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Reconsidering Inclusion: Western theory and post-Soviet reality [PDF]
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2019 This article analyses the views of individuals from a post-Soviet context in order to better understand current thinking around difference and disability.
Fiona Hallett +2 more
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The Soviet World of the 1930s in Czech Literature: Jiřн Weil and His Novel Moscow — the Border
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2022 This article considers the work of the Czech writer J. Weil (1900–1959) and, in particular, his novel Moscow — the Border (1937) in a broad cultural and historical context. Weil’s fate and work were closely connected with Soviet Russia.
Anna Vasilyevna Grasko
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USSR in Reports of Italian Diplomats (1924-1941)
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2016 In this article the reports of Italian diplomatic officials who worked in the USSR between the two World Wars will be analyzed. On the basis of the unpublished sources, an attempt to explain Mussolini's decision to enter the war against the USSR in 1941 ...
Olga V. Dubrovina
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Le crepe della realtà. Andrej Platonov oltre la "lakirovka"
RiCognizioni, 2022 The Cracks of Soviet Reality. Andrej Platonov beyond the "lakirovka". Andrej Platonov (1899-1951), whose main writings Cevengur (1930) and Kotlovan (The foundation Pit, 1929) are traditionally characterized by a biting interpretation of Soviet reality ...
Rukya Mandrile
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Studies in Mysticism and Mystical Experience in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia [PDF]
, 2015 The paper highlights the key perspectives on mysticism typical for Soviet and Post-Soviet religious studies. Recognizing the vagueness of the ”mystical’, Soviet scholars interpreted it as a belief in ”communication’ with ”supernatural powers ...
Malevich, Tatiana
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Romanica Cracoviensia, 2022 The Italian writings of Edvige Toeplitz Mrozowska on Soviet Central Asia and the Bolshevik revolution The aim of the paper is to answer the question about the attitude of Edvige Toeplitz Mrozowska ...
Monika Gurgul
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Vladimir Tuchkov’s intertextual transgression: Folklore, parody, and social criticism
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2022 This essay aims at analysing and illustrating a segment of the post-Soviet short fiction of the contemporary Russian writer Vladimir Tuchkov. It specifically discusses his collection of very short stories And he earned many dollars…: New Russian fairy ...
Nicolas Dreyer
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Baudrillard Goes to Kyiv: Institutional Simulacra in Transition. [PDF]
, 2015 The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union from 1989 onward has been focused on the reform of institutions in order to re-orient the economy.
Hartwell, Christopher Andrew
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Пародийное восприятие действительности у Виктора Пелевина (на материале романа „Чапаев и Пустота”)
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2016 Victor Pelevin, a representative of Russian postmodernism, is known as a careful observer of reality. Postmodern art is characterized by grotesque, pastiche and parody, which is emphasized by many researchers.
Wawrzyniec Popiel-Machnicki
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Russian-Estonian Relations After 2007: Current Status and Development Prospects [PDF]
, 2011 The article highlights the major points that have influenced relations between Russia and Estonia after 2007. These relations were rather poor during the post-Soviet period.
Włodarska-Frykowska, Agata
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