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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"Post soviet"”.
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Marriage and fertility change in post-Soviet Tajikistan
… data to examine marital and fertility change in post-Soviet Central Asia, with a particular focus on Tajikistan.<br/>The first paper, ‘Through civil war, food scarcity and drought: fertility and nuptiality during periods of crisis in post-Soviet Tajikistan’, presents recent trends in marriage and …
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U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: a Post-Soviet Reappraisal
The collapse of the Soviet Union and accompanying changes in security affairs have not ameliorated the fundamental problems of international affairs, one of which is international interest in the acquisition of nuclear weapons. Both Russia and China, among others, maintain and continue to modernize …
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Political socialization of youth in post-soviet states
… and international politics. Utilizing post-Soviet Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine as theoretical model, this study discusses the expediency of political socialization framework in identifying nation-building techniques. Examination and comparison of youth political socialization …
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Post-Soviet ethnic politics and public goods provision
… across ethnic groups in the states of the former Soviet Union? In this dissertation, I seek to demonstrate how the unique pattern of nation-state formation in the former Soviet states interacts with other institutional legacies in a manner that differentiates it from other regions. Rather than the …
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Sites of memory: Soviet myths in post-Soviet culture
Do we treat 1990s as a gap, a rupture between the Soviet past and the post-Soviet present? Post-Soviet film and fiction certainly stage the break up of the Soviet Union and the end of Soviet rule in this way. Post-Soviet culture has left behind a certain set of Soviet cultural myths: the conquest …
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Conceptualizing Regional International Societies: Examining the Post-Soviet Space
… scholars have demonstrated the existence of a post-Soviet regional international society. However, what is lacking is a clear defining of the members and institutions of this society. This paper gives particular attention to three questions: who are the actors, what are the primary and …
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Post-Soviet women writers and the national imaginary, 1989-2009
This project is a case study of how post-Soviet women writers have attempted to renegotiate women's (and women writers') traditional roles in and vis-à-vis their newly independent postcommunist nations through fiction that engages the questions of gender and national identity in the post-Soviet …
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Music and entertainment in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: ideology and legacy
“Music and Entertainment in Post-Soviet Kazakhstani Holidays: Ideology and Legacy” My dissertation examines the interplay between ideology and entertainment as reflected in the holiday cycle of post-Soviet Kazakhstan. During a two-year ethnographic study of holiday celebrations and expressive …
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THE IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN POST-SOVIET SOCIETIES
… of globalisation on national identities in post-Soviet societies. Contrary to previous scholarship studying identity narratives enhanced and produced by political and economic elites within the space of the former USSR, this thesis focuses its analysis on how the wider public’s perception of …
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Understanding trans-border career trajectories: Post-Soviet women professionals in London
… focuses on women professionals originating from post-Soviet Eurasia and settling in the UK. In-depth interviews have been conducted with thirty five women working in London. The participants moved to the UK between 1991 and 2011 from Belorussia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. They are …
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Dictators and democracy: reflective journalistic practice in covering post-Soviet Russia
… Reflective Journalistic Practice in Covering Post-Soviet Russia’ examines the evolving landscape of journalism in and about Russia, and my journalistic work within it. It focuses on two pivotal periods: the years immediately surrounding the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 - and slightly …
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Islamic factors in the socio-political life of post-Soviet Russia.
For Russia, religion is one factor that fostered its formation and assisted in the development of all facets of its culture. A current analysis of the relations between the Russian state and Islam is, therefore, the foundation of this study. The changes that took place in the religious and cultural …
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SOCIAL MEDIA IN POST-SOVIET SPACE: SERVING TO AUTOCRACY OR SIMULATING DISSENT?
… of my studies concentrates on countries of the post-soviet region: Belarus, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine. I argue that autocratic powers tend to be more efficient in the informational dimension: advance pro-goverment content even on platforms with more regime-hostile users and strategically …
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Reforming higher education in a post-Soviet context: The case of Armenia
Contains fulltext : 89934.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Prison Space, Social Control and Relationships in a Post-Soviet Women’s Prison
… which has emerged after the breakdown of the Soviet project in Latvia, and in particular its effect on penality and women’s imprisonment. This rupture has been conceptualized as a ‘clash of the titans’, which is the ongoing struggle between a Soviet legacy that refuses to die and an …
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Survival of a Perverse Nation: Sexuality and Kinship in Post-Soviet Armenia
… into the figure of the “homosexual.” As in other post-Soviet republics, homosexuality has increasingly become defined as the crisis of the times, and is understood by many as a destructive force linked to European encroachment. In Armenia, a growing right-wing nationalist movement since 2012 has …
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Dual-Use Science and Bioethics: Governance of Biotechnology in Post-Soviet Russia
… governance challenge. The legacy of the Soviet Union is particularly important in this regard, since its history of prolonged authoritarian rule and intense development of biological weapons in combination with the continuing scientific and technological prowess of Russia is a governance …
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Health promotion in the field of substance misuse in post-Soviet Russia
… is an investigation into health promotion in post-Soviet Russia in the field of substance misuse defined as the problematic and chaotic as well as recreational use of alcohol, solvents and both prescription and illicit drugs. The thesis outlines and analyses developments in the provision of …
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