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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The dissertation examines the post-World War II campaign to relocate Armenians from the Near East, Europe, and North America to the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic [ASSR]. Beginning with an investigation into the formation of transnational ties between the Soviet Armenian sta…
This study is the outcome of research carried out during my involvement with the Afghan resistance movement within Afghanistan and in Pakistan from 1983 to 1990. During this period I was associated with resistance groups in various parts of Afghanistan, particularly Kunar provin…
This dissertation examines the character and consequences of the encounter between Soviet colonial authorities and southern Central Asian society during the period 1927–1941, one expressed fundamentally through the language of gender relations and family life. I focus on Uzbekis…
The purpose of the study is to explore Bangladesh's relations with the Soviet Union during the 1980s, through the prism of "national interest." The term is defined in a broad, general sense by including not only political, economic, ideological and strategic interests, but also …
One way of approaching the study of Tsarist and Soviet nationality practices is to investigate official treatment of non-Russian languages. "Buriat Language Policy, 19thc.-1928" examines Tsarist and Soviet policies towards the language of the Buriats--a Mongol-speaking people nu…
This study examines Luise Rinser's travel reports and diaries on the Soviet Union, North Korea, Iran, and Indonesia, writings that have to date only received marginal attention. While Rinser's novels have earned her the reputation of a self-absorbed, subjective fiction writer, w…
This thesis began as an attempt to understand why the war in Bosnia was allowed to unfold in the fashion it did. Why in spite of the widespread reports of genocide and ethnic cleansing (carried out in this bloody war) did we in the West stand by and do nothing? My initial questi…
This dissertation offers a local study of the Soviet Union's vast system of forced labor concentration camps and internal exile, the Gulag, in the Karaganda region of central Kazakhstan from the early 1930s when the Gulag arose as a mass social institution to the post-Stalin era…
Afghanistan once hoped for modern development, and political power was sustained by the promise of modernity. But through the chaos of both internal and external conflict, the political saliency of traditional values has been revitalized. These values are often underestimated by…
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 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…
Between September 1991 and April 1992, twenty new states appeared on the world scene. Fifteen countries emerged from the USSR; five from Yugoslavia. By the end of 1992, Czechoslovakia split into two more new states. The last time the international community experienced such a bu…
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…
This dissertation is a contribution to the social history of the Soviet Union during the 1950s. It is a study of the opening of the Virgin Lands, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's project to settle and to open up to cultivation new lands in Siberia and Kazakstan. It focuses on a…
What is the impact of systemic transitions on regional conflict and the prospects for peace in the Third World? The end of the Cold War represents the first systemic transition since 1945. The effect of this dramatic change upon regional conflict in the Third World is the topic …
The thesis chronologically presents the slow improvement of relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, starting with Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, through their full normalization in 1955 and 1956, to the renewed ideological confrontation at the end of 1956. The normal…
This study examines the contributions made by the Carter administration to the end of the Cold War. Beginning with the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, the Carter administration took a much harder line in its relations with the Soviet Union. Washington set about to puni…
Although stability is one of the most important ideas of international relations theory, it remains one of the least carefully studied and least well-understood terms in the disciplinary lexicon. The leading theories of Cold War stability have emphasized bipolarity, nuclear weap…