Opportunity Calls: The Moral Economy During Existential Economic Transition In The Ural Mountains And Appalachia, 1991 - 2008,
2022
College of the Holy Cross
Opportunity Calls: The Moral Economy During Existential Economic Transition In The Ural Mountains And Appalachia, 1991 - 2008, Nora Springer
Of Life and History
It is often assumed that economists and businessmen act outside of moral constraints, even in times of existential economic crisis. The econometrics of Chubais and Gaidar, as well as the accounting of Deloitte, have all been used to characterize engineers of transition as cold, academic, and removed from reality. However, in both Appalachia and the Urals, mathematics about what will make a profit is inextricable from moral questions of what should make a profit. The goals of economic transition, and ideology about what economic transition should mean, were baked into the calculations of both transitions. Further, the data used to ...
Ukraine: Experience Of War,
2022
Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukraine: Experience Of War, Natalia Ishchuk
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
"The May issue of OPREE is being published during the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the massive invasion of Putin’s Russian army. The unjust war of aggression launched by Russia in 2014 has been going on for more than eight years. But three months ago, the destructive leader of our neighboring state to the east wished a great victory over Ukraine. This prompted a major slaughter between the two nations."
Popular Protests And Democratization In Post-Soviet Countries: An Analysis Of Why Some Democracy Movements Failed And Others Succeeded,
2022
University of Mississippi
Popular Protests And Democratization In Post-Soviet Countries: An Analysis Of Why Some Democracy Movements Failed And Others Succeeded, David Mcdonald
Honors Theses
This thesis seeks to analyze pro-democracy movements in post-Soviet countries through the lens of existing theories of democratization to determine why a particular protest movement succeeded or failed. Through a qualitative analysis of theories of democratization and four case studies – Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Belarus – this thesis finds that the theories of democratization are ultimately applicable and helpful in understanding these case studies, albeit in different ways. Whereas the theories and their predictions might be proven correct in the cases of Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, the opposite is true in Russia and Belarus, where authoritarian regimes have taken steps to counteract ...
Ukrainian Women: Victims Of Putin's War And Sex Industry Predators,
2022
University of Rhode Island
Ukrainian Women: Victims Of Putin's War And Sex Industry Predators, Donna M. Hughes
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
No abstract provided.
Žene Iz Ukrajine: Žrtve Putinovog Rata I Predatora Seks-Industrije,
2022
Univerzitet Roud Ajlend, SAD
Žene Iz Ukrajine: Žrtve Putinovog Rata I Predatora Seks-Industrije, Dona M. Hjuz
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
No abstract provided.
Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations Against The United States: A Playbook For The Current Crisis In Ukraine,
2022
US Army War College
Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations Against The United States: A Playbook For The Current Crisis In Ukraine, Conrad C. Crane
Articles & Editorials
No abstract provided.
Unrest In Belarus: The Legal Perspectives For Russian Integration And The Potential Western Response,
2022
University of Georgia School of Law
Unrest In Belarus: The Legal Perspectives For Russian Integration And The Potential Western Response, Trevor Eck
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Russia’S War In Ukraine And The Limits Of Religious Diplomacy,
2022
Trinity College, Dublin
Russia’S War In Ukraine And The Limits Of Religious Diplomacy, Ina Merdjanova
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
"The ongoing international efforts to put an end to the bloodshed in Ukraine have exposed the limits of faith-based diplomacy. This is particularly true when church and state embrace each other in a symbiotic alliance, in order to pursue their respective hegemonic ambitions."
Book Review: This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (2020) By Nicole Perlroth,
2022
Penn State Dickinson Law
Book Review: This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (2020) By Nicole Perlroth, Amy C. Gaudion
Dickinson Law Review
No abstract provided.
Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine: What's Religion Got To Do With It?,
2022
George Fox University
Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine: What's Religion Got To Do With It?, Mark R. Elliot
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
Summary
- As of February 24, 2022, as Russian air strikes, missiles, and tanks began pouring into an outmatched Ukraine, the Byzantine calculus of symphonia, of a mutually interdependent church and state, devolved into an unholy alliance joining at the hip a predatory Putin and a sycophantic Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill.
- Especially over the past decade Patriarch Kyrill has tied the fate of his church to that of his patron Putin, the same tragic mistake made by the same church in its defense of tsarist Russia in its death throes.
- Since his accession in 2009, and emphatically since Russia’s moves ...
Chronology Of Church-Related Public Statements On The Russian War Against-Ukraine War, (February 25-March 16, 2022),
2022
George Fox University
Chronology Of Church-Related Public Statements On The Russian War Against-Ukraine War, (February 25-March 16, 2022), Mark R. Elliott
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
No abstract provided.
Activities Of The Jehovah's Witnesses Organization As A "Litmus Test" For Religious Freedom In Ukraine,
2022
the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,” Kyiv, Ukraine
Activities Of The Jehovah's Witnesses Organization As A "Litmus Test" For Religious Freedom In Ukraine, Roman Bogachev, Yana Tsymbalenko, Olena Leovkina, Igor Bogdanovskiy
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
The article deals with the history and present stage of activities of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization in Ukraine. The attitude and actions of a state and the majority of its population towards the activities of the Jehovists and other non-traditional religious communities is viewed as a “litmus test,” which reveals how successfully the principle of religious freedom and freedom of conscience is implemented in public policy. It is emphasized that, unlike during the Soviet period, when the Jehovists were persecuted for their beliefs and missionary work, a required legal framework for free development of this religion has been created ...
