Russian language

The purpose of this dissertation was to assess the health literacy in Russian-speaking immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU) and identify factors relevant to their health literacy. Immigrants have been shown to have lower health literacy than native-born population and e…

The thesis examines representations of women and martyrdom in Soviet war cinema of the Stalin era through an analysis of eight fictional films made between 1941-1953, that is from the German invasion of Soviet territory to the end of the Stalinist regime. This research draws a c…

In dieser Arbeit werden die Unterschiede in der Genuskongruenz der belebten Substantive zwischen den ein- und zweisprachigen russischen Muttersprachlern und Muttersprachlerinnen mit Hilfe einer empirischen Studie untersucht. Speziell werden die vier Sonderfälle betrachtet: Hybri…

The overall purpose of this film is to break the Russian stereotype by exploring the lives of Afro-Russians. When people think of Russians, they often think of people with blonde hair, fair skin, and blue eyes. This is not true and will never be true. Russians come in different …

The promotion of language is considered to be the one of the ways to increase the state's soft power. Taking this into account, Soviet leaders used the Russian language as a tool to create a new identity to consolidate the Soviet republics. After the collapse of the Union of Sov…

Why do nationalizing states, committed to preferential treatment of the dominant nation within the state, vary in their treatment of ethnic minorities? Why do some nationalizing states choose to simultaneously provide a certain degree of accommodation to their ethnic minorities …