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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Perestroika"”.
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The Petersburg Text of Russian Cinema in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Eras
… life of the city and its citizens. Films of the perestroika and post-perestroika periods, referred to in this thesis as the 1990s period, have been chosen as empirical material for the research. It emerges that the myth of the city is still exploited in film art during this period. Furthermore, …
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The limits of perestroika
This study examines Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika, or restructuring. The analysis begins by defining the political-economic "structure" (termed "neo-Stalinism") of the Soviet Union. The study evaluates Gorbachev's policies and results. Though the internal reforms to date have r been …
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Natural resource development after Perestroika: Gold and tin mining in the Russian Northeast
… faces great problems functioning in the post-*perestroika* world. These problems include: conflicts between the centre (Moscow) and the region, falling mineral production, difficulties in privatising the mining industry, a recent large emigration of non-Native people, and difficulties in …
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The limits to openness: The impact of glasnost' and perestroika on the Baltic Republics
… as long as their goal remains the support of perestroika, are being allowed to advance previously unacceptable demands including autonomy and nationalism when other republics, for example the Georgian SSR, have been punished for such vocal defiance of central authority.
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Freed by Ideology, Imprisoned by Reality: the Representation of Women in the Cinemas of The Thaw and Perestroika
… of women characters during the Thaw, Perestroika, and the ealy 1990s by identifying and analyzing female types appearing on screen as a result of political, economic, and social changes during the two periods. The given periods were purportedly the two with the most potential for …
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¿Cambiar para seguir igual? la experiencia de la oposición política rusa : del legado de la Perestroika a la democracia soberana
El colapso de la Unión Soviética a inicios de los años noventa del siglo pasado, constituyó para Rusia un punto de partida para su reconfiguración y reestructuración como un país independiente. En este proceso de reconfiguración y reestructuración Rusia ha adoptado diferentes elementos de la …
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The long-delayed repatriation of the Sakhalin Koreans: Cold war challenges and resolutions, 1945-1992
… Korean relations after the introduction of perestroika, glasnost, and nordpolitik in the 1980s.1 1 Perestroika (Russian, “restructuring”) and glasnost (Russian, “openness”) refer to a series of political, economic and social reforms introduced by the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in …
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Soviet Union: New Thinking Or Old Con?
… and potential results. Mikhail Gorbachev's book, Perestroika, is used and examined as the principal source of his statements as to the cause and course of the reforms, intended at that time. These statements are analyzed with the assistance of history, contemporary events, and the views of other …
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Under the Permafrost: Uncovering a Social Movement in the Soviet Union
… activism outside of the political spectrum. Perestroika and Chernobyl were two of the important politically charged factors that gave the environmental movement the lift it needed to function. Official organizations working under the direction of intellectuals and academics worked as a …
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The collapse of the Soviet Union: A study of demokratizatsiia
… control broke down during the latter years of perestroika, culminating with the August 1991 coup and following which a fundamentally new type of regime was introduced in several of the successor states of the former Soviet Union. The underlying cause for the collapse of the regime was loss of …
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Revisiting Eric Nordlinger: The Dynamics of Russian Civil- Military Relations in the Twentieth Century
… the state and armed forces during Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost. The military briefly ventured to a point it never gone before by launching a short coup against the last Soviet president. Chapter five focuses on the last ten years in the Russian Federation. While still a professional …
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‘I used to be subversive, but now I’m gay’: representations of queer identities on the American stage from the postwar to the 1990s
… America (1992) plays, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994), and David Drake’s The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me (1994). My analysis of the selected texts will demonstrate that some of these particular plays represent ‘gay’ male individuals who …
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The Northern Territories dispute between Japan and the Soviet Union: from rivalry to rapprochement
… relations. Presently, Gorbachev’s policy of Perestroika has indicated the possibility of concessions and rapprochement over the islands after forty-five years of consistent deadlock. This new Soviet policy is aimed at improving relations with Japan and moving toward more economic and …
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The strategic use of external threat in the shaping of Russian domestic and foreign policies
… catastrophe, the war in Afghanistan, the Perestroika period and the epoque of Velvet revolutions. The economy simply could not sustain these above mentioned challenges and resulted in the collapse of the USSR. Naturally, this had an immense impact on the people who knew their country as a …
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Banking sector of the Russian Federation : study of the correlation between commodity prices and key safety, soundness and performance indicators
… market economy of today. Twenty years after Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, we find Russian version of "too big to fail" in majority control by the government of about 50% of assets of the banking sector through ownership in country's largest financial institutions. Large …
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It's our country and it's our cathedral : Sajūdis and the Lithuanian Catholic Church.
… Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis, 'Lithuanian Movement for Perestroika', was the popular nationalist movement that led Lithuania toward independence from the Soviet Union on 11 March 1990. In order to gain the Lithuanian people's support, Sajūdis capitalized on the historically close bond between …
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Russia Eternal: Recalling The Imperial Era In Late- And Post-Soviet Literature And Culture
… and that it arose simultaneously with the Perestroika and proceeded to reappear for two decades, though more in a potential, rather than a fully articulated way. I conclude by suggesting that in the wake of the 2011-2012 mass protests, the pre-Soviet past has lost its consensus appeal, …
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It's our country and it's our cathedral : Sajūdis and the Lithuanian Catholic Church.
… Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis, 'Lithuanian Movement for Perestroika', was the popular nationalist movement that led Lithuania toward independence from the Soviet Union on 11 March 1990. In order to gain the Lithuanian people's support, Sajūdis capitalized on the historically close bond between …
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What Is That Song? : Aleksej Balabanov's Brother and Rock as Film Music in Russian Cinema
… part of the musical strategies. Finally, during perestroika underground rock songs are used as the main idiom and rock gains new connotations of the intelligentsia and the avant-garde, but the songs are still mainly connected to realistic motivation. Brother differs from its predecessors as it …
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