This means that readers will have an opportunity to glimpse of the true "inner workings" of the twin-city movement:

• Which cities – besides Stalingrad-Volgograd, of course – had the largest number of twin-cities in the USSR?

• How does Moscow's approach to twin city relations differ from, for example, that of St. Petersburg?

• Why did Stalingrad's relations with some of the twin-cities develop more slowly than with some others?

• How did the "Great Britain – USSR" Society defend the friendship between Coventry and Stalingrad (and why is it a shame that it no longer exists)?

The dissertation is divided into 3 chapters.

The first describes the emergence and development of the Twin-Cities movement, the works of the World Federation of Twin Cities, and the significance of international intercity ties for foreign policy.

The second examines the establishment and development of relations between Stalingrad-Volgograd and European cities: Coventry (Great Britain), Dijon (France), Liège (Belgium), Kemi (Finland), and Turin (Italy).

The third examines the relations between Stalingrad-Volgograd and cities in socialist and non-European countries: Hiroshima (Japan), Port Said (UAR/ARE) and Madras (India), Toronto (Canada), and Cleveland (USA).

Have you read any academic papers about Volgograd and its sister-cities? Or, perhaps, published any yourself?