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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"East European studies"”.
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Parallel Ruptures: Jews of Bessarabia and Transnistria Between Romanian Nationalism and Soviet Communism, 1918--1940
… exclusion debates at the heart of all interwar European states and the complicated negotiations that took place within all minority communities that responded to state policies."
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Why Go Democratic? Civil Service Reform in Central and Eastern Europe
… adopted in the post-communist Central and Eastern European democracies. While these new democracies underwent a process of civil service reform with the goal of increasing the level of bureaucratic professionalism and efficiency, civil service performance varies greatly in the region. …
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Ethnicity, boundaries, and nationalism in a "European" Croatia
Despite the E.U.'s attempts to create a sense of European homogeneity between its members, issues of nationality and identity continue to play a vital role in both its function and expansion. This research examines the shifting role that the nation plays in Croatia's transition to the European …
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Europeanization of the Estonian Electricity Sector: Historical Legacies and Security Concerns
… the first signs of opposition to supranational European Union (EU) policies. This is because the EU's energy- and climate policy's trinity of policy directions---creation of an internal market, security of supply and environmental sustainability---are problematic in regard to the the case of …
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Eastern Promises: Poland's Role as a Regional Actor in the European Union's Eastern Policy-- the Example of Belarus
… as an effective regional actor in mediating the European Union's (EU) relations with its easternmost neighbors. In order to most accurately assess this, this thesis will examine Poland's relationship with Belarus, specifically democratization efforts and forging a strong, resolute association …
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Solidarity versus Sisterhood: Women's Issues, Feminism and Potential in Poland
… previous historiography on women in Central and Eastern Europe while providing a fresh perspective.
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Belarus's National Narratives and Representation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
In its theoretical framework this thesis relies on the discussion of the existing approaches towards the study of nationalism such as the perennialist, the modernist/constructivist and the ethno-symbolist. The ethno-symbolist approach by Anthony D. Smith, however, is chosen as the most appropriate …
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Houses of History and Homepages: Museums of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe and their Online Presence
… have been appearing all over Central and Eastern Europe, as has the interest in them. Memorabilia sells well and tourists are interested in what life was like behind the Iron Curtain. If these museums show how they present, represent, and deal with the recent past, museum websites also …
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The making of Polish London through everyday life, 1956-1976
The wartime and postwar Polish emigration allows us to study a ‘parallel’ history of the Polish nation. Poles in Great Britain were free from the restrictions imposed on Poles in the homeland by the communist dictatorship; they were thus better able to continue in the intellectual and cultural …
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Legacies of Destruction: Architecture as a Nationalist Battleground in Kosovo
… of violence against religious architecture on European soil since the infamous Kristallnacht riots under Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. This thesis explains this destruction through analysis of the chauvinist nationalist narratives endorsed by both Serbian and Kosovar Albanian leaders and media …
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Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012
… factor in building a national post-Soviet European identity. As a result, the Holocaust in Estonia has played a less substantial role in both scholarship, and public debate, specifically regarding the nature of local participation in the elimination of Jewish life in Estonia. The subject …
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When Ambivalence Kills: The West and InternationalHIV Relief in Post-Socialist Russia
HIV/AIDS has reached epidemic proportions in the Russian Federation. Further, the acquired-immune disorder threatens multiple generations of people. In a country as technologically and economically developed as Russia, why is this infection flourishing? As a whole, this work attempts to answer this …
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The center cannot hold?: Elite mobility and patronage in the North Caucasus during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods
This thesis explores the evolution of elite mobility and patronage in the North Caucasus across the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The North Caucasus is defined as Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, and Stavropol krai. The thesis examines the …
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Cuisine Worlds: Professional Cooking, Public Eating, and the Production of Culture in Contemporary Moscow
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the individuals, groups, and institutions that comprise Moscow's contemporary restaurant industry, this dissertation explores the production and consumption of Moscow's postsocialist culinary culture and landscape. Approaching cuisine as both a social product …
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Party Novelty and Economic Voting: A Comparative Study of the EU Elections 1989-2009
… been explored in many ways. Among those are the studies of economic voting examining to what degree government parties are held accountable for the state of the economy. By now, the studies have incorporated variables that reflect how clear is the chain of responsibility for the economic …
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… between the 1780s and 1850s and promoted European imperialist aims in the Ottoman Empire. For this purpose, it provides an analysis of Ottoman rule on a borderland inhabited by a Christian population and located near two Christian empires, the Habsburg and the Russian, the latter of which …
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Freed by Ideology, Imprisoned by Reality: the Representation of Women in the Cinemas of The Thaw and Perestroika
… second approach is situated in psychoanalytic studies including the theory of “the three orders” pioneered by Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey’s theory of the “three related looks” which explores the woman’s passive role as a sexual object on screen for the male gaze, and Yana Hashamova’s analysis …