Sökning: "Soviet Culture"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 29 avhandlingar innehållade orden Soviet Culture.
21. Self-reported health among immigrants from the former Soviet Union : quantitative and qualitative studies in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Aims: The general aim was to study self-reported health and its determinants in immigrants from the FSU in Sweden. Study I: to analyze (i) whether there is an association between being born in the FSU and other countries of the former Soviet Bloc and poor self-reported general health among immigrants in Sweden and (ii) whether this association persists after adjusting for demographic, socioeconomic, and migration-related variables. LÄS MER
22. On Interpersonal Violence in Russia in the Present and the Past : A Sociological Study
Sammanfattning : For much of the twentieth century researchers in the West knew little about the phenomenon of interpersonal violence in Russia as the Soviet authorities kept the vital and criminal justice statistics of violence secret. It was not until the Soviet Union was in its final death throes that these statistics were officially released for the first time in over fifty years. LÄS MER
23. A Cacophony of Voices : A Neoclassical Realist study of United States Strategy toward Central Asia and Southern Caucasus 1991–2006
Sammanfattning : U.S. strategy toward Southern Caucasus and Central Asia has not been studied sufficiently. LÄS MER
24. Death Online in Contemporary Russia : Memory, Forgetting and the Connective Presence of Mourning on the Internet
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the ways in which online technologies transform communal commemoration and grief practices in the Russian-speaking world, and what the existential implications of these changes are for individuals and society. This aim is rooted in the theoretical framework of existential media studies complemented by digital memory studies and death online studies. LÄS MER
25. Mot "väst" : vetenskap, politik och transformation i Polen 1989-2011
Sammanfattning : Den polska forskningspolitiken har efter statssocialismens fall 1989 stått inför omfattande förändringar. Transformationen från den sovjetiska modellen för forskningspolitiskt styre, till formuleringen och implementeringen av en ny forskningspolitisk modell, innebar att KBN (Komitet Badan Naukowych, ”Forskningskommittén”) blev huvudansvarig för utformningen av den nya forskningspolitiken och organiseringen av forskningssystemet. LÄS MER