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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Post-Soviet period"”.
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Entrepreneurship in Russia: patterns and problems of its development in the post-Soviet period
The development of a robust small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector has been widely seen as important to Russia’s socio-economic transformation. This has been clear from state policies and rhetoric that claim to support the development of entrepreneurship and publicly advocate its …
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Sustainable development and comprehensive capital : The post-Soviet decline of Central Asia
The general post-Soviet decline of the states of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) mirrors specific declines in the robustness of these states' stocks of financial, physical, natural, human, organizational, and social capital assets. This loss of …
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Ak Jang in the context of Altai religious tradition
… Altai until 1930 when it was eradicated by the Soviet regime. During the period when Ak Jang was still practiced, it was observed by a number of witnesses, some of whom were ethnographers while others were not. Those who investigated Ak Jang, produced a number of diverse and often contradictory …
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Religious Conversion and Nenets Bricolage: Making Modernity in the Polar Ural Tundra
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of post-Soviet Evangelical conversion among the Nenets people living in the Polar Ural tundra. In the post-Soviet period new opportunities have been created for cross-cultural interaction, revealing a global religious market place and opening up Siberia to …
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National images in international relations: Putin’s Russia and the West
… States of America. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s images in Western countries underwent significant transformation. Although relatively positive in the early 1990s, they became more negative towards the end of Boris Yel’tsin’s presidency before reaching their negative ‘peak’ …
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Lesbian identities and everyday space in contemporary urban Russia
… on sexuality, gender and morality across the Soviet and post-Soviet period. The thesis also looks at how sexual identities are performed, negotiated and expressed across everyday contexts such as the home, the workplace, and the street. It interrogates women’s strategies of identity …
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The encounter with the real and post-Soviet trauma : fantasy construction in Russian popular cinema /
This thesis examines the impact of the Soviet Union's collapse on the Russian Symbolic as represented through popular cinema of the post-Soviet period. The disintegration of the USSR in 1991 became one of the most traumatic experiences for many Russian people. The trauma of the collapse of the …
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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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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 …