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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Soviet period"”.
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Entrepreneurship in Russia: patterns and problems of its development in the post-Soviet period
The development of a robust small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector has been widely seen as important to Russia’s socio-economic transformation. This has been clear from state policies and rhetoric that claim to support the development of entrepreneurship and publicly advocate its …
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Literary Dimensions of National Identity: The Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s--1980s)
… genre of historical novel in the post-Stalin period in two Soviet literatures, Russian and Ukrainian. In this comparative study the author analyzes a set of novels by Russian and Ukrainian writers which center on Kievan Rus', medieval Muscovy, and the period of imperial expansion. These texts …
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Lietuvos paveldosaugos idėjiniai modeliai ir jų raiška praktikoje sovietmečiu /
Heritage protection during the Soviet period is a phenomenon which involves the origins of some aspects of contemporary Lithuanian heritage protection. This period itself is evaluated in Lithuanian historiography in a contradictory way: on the one hand, it is proud of the achievements and it …
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Sustainable development and comprehensive capital : The post-Soviet decline of Central Asia
The general post-Soviet decline of the states of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) mirrors specific declines in the robustness of these states' stocks of financial, physical, natural, human, organizational, and social capital assets. This loss of …
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Marriage and fertility change in post-Soviet Tajikistan
… to examine marital and fertility change in post-Soviet Central Asia, with a particular focus on Tajikistan.<br/>The first paper, ‘Through civil war, food scarcity and drought: fertility and nuptiality during periods of crisis in post-Soviet Tajikistan’, presents recent trends in marriage and …
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Ak Jang in the context of Altai religious tradition
… Altai until 1930 when it was eradicated by the Soviet regime. During the period when Ak Jang was still practiced, it was observed by a number of witnesses, some of whom were ethnographers while others were not. Those who investigated Ak Jang, produced a number of diverse and often contradictory …
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Conceptualising morality and moral order: moral transformations in Russia, 1976 to 2021
… moral transformations in Russia from the late Soviet period to the present? In order to answer that question, the study is organised around three themes and contributions. First, the thesis develops a conceptualisation of morality. It undertakes a novel approach to morality based on Durkheim’ …
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Lietuvos bibliofilijos būties ir idėjų raiška sovietmečiu /
… restraints. It reveals how preconditions of the Soviet cultural policy carried out in Lithuania affected the existence of bibliophilia and what was the impact upon its basis – manuscript and printed heritage resources. The conception of bibliophilia developed by the cultural elite throughout the …
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Russian regional elites: continuity and change
… and to the centrifugal developments of the late Soviet period. The contemporary devolution of power is periodised into an initial phase of spontaneous decentralisation and a succeeding one in which issues of decentralisation remain unresolved. This leads to a development of the hypothesis in …
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Residential differentiation in post-soviet Lithuania (on the basis of small area Census data) /
… was low and year 2001 data represents a whole period quiet well. Principal component and cluster analysis methods were used and multiple segregation measurements made in 3 largest Lithuanian cities. Main dimensions of residential differentiation identified: 1) socio-urban status; 2) winners of …
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Rezidencinė diferenciacija Lietuvoje posovietmečiu (gyventojų surašymų duomenų mažose teritorijose pagrindu) /
… stable and year 2001 data represents a whole period quiet well. Principal component and cluster analysis methods were used and multiple segregation measurements made in 3 largest Lithuanian cities. Main dimensions of residential differentiation identified: 1) socio-urban status; 2) winners of …
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Ethno-nationalism of the Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks: A diaspora perspective of their response to change in multiple locations, with a particular emphasis on Turkey
… their Turkishness held and protected in the Soviet period, while also beginning to integrate itself into official Turkish nationalist narratives. Secondly, the view towards their ‘homeland’, ‘Ahiska’, continues to be central to group solidarity, but the group also stresses Ahiska’s Ottoman …
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Religious Conversion and Nenets Bricolage: Making Modernity in the Polar Ural Tundra
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of post-Soviet Evangelical conversion among the Nenets people living in the Polar Ural tundra. In the post-Soviet period new opportunities have been created for cross-cultural interaction, revealing a global religious market place and opening up Siberia to …
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National images in international relations: Putin’s Russia and the West
… States of America. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s images in Western countries underwent significant transformation. Although relatively positive in the early 1990s, they became more negative towards the end of Boris Yel’tsin’s presidency before reaching their negative ‘peak’ …
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Lesbian identities and everyday space in contemporary urban Russia
… on sexuality, gender and morality across the Soviet and post-Soviet period. The thesis also looks at how sexual identities are performed, negotiated and expressed across everyday contexts such as the home, the workplace, and the street. It interrogates women’s strategies of identity …
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Rus oryantalistlerin hadis ve siyer çalışmaları
… of western resources. Years 1850-1950s is a period in which studies on Hadith and the Rules of Muslim Conduct became intense. There have been Orientalists among the Russian orientalists as well, who tried to draw attention to the importance of the Prophet Mohammad?s sayings and Tradition. …
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The encounter with the real and post-Soviet trauma : fantasy construction in Russian popular cinema /
This thesis examines the impact of the Soviet Union's collapse on the Russian Symbolic as represented through popular cinema of the post-Soviet period. The disintegration of the USSR in 1991 became one of the most traumatic experiences for many Russian people. The trauma of the collapse of the …
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Natural Resources Development in the Republic of Sakha: Russia's Diamond Producing Region
… since the I9th century and throughout the entire Soviet period. The current state of Sakha's general economy, the recent changes in the structure of this economy and the performance of the main industries and firms continue to function through the exploitation and export of the region’s natural …
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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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