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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Soviet era"”.
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“Renovating” Moscow’s Soviet-era Standardised Housing: The Creation and Destruction of Anachronistic Space
… municipality announced the demolition of several thousand Soviet-era, standardised flats (*khrushchevki*). Known as the Renovation, the project promised to replace the *khrushchevki* with new residential districts. The municipality justifies the Renovation by claiming that the *khrushchevki* …
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Sovereign Debt and the New Global Economy: An analysis of Russian and Polish debt treatments in the post-Soviet era
Critics have alleged that the process of negotiating sovereign debt relief is unduly politicized and favors a global capitalist elite over national and democratic interests. This study evaluates the legitimacy of these criticisms by analyzing the cases of Russia and Poland in the six year period …
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The Independent Turn in Soviet-Era Russian Poetry: How Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman and Evgeny Rein Became the 'Avvakumites' of Leningrad
The first post-World War II generation of Soviet Russian writers was faced with a crisis of language even more pervasive and serious than the "Crisis of Symbolism" at the beginning of the 20th century: the level of abstraction and formulaic speech used in public venues had become such that words …
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Kolektyvinio sodo fenomeno urbanistinis ir sociokultūrinis aspektai. Sovietinės Lietuvos atvejis /
… artistic environment and everyday life of the Soviet era by focusing on collective gardens as a little-studied aspect of Lithuanian urban space and culture. The thesis hypothesises that the mass spread of collective gardening in Lithuania formed a phenomenon similar to the so-called "kitchen …
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Urban and socio-cultural aspects of the collective garden phenomenon. The case of Soviet Lithuania /
… artistic environment and everyday life of the Soviet era by focusing on collective gardens as a little-studied aspect of Lithuanian urban space and culture. The thesis hypothesises that the mass spread of collective gardening in Lithuania formed a phenomenon similar to the so-called "kitchen …
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Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn
… by blending premigration symbolism from the Soviet era with adaptations to American society. This study demonstrates that in the post-Soviet era, Victory Day remains an important yet contentious holiday commemorating the end of fascism and World War II. My methodology includes the use of …
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Neopatrimonialism and Regime Endurance in Transnistria
… structures have been manipulated by Soviet-era elites to sustain the unrecognized separatist state's independence. The thesis also argues that neopatrimonialism is not a stable structure and its effectiveness in retaining support for the regime has changed over time. The paper …
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Margarita as Supernatural Woman: Bulgakov's Subversion of the Superfluous Man in The Master and Margarita
… 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 critiques Bulgakov's character Margarita through a …
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Environmental Quality and Economic Development
… which pollution is treated as an externality generated in the production sector and affecting the consumption sector. I consider the transitional dynamics and the steady state of not only the typical nations that start their development with a small stock of capital and a large stock of the …
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Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense: an Overview of Major Programs and Issues of the Abm Debate Over the Past Forty-Five Years
… in the face of the Cold War, and now the post-Soviet era. The debate over ballistic missile defense within the United States is unprecedented in its scope and time span. Unlike various other U.S. weapons programs, the debate over anti-ballistic missile defense has a special quality to it. The …
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The Dissolution of Multi-Ethnic Empires and Post-Imperial Inter-Ethnic Relations: The Case of the Soviet Union
… that the relationship between the Russian Federation and the fourteen non-Russian successor states is unequal, with the Russian Federation as the dominant power. It resurrects the old-time construct of the empire as a specific type of political system different from that of the modern state in …
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Crossing Soviet Thresholds: Privacy, Literature, and Politics in Late Soviet Russia
My dissertation examines literary mythologies of privacy in the authoritarian Russia of 1953–1985. This era was marked by an expansion of “non-state spheres,” or areas of life of which the Communist state increasingly released its control after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953. Political elites, …
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Women of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Historical legacies impacting contemporary involvement
… the development of the status of women in post-Soviet Central Asia. The research shows that women in Kyrgyzstan are more actively pursuing opportunities to contribute to civil society than what is found in Tajikistan, where the pressures for women to return to more traditional roles has resulted …
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Gender equality in building a democratic society for a sustainable future in Tajikistan
… on the contributions of women during the Soviet Era and after its collapse, focusing on how the unequal treatment of women was and is a barrier to the achievement of democracy, which is the core of sustainability in any given society. This study uses feminist and critical theories …
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The center cannot hold?: Elite mobility and patronage in the North Caucasus during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods
… and patronage in the North Caucasus across the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The North Caucasus is defined as Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, and Stavropol krai. The thesis examines the career mobility and patronage relationships of …
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Print, power and personhood: Newspapers and ethnic identity in East Siberia
… in the regions concerned, and for the Russian Federation’s central government. As the first chapter describes, Sovietera policy towards the Soviet Union’s non-Russian peoples brought about a massive cultural change, in the process generating a new awareness of nonRussian ethnic identity. Current …
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Assessing changing relations between the Russian Federation and South Africa
… that the ideals and beliefs of the Russian Federation as a great power have not disappeared with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The West seeks to set the terms of Russia's engagement in international relations, but Russia is certain about its belief in taking its rightful place in global …
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De oeconomia ex natione: An Examination of the Role of Nationalism in Estonia's Transition from Socialism to Capitalism
… Estonia's transition to capitalism in the post-Soviet era and the way it continues to impact the Estonian economy. I hypothesize that nationalism was the key factor in this transition and that nationalism has placed a disproportionate economic burden on the resident ethnic Russians. First, I …
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Monitoring under the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement : the prospects of antineutrino detection as an IAEA verification metric for the disposition of weapons-grade plutonium in the United States
… subsided after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world faced a potentially more dangerous prospect: the proliferation risks associated with the insecurity and unauthorized acquisition of Soviet-era nuclear warheads. Although all Soviet-era weapons were eventually acquired …
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