transitional Justice is the first attempt to fill this gap. Combining insights from cultural sociology and political psychology with the analysis of original experiments, historical surveys, parliamentary debates, and interviews, the book shows how perceptions of tainted personnel affected the origin of lustration systems and how dismissal, exposure, and confession affected trust in government, reconciliation, and collective memory.


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Silence Was Salvation : Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union
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ISBN: 9780300210736 0300210736 9780300179453 0300179456 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents' condemnation and arrest, now freely share their stories.  The result is a powerful and moving oral history that will profoundly deepen the reader's understanding of life in the U.S.S.R. under the despotic reign of Joseph Stalin.

Factionalism in Chinese Communist politics
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ISBN: 0511571682 0521622840 052103258X Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Factionalism is widely understood to be a distinguishing characteristic of Chinese politics. In this book, first published in 2000, Jing Huang examines the role of factionalism in leadership relations and policy-making. His detailed knowledge of intra-party politics offers an alternative understanding of still-disputed struggles behind the high walls of leadership in Zhongnanhai. Huang traces the development of factional politics from its roots in the 'mountaintops' and the enduring impact of the personal bonds formed between Mao and his supporters at the Yan'an Round Table. Critiquing the predominant theories on leadership and decision-making, he explains that it is not power struggles that give rise to factionalism, but rather the existence of 'factionalism that turns power into an overriding goal in CCP politics'. Huang explains why policy outcomes switched constantly between 'Left-adventurism' and 'Right-conservatism' under Mao's reign and between 'emancipation of mind' and 'socialist spiritual civilization' in the Deng era.


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The house of government : a saga of the Russian Revolution
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ISBN: 9781400888177 1400888174 9780691176949 0691176949 9780691192727 0691192723 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine's gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin's purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children's loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union.Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building's residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths.Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.

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Apartment dwellers --- Apartment dwellers. --- Apartment houses --- Apartment houses. --- Buildings. --- Communists --- Communists. --- HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. --- HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics. --- HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. --- HISTORY / Revolutionary. --- HISTORY / Social History. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism. --- Political purges --- Political purges. --- Politics and government. --- State-sponsored terrorism --- State-sponsored terrorism. --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism. --- History --- Dom na Naberezhnoĭ (Moscow, Russia). --- Moscow (Russia) --- Russia (Federation) --- Soviet Union --- Soviet Union. --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Politics and government --- History of Eastern Europe --- anno 1900-1999 --- Russia --- Dom na Naberezhnoĭ (Moscow, Russia) --- Persons --- Apartment renters --- Dwellers, Apartment --- Renters, Apartment --- State-sponsored terrorism victims --- Victims of state terrorism --- Victims of terrorism --- Apartment buildings --- Multi-family housing --- Multifamily housing --- Multiple dwellings --- Architecture, Domestic --- Dwellings --- Lustration (Political purges) --- Political parties --- Political party purges --- Purges, Political --- Government violence --- Governmental violence --- State-sponsored violence --- State terrorism --- Violence, Governmental --- Violence, State-sponsored --- Political atrocities --- Terrorism --- History. --- Purges --- Moskva (Russia) --- Москвa (Russia) --- Moscou (Russia) --- Moskau (Russia) --- Moscú (Russia) --- Moskova (Russia) --- Moscha (Russia) --- Moszkva (Russia) --- Moskav (Russia) --- Moskwa (Russia) --- Moscow (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Mosike (Russia) --- Mo-ssu-kʻo (Russia) --- 莫斯科 (Russia) --- Pravitelʹstvo Moskvy (Russia) --- Правительство Москвы (Russia) --- Maskva (Russia) --- Mosḳṿe (Russia) --- Mosca (Russia) --- Moscova (Russia) --- Māsko (Russia) --- Moscow --- Масква (Russia) --- Μόσχα (Russia) --- Moscfa (Russia) --- Mūskū (Russia) --- موسکو (Russia)


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1952 : Procès politiques à Prague
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ISBN: 2870270577 9782870270578 Year: 1980 Volume: 8 Publisher: Bruxelles : Editions Complexe,

