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Borik, Olga. "Aspect and reference time /." Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006015318.html.

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Grönke, Kadja. "Russische Quellenpublikationen in deutschen Übersetzungen." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220820.

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Schneider, Anna. "Understanding primary meaning : a study with reference to requests in Russian and British English." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608873.

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McAteer, Cathy. "A study of Penguin's Russian Classics (1950-1964), with special reference to David Magarshack." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/ffcf2439-b779-4190-8b61-a0fffb817f64.

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This thesis analyses the figures and events behind Penguin’s twentieth-century re-launch of the nineteenth-century Russian literary canon. It explores the combination of factors behind Penguin’s makeover of Russian literature, arriving fifty years after the first translations that can be considered ‘commercial’ by Constance Garnett. In this project, primary research is viewed through the lens of sociological concepts as a means of interrogating the dynamics and relations behind the Penguin Russian Classic titles. My analysis of Penguin’s agents – the founder Allen Lane, the Penguin Classics editorial team, and the earliest Russian-English literary translators – and their agency relies on archive-based research, which has enabled me to construct evidence-based case studies of the key figures and their practice. I have made a particular case study of the prominent Penguin translator David Magarshack, one of the longest serving translators of the early corps, analysing his notes on the literary translation process and the correspondence he exchanged with Penguin. In a departure from traditional sociological approaches, I have juxtaposed the study of Magarshack’s personal background, career and Penguin relations with a text-based study of his translation work, with comparisons to other translators as appropriate, as a way of identifying and understanding the finer details of his practice which, otherwise, would not be revealed. I argue that it is thanks to the collaboration of Penguin’s agents that Penguin’s Russian Classics represent a significant stage in Russian literature in modern Anglophone translation. By combining publishing innovation with translations written in good, modern English and aspiring to Rieu’s ‘principle of equivalent effect’, Penguin brought classic Russian literature into the twentieth-century to suit a self-improving, inquisitive, post-war British reader. This thesis examines for the first time how Penguin and its publishing and translation practices catered to this target readership and thereby generated a new appreciation for classic Russian literature.
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Howlett, Bai Yun. "Cultural transfer in translation, with particular reference to Russian and Chinese translation of Dickens' 'David Copperfield'." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400020.

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Hippisley, Andrew. "Declarative derivation : a network morphology account of Russian word formation with reference to nouns denoting 'person'." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363798.

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Tilly, Helen Louise. "Lidiia Chukovskaia : an examination of her literary career with reference to the values of the Russian intelligentsia." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392942.

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Kiszko, Martin Edmund. "The origins and place of the balalaika in Russian culture : its migration to the USA, and the dissemination of balalaika orchestras in America, with particular reference to the Kasura and Kutin collections at the University of Illinois." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/63aa1b7e-5ac5-4e6e-ab2f-11d611e694be.

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Cosgrove, Simon Anthony. "Nash sovremennik 1981-1991 : a case study in the politics of Soviet literature with special reference to Russian nationalism." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317818/.

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This study of the Moscow-based, Russian-language 'thick' journal, Nash sovremennik, with special reference to Russian nationalism, in the last decade of the Soviet polity (1981-1991), is based on a distinction between popular and statist Russian nationalist tendencies. In the conditions of an 'imperial state', such as the Soviet Union, it is argued, nationalist ideology exhibited a strong polarisation between a 'popular' tendency, oriented towards the idea of the nation; and a 'statist' tendency, oriented towards the state. The exigencies of Soviet politics meant that both popular and statist nationalist tendencies appeared in the journal in 'truncated' form: the popular nationalist tendency lacked an idea of statehood appropriate to its vision of the nation; and the statist tendency was inhibited from advocating a policy of thorough-going cultural Russification, appropriate to its views of the state. In the Gorbachev period, while Westernisng policies tended to make nationalists of both types oppose reform, the issue of the state was fundamental in determining the conservative political orientation of nationalists. There are five conclusions of the study, with regard to the period 1981-1991: 1 Nash sovremennik played an important role in the articulation of Russian nationalist ideology; 2 the publication policy of Nash sovremennik was strongly influenced by the appointments to the key internal posts, not only of chief editor, but also of deputy chief editor; 3 conservative political elites in the Soviet Union sought to use nationalist ideology to control and limit reform; 4 Russian nationalist ideology was characterised by a marked polarity between statist and popular tendencies; 5 the 'imperial' nature of the Soviet state, and the ethnic heterogeneity of Soviet elites and masses alike, made Russian nationalist ideology unsuitable, as an ideological instrument, for Soviet political elites.
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Ca'Zorzi, Michele. "Exchange rate instability and economic reform : with specific reference to Russian exchange rate reforms in the early 1990's." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/109296/.

