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After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the national identities of the Eastern and Central European states are finding themselves in a process of transformation and the results are having an impact on international relations in the region. National and foreign political identities of states are constituted by means of everyday discursive practices, not least in the media. In the present stud

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I denna uppsats har jag undersökt den litteräre arketypen jurodivyj eller ”dåre för Kristi skull” och hur denna har utvecklats i den ryska litteraturen. Jag har kommit fram till att karaktärstypen kan porträtteras väldigt annorlunda från hur verklighetens exempel på heliga dårar har framställts i de hagiografiska helgonberättelserna. De underliggande skälen till denna utveckling går att hitta hos In this thesis, I have examined the literary archetype of the yurodivy or “fool for Christ’s sake” and how it has developed within Russian literature. I find that the character may be portrayed significantly different from the real-life yurodivy depicted in the hagiographic tales. The roots for this development are mainly found in Fyodor Dostoevsky, who constructed what is called the “stylized hol

Microsoft Word - BratovaAbstract.doc The Myth of Saint-Petersburg in Modern Russian Cinema Natalia Bratova Centre for Language and Literature, Lund University Mythmaking can be regarded as one of the essential instruments of a community’s memory that helps the community to evaluate and adapt different historical events to its self-identification and world view (see Schöpflin, 1997). The myth of Sa

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The Pleistocene-Holocene transition brought turbulent times to human societies confronted by rapid climatic fluctuations, shifts inbiogeographic zones and the flooding of continental shelves. While the disappearance of Doggerland’s inhabited landscapes underthe grey waters of the North Sea marks the culmination of these changes for European Archaeologists, our aim is this paper is todraw parallels

The intention of this paper is to explore the Russian film director Alexander Sokurov’s perspective on Western European Enlightenment in his movie Faust. The essay uses the film theory and method known as neoformalism in order to analyse the film’s aesthetic qualities in a cultural and historical context. The result of the analysis shows that the film’s dominant principle, to which many of the oth

Throughout the 21st century, Russian policy has been identified primarily by one unalterable person – Vladimir Putin. His coming to power as president of the Russian Federation marked a new course in Russia’s policy. Putin’s political decisions and visions are of considerable importance in Russian domestic policy as much as in international politics. The aim of this paper is to study how Vladimir

The article is a comparative inquiry into the roles of Ilia Chavchavadze (1837-1907) and Taras Shevchenko (1818-1861) as national poets and anti-tsarist intellectuals within the context of their respective national traditions (in Georgia and Ukraine). During the period of their activity (19th and the beginning of 20th century), both Ukraine and Georgia were under tsarist imperial rule (albeit the

Microsoft Word - Greveabstract.doc Avant-garde in the archive Charlotte Greve Department of Aesthetics and Culture – Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark For the unofficial culture, which emerged in Soviet Russia during the 1960s, access to and knowledge of the early Russian avant-garde was limited. As a consequence, the avant-garde gained an almost mythical status in the self-

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The article explores ways in which the nineteenth-century Prussian military architecture has been used and promoted as a part of the local heritage in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Accommodation of the old fortification buildings to tourism and museum work has been publicly discussed since the beginning of the 2000s, but neither local nor federal authorities have proposed a plan to adapt the

Based on an analytical overview of post-Communist civil society development in Russia, the present thesis attempts a critical discussion of general civil society theory from the perspective of its relevance for the case study in question. The text consists of three closely interconnected, mutually reinforcing parts. In the first part, major issues of current civil society research are being themat

The course focuses on historical processes and their role in shaping identity in modern Russia and its Eastern European neighboring countries (such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova), which were part of the Soviet Union before 1991. Key identity-shaping events both before and after 1917 (such as the Russian communist revolution, the famine and terror of the 1930s, World War II, the Cold War, the faThe course focuses on historical processes and their role in shaping identity in modern Russia and its Eastern European neighboring countries (such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova), which were part of the Soviet Union before 1991. Key identity-shaping events both before and after 1917 (such as the Russian communist revolution, the famine and terror of the 1930s, World War II, the Cold War, the fa

Den studerande väljer att studera tre till fyra perioder i den ryska litteraturhistorien. Urvalet görs från följande perioder: upplysningen (1700-talet), poesins guldålder (1800-1830), realismen (1830-1890), modernismen (1890-1917), litteraturen och dess ställning under sovjetiskt styre (1917-1985) och litteraturen efter Sovjetunionens upplösning. Även dramatik och film kan studeras inom ramen för

Microsoft Word - audunmorchabstract.doc In Search of the Grand: Pavel Krusanov Audun Johannes Mørch Pavel Krusanov (1961-), a native of St. Petersburg is a prolific and talented writer who is nevertheless little known outside of Russia. His most important works are Ukus angela (The Bite of an Angel) (2000), Bom-Bom (2003 )and Amerikanskaia dyrka (The American Hole) (2005). Krusanov also attracted

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Instruction.fm Slavica Lundensia . Instructions for contributors • The editors will need – a paper printout of the article; – a disk or an email attachment with the article. The digital version should be in the format of a major word-processing program (e.g. Word ); the disk/attachment should also contain the article saved as RTF (Rich Text Format) (usually available under ‘Save As’). Should the w

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