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post-Soviet Russia (post-soviet + russia)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences66%
Psychology22%

Selected Abstracts

Narratives as Cultural Tools in Sociocultural Analysis: Official History in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

ETHOS, Issue 4 2000
Professor James V. Wertsch
An approach to sociocultural analysis based on the ideas of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and others is used to provide the foundation for discussing narratives as "cultural tools." The production of official, state sponsored historical narratives is examined from this perspective, and it is argued that this production process may be shaped as much by dialogic encounters with other narratives as by archival information. These claims are harnessed to examine the production of post-Soviet Russian history textbooks, especially their presentation of the events surrounding the Russian Civil War of 1918,20. [source]

Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2007
SARAH PHILLIPS
Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention. Michele Rivkin-Fish. Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2006. 253 pp. [source]

Entrepreneurship and Post-socialist Growth,

OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS, Issue 1 2005
Daniel Berkowitz
Abstract We use a rich regional data set to obtain a statistical characterization of the relationship between entrepreneurial activity and economic growth within post-Soviet Russia. Russia is a useful laboratory for evaluating links between entrepreneurial activity and growth because of the striking variation in initial conditions, the adoption of policy reforms, and entrepreneurial activity observed across its large number of regions in the early stages of transition. Russia has also experienced striking regional variation in subsequent growth. Conditional on variations in initial conditions and policy reform measures, regional entrepreneurial activity exhibits a statistically and quantitatively significant relationship with subsequent economic growth. [source]

Concepts of Fascism in Contemporary Russia and the West

POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2005
Andreas Umland
During the 1990s, Western comparative fascist studies underwent a process of consolidation. A growing number of scholars agreed to and now use various forms of a more or less consensual definition of fascism as an extremely nationalistic and revolutionary ideology. In contrast, the conceptualisations and applications of ,fascism' in post-Soviet Russia are contradictory continuing Soviet misuse of the term. Increasing anti-democratic tendencies in Russian politics and society suggest closer attention by Western scholars to putative post-Soviet fascisms. [source]

Superpresidentialism and the Military: The Russian Variant

PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2008
ZOLTAN BARANY
This article explains the evolution of the presidential-military nexus in post-Soviet Russia. Why has the role of presidents become the overriding factor in Russian civil-military relations? What explains the differences between the relationships Russia's two post-Soviet presidents, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, developed with the armed forces? I argue that following the 1993 crisis between the president and the legislature, and even more so after the 1996 presidential elections, the Russian polity has gradually become a superpresidential authoritarian system and the type of executive-military relations that has evolved is consistent with this designation. Rather than establishing civilian oversight of the armed forces shared between the legislative and the executive branches, Yeltsin and Putin created a state in which civilian control has become synonymous with presidential control. [source]

Analytical space and work in Russia: Some remarks on past and present,

THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 2 2005
IGOR M. KADYROV
In this paper, the author outlines the historical-cultural picture in the former USSR and post-Soviet Russia. He looks at some facets of psychoanalysis in Russia in the years immediately before and after the October Revolution as well as in its recent history, exploring the implicit question of how the wider social context, and specifi cally totalitarian and post-totalitarian reality, has infl uenced psychoanalytic work and analytic space in this country. With the help of Sebek's concept of the totalitarian object and Britton's formulations about the triangular space, the author attempts to understand the interaction of external and internal space and to give an introduction to the problem of establishing the analytic setting as well as fi nding some new possibilities of enlarging the space for new psychoanalysts in Russia. [source]

Through the Iron Curtain: analytical space in post-Soviet Russia

THE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2006
Angela Connolly
Abstract: This paper discusses the experience of working as an analyst in post-totalitarian Russia in order to explore some of the general theoretical and clinical issues involved in working in a different cultural and linguistic context, and the particular problems encountered in the Russian cultural context. It describes how the Soviet regime worked actively to create a new totally collective mentality through the destruction of individual differences and the collectivization of private space, and the effects this produced in the individual and collective psyche. It examines the difficulties encountered when working with Russian analysands in creating and maintaining the setting, in preserving boundaries, in creating analytical space, and in working with certain particular transference-countertransference dynamics. It focuses on the contrast between my own Western experience of space and the spatial experience of the analysands, and describes the process of helping them use analytical space to interiorize and create a new experience of psychic space. The paper uses dreams to illustrate some of these dynamics, and the particular psychic problems associated with the traumas created by totalitarian regimes. [source]

,Spreading grace' in post-Soviet Russia (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 1 2010
Milena Benovska-Sabkova
The article addresses the revival of Russian Orthodoxy as a prominent domain in the lives of many Russians. The six authors are interested in the underlying question: What makes Russian Orthodoxy a relevent and modern source of morality and identity? The circumstances of this branch of Christianity significantly differ from what has been discussed in recent years as ,the anthropology of Christianity'. The article proposes a thematic approach in order to connect the exploration of Russian Orthodoxy to the study of other denominations. A key-area is the disctinctive articulation between continuity and change, which is crucial to the understanding of some branches of Protestantism as well. [source]