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This thesis is concerned with the origins of exchange rate instability and the scope for economic reform. Several aspects of recent macroeconomic instability in Russia are discussed which, we argue, reveal the origins of this problem. The first chapter combines currency substitution and price stickiness. It aims to account for the weakness of the real exchange rate and the net accumulation of foreign exchange, that so frequently characterise unstable economies. The essence of the discussion is that, when faced with severe tight controls on capital, agents are able to substitute foreign currency for local currency via the current account. The model has a simple dynamic structure, similar to the Dornbusch model. The second chapter uses the Cohen and Michel procedure to extend the time inconsistency approach to an open economy, a-la-Dornbusch framework. A special loss function is used, but the same methodology may be applied to address other economic issues. When time consistency is assumed, future loose monetary policies are foreseen and hence have current consequences. We argue that the more the government has an inflationary instinct, the greater the experience of undervaluation and the fall in liquidity. The third chapter builds on the work of the second. It is argued that even in this open economy. a-la-Dornbusch framework, the standard result holds: credibility is enhanced by delegating monetary policy to a conservative central banker. The economic consequences of this are twofold: a smaller real exchange rate undervaluation and a reduced fall in liquidity. In addition, we propose an extension of this analysis by letting currency substitution, between domestic and foreign assets, be the alternative assumption to perfect capital mobility. The assumption of currency substitution leaves largely unchanged the dynamic structure of the analysis, but gives rise to a quite different economic interpretation. The fourth chapter describes the reasons why policy makers decide on restrictive foreign exchange policies. A currency substitution framework is used to highlight the consequences of foreign exchange leakages between official and black markets. The model is solved by applying the technique suggested by Dixit and Currie to determine the free variable as a function of the predetermined variables of the system A fifth chapter attempts to pull together the main arguments, and conclusions arising from these, which have been discussed throughout the thesis.
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Zaviyskyy, Roman. "Shaping modern Russian Orthodox Trinitarian theology : a critical study of Sergii Bukgakov with reference to Vladimir Lossky and Georgii Florovsky." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.552802.