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Ideologieën --- Idéologies --- Politiek --- Politique --- Tchécoslovaquie --- Tsjechoslowakije --- History of Eastern Europe --- Prague --- Political purges --- Trials (Political crimes and offenses) --- --1948-1954 --- --Procès --- 340.096 --- 943.7 --- -Trials (Political crimes and offenses) --- -340.096 --- 943.7<1952> --- Lustration (Political purges) --- Political party purges --- Purges, Political --- Beroemde processen. --- Geschiedenis van Tsjechoslowakije --- -Purges --- -Political purges --- -Czechoslovakia --- 943.7 Geschiedenis van Tsjechoslowakije --- 340.096 Beroemde processen. --- -History of Eastern Europe --- History --- Political parties --- Czechoslovakia --- Chekhoslovakii︠a︡ --- Czechosłowacja --- Československá socialistická republika --- Czechoslovak Socialist Republic --- Chekhoslovat︠s︡kai︠a︡ Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Čehoslovakija --- CSRS --- ČSSR --- Tschechoslowakei --- Tsjekkoslovakia --- Tsechoslobakia --- Tshīkūslūfākiyā --- Československo --- Československa republika --- Tchécoslovaquie --- Csehszlovákia --- Ceho-Slovacia --- ČSR --- Chieh-kʻo-ssu-lo-fa-kʻo --- Chieh-kʻo-ssu-lo-fa-kʻo she hui chu i kung ho kuo --- C.S.R.S. --- Č.S.S.R. --- Č.S.R. --- Cecoslovacchia --- Checoslovaquia --- Tschechische Sozialistische Republik --- Ts'ekhoslovaḳyah --- Czech and Slovak Federal Republic --- Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika --- Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika --- Cseh-Szlovákia --- ČSFR --- ChSSR --- ChSFR --- Republika československa --- Češkoslovaška --- Czecho-Slovakia --- Politics and government --- anno 1950-1959 --- Political crimes and offenses --- Beroemde processen --- Purges --- --History --- 943.7 History of Czechoslovakia --- History of Czechoslovakia --- Political purges - Czechoslovakia - History - 20th century --- Trials (Political crimes and offenses) - Czechoslovakia - History - 20th century --- Procès --- Czechoslovakia - Politics and government - 1945-1992 --- Procès politiques --- 1945-1970 --- Politique et gouvernement --- 1945-1968

Life and terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941
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ISBN: 0300064012 Year: 1996 Publisher: New Haven ; London Yale University Press

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History of Eastern Europe --- anno 1930-1939 --- Russian Federation --- 947 --- 323.283 <47+57> --- Political purges --- -Totalitarianism --- Totalitarian state --- Authoritarianism --- Collectivism --- Despotism --- Dictatorship --- Fascism --- National socialism --- Lustration (Political purges) --- Political parties --- Political party purges --- Purges, Political --- Geschiedenis van de Slavische wereld, van Rusland en de USSR --- Terrorisme tegen het gezag. Terreur tegen de staat--?<47+57> --- Purges --- Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich. --- Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza --- -Communist Party of the Soviet Union --- Communist Party of USSR --- CPSU --- Đảng cộng sản Liên xô --- Kamunistychnai︠a︡ partyi︠a︡ Savetskaha Sai︠u︡za --- KKSE --- Kommounistikon Komma tēs Sobietikēs Henōseōs --- Kommunistische Partei der Sowjet Union --- Komunistička partija Sovjetskog Saveza --- Komunistická strana Sovětského svazu --- Komunistychna partii︠a︡ Radi︠a︡nsʹkoho Soi︠u︡zu --- Komunistyczna Partia Związku Radzieckiego --- KPdSU --- KPR --- KPRS --- KPSS --- KPZR --- KSSS --- KSSZ --- Miflagah ha-ḳomunisṭit shel Berit-ha-Moʻatsot --- Neuvostoliiton kommunistinen puolue --- NKP --- NLKP --- Nõukogude Liidu Kommunistlik Partei --- Partai Komunis Uni Sovjet --- Parti communiste de l'Union soviétique --- Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética --- Partido Comunista Ruso --- Partito comunista Unione sovietica --- PCUS --- Phō̜kō̜sō̜sō̜ --- PKUS --- Rokoku Kyōsantō --- Roshia Kyōsantō --- Rosia Kongsandang --- Sabčotʻa Kavširis Komunisturi Partia --- SKKP --- SMKK --- SMKP --- Sobieto Kyōsantō --- Soren Kyōsantō --- Sorenpō Kyōsantō --- Sov. IKP --- Sovet Ittifagy Kommunist Partii̐asy --- Sovetakan Miutʻian Komunistakan Kusaktsʻutʻyun --- Sovetakan Miutʻian Komunistakan Partia --- Soviet Communist Party --- Soviet Union. --- Sōviyata Saṅghakī Kamyunisṭa Pārṭī --- Sovjetunionens kommunistiska parti --- Sovyetler Birliği Komünist Partisi --- Su-lien kung chʻan tang --- SUKP --- SZKP --- Szovjetunió Kommunista Pártja --- U̇mum Ittifag Kommunist Partii︠a︡sy --- Zenrenpō Kyōsantō --- ZKhUKN --- Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Ulsyn Kommunist Nam --- Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза --- אלקפ (ב) --- מפלגה הקומוניסטית של ברית־המועצות --- 蘇聯共產黨 --- Soi︠u︡z kommunisticheskikh partiĭ--KPSS --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ RSFSR --- Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) --- Soviet Union --- -Politics and government --- -Political purges --- Totalitarianism. --- -Purges --- -947 --- 323.283 <47+57> Terrorisme tegen het gezag. Terreur tegen de staat--?<47+57> --- 947 Geschiedenis van de Slavische wereld, van Rusland en de USSR --- Russia --- Totalitarianism --- Stalin, Joseph, --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soiuza --- Communist Party of the Soviet Union --- Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) (1925-1952) --- Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) (1991- ) --- Purges. --- Politics and government --- 1936-1953 --- 947 History of Russia --- History of Russia


