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Critique — History
Khodorkovsky’s op-ed arguing that historical precedent demands the West use every legal and financial tool to bring down Putin’s regime; draws on his own experience as a Kremlin prisoner.
Section 5: European Institutions & Influence Operations
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Research Gateways — European Archives
/ European University Institute
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Shadow Economies V — The Yeltsin Paradox
Section B: SDGs & Human Rights References
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OHCHR — High Commissioner and Thematic
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Chile and Eurocommunism
/ National Security Archive (Peter Kornbluh)
Kornbluh’s obituary briefing drawing on the declassified record. Flag: the title is the author’s verdict — cite the documents, attribute the judgement
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Kissinger
/ National Security Archive, 2023
NSA compilation of declassified primary sources on Kissinger’s legacy; covers wiretapping of journalists and staff, Chile, Cambodia, East Timor, and back-channel diplomacy.
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Chile and Eurocommunism
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Chernobyl — Documentary Base
Section 2: Post-Soviet Transition & the New Russia
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USSR Collapse
/ Karel Berkhoff (Harvard University Press, 2004)
History of Ukraine under Nazi occupation 1941–44 — essential background for understanding Ukrainian national trauma and post-Soviet political identity.
Section 8: American Power & the Unspoken War
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CIA — Behaviour and Methods
/ H-Net / H-Diplo (Susan McCall Perlman article review), Article Review 814
H-Diplo review of Perlman’s study of US intelligence and communist plots in postwar France — extends the CIA covert action framework from Italy to France.
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Shadow Economies V — The Yeltsin Paradox
/ Journal of Public Economics 246 (2025), Jakub Lonsky
Peer-reviewed origins study; cited in Shadow Economies V
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EU Structural Failures
Green and regionalist EP group — covers European Green parties and stateless nation parties including SNP and Plaid Cymru. Key advocates for climate justice, transparency and anti-corruption measures.
Section 1: Cold War Origins & Intelligence History
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The Power Below — Lever and the Crowd
Section B: SDGs & Human Rights References
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SDG Framework
CoE’s anti-corruption monitoring mechanism — evaluates member states against Council of Europe conventions and provides country-specific recommendations. Relevant to the UK, Italy and FSU corruption threads.
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The Power Below — Posted Workers
Section 4: Shadow Economies & Financial Crime
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Offshore Structures
/ Joseph E. Stiglitz (Allen Lane, 2002)
Stiglitz’s insider critique of IMF shock therapy and the Washington Consensus — documents how Western economic policy devastated the post-Soviet transition countries.
Section 8: American Power & the Unspoken War
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Contemporary — Iran War 2026 (Perspectives)
Current-affairs perspective piece
Section 1: Cold War Origins & Intelligence History
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Italy — PCI
Kissinger Cables; Italian-language
Section 1: Cold War Origins & Intelligence History
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Italy — PCI
Covert channels used to keep the PCI out of government; Italian-language
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American Paranoia and Communism
/ The Observer (7 June 1992)
Observer investigation into Operation Gladio — the first major public exposure of NATO stay-behind networks
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Russia — Political Development
/ Giuseppe Gagliano (LinkedIn)
LinkedIn post by Italian intelligence analyst Giuseppe Gagliano on CESTUDECOPIG — strategic intelligence centre content.
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Mirror States — European Tradition
The Zeitenwende, €100bn fund and March 2025 debt-brake reform — the present ‘anti-Gaullist’ outcome
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Mirror States — European Tradition
Counter-perspective on the rearmament programme from the Brussels economics think tank
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Foreign Affairs Ministries
/ Federal Republic of Germany
German foreign ministry — key source for German positions on Russia-Ukraine, NATO, and European security. Publishes extensive documentation on Ostpolitik history and its contemporary legacy.