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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Slavic Studies"”.
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Hunger & Fury: The Political in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This text is an attempt to (re)approach the process of political and social transfor-mation in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) over the past century and a half through the prism of popular agency. The primary research question of this dissertation asks why given nearly uniformly catastrophic social …
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European Union Accession and the Future of Croatian Language Policy
This paper examines the past and present of Croatian language policy and advances expectations for the future of said policy. I first provide background on the present state of language policy in Croatia, namely how Croatian language policy has been formulated with the intention of widening the …
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The Sacred in the Profane: Understanding Andy Warhol's Relationship with the Visual Image
For Andy Warhol (1928-1987), images meant for commercial advertisement, tabloid publication, and entertainment were not merely meaningless reflections of a commodity and media-obsessed world -- they were sacred. In 1986, the Pop artist based the last major series of his career on a reproduction of …
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Sculpting in Time. Between Meaning and Information
Employing an auto-ethnographic perspective and non-linear notions of time, "Sculpting in Time" identifies erosions of meaning and agency under techno-capitalism and explores the implications of their disappearance for the democratic ideal. The theoretical framework of this research-creation …
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Pacts and Pretenses, Competition and Cooperation: What Is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
As the international community continues to discuss the United States’ declining influence in world politics and the rise of developing countries, several new regional organizations and international regimes have emerged as alternatives to the Western structure. Among these relatively new …
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Russia’s 2012 Concept of Migration Policy:Are Chinese immigrants a solution to the Russian Far East’s demographic problems?
Russia is currently facing numerous demographic problems, which are leading to a declining and aging population. In particular, the Far East faces a demographic crisis due to the low birth rate, high death rate, and westward internal migration. In response to these demographic problems President …
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When a Pound Weighed a Ton: The Cotton Scandal and Uzbek National Consciousness
During the reign of Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Soviet Union, corruption was hardly uncommon. Even by the standards of the era, the web of illegal activity that developed in the Uzbek S.S.R. was astonishing. Sharaf Rashidov was the man largely held as responsible for bringing about …
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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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The Semantics of Russian 'About' Prepositions: A Corpus-Based Study
This study examines, for the purpose of comparison, the semantic content of several important prepositions in modern Russian which translate ‘about, concerning’. It focuses primarily on the two primary prepositions o+LOC and pro, and includes the two secondary prepositions nas¿¿et and po povodu, …
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Countering Foundational Myths and Cultural Beliefs: The Reportage of Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who reported for Novaya Gazeta about the Second Chechen War and the Chechen civilians who suffered as a result, was assassinated at her Moscow apartment building on October 7, 2006. While the Western world mourned the death of this reporter and publicist who …
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Under the Permafrost: Uncovering a Social Movement in the Soviet Union
Despite the wealth of information on the advent of environmentalism on the Soviet Union less is known about the social aspect of its development. This thesis examines the social aspect of environmentalism through a look at public responses to massive degradation. The instances of intense ecological …
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In the Shadow of the Horseman: The Petrine Era and the Search for Russian Nationhood, 1811-1941
A new take on the development and nature of Russian nationhood through an analysis of Petrine historiography from the earlier nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century. The thesis specifically attempts to develop a connection between imperial and Stalinist discourses concerning Russian …
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Freed by Ideology, Imprisoned by Reality: the Representation of Women in the Cinemas of The Thaw and Perestroika
… second approach is situated in psychoanalytic studies including the theory of “the three orders” pioneered by Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey’s theory of the “three related looks” which explores the woman’s passive role as a sexual object on screen for the male gaze, and Yana Hashamova’s analysis …
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Making Do for the Masses: Imperial Debris and a New Russian Constructivism
Russian Constructivist artists rejected the “elitist” medium of painting and instead set about redesigning the objects of everyday life under socialism in a devastated and “closed” economy. This dissertation expands the conventional art historical narrative by arguing that Constructivism adapted, …
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Aside from the norm: artistic sexual/gender dissent and nonnormative formations in Ukraine.
This thesis is an interdisciplinary contribution to the historical and cultural sociology of (nonnormative) sexuality and gender in Ukraine. It engages with figures and collectives situated what I describe as ‘aside from the norm’ in terms of their transgression of the gender/sex system, and in the …
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Voices of the War in Donbas: Exploring Identities in the Affected Communities Through the Prism of War Songs
This thesis examines identity work in the ongoing war in the Donbas region of Ukraine. It takes as its object of study a corpus of songs about the conflict representative of the key political and military actors involved: Ukraine, Russia and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s …