This thesis examines the early works of Soviet conceptual performance art group Collective Actions, founded in 1976, and focuses on the way the group employed the concept of “emptiness” as a motif throughout its practice. Notions of nothingness, emptiness, and dematerialization …
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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,…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
For Russia, religion is one factor that fostered its formation and assisted in the development of all facets of its culture. A current analysis of the relations between the Russian state and Islam is, therefore, the foundation of this study. The changes that took place in the re…
In the interwar period, the Soviet Union and Turkey embarked on an unprecedented partnership, characterized by high profile economic, diplomatic, and cultural exchanges. The enthusiasm of these interactions surprised contemporaneous foreign observers and contemporary scholars al…
This thesis aims to explore the dynamics of exchange operating in special relationships initially formed and largely sustained on an amicable basis between two states of vastly unequal power. The claim is made that the weak state is likely to be adversely affected in the longer …
This project concerns Turkish-Armenian relations and the impact of the collective memory of the Armenian Genocide on this relationship. Contested memories of these events have come to form important parts of both Turkish and Armenian identity. The research focuses on why the Arm…
This dissertation explores the fate of ethnic groups internally deported by the Soviet leadership during the Second World War. Known collectively in the literature as "The Punished Peoples", the Russian Germans, Karachays, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, and Crimean Tatars w…
This thesis examines Egypt’s foreign policy in the mid-1960s through the lens of her five-year intervention in the Yemeni Civil War. It traces the fall of Egyptian fortunes from the aftermath of the Syrian secession to the eve of the Six Day War, arguing that complications arisi…
This thesis explores the politics and diplomacy of Soviet efforts to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. Although Soviet leaders began looking for a way out of the conflict soon after the introduction of Soviet troops in December 1979, the war dragged on because Moscow was afr…
My dissertation describes the social and economic history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. According to the all-Russ…
Le constat d'une corrélation entre d'une part les guerres sécessionnistes ayant eu cours au Caucase du Sud durant les années 1990 et, d'autre part, le statut politique que les groupes ethniques impliqués dans ces conflits détenaient à l'époque soviétique constitue le point de dé…
North Kazakhstan is a region considered a part of Russian historic territory due to its annexation by the Russian empire. Imperial settlement patterns led to mass ethnic Russian migration at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century and at the time of the …