How do different opportunity structures influence Russian minority responses, such as varied rates of exit (emigration) and varied degrees of voice (political mobilization), to post-Soviet challenges? What accounts for variation in type of Russian voice? Russian minority politic…
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The purpose of this research was to explore the motives, values and expectations of Israeli Russian immigrant students and their parents who emigrated from Russia in the 1990s. Instruments administered to the students included the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)—a projective me…
The social networks of 127 elderly Russian immigrants to the US were studied to determine more general network types and compare these types and their predictive relationships to self-rated health, depression, and immigration satisfaction with the equivalent parameters of elderl…
This dissertation examines the settlement of Russian religious dissenters (Dukhobors, Molokans, and Subbotniks) in Transcaucasia from 1830 to 1890. During this period, tsarist officials promoted the relocation of sectarians (sektanty) to Transcaucasia--to the exclusion of other …
This dissertation traces the evolution of modern medical institutions alongside that of Russian and Soviet policies towards indigenous Central Asians, from the establishment of the Imperial colony through the mid-1930s. Based on two years of archival research in Uzbekistan and R…
This dissertation examines the Cold War and its termination, the collapse of the Russian empire which was embodied in the Soviet Union, and the evolution of Russian policy towards the Commonwealth of Independent States from 1992 to 1997. These subjects are examined in order to a…
The theme of nationalism has long provided the dominant framework for understanding the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and has become an increasingly popular motif in Russian and Soviet historiography. This dissertation sharply challenges that framework. It returns late Ottoman …
The purpose of this study is to address the issue of different frequencies of null-subject phenomena (pro-drop) according to various morphosyntactic environments. Even though many scholars have studied null subjects, little attention has been focused on the different frequencies…
This study explores the life and military career of General Peter Bagration. A scion of the Georgian royal dynasty, he was reared in an exiled family in a small town in the periphery of the Russian Empire and rose from obscurity to the highest circles of the Russian society. Pet…
This dissertation project is a revisionist examination of an important but, as I attempt to demonstrate, often misinterpreted issue of the interplay between ideology and pragmatism in the interaction between the Third World and superpowers. It explores the dynamics of the relati…
In the nineteenth century, foreign travel became much easier than it had ever been before. Improvements in the means of transportation enabled travelers to cover greater distances. The changing economics of travel made traveling accessible to a greater number of people. At the s…
This dissertation concerns the development and interaction of Kazakh and Russian identities in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. My research questions were: (1) what was the character of these identities in 2003/04 (the time of my research); (2) how have these identities interacted to for…
From incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1828, through the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 governmental language policies and other socio/political forces influenced the Turkic population of the Republic of Azerbaijan to speak Russian. Even with changes since independence …
This dissertation is a compilation and analysis of the Russian historiography of the Tatar Yoke in the post-Petrine, pre-Stalinist period. The scope of research is not entirely comprehensive-plays, novels, librettos, and folk artifacts are largely excluded-but is very extensive,…
Constructing Jewish Texts in Russian Literature: The Cases of Mandelshtam, Brodsky, and Slutsky examines the problem of Jewish literature and the Jewish artist in the 20th century. It asks: what happens when Jewishness enters the Russian literary tradition? And how does Jewishne…
In the minds of most historians of imperial Russia, the reign of Tsar Nicholas I (r. 1825--1855) is closely linked with the ideological slogan known as Official Nationality. Consisting of three principles---Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality---and promoted by Russian official…
This dissertation is the first study to focus on Russia's attempts to build its empire in the Caucasus in the reign of Catherine II (1762-96). Prior to the reign, Russia's presence in the region was concentrated at Fort Kizliar and in a handful of Cossack settlements on the left…
This dissertation probes the relationship between Russian literary culture and revolutionary terrorism, the writer and the terrorist, the word and the deed, and argues that Russian literature played a significant role not only in making sense of terrorism for a society beset by …
The two major testing tools for oral proficiency assessment in Russian are the OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview) and the SOPI (Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview). SOPI was developed as an equivalent to the OPI to be used in situations when it is impossible or impractical to us…