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This thesis explores the Trinitarian theology of Marxist-turned-Orthodox priest, Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), in the context of his theological formation, the controversies he engaged himself in, and the modern religious philosophical tradition during Russia's Silver Age. The study combines systematic, contextual, and genetic perspectives on Bulgakov. It examines the Orthodox Trinitarian theology shaped by two competing approaches-that of the neo-patristic synthesis of Georgii Florovsky (1893- 1979), Vladimir Lossky (1903-1958) and the sophiology of Bulgakov. The primary focus is on Bulgakov's trinitarian thought both within the context of his creative appropriation of the legacy of Solov'ev and within the context of his early theological formation in the pre-exilic period (-1922). The thesis reveals that what has been generally known as a clash between the neo-patristic synthesis and sophiology in the milieu of the emigre theologians in the diaspora (1935-37) had in fact already occurred in pre-revolutionary Russia in terms of the clash between the apologists of imiaslavie (1913-18) and their critics. It also analyses Bulgakov's trinitarian theology in its sophianic interpretation in light of his trinitarian critique of German Idealism. This study involves three claims: First, it argues that Bulgakov was instrumental in reviving Palamite theology that later in the diaspora became conventionalised in Russian Orthodoxy. He would increasingly reinterpret St Gregory Palamas's distinction between God's essence and energies as his own distinction between God as Absolute and Absolute-Relative, and between the Divine Sophia and Creaturely Sophia. Second, Bulgakov's theology in an ecumenical key, following the insights of Vasilii Bolotov (1854-1900), is the most promising Orthodox attempt to overcome the Filioque impasse in the course of the history of the East-West controversy. In contrast to his fellow Orthodox, Bulgakov was quite critical of the Photian treatment of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father alone- monopatrism; at the same time, he critiqued the traditional Western conception of the Filioque. Third, Bulgakov's insightful and constructive critique of the patristic and scholastic heritage can help to rectify deficiently formulated Orthodox and Catholic Trinitarian and pneumatological taxonomies. The argument proceeds by an examination of East-West usage of Trinitarian terminology, together with a detailed survey of overlooked formative factors in Bulgakov's theological evolution, leading up to a close reading of his triadological and pneumatological works through the prism of a new antinomic grammar, which Bulgakov employed in order to address theological problems. The thesis also offers an evaluation and critique of Bulgakov's sophiologically conditioned theology.
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Novikova, O. V. "Overriding rules and public policy in private international law : a comparative analysis with particular reference to English and Russian law." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502133.

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Topaj, Nathalie. "Grammatical and pragmatic use of referential expressions in picture-based narratives of bilingual and monolingual children in Russian and German." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/21672.

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Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Verwendung referentieller Ausdrücke im narrativen Diskurs monolingualer und bilingualer Kinder im Russischen und Deutschen. Insgesamt wurden 188 Erzählungen untersucht, elizitiert durch Bildergeschichten von 60 bilingualen und 68 monolingualen Kindern in 3 Altersgruppen (4-, 5- und 6-Jährige). Das Hauptziel der Studie war herauszufinden, wie russisch-deutsch bilinguale Kinder und monolinguale Kinder der jeweiligen Sprachen mit der Wahl der referentiellen Ausdrücke im narrativen Diskurs umgehen und ob ihre Leistung und Entwicklung in Bezug auf die grammatische und pragmatische Verwendung referentieller Ausdrücke für die Einführung, Weiterführung und Wiedereinführung von Referenten ähnlich sind. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass Kinder bereits im Alter von 4 Jahren ein gut ausgebildetes Repertoire an referentiellen Ausdrücken haben und ein gutes Verständnis für deren pragmatische Verwendung sowie für die Unterscheidung zwischen den Informationsstatus von Referenten new (neu), given (gegeben) und accessible (zugänglich) zeigen. Die Verwendung von referentiellen Ausdrücken entwickelt sich bei monolingualen und bilingualen Kindern in der analysierten Altersspanne signifikant, insbesondere in Bezug auf ihre Wahl für die Einführung und Wiedereinführung von Referenten. Trotz teilweise signifikanter Unterschiede in den Altersgruppen monolingualer und bilingualer Kinder zeigen alle Stichproben ähnliche Ergebnisse spätestens im Alter von 6 Jahren, d.h. dass bilinguale Kinder in der Lage sind, im Laufe des Spracherwerbsprozesses bis zu diesem Alter die Referenzsysteme ihrer beiden Sprachen entsprechend zu reorganisieren und referentielle Ausdrücke zielsprachlich zu verwenden. Gleichzeitig verwenden bilinguale Kinder ähnliche referentielle Strategien und zeigen teilweise parallele Entwicklungsmuster in beiden Sprachen. Solche Parallelen sind zum Teil auch zwischen den monolingualen Stichproben im Russischen und Deutschen zu beobachten.<br>This dissertation deals with the use of referential expressions in the narrative discourse of monolingual and bilingual children in Russian and German. A total of 188 narratives, elicited with picture stories from 60 bilingual and 68 monolingual children in 3 age groups (4, 5, and 6 years of age) were examined. The main aim of the study was to find out how Russian-German bilingual children and monolingual children of the respective languages deal with the choice of referential expressions in narrative discourse and whether their performance and development in terms of grammatical and pragmatic use of referential expressions for introducing, maintaining and reintroducing referents is similar. The results indicate that children already have a well-developed repertoire of referential expressions at age 4 and demonstrate a good understanding of the pragmatic use of referential expressions and of the distinction between different information statuses of referents, defined as new, given, and accessible. The use of referential expressions develops significantly in monolingual and bilingual children in the analyzed age range, especially with regard to the choice of referential expressions for the introduction and reintroduction of referents. Despite partly significant differences within age groups in monolingual and bilingual children, all samples show similar results by age 6 at the latest, i.e., bilingual children are able to reorganize the reference systems of their two languages accordingly during the language acquisition process up to this age and to use referential expressions in a manner that corresponds to the target language. At the same time, bilingual children use similar referential strategies and show partly parallel developmental patterns in their two languages. Such parallels are also observed between monolingual samples in Russian and German to some extent.
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Davie, James David. "Making sense of the nonstandard : a study of borrowing and word-formation in 1990s Russian youth slang, with particular reference to the language of the fanzine." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263959.

