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Browsing Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Theses and Dissertations by Issue Date
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(University of Oregon, 2008-03)Early Bolsheviks seeking to redefine the family launched"cultural campaigns" to throw off the vestiges of the tsarist regime and create new societal roles. Laws were enacted to protect children and provide them with ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Socialist Realism was proclaimed the main method in Soviet literature in 1932. It went through a long process of formation before its main principles were solidified. The main aim of Socialist Realist literature was to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Peasant experiences of agricultural collectivization in Uzbekistan followed an overarching pattern familiar from studies of collectivization elsewhere in the USSR but simultaneously bore the deep imprint of Central Asia's ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)This thesis examines how social and economic factors shape the behavior of Russian journalists. Although the state does not practice legal censorship today, Western experts compare Russian media with the Soviet period, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are the most prolific Soviet science fiction writers, who focused, above all, on the social themes and with satire discussed the political and social agendas in the Soviet society. This thesis ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Siberia is a space that is more ideologic than it is geographic; it lacks defined physical boundaries and has no precise date of founding. Throughout its contemporary history as a Russian territory, the Siberia of public ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Russian men are over two and a half times more likely to die before 60 than are Russian women. Aggregate national indicators of state policy, health care and individual behavior are examined in a time-series analysis of ...
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Representation of the Peoples of the Caucasus in 20th Century Russian Literature and Cinematography (University of Oregon, 2011-06)For centuries, Russian writers have stressed the important role the Caucasus played in the Russian Empire. In the last few decades, much attention has been directed at the Caucasians in literary works and movies as a result ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This work examines the use of ambiguous or obfuscating narrative devices in 3 works by 20th century Russian authors: A Dead Man’s Memoir, by Mikhail Bulgakov, The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov, and You and I, by Abram Tertz. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The image of Saint Petersburg has influenced the imagination of Russian writers since the establishment of this city in 1703. Today, it is common to speak about the Petersburg Text in Russian literature that has its own ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Education in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina suffers from the serious consequences of ongoing ethno-national conflict. My focus is segregated education in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina generally, particularly ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)From the early 1860s Koreans appeared in the Russian Far East. Beginning in 1864, Koreans who received approval of the Russian authorities had begun to establish Korean villages in this region. During the 1860s and 1870s, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)The Soviet Union had existed for 70 years and was labeled as the "evil empire". Its technological achievements and geographical discoveries are amazing. However, its dark aspects such as censorship, "purges", and freedom ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)This thesis examines the Instrumental case marking on complements in constructions with verbs denoting movement of body parts, verbs that allow an alternation of the Instrumental and Accusative case marking, and verbs with ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)In Russia today women use traditional forms of birth control at unusually high rates, whereas, conversely their use of modern contraceptives is unusually low. During the Soviet period, women's access to modern contraceptive ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)The representation of Revolution and revolutionaries develops as one of the main themes in Russian literary texts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It would not be an overstatement to say that most active ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This thesis contains an analysis of the ways in which form and content are combined to create significance within a text, as well as an exploration of the ways in which the mechanics of didactic fiction convey this ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This thesis analyzes the grammatical gender assignment of Russian indeclinable nouns. Chapter I focuses on gender and agreement in Russian nouns. Previous assignment models failed to account for the non-neuter gender of a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)The purpose of this research was to explore the phenomenon of a literary pseudonym in different countries with the main focus on Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. This thesis also ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Pushkin's Tatiana tends to be pigeonholed by criticism that acknowledges her dynamism and openness to creative possibilities but restricts her intertextual significance to the heroines of the European novelists she herself ...
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