Jordan Center for the
Advanced Study of Russia

Why We Must Return to the US-Russian Parity Principle

Stephen F. Cohen Friday, April 17th, 2015

We are in a new Cold War with Russia today, and specifically over the Ukrainian confrontation, largely because Washington nullified the parity principle. Indeed, we know when, why, and how this happened.

Kristy Ironside discusses Soviet tax on bachelors, singles persons and small families

Anastassia Kostrioukova Sunday, March 15th, 2015

On March 6, 2015, the Jordan Center welcomed Kristy Ironside, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, to speak about the Soviet tax on bachelors, singles persons and small families that was decreed by Nikita Khrushchev at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941.

Keyword: Government of the Soviet Union Archives - NYU Jordan Center