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Inventing the enemy : denunciation and terror in Stalin's Russia
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ISBN: 9780521191968 9780521145626 9780511994906 9781139127899 1139127896 0511994907 1283298481 9781283298483 0521191963 0521145627 1139124579 1107213959 1139122975 9786613298485 1139117238 1139112872 1139115065 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to 'unmask the hidden enemy' and people responded by flooding the secret police and local authorities with accusations. By 1937, every workplace was convulsed by hyper-vigilance, intense suspicion and the hunt for hidden enemies. Spouses, co-workers, friends and relatives disavowed and denounced each other. People confronted hideous dilemmas. Forced to lie to protect loved ones, they struggled to reconcile political imperatives and personal loyalties. Workplaces were turned into snake pits. The strategies that people used to protect themselves - naming names, pre-emptive denunciations, and shifting blame - all helped to spread the terror. Inventing the Enemy, a history of the terror in five Moscow factories, explores personal relationships and individual behaviour within a pervasive political culture of 'enemy hunting'.

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Factories --- Interpersonal relations --- Political culture --- Political purges --- State-sponsored terrorism --- Working class --- History. --- Social aspects --- Stalin, Joseph, --- Kommunističeskaja partija Sovetskogo Sojuza --- Purges --- Soviet Union --- Moscow (Russia) --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Factory buildings --- Industrial plants --- Manufacturing plants --- Mills (Buildings) --- Plants (Industrial buildings) --- Factory system --- Industrial buildings --- Mills and mill-work --- Workshops --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Government violence --- Governmental violence --- State-sponsored violence --- State terrorism --- Violence, Governmental --- Violence, State-sponsored --- Political atrocities --- Terrorism --- Culture --- Political science --- Lustration (Political purges) --- Political parties --- Political party purges --- Purges, Political --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za --- Communist Party of the Soviet Union --- Communist Party of USSR --- CPSU --- Đảng cộng sản Liên xô --- Kamunistychnai︠a︡ partyi︠a︡ Savetskaha Sai︠u︡za --- KKSE --- Kommounistikon Komma tēs Sobietikēs Henōseōs --- Kommunistische Partei der Sowjet Union --- Komunistička partija Sovjetskog Saveza --- Komunistická strana Sovětského svazu --- Komunistychna partii︠a︡ Radi︠a︡nsʹkoho Soi︠u︡zu --- Komunistyczna Partia Związku Radzieckiego --- KPdSU --- KPR --- KPRS --- KPSS --- KPZR --- KSSS --- KSSZ --- Miflagah ha-ḳomunisṭit shel Berit-ha-Moʻatsot --- Neuvostoliiton kommunistinen puolue --- NKP --- NLKP --- Nõukogude Liidu Kommunistlik Partei --- Partai Komunis Uni Sovjet --- Parti communiste de l'Union soviétique --- Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética --- Partido Comunista Ruso --- Partito comunista Unione sovietica --- PCUS --- Phō̜kō̜sō̜sō̜ --- PKUS --- Rokoku Kyōsantō --- Roshia Kyōsantō --- Rosia Kongsandang --- Sabčotʻa Kavširis Komunisturi Partia --- SKKP --- SMKK --- SMKP --- Sobieto Kyōsantō --- Soren Kyōsantō --- Sorenpō Kyōsantō --- Sov. IKP --- Sovet Ittifagy Kommunist Partii̐asy --- Sovetakan Miutʻian Komunistakan Kusaktsʻutʻyun --- Sovetakan Miutʻian Komunistakan Partia --- Soviet Communist Party --- Soviet Union. --- Sōviyata Saṅghakī Kamyunisṭa Pārṭī --- Sovjetunionens kommunistiska parti --- Sovyetler Birliği Komünist Partisi --- Su-lien kung chʻan tang --- SUKP --- SZKP --- Szovjetunió Kommunista Pártja --- U̇mum Ittifag Kommunist Partii︠a︡sy --- Zenrenpō Kyōsantō --- ZKhUKN --- Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Ulsyn Kommunist Nam --- Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза --- אלקפ (ב) --- מפלגה הקומוניסטית של ברית־המועצות --- 蘇聯共產黨 --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii --- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ RSFSR --- Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) (1925-1952) --- Vsesoi︠u︡znai︠a︡ kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov) (1991- ) --- Moskva (Russia) --- Москвa (Russia) --- Moscou (Russia) --- Moskau (Russia) --- Moscú (Russia) --- Moskova (Russia) --- Moscha (Russia) --- Moszkva (Russia) --- Moskav (Russia) --- Moskwa (Russia) --- Moscow (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Mosike (Russia) --- Mo-ssu-kʻo (Russia) --- 莫斯科 (Russia) --- Pravitelʹstvo Moskvy (Russia) --- Правительство Москвы (Russia) --- Maskva (Russia) --- Mosḳṿe (Russia) --- Mosca (Russia) --- Moscova (Russia) --- Māsko (Russia) --- Moscow --- Масква (Russia) --- Μόσχα (Russia) --- Moscfa (Russia) --- Mūskū (Russia) --- موسکو (Russia) --- History --- Arts and Humanities

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