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Chechnya: : A Study of a Post-Soviet Conflict

, 2018
Chechnya, a tiny republic of around 17,000 square kilometers located on thenorthern edges of the Greater Caucasus mountain range, has become a symbol of  post-Soviet turmoil and war.
Schwampe, Jasper,, Souleimanov, Emil Aslan,, Bedford, Sofie,   +2 more
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

“The moon was not Stalinist”. Post-Soviet Memory: Narratives from the Borderland City of Lviv

eSamizdat, 2021
This article examines the post-Soviet as a category of analysis in the study of historical memory and nation-building in the former Soviet Union. Post-soviet memory suggests a continuum in space and time that will be critically addressed through the ...
Elisa Lucente
doaj  

Contact Languages in the Post- Soviet Space: Linguistic and Cultural Dominance

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2012
The article addresses the sociopolitical and linguistic problems in choosing contact languages for communication in the post-Soviet space. The author analyses the factors that determine the status of a contact language and its impact on the choice of ...
E. V. Voevoda
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Marriage and fertility change in post-Soviet Tajikistan

, 2009
This thesis, structured into four separate but related papers, uses survey birth history data to examine marital and fertility change in post-Soviet Central Asia, with a particular focus on Tajikistan.The first paper, ‘Through civil war, food scarcity ...
Clifford, David Michael
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Post-soviet space: background and the results of regionalization [PDF]

, 2011
The article deals with the regionalization of social processes and their specific manifestations in the post-Soviet space. According to the author, regionalization is developing at four levels-international (macroregional), subregional, intraregional and
Kaledin, Nikolai
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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

After Space Utopia: Post-Soviet Russia and Futures in Space

Nordisk Østforum, 2023
Tora Berge Naterstad
doaj   +1 more source

Strategic Partnership of the Post-Soviet Countries (Asian Dimension of the Balancing Partnership)

Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, 2017
An attempt has been made to analyze the implementation of the strategic partnership in a number of countries in the post-Soviet space, including the countries of the Asian region.
Vasyl Ostapiak
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
wiley   +1 more source