This book presents a study of collective representations in Soviet Russia concentrates on perceptions of Lenin's image from a socio-anthropological, rather than political, view. In addition to Communist Party information, official documents, memoirs and folklore, newly opened secret reports of the Soviet political police are used for the first time. The book analyzes the development of the cult from Lenin's lifetime up to the process of "de-Leninization" in the 1990s. Much of the research concerns the perception of Lenin's death and the decision to embalm his body, the campaign called "the Lenin enrollment", renaming of Petrograd and organization of "Lenin Corners". The book also presents new material devoted to Lenin museums, along with archive documents and never-published photographs.

Article recounting the history of the element Bromine, including its discovery in the salt lagoons of the Montpellier region of France by Antoine-Jérome Balard. Maps of the region and of Balard's birthplace are presented.

Encyclopedia article discussing the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the ministry for state security (Stasi) from 1950 to 1989.

This book chapter discusses processing historical and social change in literature and film during the German unification.

This article uses Hubble Space Telescope UV and optical spectra of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Ark 564 to investigate its internal reddening and properties of its emission-line and intrinsic UV absorption gas.