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Socio-spatial differentiation in transition: a preliminary comparative analysis of post-soviet St Petersburg and Riga

Baltic Region, 2020
Research into the socio-spatial dynamics in Central-Eastern European cities is an im-portant area of contemporary transition studies. Open issues in this domain range from defining a theoretical framework to data availability and methodological ...
Zhitin D. V. , Sechi G. , Krisjane Z. , Berzins M.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The feminization of agriculture in post-Soviet Tajikistan

, 2018
In this paper we aim to analyse economic and social transition factors affecting the agricultural labor force and to understand the feminization phenomenon in rural Tajikistan.
Nozilakhon Mukhamedova, K. Wegerich
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effect of rapid privatisation on mortality in mono-industrial towns in post-Soviet Russia: a retrospective cohort study

Lancet Public Health, 2017
Summary Background Population-level data suggest that economic disruptions in the early 1990s increased working-age male mortality in post-Soviet countries.
A. Azarova, D. Irdam, A. Gugushvili, Mihály Fazekas, G. Scheiring, P. Horvat, D. Stefler, Irina Kolesnikova, V. Popov, I. Szelenyi, D. Stuckler, M. Marmot, M. Murphy, M. Mckee, M. Bobák, L. King   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

Ristrutturazione del settore finanziario: qualche riflessione sull'Europa centrale e orientale

Moneta e Credito, 2013
The transformation that has affected the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as a result of "perestroika" has all the characteristics of a revolution - political, economic, social and cultural.
M. SARCINELLI
doaj   +1 more source

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

‘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

From the Concept of Friendship of Peoples and Socialist Democracy to the Emergence of Multiculturalism: Latvia’s Path (1991–2004)

Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia
The article explores the concepts of multiculturalism and democracy in the educational context of Latvia and provides a brief historical overview of the background and evolution of these ideas.
Olga Astratova, Karīna Spridzāne, Zanda Rubene   +2 more
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Patterns and Determinants of Post-Soviet Cropland Abandonment in the Western Siberian Grain Belt

Remote Sensing, 2018
The transition from a command to a market economy resulted in widespread cropland abandonment across the former Soviet Union during the 1990s. Spatial patterns and determinants of abandonment are comparatively well understood for European Russia, but ...
Ho Nguyen, N. Hölzel, A. Völker, Johannes Kamp   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source