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Showing 1 to 20 of 982 for “"Soviet"”.
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Lithuanian guerrilla war: Soviet, non-Soviet and diaspora's narratives /
… and cultural forms. Due to the influences of the Soviet policies, instead of the common memory based on common experiences, supported by everyday communication and institutionalised cultural forms, a number of separate narratives emerged, functioning in various geographical and sociocultural …
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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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Telling the Soviet redemption story: Ronald Reagan’s changing Soviet rhetoric
… dissertation examines Ronald Reagan’s changing Soviet rhetoric over the course of his presidency. Specifically, I argue that through the rhetorical analysis of eight of Reagan’s speeches, four from his first term and four from his second, we see how the President told a story of Soviet …
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Crossing Soviet Thresholds: Privacy, Literature, and Politics in Late Soviet Russia
… in particular, were most vocal. The late Soviet era witnessed the dissolution of the ossified ideology of socialist realism that focused on the glorification of the “new Soviet man” and had held culture in its tight grips since the 1930s. Starting from the 1950s, writers increasingly …
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Soviet propaganda : a study of Soviet embassy press releases, 1959-1960.
… Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, controls Soviet propaganda. While propaganda goals vary with time, the general objectives of Soviet propaganda are enduring. These objectives include spreading communist doctrine, making ideological converts, and achieving foreign …
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Soviet foreign trade in the NEP economy and Soviet industrialization strategy.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1969. Ph.D.
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
… themes and motifs in the literature of Soviet Russia between 1920 and 1940. Nineteenth-century Russian literature was characterized by the almost universal assimilation of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs, adapted from the fiction of Western writers such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ann …
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Religious Life in Soviet Russia
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Soviet-Polish relations, 1919-1921
The Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921 was a direct consequence of the ideological objectives pursued by the belligerents. Ideology shaped the political agenda and the diametrically opposed war aims of both states, and was implemented through the foreign policy, diplomatic negotiation and military …
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How Soviet Russia Liberated Women: The Soviet Model in Clara Zetkin's Periodical 'Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale'
… Zetkin was celebrated in both Germany and the Soviet Union before World War II because of her active involvement in the communist movement. She wrote prolifically and preached the virtues of socialism. She concerned herself particularly with women's needs, arguing that women would respond best …
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For the potential of Kierkegaardian analysis in Soviet studies through the study of Soviet film
… philosophy as a tool of analysis in the field of Soviet studies demonstrated through the character analysis of select Soviet films. From Danish, existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s model of faith, presented in his follow-up to Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, I will use the model and its …
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The analysis of Soviet military manpower
… area. Having such a big armed force, the Soviet Union confronts manpower problems which can affect overall military effectiveness. This thesis investigates the qualitative and quantitative problems of Soviet military manpower. It looks at Soviet demography, manpower availability, ethnic …
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Soviet Naval Doctrine: Continuity and Change
This thesis examines Soviet naval doctrine. A summary of pre-Soviet naval doctrine sets the historical context for Soviet naval doctrine. From the outset, and in some continuity with history, the development of Soviet naval doctrine was characterized by offensive land support operations. The next …
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Adult readers in the Soviet Union
… Chapter One provides background information on Soviet policies towards reading and on the changes in Soviet society which have influenced reading habits over the last 30 years. This is followed by a description of the reader surveys used for the research and a discussion of some methodological …
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Soviet-American Relations during the Cold War: What Policies and Circumstances Conspired to Unravel the Soviet Empire?
… superpowers of World War II – America and the Soviet Union – conceived and implemented unilateral foreign policies amid an atmosphere of intense hostility and suspicion of each other’s international intentions. Regardless of Moscow’s acquiescence in joining the United Nations and resolving a …
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