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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Soviet history"”.
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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 …
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The Soviet Farm Complex : industrial agriculture in a Socialist context, 1945-1965
"The Soviet Farm Complex" is a history of food, farming and the environment in the postwar Soviet Union. It tells the story of how different technical and institutional authorities created an industrial Soviet countryside in the generation after World War II. Beyond the leadership of the Soviet …
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Hybridizing Sovietness, Modernity, Nationality and Provinciality in Uzbekistan, 1941–1984
… the war evacuees from European regions of the Soviet Union. This topic, just as the problem of postwar social experiences in Uzbekistan in general, is a major lacuna in historiography. Current work suggests a methodological position revising the dominant colonial and totalitarian paradigms. The …
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The Individual after Stalin: Fedor Abramov, Russian Intellectuals, and the Revitalization of Soviet Socialism, 1953-1962
… examines the effort of Russian writers to reform Soviet socialism in the first decade after Joseph Stalin's death. My departure point is the idea that the Soviet experiment was about the creation not only of a new socio-economic system, but also of a New Man. According to the logic of Soviet …
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Sport in Soviet society : development and problems
… important characteristics of social processes in Soviet-type societies -- all the more so because the place of sport is evidently more central in the Soviet social system. This study attempts to show the extent to which the forms of recreation which developed in the USSR have or have not coincided …
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Doloi Negramotnost'. The Literacy Campaign in the RSFSR, 1923-1927
… were its target. By showing what priority the Soviet leadership placed on literacy, I am able to show how a perception of the need for complete literacy reflected the value placed on human capital during this evolutionary period in Soviet history. The dissertation demonstrates how the State …
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Bolshevik voices: radio broadcasting in the Soviet Union, 1917 - 1991
Radio broadcasting has a long and varied history in many industrialized nations yet research into radio in the Soviet Union has been given little attention from scholars. Radio offers the power to unite distant people and reinforce the party agenda yet also leaves the door open to unauthorized …
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Constructed geographies in contemporary art
… Public Works, focuses on the Eurasian region and Soviet history. I have developed a body of work as an artist, filmmaker, and author from 2011 to 2022 and presented them publicly in form of exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and publications. My art works have examined the physical manifestations …
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Russian national security and Central Europe: Russian perspectives and policies
… Central Europe (CE) after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The study focuses on two major aspects of bilateral relations between Russia and four states of Central Europe - Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - militarypolitical and economic. The ties between Russia and the states …
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"""Ukraine without Jews""? Nationality and belonging in Soviet Ukraine, 1943-1948"
… in the newly-liberated Ukraine to reveal how Soviet citizens attempted to articulate, reconstruct, and police the boundaries of their communities following the devastation of war, foreign occupation, and genocide, challenges they shared with millions of other Europeans. Within the context of …
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Physical Culture and the Embodied Soviet Subject, 1921-1939: Surveillance, Aesthetics, Spectatorship
… 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 of ‘physical …
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Georgia: Frozen Conflict and the Role of Displaced Persons
… these themes in the conflict between the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and the separatist region of Abkhazia. In particular it looks at the nature of protracted or "frozen" conflict with particular attention to the role of the displaced community in the conflict's entrenchment. Specifically, …
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ʻIdle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothingʼ: The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine and Their Representation in Cultural Memory
… of the Famine on the Groundʼ, outlines the Soviet policies that led to mass starvation and identifies various groups of people involved in the famine’s facilitation. It offers an analysis of events on village and district level, which reveals previously understudied groups, and employs a …