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Chubarova, Tatiana Vladimirovna. "Occupational welfare in Russia with special reference to health care." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1663/.

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Relying on new empirical data, derived from a survey, and supplemented by an extensive study of available secondary material, this thesis represents the first attempt systematically to explore key issues regarding occupational welfare in Russia, with special reference to health care. The thesis is divided into three parts: a discussion of the problematic; an investigation of the evolution of policy; and an examination of primary and secondary empirical data. The fundamental theoretical problems of occupational welfare are approached in the light of research in the West, in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia with emphasis both on divergences and commonalities. It is argued that any endeavour to separate Soviet and Western experiences is artificial and ultimately unproductive. Rather, the analytical penetration of ideological barriers renders possible an examination of their fruitful interaction. On the basis of existing knowledge two perspectives of occupational welfare -- social policy and organisation -- are introduced. An attempt to formulate a general definition of the notion of occupational welfare is also made. The evolution of occupational welfare and in particular its health care component are examined in their context, from the Tsarist era, during the Soviet Union and through to post-Soviet times, with a concrete aim of elucidating any continuities in policy pathways. Contemporary issues are associated with the initial outcomes of health reforms in the 1990s that are indispensable for projecting the future prospects of occupational welfare. The empirical component of the thesis reports the results of fieldwork carried out in Moscow between 1995 and 1997. The brief was to explore the contemporary status of occupational welfare in Russia in the context of changing social policy aims and methods evolving in the course of the transformation. The attitudes of senior managers of industrial enterprises providing in-kind health services for their employees were investigated, as were employers' actual health responsibilities in the light of the introduction of compulsory health insurance legislation. It is argued that occupational welfare has a distinct sphere of operation and offers potential, not only for the survival of the service area but also for its further development in the evolving socio-political environment. The thesis is a first step towards a deeper analysis of occupational welfare in Russia: an audit of outstanding issues, although not exhaustive, completes the account as an aid to further discussion and research.
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Fennell, Nicholas. "The Russians on Athos, with special reference to the Prophet Elijah Skete." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242268.

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Zschau, Annette Y. "A comparative profile of the Kaliningrad (Russia) and Gdańsk (Poland) regions as investment environments for foreign small to medium-sized enterprises, with additional reference to Russia's and Poland's SEZ regimes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431454.

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Chotova, Elena. "Les références culturelles dans les titres d'article de la presse russe contemporaine." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENL025/document.

