Browsing by Subject "Soviet Union"
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Cold and Calculated Faith
(2011-04-26)The former USSR and the Eastern Bloc contain a plethora of ethnicities, religions, and languages that make up nations. However, the nations are not concurrent with their state boundaries, and separatist conflicts are common. ... -
Cuban-Russian Relations in the 21st Century: Oil and Geopolitics
(2015)This thesis examines how the recent discovery of massive oil reserves off the coast of Cuba has driven a resurgence of Cuban-Russian relations in the 21st century. The first chapter demonstrates how the Russian government ... -
Female Labor Force Participation in Turkic Countries: A Study of Azerbaijan and Turkey
(2019-04)Encouraging female labor force participation (FLFP) should be a goal of any country attempting to increase its productive capacity. Understanding the determinants and motivations of labor force participation requires isolating ... -
From <italic>Massenlieder<italic> to <italic>Massovaia Pesnia<italic>: Musical Exchanges between Communists and Socialists of Weimar Germany and the Early Soviet Union
(2014)Group songs with direct political messages rose to enormous popularity during the interwar period (1918-1939), particularly in recently-defeated Germany and in the newly-established Soviet Union. This dissertation explores ... -
In Search of "Friendship": Energy Policy, Trade, and Varieties of Socialism in the Soviet Bloc, 1872-1984
(2020)“In Search of Friendship” attempts to set straight the confounding record on Russian oil in the twentieth century. Engaging a rich literature centered on questions of national energy dependency, a broad term denoting fraught ... -
Making Socialism Work: The Shchekino Method and the Drive to Modernize Soviet Industry
(2022)“Making Socialism Work: The Shchekino Method and the Drive to Modernize Soviet Industry” examines factory-level efforts to improve socioeconomic conditions in the Soviet Union during the late twentieth century. It does so ... -
The Problems of Perestroika: The KGB and Mikhail Gorbachev's Reforms
(Slavic Review, 2021-01-01)The KGB and the rest of the Soviet intelligence and policing apparatus are commonly portrayed as having been among the staunchest of conservative opponents to the reform process in the Soviet Union during the latter half ... -
The Second Economy and the Destabilizing Effect of Its Growth on the State Economy in the Soviet Union, 1965-1989
(1993)The authors suggest that the rapid growth of the illegal underground economy in 1970s and 1980s has destabilized the Soviet state economy and weakened the mechanism of central planning. This hypothesis is advanced on the ... -
The Unique Oral History of a Jewish Family After the Russian Revolution with Historical Context
(2011-05-04)This project is a melding of conventional and oral history of the Jews in the Soviet Union. It shows how life changed immediately after the Revolution and the rapid social changes in the subsequent decades before the Second ... -
Western Colonialism at the "Razor Edge of Decision": Anti-Colonial Ideals and Cold War Imperatives in the Presidential Campaign Rhetoric of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, August -November 1960
(2008-12)In the presidential campaign rhetoric of 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon discovered a shared middle-ground in regard to colonialism, a major issue of the year due to widespread decolonization ...
