Search Results - "Dissolution of the Soviet Union"

Performing agriculture in Post-Soviet Ukraine by Grey, Alastair

“…Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, orthodox economists and political commentators have problematised the way in which Ukraine’s transition towards an agricultural market economy has entailed the articulation of market rationale with what are perceived to be contradictory rationalities and logics. …”
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Poetics of Authenticity by Burenius, Axel

“…Based on tape-recorded interviews with a multitude of historical eyewitnesses, Svetlana Aleksievich’s five-volume literary project Golosa utopii depicts some of the most calamitous events of Soviet history – the Second World War, the Soviet-Afghan war, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This thesis seeks to provide the first systematic study of the different social, historical and cultural factors which have shaped Aleksievich’s genre-transgressive writing, which is marked by both historiographical and literary aspirations. …”
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