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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"Petersburg"”.
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Spiritual formation in Russian theological institutions of St. Petersburg
… collected at five theological institutions in St Petersburg confirmed that appropriate spiritual formation in theological institutions is usually left to chance – it is conducted implicitly, and not in a very conscious and systematic manner and usually on a personal basis. It appears that strongly …
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The first battles for Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864
… against the vital Confederate rail center of Petersburg, Virginia. Union leaders believed that capturing Petersburg would force the abandonment of the Rebel capital at Richmond. The assaults failed, however, and the opposing armies settled into a ten-month siege.This study investigated the …
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Reproductive Migrations: Surrogacy workers and stratified reproduction in St Petersburg
… Ethnographic fieldwork was carried out in St Petersburg between August 2014 and May 2015 and involved semi-structured interviews, (participant) observations, informal conversations and ethnographic fieldnotes with 33 surrogacy workers, 7 client parents, 15 agency staff and 11 medical staff in …
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On the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy and Literature: Andrey Bely's "Petersburg"
… discoveries to Andrey Bely's Modernist novel, Petersburg, which reflects both his thorough knowledge of science and his desire to find a solution to the cultural crisis of his era. I discuss his novel in the view of his geometrical model of universal and human evolution, which he described in …
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A Russian-American collaboration for the St. Petersburg master plan competition
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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The Petersburg Text of Russian Cinema in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Eras
… thesis has two points of departure: firstly the Petersburg myth, which is here defined as reversible or ambiguous since it includes both an eschatological and a cosmogonic aspect; and secondly, the Petersburg literary text as defined in works by Vladimir Toporov. During the twentieth century, the …
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Education for All: The Freedmen's Bureau Schools in Richmond and Petersburg, 1865 - 1870
… missionaries converged on Richmond and Petersburg determined that education was essential if blacks were to achieve true freedom and become self-reliant and independent. While the Bureau devoted much of its energy towards establishing schools for the freedpeople, Manly and northern …
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City of Stone: The Materiality of St Petersburg in Print, c. 1703-1830
As print culture flourished in St Petersburg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an image emerged of the young capital as an elegant, modern city, dressed in stone. Though there has been much scholarship on this imagery, it has focused on the depiction and organisation of urban space or has …
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"Where Youth and Laughter Go:" Trench Warfare from petersburg to the Western Front
… First World War, but it was during the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War that extensive trenches were first used with technologically advanced weapons. By comparing the siege of Petersburg with the Western Front, it is clear that similar conditions elicited similar emotional reactions …
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Shaping the Dream: A Survey of Post-World War II St. Petersburg, 1946-1963
St. Petersburg stood on the cusp of great change in 1946. Returning veterans sought jobs and housing, and St. Petersburg experienced its first major growth era since the real estate boom of the 1920s. The decade of the 1950s saw the city's population leap from 96,738 to 181,298, an 87 percent …
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Ideen zur posttransformativen Stadtentwicklung : untersucht am Diskurs über das Ochta-Zentrum in Sankt Petersburg (Russland)
… am Rande der historischen Innenstadt Sankt Petersburgs errichtet werden sollte. In der Hochphase der Diskussion beschäftigte das Projekt nicht nur die Stadtbevölkerung, sondern auch die Führungsriege der Russischen Föderation und die UNESCO. Die Analyse des Diskurses über das Ochta-Zentrum …
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Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia: Working-Class Drinking and Taverns in St. Petersburg, 1900--1929
Even before the Bolshevik state came tumbling down in 1991, historians had begun to realize that the dynamics of the Russian revolution might be better understood if they devoted more attention to exploring the importance of 1917. This study contributes to the general reassessment of 1917 by …
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Spheres Of Semi-Legality: Discourse, Media And Informal Economic Practices In St. Petersburg, Russia (2000-Present)
… <p>During my recent fieldwork in St. Petersburg, Russia (2010-2011) I used a variety of different methods to obtain this information; observation at a business organization, attendance at business lectures and seminars, interviews with Russian entrepreneurs, Russian business lawyers, …
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The River Neva and the Imperial Facade: Culture and Environment in Nineteenth Century St. Petersburg Russia
… Chapter 2, ""The Mountain Came to Us: St. Petersburg and the Flood of 1824"" serves as a case study of the November 7, 1824 flood that became seared in the memory of Petersburgers. The chapter considers not only the tumultuous events of that day, but the aftermath in which the government …
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The river Neva and the imperial façade: Culture and environment in nineteenth century St. Petersburg Russia
… River, the most important artery connecting St. Petersburg to the rest of the Russian Empire and Europe to the west, affected the political and social life of the imperial capital at the beginning of the nineteenth century. I imagine the river Neva as the lifeblood of an imperial capital, a river …
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A study of the sands of Virginia
… State of Virginia comes from a sand deposit at Petersburg, Virginia. (By building sand it is to be understood that we mean sand used in concrete building construction). During this investigation of different sands, it has been found hard to produce a sand that will absolutely satisfy A. S. T. M. …
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