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Review of : Duccio Colombo - Friederike Kind-Kovács. Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain. Budapest: Central European Universtity Press, 2014. 520 pp. ISBN 978-963-386-022-9.
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Despite a narrative of deindustrialization, monotowns and former industrial settlements are numerous in today’s Russia, and are significant not only in terms of the territory they occupy and the population they host but also because of the particular economic and cultural practices, logics of community building, and particular types of “connectedness” and horizontal networks that make these places special and habitable for their “dwellers.” This article offers an ethnographic account of the daily lives of blue-collar workers in a former industrial town in central Russia. Based on extensive fieldwork, the article demonstrates how people live their lives and manage to remain “satisfied” with what they have despite the crisis and relative poverty they faced after the fall of the socialist project, losing the town-forming enterprise, and the social trends associated with neoliberal transformation. The article presents a case study that shows the “other life” in today’s Russia, which is not at all present in mainstream academic discourse.
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Review of: Ekaterina Demintseva - Сергей Абашин. Советский кишлак: Между колониализмом и модернизацией. М.: НЛО, 2015. 848 с. ISBN 978-5-4448-0219-9.
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Review of: Marco Clementi - Сесиль Вессье. За вашу и нашу свободу! Диссидентское движение в России. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2015. 576 с. ISBN 978-5-4448-0268-7.
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Review of: Alexandra Kasatkina - Stephen Collier. Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-691 14830-4.
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Review of: Ekaterina Melnikova - Zuzanna Bogumił, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tim Buchen, Christian Ganzer, and Maria Senina. The Enemy on Display: The Second World War in Eastern European Museums. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. 190 pp. ISBN 978-1-78238-217-1.
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Review of: Ekaterina Makhotina - Nataliya Danilova. The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK and Russia. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-137 39570-2.
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Review of: Alexandra Smith - Il’ia Kukulin. Mashiny zashumevshego vremeni: Kak sovetskii montazh stal metodom neofitsial’noi kul’tury. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2015. 535 pp. ISBN 978-5-4448-0245-8.
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Review of: Tatiana Borisova - Michael David-Fox. Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-8229-6367-7.
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Review of: Nikolai Mitrokhin - Лори Манчестер. Поповичи в миру: духовенство, интеллигенция и становление современного самосознания в России. Пер. с англ. А. Ю. Полунов. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2015. 448 с. ISBN 978-5-4448-0265-6.
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The paper deals with one of the first university journals in Russia – Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta (Proceedings of Kazan University). Particular attention is paid to the history of creation of Uchenye Zapiski. The related issues of Russian historiography are analyzed. The history of structural and organizational changes that took place in Uchenye Zapiski within 1834–1917 is examined. Based on archival documents, the role of individual editors in the management and functioning of the publication is discussed. The significance of Uchenye Zapiski in the development of scientific communication practices in Russia is revealed, and the relationship between scientific papers published in the journal and Russian social and political life is shown.
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The time of formation and establishment of the national movement in Ireland is considered in this article. Some important aspects of this social phenomenon such as methods, techniques and tools of social impact are mentioned. The age of the nationalism is regarded not only as an important historical stage, but also as a specific period of cultural values formation.
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The features of the functioning of the custom of bride kidnapping in Kabardians in terms of their integration into the legal system of the Russian Empire in the last quarter of the XIX century. The analysis of the administrative and judicial practices related to this custom, examined the activities carried out by the authorities of the Terek region on the reception of certain customs and traditions Kabardians in regulating family relations. It was concluded that these processes resulted in a certain transformation of gender status in traditional society Kabardian.
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On the basis of new archival materials is considered the post-revolutionary period, women's charitable activities in the field of social assistance. Analyzes the work of women's departments in the territory of Udmurtia. It is shown that in the first post-revolutionary decade, women's social activity was aimed at solving the problems of child neglect, unemployment among women and prostitution. Materials of the participation of women's departments of Udmurtia in local committees help the hungry, in the creation of child care centers for the homeless and neglected children, as well as to combat women's unemployment and its consequence - prostitution.
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The article is devoted to the research of woman's gender identity transformation in the conditions of modernization processes in Russian province in the late XIX the early XX c. The on the base of a « woman of a new of the type » concept by the example of Kursk Theatre then life: the author analyzes the process of Formation of women ''s features the which the allow Reckoning Them for Among the women' of a new of the type (the analysis is based on the press materials ).
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The article considers quantitative methods potentials (methods of corpus linguistics) in studying of biographical texts. On the base of autobiographical texts key words and interpretative method «the semiotic square» of A. J. Greimas the author describes the features of men's and women's life scenarios. The given express-analysis allows revealing the peculiarities of autobiography construction by men and women, and shows the dependence of individual histories on cultural scenarios.
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The main purpose of the article — to shed light on the dynamics of the discourse of the Russian establishment on the issue of femininity and the social role of women in society. The material of press in Tyumen region shows the post-Soviet transformation of the discourse of the establishment. The author draws attention to the normative and non-normative patterns of femininity, mechanisms of stigmatization of non-normative patterns of femininity in different historical periods.
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Российская ассоциация исследователей женской истории (РАИЖИ, www.rarwh.ru), Российский национальный комитет Международной федерации исследователей женской истории, сектор этногендерных исследований Института этнологии и антропологии им. Н. Н. Миклухо-Маклая РАН, Рязанский государственный университет им. С. А. Есенина, Рязанская областная универсальная научная библиотека им. М. Горького и Рязанский областной совет женщин при финансовой поддержке Глобального фонда для женщин, Фонда Ф. Эберта и Фонда М. Прохорова провели 9—12 октября 2014 г. очередную (седьмую) международную научную встречу. Название прошедшей конференции — «Пол, политика, политкультурность: гендерные отношения и гендерные системы в прошлом и настоящем».
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