Jenny Vorpahl And Dirk Schuster (Eds). Communicating Religion And Atheism In Central And Eastern Europe. (Book Review),
2022
University of Alabama
Jenny Vorpahl And Dirk Schuster (Eds). Communicating Religion And Atheism In Central And Eastern Europe. (Book Review), Oleg Kyselov
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
A review of Jenny Vorpahl and Dirk Schuster (eds). Communicating Religion and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. 312 p. ISBN 978-3-11-054637-8 Hardcover $114.99.
Destructive Russian Orthodox Powerplay,
2022
Rosemont College
Destructive Russian Orthodox Powerplay, Paul B. Mojzes
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
No abstract provided.
Reconciliation Attempts And The Return To Conflict In The Balkans, 2010-2022 (And Parallels To The Russian War On Ukraine),
2022
University of Rijeka
Reconciliation Attempts And The Return To Conflict In The Balkans, 2010-2022 (And Parallels To The Russian War On Ukraine), Vjekoslav Perica
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
"Hopefully there will be soon peace in Ukraine, and another attempt at reconciliation in Western Balkans. Even as mostly symbolic and commemorative practices, these endeavors proved that they improve social trust and reduce interethnic tensions. There still remains the question about the purpose and long-term goals of such reconciliation efforts. In my 2021 book, Reconciliation and Last Days, published in Belgrade, Serbia, I argue that postwar reconciliation projects make sense, provided there is a new beginning for wartime enemies, that is, the peoples, faiths, and states in the region. In other words, the purpose of a longer period of peace ...
Repressive Psychiatry As A Means Of Combating Religious Dissidents In The Soviet Union,
2022
Hryhoriy Skovoroda University in Pereyaslav, Ukraine
Repressive Psychiatry As A Means Of Combating Religious Dissidents In The Soviet Union, Oksana Vysoven, Nina Brehunets, Tetyana Lohvynyuk
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
The article highlights the impossibility of the coexistence of modern civilization in conditions of impunity for crimes against humanity, which have no statute of limitations, but due to the lack of punishment and concealment of information it creates even greater crimes. Many of the unjustly convicted political prisoners have been rehabilitated since the condemnation of Stalin's cult of personality and his crimes in Soviet Ukraine since 1956. As a result of the mass rehabilitation of political prisoners, the regime gained serious opposition, some of whom сonsisted of evangelical Baptist communities who advocated genuine freedom of conscience. The Soviet regime ...
Memory, Trauma, And Religious Identity,
2022
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Memory, Trauma, And Religious Identity, Petro Kotliarov, Valentyna Kuryliak, Stefaniia Demchuk
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
The so-called ‘memorial turn’ triggered a huge shift in historical studies of the late 20th century. It brought into focus stories of the ‘small people’ previously left out from the ‘grand narrative.’ For post-Soviet countries, the memorial turn can be perceived as an indicator of changes in society associated with the opportunity and interest of previously oppressed social groups and religious movements in finding their "roots," when the reconstruction of personal history becomes the history of the church and strengthens collective identity. In this essay, we attempted at reconstructing the traumatic history of the "little" people in the context of ...
Real And Declared Individual Freedom In Legislative Acts On Freedom Of Religion During The Soviet Era,
2022
National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Auditing (NASAA), Kyiv, Ukraine
Real And Declared Individual Freedom In Legislative Acts On Freedom Of Religion During The Soviet Era, Tetiana Havryliuk
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
This article examines anthropological grounds for the formation of fundamental documents on freedom of conscience and religion in the Soviet Union. It also considers ideological prerequisites for the development of a new type of person—the Soviet man. A comparison is made between the two main ideological struggles with religious consciousness–state-church relations and the sphere of education. The separation of the church from the state and the state from the church, which were enshrined by the relevant decrees of the Soviet government, resulted in a false idea that the Soviet citizen is free in his/her worldview choice. However ...
Development And Changes In The Ergo Design Of Protestant Churches In Ukraine (1991-2021),
2022
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
Development And Changes In The Ergo Design Of Protestant Churches In Ukraine (1991-2021), Valentyna Kuryliak, Volodymyr Dudarets, Valeriy Bulatov
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
The article presents the evolution of ergonomics and design of Protestant churches in Ukraine in the period from 1991-2021. Since Ukraine left the Soviet Union, the Soviet worldview of Ukrainian Protestants has gradually changed, which, in turn, influenced the formation of the subject-spatial environment and, in general, the ergo design of Protestant churches. The concept presented in the article is that ergo design is similar to a living organism, which changes under the influence of external factors, such as the emotional feeling of believers, political and economic changes, etc. This influence was especially evident during the transitional period on the ...
Language And Cultural Identity In Post-Soviet Frozen Conflicts,
2021
Old Dominion University
Language And Cultural Identity In Post-Soviet Frozen Conflicts, Irina Paquette
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
How we, as humans, define ourselves and our national and ethnic distinction often centers on visible characteristics—physical features, group traditions, and language. Of those, language is both mutable and plays such a central role in daily life that it is often a hotly contested and manipulated factor in defining national identity. This paper examines the role language has played in the formation of crisis situations in the former Soviet Union. Linguistic identity has been used as a basis to establish the legitimacy of independence for both Soviet republics and separatist groups within those republics. As such, it is a ...