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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"St. Petersburg"”.
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Spiritual formation in Russian theological institutions of St. Petersburg
… to be deliberately integrated within theological studies. The topic is much discussed by theological educators in the west. However it is lacking in the Russian Protestant theological literature today. Yet, the meaning and understanding of spirituality and practices of spiritual formation are …
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Reproductive Migrations: Surrogacy workers and stratified reproduction in St Petersburg
… to raise. This thesis explores how commercial gestational surrogacy is culturally framed and socially organised in Russia and investigates the roles of the key actors. In particular it explores the experiences of surrogacy workers, including those who migrate or commute long distances within and …
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A Russian-American collaboration for the St. Petersburg master plan competition
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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City of Stone: The Materiality of St Petersburg in Print, c. 1703-1830
As print culture flourished in St Petersburg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an image emerged of the young capital as an elegant, modern city, dressed in stone. Though there has been much scholarship on this imagery, it has focused on the depiction and organisation of urban space or has …
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Shaping the Dream: A Survey of Post-World War II St. Petersburg, 1946-1963
St. Petersburg stood on the cusp of great change in 1946. Returning veterans sought jobs and housing, and St. Petersburg experienced its first major growth era since the real estate boom of the 1920s. The decade of the 1950s saw the city's population leap from 96,738 to 181,298, an 87 percent …
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Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia: Working-Class Drinking and Taverns in St. Petersburg, 1900--1929
Even before the Bolshevik state came tumbling down in 1991, historians had begun to realize that the dynamics of the Russian revolution might be better understood if they devoted more attention to exploring the importance of 1917. This study contributes to the general reassessment of 1917 by …
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Spheres Of Semi-Legality: Discourse, Media And Informal Economic Practices In St. Petersburg, Russia (2000-Present)
<p>My dissertation project focuses on how the post-Yeltsin (2000 onwards) market economy actually works and how people define, identify and engage within this newly structured market economy. In order to understand this phenomenon my ethnographic study focuses on business in Russia from two …
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The River Neva and the Imperial Facade: Culture and Environment in Nineteenth Century St. Petersburg Russia
… river use in the water network of the city, demonstrating the reasons why the river and waterways of the city reveal social, political, and cultural relationships of groups in the capital. Chapter 2, ""The Mountain Came to Us: St. Petersburg and the Flood of 1824"" serves as a case study of the …
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The river Neva and the imperial façade: Culture and environment in nineteenth century St. Petersburg Russia
My dissertation seeks to understand how the Neva River, the most important artery connecting St. Petersburg to the rest of the Russian Empire and Europe to the west, affected the political and social life of the imperial capital at the beginning of the nineteenth century. I imagine the river Neva …
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West meets East: Giuseppe Sarti's influence on Russian church music - a study of Western influence and surviving Russian traits
… the late eighteenth-century. The object of this study is to determine the extent to which Italian compositional forms affected the developmental course of Russian sacred choral concertos. Scholars generally describe the latter half of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century as the …
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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… of collection and the spaces of cultivation established by herbalists, doctors, and naturalists in the employ of the Apothecary (Medical) Chancellery and the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In doing so it investigates how methods of botanical collection, including specific itineraries, …
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Embodied Performance As Queer Theatre Historiography: Translation, Gender, Identity, and Temporalities in Mikhail Kuzmin's The Dangerous Precaution
… of Art” and “The Tower,” two groups of symbolist artists in St. Petersburg at the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, are often noted for their contributions to queer art in poetry, literature, and the visual arts. However, the theatrical record has yet to acknowledge the significant …
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The Significance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata Op.12
… is to bring forth the significance of Shostakovich's Piano Sonata Op.12. This sonata is a hybrid of the German musical tradition, Russian Modernism, and Liszt's thematic transformation technique. It demonstrates Shostakovich's highly intellectual compositional skills influenced by the …
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Implementing novel inventory controls and weighing the costs and benefits of supplier managed inventory (SMI) in a consolidated manufacturing center
… done in four external sites - Marlborough, MA; St. Petersburg, FL; Towson, MD; and Ft. Wayne, IN - before final specifications are "thrown over the wall" to Largo for production. Because manufacturing is geographically sequestered there are numerous organizational and informational disconnects. …
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Catalyst or crutch? : the role of privatized land in Russian enterprise restructuring
… and multilateral experts as a key component of restructuring efforts aimed at improving the financial health and efficiency of Russian firms. Advisors who formulated and implemented the programs intended to facilitate this process predicted that landowning enterprises would shield themselves from …
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