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Notre sujet de recherche est l'étude du phénomène citationnel dans les titres d'articles de la presse russe contemporaine. Les citations présentes dans les titres renvoient à différentes références culturelles textuelles : des citations d'oeuvres littéraires, d'écrits politiques, de textes de chansons, de titres ou de répliques de films, etc. La présente étude est réalisée sur 25 journaux et magazines des années 2002-2004 touchant un lectorat très large, du fait de leur tirage allant de 50000 à 3 millions d'exemplaires. Nous démontrons dans notre étude que ces citations appartiennent au phénomène appelé dans la langue russe "krylatye slova" (paroles ailées) qui désigne le phénomène des citations courantes. Ce phénomène, qui existe dans d'autres langues, n'a jamais été jusqu'à présent l'objet d'étude en tant que phénomène linguistique et culturel en France. L'utilisation de ces citations courantes, connues d'un large public à une époque donnée, dans un pays donné, est un marqueur d'identification nationale pour les locuteurs, qui n'ont pu avoir accès à la majorité de ces références que par l'exposition à une éducation commune et à une vie dans un champ culturel commun. Notre étude de l'utilisation de ces citations dans les titres d'article de la presse russe contemporaine donne donc un aperçu sur les références qui constituent le fonds culturel commun des Russes d'aujourd'hui. Notre étude propose également un instrument accessible à tous permettant de découvrir et recenser ces références, actualisées à une époque donnée<br>The subject of our research work is the study of the quotations phenomena that appear in the articles titles of the contemporary russian press. These quotations refer to source texts belonging to different categories of the culture : literary works, political works, songs, movies,... Our research work is based on the analysis of articles published in 25 russian newspapers and magazines, mainly on the period 2002-2004. These newspapers and magazines address a wide public, with prints up to 3 millions. We demonstrate in our work that the quotations that may be found in the article titles are "krylatye slova" (winged words, that is to say usual quotations). This phenomena exist as such in russian and german linguistics but has not been studied until now as a specific phenomena in french linguistics. The usage of winged words, quotations widely known by the general public at a given period of time in a specific country, is a sign of national identification for the speakers, as these quotations refer to cultural knowledge they could acquire only through a common education and exposure to life in the same country. Our work gives an overview of the common cultural references of the contemporary russian people, and proposes a tool, accessible to everybody, to discover these references, actualized at a specific period of time
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Engmann, Dorothy. "Corruption, taxation, and loan conditionality : a contribution to the macroeconomics of reform and transition with reference to Russia." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2324/.

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The primary objective of this thesis is to contribute to the debate on the reasons behind Russia's poor economic performance in its first decade after the fall of communism, by examining the role of IMF economic programs in the reform process.In particular, we are interested in the failure of neo-classical models of the market economy, upon which economic reform programs were based, to predict the outcomes in Russia. The purpose of the work is to offer a number of theoretical models which incorporate certain characteristics, such as political and economic motivations of both the IMF and Russian government, large-scale public sector corruption, a substantial underground economy, and a weak tax base, and which are capable predicting the resulting failings in the IMF-Russia economic reform program. In chapter 2, we present a theory of conditionality in which the recipient, aware that the lender faces political and economic motivations in the conditional development lending process, undertakes a game with the lender in which the recipient attempts to undertake the least amount of compliance that guarantees it future loans. There is an exogenous conflict between economics and politics within the lending agency that determines its degree of tolerance for policy (non-) compliance. We then analyse how the donor, in an attempt to regulate its internal conflict, may adopt "rules of thumb" in the lending process which pre-define the actions it will take in response to the lender's level of compliance. The recipient's strategy depends on the payoffs it obtains from the actions available to the lender under each "rule of thumb". We examine how the IMF-Russia relationship from 1992-2002 has elements of the games we model. In chapter 3, we model corruption a proportional tax on labour income in a three-sector economy with a corrupt bureaucracy, a legitimate private sector, and a shadow economy, and examine how tighter fiscal policies may result in a rise in corruption. The rise in corruption negatively affects legitimate private sector employment and output. We suggest that the Russian economy has a similar three sector structure and analyse the impact of reduced spending and increased taxation on corruption and employment. In chapter 4, we modify Alesina and Tabellini's (1987) model of time inconsistency to allow for a weak tax base and then apply it to post-communist Russia. In particular we examine two non-consecutive time periods in which, for different reasons, public debt could not be used to finance the government's budget deficit: 1992-94 and post August 17 1998. We suggest that Russia did in fact move from one sub-optimal position to another, and we raise questions about the optimality of Russia's current monetary policies. In chapter 5, we examine the optimality of monetary policy in the presence of bureaucratic corruption. We model corruption as a proportional tax on firm revenue and a positive function of the official tax rate. The higher the official tax, the higher the corruption tax levied by public bureaucrats in order to supplement their decreasing official net wage, and the lower is output. We find that under both discretion and commitment, inflation is higher, and output and taxation are lower, than when there is no corruption.
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Grigorian, Natasha. "The use of myth in European Symbolism, with reference to selected examples of Symbolist poetry and painting in France, Germany and Russia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424886.

