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History and Identity: Pushkin and the Time of Troubles [PDF]
, 2018 Russian identity is a complicated subject. Discussions usually revolve around the extent to which Russia can be said to be European or not. The poet Alexander Pushkin, since the time of his death, has been a symbol of Russian identity and is seen to have
Stewart, Andrea
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Putin's African gamble, great power politics for a new age [PDF]
A new great game is afoot in Africa. While the United States and our allies have focused on the war in Ukraine and growing tensions in the Indo-Pacific in recent years, Moscow has been sweeping the African continent in a simple yet powerful manner.
Tawil, Kuropatkin Saleem
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On the Distinctiveness of the Russian Novel: The Brothers Karamazov and the English Tradition [PDF]
, 2011 This dissertation takes as its starting point Leo Tolstoy's famous contention that the works of the Russian literary canon represent "deviation[s] from European forms." It is envisioned as a response to (or an elaboration upon) critical works that ...
Lieber, Emma K.
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Becoming an Andegraund Poet: Elena Shvarts and the Literary Environment of the Late Soviet Era [PDF]
, 2021 My dissertation focuses on Elena Shvarts (1948-2010), a Russian-language poet of the “unofficial” culture that flourished alongside state-sponsored arts in the post-war USSR.
Little, Laura
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Problems of the Emergence and Formation of the Russian Historical Novel [PDF]
, 2020 It is known that the historical novel was marked by the appearance in the first half of the XIX century of works by W. Scott, V. Hugo, A. Vigny and other writers who described the past, which resonated with the general public.
Mustafayeva, Parvana
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Freedom from Violence and Lies [PDF]
, 2013 Freedom from Violence and Lies is a collection of forty-one essays by Simon Karlinsky (1924–2009), a prolific and controversial scholar of modern Russian literature, sexual politics, and music who taught in the University of California, Berkeley’s ...
Karlinsky, Simon
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, 2020 "This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris under harsh conditions.
Slobin, Greta
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El caballo de Troya de las distopías juveniles: discurso hegemónico disfrazado de rebelde. [PDF]
, 2021 Este artículo analiza el discurso que subyace a una serie de obras distópicas recientes, dirigidas, principalmente, a un público adolescente y juvenil. Se señala que estas producciones han contribuido a un cierto auge del género distópico en las primeras
Urraco Solanilla, Mariano
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Listener Modeling and Context-aware Music Recommendation Based on Country Archetypes [PDF]
, 2020 Music preferences are strongly shaped by the cultural and socio-economic background of the listener, which is reflected, to a considerable extent, in country-specific music listening profiles. Previous work has already identified several country-specific
Bauer, Christine +5 more
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The Optimal Paper Moebius Band
, 2021 In this paper we prove that a smooth embedded paper Moebius band must have aspect ratio greater than $\sqrt 3$. We also prove that any sequence of smooth embedded paper Moebius bands whose aspect ratio converges to $\sqrt 3$ must converge, up to isometry,
Schwartz, Richard Evan
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