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A magnificent gift: Jan Patocka and Vaclav Havel on dissident sacrifice [PDF]

, 2017
The paper compares and contrasts Jan Patočka and Vaclav Havel's respective thoughts on dissent. Using Aristotle's thoughts on the magnanimous man as a sounding board, the paper argues with Patočka that dissent is best undertaken as a gift to a community ...
Brennan, Daniel
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Writers' Bloc: reading into late Soviet experience through Latvian artists' books. [PDF]

, 2008
Previously in the University eprints HAIRST pilot service at http://eprints.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/00000364/Article 1 of 6 in an issue devoted to Scandinavian and Baltic visual cultureThis article focuses on book works by Latvian artists during the ...
Svede, Mark Allen.
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Open innovation under authoritarianism: The case of the Soviet Union

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 3-23, March 2025.
Abstract The Soviet Union was a productive and technologically developed economy. It achieved a remarkable transformation from a feudalistic society to an advanced industrial society. How was it able to do this? This article argues that such rapid industrialisation was possible because the Soviets invested in legal institutions that created a special ...
Svitlana Lebedenko
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Viktor Krivulin: lo spirito pietroburghese

Enthymema, 2016
Recensiamo il libro del poeta pietroburghese Krivulin, Viktor. Concerto a richiesta e altre poesie. Ed. Marco Sabbatini. Bagno a Ripoli: Passigli, 2016.
Michail Talalay
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Anti-Regime Movement in the Second Half of the 20th Century in Soviet Ukraine: Essence, Scale, Forms and Methods of Resistance

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2023
The article highlights the general trends and features of the formation of the opposition movement in Ukraine from the late 1950s through the 1980s, and examines the forms and methods of the protest movement as well as the specifics of the information ...
Oleh Bazhan
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Impresarios of identity: How the leaders of Czechoslovakia's ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ enabled effective collective action in a context of repression

British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 153-169, January 2024.
Abstract This paper presents an analysis of identity leadership (Haslam et al., The new psychology of leadership: Identity, influence and power, Routledge, 2020) in the 1988 ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ in Bratislava which was a precursor to the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
Klara Jurstakova, Evangelos Ntontis, Stephen Reicher   +2 more
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Protestant women in the late Soviet era: gender, authority, and dissent [PDF]

, 2016
At the peak of the anti-religious campaigns under Nikita Khrushchev, communist propaganda depicted women believers as either naïve dupes, tricked by the clergy, or as depraved fanatics; the Protestant “sektantka” (female sectarian) was a particularly ...
Alexeyeva Ludmilla., Beglov Aleksei., Beliakova E. V., Beliakova E. V., Brown Callum G., Chaves Mark., Coleman Heather J., Davis Nathaniel., Edel'shtein Georgii., Ford Caroline., Germaniuk S. G., Interview with M. T. Shaptala, Iu Vasil'eva, O., Kelly Catriona., Klibanov A. I., Kondrashina Elena., Mandrygin L. V., McLeod Hugh., Miner Steven Merritt., Mitrokhin Nikolai., Mitskevich A. I., Moyn Samuel., Nakachi Mie., Nesdoly S., Nevolin Mikhail., Nikol'skaia, T. K., Nikol'skaia, T. K. “, O sluzhenii zhenshchin v tserkvi, Odintsov M. I., Panych Olena., Potapova N. V., Prokhorov Constantine., Savin A. I., Savinskii S. N., Savinskii S. N., Sawatsky Walter., Shkarovskii M. V., Sovet rodstvennikov uznikov evangel'skikh khristian-baptistov, Valenze Deborah M., Vincett Giselle, Young Glennys., Zhenskoe sluzhenie na osnove Biblii, Zhiromskaia V. B., Zhuk Sergei I.   +43 more
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From Moral Therapy to Political Defiance: Public Self‐Reflections on Russian YouTube

The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 1, Page 51-65, January 2024.
Abstract During the first months of the Russian war in Ukraine, millions of Russian‐language viewers both within Russia and elsewhere, including ourselves, became addicted to a type of YouTube format that presented 1–2‐hour videos staged as dialogues between a journalist and prominent figures in the public life of contemporary Russia.
Julia Lerner, Anna Novikova
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The Poetics of Hunger: Responding to Rupture in the Wake of the 1932–33 Famine (Holodomor) in Soviet Ukraine

The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 1, Page 28-39, January 2024.
Abstract This article examines poems that were written by students in Soviet Ukraine during the 1930s to better understand how poetry served as a response to the ruptures caused by the 1932–33 famine (Holodomor). In a time when speaking openly about the famine was prohibited, survivors turned to poetry to write about what could not be said out loud. In
John Vsetecka
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Teatrologie v čase Priorů [PDF]

Slovo a Smysl, 2020
This study analyzes the publication of the samizdat magazine Dialog, which offered a remarkably consistent and integrated diagnosis of contemporary Czech theatre in the 1970s.
Barbara Topolová
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