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Vandycke, Nancy. "The economics of the reproduction 'crisis' in transition Europe : the effect of shifts in values, income and uncertainty (with special reference to Russia)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2606/.

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This thesis investigates the causes for the abrupt, universal and virtually unprecedented decline in the total fertility rate in transition Europe. Using evidence from Russia, it tests two competing hypotheses on the fertility decline: the demographic and economic hypotheses. Empirical findings can be summarized as follows: I find insufficient support for the demographic hypothesis-the fertility decline in Russia cannot satisfactorily be explained by a simultaneous shift in values and attitudes towards reproduction and timing of births. In contrast, I provide preliminary cross-regional evidence to support the economic hypothesis-regions with the largest fall in (the proxy for) income and large uncertainty experienced the largest declines in the fertility rates. This result is consistent with Becker's economic model of reproductive behaviour, insofar as it establishes a positive relationship between changes in income and fertility. It however introduces an additional explanatory variable: people's perception of uncertainty. In a preliminary attempt to reconcile the standard economic model with these findings, a simple model of households' reproductive decision is developed. It shows that each household tends to postpone the decision for an incremental child, whenever there is widespread uncertainty. It suggests that, if the individual decision to procrastinate is replicated over a large number of households, it can lead to an aggregate, short-term fall in the fertility rate. Provided that conclusions for the transition European region can be drawn from the Russian evidence, this inquiry shows that fertility has declined in response to a lower income and higher uncertainty: it reflects the deterioration in the quality of life and a loss in welfare. Thus, it is a strong negative indicator of the transition process.
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Buduchev, Vitaly. "La fabrique médiatique des élections biélorusses : la lecture nationale de l’événement et les représentations transnationales à l’épreuve des dynamiques coopératives." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL018.

