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Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the Russian Civil War
Much has been written about Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky. His development of the “Deep Battle” military theory in the late 1920s and 1930s, the attendant mechanisation of the Red Army and his role in the development of the Soviet military/industrial complex have been well-researched. The …
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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony
… the relationship between Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin, especially Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony. This thesis traces the presence of the polyphonic approach in Williams’ work to three main issues: the debate around the nature and future of the Anglican Communion, the debate around the …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
<p>For this project, the author uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
<p>For this project, the author uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of …
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Mikhail Bakhtin's Literary Theory Applied to Selected Plays by Tennessee Williams
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Mikhail Gorbachev and His Role in the Peaceful Solution of the Cold War
… single-case study discovering the personality of Mikhail Gorbachev as a leader and his role in the peaceful solution of the Cold War. It shows how particular social and political-economic backgrounds shaped certain features of his character, and how those features influenced his political …
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The Works of Mikhail A. Bulgakov: A Search for the Ideal Hero (Russia)
… varied and often delightfully comic oeuvre of Mikhail Afanas'evich Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a stern intent: to examine, protest, and ultimately (particularly in his last, most challenging novel, The Master and Margarita), to answer society's many abuses of the individual. In the brutal …
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When the carnival is over : Peter Barnes' Red Noses and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin
… polysenic texts in Red Noses in performance. Mikhail Bakhtin's theories are usually applied to verbal and, in particular, printed texts. Indeed, Bakhtin (1981, p.266) himself has stated that the organisation of languages in drama does not allow for the dialogic interpenetration of one language …
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Embodied Performance As Queer Theatre Historiography: Translation, Gender, Identity, and Temporalities in Mikhail Kuzmin's The Dangerous Precaution
… largely ignoring their queer dramatic writings. Mikhail Kuzmin, a notable contributor in both groups of symbolists, is recognized for having contributed music to Meyerhold and Blok’s <em>The Puppet Show</em> but is less known for his multitude of plays. Seeking to remedy this problem, I examine …
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Soviet religion policy through religious dissidents from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev : a comparative study of Aida Skripnikova and Valeri Barinov.
… in Soviet leadership from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev. By examining Skripnikova's and Barinov's lives and trials, an understanding, and perhaps even a pattern of liberalization, can be seen in the religion policy of the Soviet Union from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.
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Mikhail Bakhtin's Appropriation in the West and a Needed Return to Primary Texts: A Review of Authoritative Criticism and a Return to the Idyllic Chronotope in Jude the Obscure
Mikhail Bakhtin's Appropriation in the West and a Needed Return to Primary Texts: A Review of Criticism and a Return to the Idyllic Chronotope in Jude the Obscure
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The touristic text and sociopolitical struggle: An application of the principles of Mikhail Bakhtin to the study of tour guidebooks of Japan, 1955 to 1991. (Volumes I and II)
"The critical theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and his circle are employed to analyze the texts of selected editions from two series of comprehensive guidebooks to Japan: the Fodor's guidebook series, 1962 through 1990; and the Japan Travel Bureau's Japan, the Official Guide, 1955 through 1991. The …
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From the Pastoral to the Grotesque in Late Russian Realism, 1872-1899
… at a time when, influenced by Mikhail Bakunin's philosophies of destruction, Russian revolutionaries called for the annihilation of tsarist Russia, realist novelists turned to the grotesque mode. Whereas works written by Ivan Turgenev, Sergei Aksakov, Ivan Goncharov, and Tolstoy …
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Master's thesis recital (collaborative piano)
… Sangmoon Lee, tenor ; Said Pressley, baritone ; Mikhail Smigelskii, bass) -- Märchenbilder : op. 113 / Robert Schumann (with Rebecca Lester, viola) -- Sonata for oboe and piano / David Maslanka (with Benjamin Zein, oboe).
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A Carnivalesque Perspective of Graham Swift's Last Orders
… containing carnivalesque elements as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World. Through the examination of Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque and through a corresponding close reading of Last Orders, this article details the carnivalesque nature of the locations visited by the …
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The Songs and Song Cycles of Sergey Prokofiev (1930--1950)
… the romantic nationalist tradition started by Mikhail Glinka. In the folk-song arrangements Op. 104 and duets Op. 106 the imagery deals with the usual universal themes of unrequited love, girls given out in marriage to older men, the pain and sorrow of separation, the lament of an abandoned …
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The Medvedev years : an examination of the external forces & internal dynamics affecting the Kremlin's foreign policy decisions
… to foreign policy issues. The legacies of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are traced from the Soviet democratization during the 1980’s and the constitutional empowerment of the Russian presidency during the 1990’s. These two coexistent forces of empowering the average citizen in a …
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Khovanov Homology on Symmetric Unions of Certain 2-Bridge Knots
… by some invariants. In his 2000 paper, Mikhail Khovanov introduced a powerful new invariant, Khovanov Homology, which gives more information (an entire homology) than some more classic invariants. In this paper, we look at Khovanov Homology's ability to distinguish or classify symmetric …
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As poéticas de Chico Buarque e Gilliard : uma leitura comparativa intertextual
… e Chico Buarque fundamentadas teoricamente em Mikhail Bakhtin. As primeiras partes da pesquisa contem uma introdução à Música Popular Brasileira da qual os poetas e compositores fazem parte. Entre os assuntos abordados teremos o de biografia dos autores, música brega, cultura Popular no Brasil, …
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