Interrogating the country’s two main newspapers, Pravda and Izvestiia, my thesis examines how the Soviet press between 1930 and 1940 represented International Women’s Day, the major holiday celebrating women. Curating a certain idea of what roles women should play in society, th…
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This dissertation proposes the analysis of the Russian memoirist tradition and its key trends. It includes a creative component representing memories of life during the late Soviet and post-Soviet period and explores how this creative work fits into the tradition of Russian life…
1877-1878 Osmanlı Rus Savaşı (93 Harbi) Osmanlı Devleti’nin katıldığı en büyük savaşlardan biridir. Bu savaşta Osmanlı ordusu gerek Rumeli gerekse Doğu Anadolu cephesinde büyük bir mücadele vermiştir. Rus orduları Rumeli cephesinde Tuna Nehri’ni aşarak Osmanlı topraklarında iler…
As leader of the Russian Federation, a state with both a large military stockpile and veto power in the United Nations, it is important to understand who Vladimir Putin is as a leader. In order to do so, we must first identify and understand the contexts of Putin’s leadership. O…
In ethnomusicological literature, from all indigenous Finno-Ugric peoples of Europe, Sámi’s musical traditions and indigenous politics have arguably been studied the most since the seventeenth century (Ramnarine 2009: 188). In contrast, the Finno- Ugric peoples of Russia are usu…
Kafkasya’nın merkezinde yer alan Borçalı bölgesi, m.ö. IV. yüzyıldan itibaren Türklere yurt olmaya başlamış, XI. yüzyılda Selçukluların Kafkasya’yı fethi ile birlikte Türkİslam coğrafyası haline gelmiştir. Borçalı, Türk tarihinde müstesna bir yere sahip olmuş ve Hazar, Selçuklu,…
Through a study of the interwar and post-World War II Russian communities in San Francisco, this dissertation examines the processes of acculturation to American society of “White Russian” émigrés in the face of both nativist and political hostility beginning in the period follo…
Located in the north of Kazakhstan and extending the entire width of the country, the Kazakh Steppe is a temperate grassland ideal for the mobile pastoralism Kazakhs had practiced for thousands of years prior to the Russian Empire’s encroachment on the region. An occupation natu…
Veteran Soviet statesman and longtime Politburo member Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (1895-1978) is perhaps best known in both the West and the post-Soviet space as a master of international diplomacy. Less well-known is the pivotal role that Mikoyan – once a loyal Stalinist – playe…
Cemâleddîn Afgânî, öne sürdüğü farklı düşünceleri ile döneminde çok tartışılan bir insandır. Bu yönü ile sonraki yıllarda da birçok araştırmacının nazar-ı dikkatini celp etmiş; hakkında kitaplar, makaleler kaleme alınmıştır. Döneminde çok tartışılan ve tabulara dokunmuş olan Afg…
II. Abdülhamid devrine kadar İslamcılık politikası çok fazla kullanılmasa da var olduğu inkâr edilemez. Bunun en bariz örneği olarak 1774 Küçük Kaynarca Antlaşmasında Kırım’daki Müslümanların hakları konusunda görülmektedir. Balkanlarda yaşanan isyanların sonucunda İslamcılık po…
Jews living in the Russian Federation present historians with new collective memory narratives about the Holocaust that help understand the effects on its creation, transmission, and infusion over time. This study compares sources from three generations of Jewish families, their…
For historians and scholars alike, the 20th century is widely recognized as the bloodiest one-hundred-year period in human history. Despite previous human rights conventions before the 20th century, the African country of Namibia fell victim to systematic violence from 1904-1908…
Serfdom in Russia has often been viewed in Anglo-U.S. historiography as an exceptional institution in that it emerged in the early-modern age, after serfdom in Western Europe had ended, and that it persisted for well over two centuries, spanning the Muscovite and the Imperial er…
This dissertation is an investigation of the position of British and Soviet music professionals (such as composers, concert agents, performers, and publishers) in the interchange of music and musicians between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1975. This study…
Between 1878 and 1886, diplomatic relations between the Russian Empire and the newly-formed Principality of Bulgaria went from being exceptionally good to being so poor as to be severed altogether. The purpose of this thesis is to discover first, how this dramatic change came ab…
During the period of the Sino-Soviet Split, Soviet historians continually revised their approach to the writing of Uyghur history to suit the changing political situation. As in other Uyghur histories, Soviet historians divided Uyghur history into distinct narratives, depending …
In this thesis, I examine both internal and external pressures Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) experienced prior to their defection and while in captivity. I discuss several driving factors, such as Soviet propaganda tactics, pre-deployment military training, quality of life in A…
The dissertation will historically look at how and why the Chechens have become known worldwide for their criminal organizations and skills. It will also look at the evolution and melding of the two worlds of organized crime and terrorism in the context of the Northern Caucasus …