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Ce travail est consacré aux journalistes des quotidiens russes et français qui couvrent l’actualité politique depuis le terrain biélorusse. Les représentations de ceux-ci, nationales mais également transnationales, sont au cœur de nos interrogations. Leurs interactions coopératives permettant de fabriquer les élections biélorusses pour les publics russes et français est un autre aspect de ce travail. Leur discours, encadré par le projet éditorial de chacun des journaux pour lesquels ils travaillent, est le troisième point que cette thèse éclaire. Nous tâchons d’identifier les valeurs communes faisant adhérer les acteurs au monde de la production de l’information à Minsk, activé par les reporters étrangers. De plus, nous révélons des dynamiques internes aux groupes prenant part à la production mutuelle de l’information, qui font en sorte que ce monde est composé de communautés distinctes, réunies autour de leurs objectifs, leurs identités propres, ayant un discours propre. La question des frontières des communautés se pose ainsi, et permet de faire émerger l’équipe des reporters étrangers et la communauté opposante biélorusse. La structure de ces deux communautés, les rapports entre les membres de celles-ci, leurs conventions internes, leurs rapports aux coéquipiers et aux étrangers du groupe sont également des questions que ce travail se pose. Enfin, nous interrogeons les résultats de cette coopération, qui s’inscrivent dans les projets éditoriaux des journaux russes et français. Il s’agit de l’expression des logiques professionnelles à l’échelle éditoriale, visibles à travers l’énonciation des titres de presse<br>This work focuses on the journalists from Russian and French daily newspapers who cover political events on the Belarussian territory. Their own national and transnational representations, are at the center of our questioning. The way their cooperative interactions elaborate the Russian and French audience's perception of the Belarusian elections is another aspect of this work. Their narrative, framed by each newspaper's editorial project for which they work is the third aspect this thesis explores.Our goal is to identify the common values that tie together the different actors of the world of information in Minsk, which is motivated by foreign reporters. Furthermore, we shed light on inner dynamics within the groups that take part in the mutual production of information, which create distinct communities that make up this world and are united around their own objectives, their own identities, and their own narrative. This is where the matter of borders between these communities lies and allows us to reveal the foreign reporters' team and the Belarusian dissident community. This work also interrogates the structures of both communities, the relationships between their respective members, their inner conventions, the relations between colleagues and individuals outside of the group. Finally, we explore the results of such cooperation, which are in line with the editorial projects of the Russian and French newspapers. Thus we analyze the expression of professional logistics on an editorial scale that transpires through the enunciation of the different press titles
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Yaverbaum, Oksana Vladimirovna. "Metaphorical expressions of biblical and sacral origin in Russian secular literary texts, with reference to their English equivalents." Diss., 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17864.

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In this dissertation, I examine metaphorical expressions of biblical and sacral origin (bibleisms) that occur in Russian narrative literary texts. The interpretation of bibleisms is carried out within the framework of interaction theories of metaphor, making it possible to account for the use of bibleisms in Modern Russian, and for the role of their original meanings in the development of their new metaphorical associations. This is viewed as a set of intertextual relationships between the biblical and sacral texts, the Modern Russian language and the literary texts in which the expressions occur. Different types of metaphor are distinguished in terms of interaction theory. This has implications for the translation of bibleisms. It is demonstrated that in different interactive situations, the same bibleism can be referred to different types of metaphor, and hence the translation procedure may only be determined by taking into account the metaphorical language in each individual case.<br>Afrikaans & Theory of Literature<br>M.A. (Theory of Literature)
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BUTLER, NANCY ELLEN. "Mother Russia and the Socialist Fatherland: Women and the Communist Party of Canada, 1932-1941, with specific reference to the activism of Dorothy Livesay and Jim Watts." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6213.

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This dissertation traces a shift in the Communist Party of Canada, from the 1929 to 1935 period of militant class struggle (generally known as the ‘Third Period’) to the 1935-1939 Popular Front Against Fascism, a period in which Communists argued for unity and cooperation with social democrats. The CPC’s appropriation and redeployment of bourgeois gender norms facilitated this shift by bolstering the CPC’s claims to political authority and legitimacy. ‘Woman’ and the gendered interests associated with women—such as peace and prices—became important in the CPC’s war against capitalism. What women represented symbolically, more than who and what women were themselves, became a key element of CPC politics in the Depression decade. Through a close examination of the cultural work of two prominent middle-class female members, Dorothy Livesay, poet, journalist and sometime organizer, and Eugenia (‘Jean’ or ‘Jim’) Watts, reporter, founder of the Theatre of Action, and patron of the Popular Front magazine New Frontier, this thesis utilizes the insights of queer theory, notably those of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler, not only to reconstruct both the background and consequences of the CPC’s construction of ‘woman’ in the 1930s, but also to explore the significance of the CPC’s strategic deployment of heteronormative ideas and ideals for these two prominent members of the Party.<br>Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2010-11-30 21:57:57.33
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