Browsing Masters Theses by Department "Slavic and Eurasian Studies"
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Analyzing the "Chechen Syndrome": Disadaptation of Veterans with War Trauma in Contemporary Russian Literature
(2012)There is a new army marching onto the field of contemporary Russian literature: veterans of the recent Chechen Wars. The war veteran as author and/or protagonist has become increasingly popular, bringing to light social ... -
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 ... -
Deconstructing Essentialist Identities: Reimagining the Russian Disapora of the Third Wave
(2013)The identity of the Third Wave Russian Diaspora has been misunderstood through the oversimplification of their ethnic and language identity. In addition, the methodologies of sociolinguistic fieldwork, including bilingual ... -
Media Manipulation of the Tragedy at Smoleńsk: Nasz Dziennik's and Gazeta Wyborcza's Coverage of the 2010 Crash
(2013)This project focuses on the debate over Poland's national significance and future political path argued in the Polish media in the wake of the 2010 Smoleńsk crash. It draws on the primary sources of <italic>Nasz ... -
Supply, Demand, Connections, Legitimacy: Understanding the Waxing and Waning of the Protection Industry in Russia
(2013)The literature on organized crime, while increasingly rich, has yet to create a paradigm to predict and explain the waxing and waning of the private protection industry. In the work that follows, I create a general model ... -
The Anomaly of Ekho Moskvy: Adaptation Strategies for the Survival of Diversity of Viewpoints in Russian Media during the Putin Era
(2012)Moscow-based radio station Ekho Moskvy is an anomaly in the authoritarian media climate of Vladimir Putin's Russia for its commitment to hosting a diversity of viewpoints on its broadcasts. Yet no systematic research has ... -
The Artist's Passion According to Andrei: Paintings in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
(2014)This thesis examines the role of paintings in four of Andrei Tarkovsky's films: Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), Andrei Rublev (1966), and Sacrifice (1986). Through close analysis of these films and the paintings that appear ... -
The Double Narrative of Domestic Violence in Contemporary Russia
(2015)This thesis examines how domestic violence is talked about both in the Russian Federation after the fall of the Soviet Union and by the Westerners whom have offered their expertise on the matter. The first chapter shows ... -
The Image of Motherhood in Rabonitsa i Krest'ianka, 1922-1928
(2011)Established in 1922, the Soviet women's journal Rabotnitsa i Krest'ianka acted as agent of the Communist Party by supporting its effort to assume the role of mothers and take full responsibility for Russia's children in ... -
The Living Dead: Russia's Famous Dead as Political Currency
(2014)This thesis examines how the dead bodies of the Romanovs and of Vladimir Lenin are used as political and cultural capital in attempts to legitimate and shape Russia's post-Soviet government. The first chapter shows how ...
