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Rina Lu

I write about Russian and Soviet history. Born and raised in the USSR/Russia, I offer a Russian perspective grounded in archives, statistics, and objectivity—untangling Cold War propaganda and beyond.

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  1. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    The Transfer of Crimea in 1954: Law, Ambition, and the Ukrainian Nomenklatura (opens the original)

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    In February 1954, Nikita Khrushchev signed a decree moving Crimea out of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and into the Ukrainian SSR. The Soviet press called it a gesture of brotherly friendship between Russians and Ukrainians, timed to mark the three hundredth anniversary of the Pereyaslav Agreement, the 1654 act by which the Cossack Hetmanate swore allegiance to the Russian tsar. The paperwork behind that gesture tells a different story. Khrushchev ignored the constitutional pr

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