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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Russian History"”.
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Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting
'Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting' examines the changing iconography of Petr I (1672-1725) in nineteenth-century Russian painting, and its relationship with Petr's symbolic role in the cultural debate between the Westernisers and the Slavophiles over the interpretation of the …
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The Feminine Eros as the motive force of Russian history: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s intertextual dialogue with Marina Tsvetaeva
… to that end. In Solzhenitsyn, World War I, the Russian revolution of 1917, and the Stalinist tyranny of the 1930s-1950s are treated as catastrophes not only for the country as a whole or particular social and cultural strata, but more specifically, for women in a variety of life and personal …
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Margarita as Supernatural Woman: Bulgakov's Subversion of the Superfluous Man in The Master and Margarita
… definitions of the superfluous man through Russian history through the 19th century up until the Soviet era. The paper then examines Mikhail Bulgakov's subversion of the character trope in <em>The Master and Margarita</em> through his creation of Margarita, the supernatural woman. The author …
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Nobody's Fool: A Study of the Yrodivy in Boris Godunov
… the opera. The use of a fool is significant in Russian history and this connection is made between the opera and other arts of nineteenth-century Russia. These changes are, musically, rather small, but historically and socially, significant. The importance of the people as a functioning …
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The Role of Inflation in Soviet History: Prices, Living Standards, and Political Change
… living standards, and political change in Soviet/Russian history. It traces the establishment and evolution of the Soviet monetary system, inflationary episodes, and their consequences. The goal of this study is to show how inflation affects the lives of ordinary people and how it has contributed …
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Marriage and Brotherhood in Muscovite Russia
… ‘traditional’ gender roles are intrinsic to Russian history. Frequently, this idea is upheld in scholarship. My work explores the historicity of commonly held assumptions about gender. This dissertation focusses on gender and sexuality in Russia from the sixteenth to early eighteenth …
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From public person to private prisoner: the changing place of women in medieval Russia
<p>The history of women is inseparable from the rest of the human experience. It is, therefore, only to be expected that their role in pre-Petrine Russia was the result of events and forces which originated in and acted upon the whole society. Between the decline of the Kievan Rus unity and the …
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Nicolas Berdyaev: An Intellectual Journey
… the historic events that changed the course of Russian history. He lived through them and wrote about them for his entire adult life. Berdyaev not only pondered the agony of Russia's past, but he contemplated the possibilities of Russia's future.</p> <p>Berdyaev was a deeply Russian thinker, and …
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Performing the national past: history on stage in imperial Russia
… closely examines 18th- and 19th-century Russian historical dramas set in the Time of Troubles, which was the era of dynastic crisis and the first civil war in Russian history during 1598-1613. The project demonstrates that this subgenre was essential for the development of modern theatre …
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Truth-telling and mythmaking in post-Soviet Russia : pernicious historical ideas, mass education, and interstate conflict
Can pernicious views about history exacerbate conflict among states, and if so, how? How can we prevent such ideas from emerging, or dampen their more malevolent effects? Despite a long history of scholarly writing on nationalism that assumes that distorted, mythologized history can be dangerous, …
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Rescaling space, recapturing power : the role of Russia's Federal Districts in Putin's recentralizing project
In the course of Russia's history-as an imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet state-the central government has repeatedly used spatial interventions, such as the manipulation of internal borders, to strengthen control over its vast and unwieldy territory. The most recent spatial reconfiguration took …
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My Cherished Enemy: The Construction of Identity and Otherness in Russia
As of 2018 the Russian Federation is home to 185 registered ethnic groups, ranging in size from 5.3 million of the Volga Tatars to the merely 64 people of the Votes. Many of them are adherents to religions other than Orthodoxy with Muslims, Jews and Catholics being the most numerous – Muslims alone …
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Eurasianist Trends in Russian Foreign Policy: A Critical Analysis
… Eurasianist doctrine currently informing Russian foreign policy. It first presents the historical evolution of Eurasianism, its most recent incarnation present in contemporary Russia, and later seeks to explicate its development. The emergence of this particular doctrine was the result of …
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Russian Internet Censorship and Its Future Perspectives in Comparative Context
… an analysis of the contemporary state of the Russian internet in regards to both the freedom of information within it and the government's influence over it. This project also examines the potential state of that situation in the coming years. Public statements, government actions, and media …
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Russian-Moldovan Relations after the Collapse of the Soviet Union
… that the greatest challenge would be to limit Russian influences on the domestic and foreign policy of the country. Since the Russian Federation, the principal successor state of the Soviet Union, considered Moldova to be of the highest strategic importance it wanted to ensure that Moldova …
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Russian blue: The production of queer identity in 1990s Russia
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Writing the Name: Sergii Bulgakov and the Discipline of Speculation
… thesis is a critical exposition of the work of Russian philosopher-theologian Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944). It provides a much-needed account of his work that illuminates his centrality within twentieth-century Russian philosophy of language, and reveals his capacity to revitalise conversations …
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Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012
… Soviet past has both dominated the politics of history in Estonia and been a key determining factor in building a national post-Soviet European identity. As a result, the Holocaust in Estonia has played a less substantial role in both scholarship, and public debate, specifically regarding the …
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The river Neva and the imperial façade: Culture and environment in nineteenth century St. Petersburg Russia
… 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 city in which I will examine …
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When Ambivalence Kills: The West and InternationalHIV Relief in Post-Socialist Russia
HIV/AIDS has reached epidemic proportions in the Russian Federation. Further, the acquired-immune disorder threatens multiple generations of people. In a country as technologically and economically developed as Russia, why is this infection flourishing? As a whole, this work attempts to answer this …
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