Browsing by Department "Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies"

Are HIV prevention programs effective in addressing rising HIV/AIDS rates among Central Asian labor migrants?

Fleming, Thomas Rolland (2011-05)

Within the last ten years HIV rates in Central Asia have more than quadrupled amongst the general population. Labor migrants from the region who are working in Russia are considered at high risk of HIV infection due to ...

A bear in the mountains : Russian policy in the Caucasus

Archbold, Kenneth Ora (2012-12)

The Caucasus region is an integral part of Russian history, politics, and culture, both in the arenas of internal and external policy. Throughout the centuries, Russia has spent much blood and treasure to maintain its ...

Between then and now, there and here, guilt and innocence : Škvorecký’s Two murders in my double life and the ambiguities of transitional justice

Weil, Abigail Ruth (2013-05)

I situate Škvorecký’s novel as both a primary document in the historical record of transitional justice and as a literary creation in the author’s larger oeuvre. In creating this work of autobiographical fiction, Škvorecký ...

Beyond the spectrum : understanding Czech Euroscepticism outside left-right classification

O'Dowd, Kathryn Quinn; 0000-0002-8931-9119

Commonly known as Euroscepticism, critical views of the European Union have grown significantly in the thirteen years since the Czech Republic joined the EU. Especially in light of the United Kingdom’s recent vote to leave ...

Blurred lines : effects of the Soviet nationality policy on ethnic conflicts in the South Caucasus

Rowlette, Kacie Noelle (2016-05)

This thesis will examine the ethnic conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Adjara, and how the Soviet nationality policy affected each of these conflicts in the following ways. First, the policy placed ...

Central-Asia energy geoeconomics and geopolitics : Central Asia’s pursuit of sovereignty and prosperity

Nicholson, Robert Lawrence (2012-12)

The former-Soviet states that make up Central Asia are among the most challenging group of countries to understand in the twenty-first century geopolitical and geoeconomic context. As one of the last of the world’s frontiers, ...

The cornered bear : the August 2008 war in Georgia as the culmination of Russia’s western security dilemma

Ellett, Matthew Hayden (2012-12)

In 2008 Russia surprised the West by going to war with Georgia. While several analyses have pointed to separate actions by NATO and the West as having influenced the 2008 war, this paper endeavors to show that the combined ...

The cry of the wolf : Islamism in Post-Soviet Chechnya

Jimenez, Justin Daniel; 0000-0002-0215-4308 (2015-08)

Chechnya today has been operationalized as a hub of Islamic radicalism that threatens a global jihad force. How did this region become a link in terrorist networks such as Al Qaeda? And how did a Chechen nationalist movement ...

Cultural identity and the people of the North Caucasus

Pressley, Brandon Alan (2011-05)

During Soviet Russia, there was an active policy of forced assimilation of minorities into one cultural identity: Russian. This loss of cultural identity came in many forms of resettlement, deportation, discriminatory ...

"Dal'she deistvovat budem my" : the evolution of Viktor Tsoi's sociopolitical commentary during Perestroika

Alea, Jason Pierce (2012-05)

This report examines the themes presented over the course of Viktor Tsoi's (1962-1990) career during the 1980s. During his nearly 10 year career, the themes and sociopolitical messages of his music change drastically in ...

Ethnic conflict and its connection to terrorism in the republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia

Osborne, Paul Kenneth (2012-08)

Violence in Russia’s North Caucasus region has not been limited to Chechnya since the early 2000’s. The generally accepted theory on violence in other North Caucasus republics is that it has spilled over from Chechnya and ...

Fertility policy in post-Soviet Russia : policy analysis and prescriptions

Dow, Kelsey Lynn (2011-12)

Russia has over the past century experienced a phenomenal drop in fertility. In the post-Soviet period, the birth rate per woman has dropped to one of the lowest in the world, and the population continues to age. While ...

From occupation to withdrawal : a short history of the Soviet/Russian Western Group of Forces in Germany 1945-1994

Nowacky, Elliott Carson (2012-08)

The body of knowledge in the English language concerning the Soviet/Russian Western Group of Forces which occupied Germany from 1945 until the fall of 1994 is virtually non-existent. This thesis is an attempt to begin ...

Gender, aging, and major depressive disorder in Ukraine

Chamberlin, Margaret Shively (2011-05)

The World Health Organization has made global mental health a priority since making it the center of world health day 2001, yet much of the current literature on mental health examines the subject within the context of the ...

Genuine Tuvan : producing authenticity in the Republic of Tuva

Stone, Eliot Andrew (2012-05)

This thesis provides analysis of the networks of power and authority, which interconnect commonly referenced sources of knowledge about Tuvan throat singing. These sources–books, websites, performances, a documentary film, ...

Girls interrupted : family, community, and identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland

Jones, Rhiannon Keina (2016-05)

This thesis examines eleven Polish Jewish women’s Holocaust memoirs, arguing that their Jewish identities were moored to family and community. Because Polish Jewish families and communities were largely destroyed during ...

The good, the bad, and the Gypsy : constant positive representation and use of reversed negative stereotypes as ‘sympathy triggers’ in Gypsy cinema

Popan, Elena Roxana (2013-12)

Gypsies or Roma are one of the minorities frequently represented in film, whenever we talk about European or American film; within this context Russian and Eastern European cinema seems to offer the richest palette of ...