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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Soviet culture"”.
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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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The Carmen-Suite: Maya Plisetskaya Challenging Soviet Culture and Policy
… The production was immediately banned by the Soviet Ministry of Culture for perceived violations of classical ballet canons. In a unique case of artistic resistance within the Soviet system of production, Plisetskaya negotiated the ballet?s return to the stage. Following the initial scandal, …
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Soviet culture and cultural exchange in Mexico during the Cold War
… between Mexican intellectuals and the Soviet Union through the lens of editorial practices in the aftermath of World War II (1944-1958). It focuses on the role of the Mexican journals Cultura Soviética (1944-1955) and Intercambio Cultural (1955-1958) in the cultural context of the first …
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The Soviet Empire of Signs: A Social and Intellectual History of the Tartu School of Semiotics
… myths, as well as patterns of elite struggles in Soviet academia and society. Beyond having purely historical significance, the findings of this dissertation have implications for understanding post-Soviet culture and politics of science and intellectual elites. By adopting a ""symmetrical"" …
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Technologies of gender: Soviet literature and film in the 1920s and 1930s
My dissertation, “Technologies of Gender: Soviet Literature and Film in the 1920s and 1930s,” examines the vital role technology and machines – both actual and imagined – play in defining the ‘new Soviet man’ and ‘new Soviet woman’ in early Soviet culture. As I argue in my dissertation, the period …
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Modernizing Russia in the Aeronautical Age: Technology, Legitimacy, and the Structures of Air-Mindedness, 1909-1939
… the essential characteristics of Imperial and Soviet aeronautical culture, the dissertation offers new insight into the nature and direction of Russian society, culture, and politics in the years surrounding 1917. Through documentation of the interactive efforts of Imperial state officials and …
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Stepping over the threshold of time: The Brezhnev era and the rise of the heritage temporality (1964-1982)
… its case study the example of the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union, the study examines the relationship between changing notions of time and the rise of a sensibility for heritage preservation in the Soviet 1960s to 1980s. The thesis offers a historical discourse analysis based on visitor guidebooks …
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Masculinities in the Motherland: Gender and Authority in the Soviet Union During the Cold War, 1945--1968
… from the premise that World War II changed Soviet ideas about manhood. The Soviet Union lost twenty-seven million combatants and civilians in World War II -- twenty million of whom were men. Delineating, performing, negotiating, and resisting a variety of cultural ideas about manliness …
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POSTTRAUMATIC CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN TRAUMA-CENTERED IDENTITY AND SELF-CONSISTENCY
… Posttraumatic changes to identity vary across cultures. Trauma-centred identity has been found to be positively associated with PTSD symptoms in individualistic cultures, but not in collectivistic cultures. Cultural differences have also been observed in levels of self-consistency. …
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Shklovsky in the Cinema, 1926-1932
… ambivalent engagement with post-revolutionary culture and cinema’s rise as an artistic medium and instrument of Russian cultural development. By examining Viktor Shklovsky’s earliest activities in the Soviet film industry, this project will explore how narrative, aesthetic, and ideological …
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Following The Black Square: The Cosmic, The Nostalgic & The Transformative In Russian Avant-Garde Museology
… harnessed at this particular juncture in post-Soviet culture. The ‘avant-garde’ museological tenets shared by Zhilyaev and his earlier Russian predecessors (most significantly Nikolai Fyodorov, b. 1829, Kazimir Malevich, b. 1878, and Aleksey Fedorov-Davydov, b. 1900) incorporate the three …
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The Materiality of Language and Body in Vladimir Sorokin's Twentieth-Century Works
… Sorokin (b. 1955) produced during the late Soviet period and the 1990s. It compares Sorokin’s twentieth-century works with contemporaneous texts and performances by poets, artists and performance groups of Moscow Conceptualist circles in which Sorokin participated actively from the beginning …
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NAVIGATING ‘NATIONAL FORM’ AND ‘SOCIALIST CONTENT’ IN THE GREAT LEADER’S HOMELAND: GEORGIAN PAINTING AND NATIONAL POLITICS UNDER STALIN, 1921-39
… national politics in the first two decades of Soviet power in Georgia, 1921-1939, focussing in particular on the period following the consolidation of Stalin’s power at the helm of the Communist Party in 1926-7. In the Stalin era, Georgians enjoyed special status among Soviet nations thanks to …
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The Rise of Insider Iconography: Visions of Soviet Turkmenia in Russian-Language Literature and Film, 1921-1935
… film and literature in the early Soviet period. By analyzing the work of writers and filmmakers as well as the ideological and artistic constraints that they faced, I explore not only depictions of these spaces, but also the biographies of several of their key depicters, delving …
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Soundtracking Sovietness: Daily life, labor, and the power of song in Russia, 1920-1980
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Physical Culture and the Embodied Soviet Subject, 1921-1939: Surveillance, Aesthetics, Spectatorship
My thesis examines visual and written culture of the interwar Soviet Union dealing with the body as an object of public observation, appreciation, and critique. It explores how the need to construct new Soviet subjectivities was realised through the figure of the body. I explore the representation …