Researching In The Former Soviet Union

Author : Jasmin Dall'agnola,Allyson Edwards,Marnie Howlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367699931

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Researching in the Former Soviet Union by Jasmin Dall'agnola,Allyson Edwards,Marnie Howlett Pdf

Written for early-career scholars still in the planning stages of their research, this book explores some of the challenges researchers face when conducting fieldwork in the former Soviet region. It addresses key questions, including: What difficulties do scholars, especially females, encounter when researching in the region? How does an early-career scholars' positionality - especially their nationality, ethnicity, and sexuality - contribute to their experiences of inclusion, exclusion and access while conducting fieldwork? How do early-career scholars navigate issues of personal safety in the field? How do junior academics successfully conduct high-risk research? The book includes contributors from both the region and Western countries, paying particular attention to the ways researchers' subjectivities shape how they are received in the region, which, in turn, influences how they write about and disseminate their research. The book also explores ways to continue research away from the field through the use of digital methods when physical access is not possible.

Author : Jasmin Dall'Agnola,Allyson Edwards,Marnie Howlett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000803525

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Researching in the Former Soviet Union by Jasmin Dall'Agnola,Allyson Edwards,Marnie Howlett Pdf

Written for early-career scholars still in the planning stages of their research, this book explores some of the challenges researchers face when conducting fieldwork in the former Soviet region. It addresses key questions, including: What difficulties do scholars, especially females, encounter when researching in the region? How does an early-career scholars’ positionality – especially their nationality, ethnicity, and sexuality – contribute to their experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and access while conducting fieldwork? How do early-career scholars navigate issues of personal safety in the field? How do junior academics successfully conduct high-risk research? The book includes contributors from both the region and Western countries, paying particular attention to the ways researchers’ subjectivities shape how they are received in the region, which, in turn, influence how they write about and disseminate their research. The book also explores ways to continue research away from the field through the use of digital methods when physical access is not possible.

Author : Anthony E. Reinsch,Jennifer I. Considine,Igor Lavrovsky,Canadian Energy Research Institute
Publisher : Calgary : Canadian Energy Research Institute
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
ISBN : 0920522823

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Oil in the Former Soviet Union by Anthony E. Reinsch,Jennifer I. Considine,Igor Lavrovsky,Canadian Energy Research Institute Pdf

Author : J. J. Dongarra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
ISBN : UCSD:31822037140837

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Parallel Processing Research in the Former Soviet Union by J. J. Dongarra Pdf

Author : Sergius L. Kuzmin
Publisher : Pensoft Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9546420174

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Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union by Sergius L. Kuzmin Pdf

Author : Jeroen Huisman,Anna Smolentseva,Isak Froumin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319529806

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25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries by Jeroen Huisman,Anna Smolentseva,Isak Froumin Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, systems that have responded to national and global developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an interest in historical and comparative studies.

Author : Theodore William Karasik,National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002256050

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The Post-Soviet Archives by Theodore William Karasik,National Defense Research Institute (U.S.) Pdf

This monograph describes the structures, access, and declassification procedures for Soviet-era civil and military archives located in Moscow. Although there are numerous holdings within former Soviet territory housing materials dated between 1917 and 1991, only those associated with the top leadership bodies (the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Politburo, Secretariat, and Central Committee); the diplomatic, security, and intelligence services (the NKVD, KGB, and GRU); and the former Soviet military are examined in this paper. The author gathered most of the information for this document through interviews with Russian archive officials during a visit to Moscow between May 23 and May 31, 1992. The information cutoff is October 1992. This monograph is a part of the ongoing RAND project on World War II, the early Cold War, and Korean War POW-MIA issues. Research for this paper was sponsored by the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and undertaken within the International Security and Defense Strategy Program of RAND's National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff. The monograph is expected to be of interest to officials and specialists seeking information on the organization of the post-Soviet archives.

Author : Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Russia
ISBN : WISC:89009399429

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Foreign Affairs Research Special Papers Available, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center Pdf

Author : Samuel H. Baron,Cathy Frierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317477730

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Adventures in Russian Historical Research by Samuel H. Baron,Cathy Frierson Pdf

American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the society that they have devoted their careers to understanding.

Author : Melanie Ilic,Dalia Leinarte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317390459

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The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present by Melanie Ilic,Dalia Leinarte Pdf

This collection examines practical and ethical issues inherent in the application of oral history and memory studies to research about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Case studies highlight the importance of ethical good practice, including the reflexive interrogation of the interviewer and researcher, and aspects of gender and national identity. Researchers use oral history to analyze present-day recollections of the Soviet past, thereby extending our understanding beyond archival records, official rhetoric and popular mythology. Oral history explores individual life stories, but this has sometimes resulted in rather incomplete, incoherent, inconsistent or illogical narratives. Oral history, therefore, presents the researcher with a number of methodological and ethical dilemmas, including the interpretation of "silence" in biographical accounts. This collection links the discussion of oral history ethics with that of memory studies. Memories are shaped by factors that may be, simultaneously, both consecutive and disrupted. In written accounts and responses to interview questions, respondents sometimes display nostalgia for the Soviet past, or, conversely, may seek to de-mythologize the realities of Soviet rule. Case studies explore what to do when interview subjects and memoirists consciously, sub-consciously or unconsciously "forget" aspects of their own past, or themselves seek to take control of the research process.

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Library Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Medicine
ISBN : IND:30000090457957

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Medical Research in the U. S. S. R. by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Library Branch Pdf

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Library Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OSU:32436000224665

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Medical Research in the U.S.S.R. by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Library Section Pdf

Author : Christoph M. Schneider
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662303726

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Research and Development Management: From the Soviet Union to Russia by Christoph M. Schneider Pdf

In the past, intensive interest in Soviet research and development has been sporadic both in the West and in the USSR. The end of the 1980s coincided with the demise of the Soviet model of economic development. As a result, a surge of attention has been given to t~e factors driving the motor of Soviet growth and development, as well as R&D. The opening, first, of the Soviet and, subsequently, of the Russian economy, finally exposed it to global stan to scientific dards. The long period of international isolation with respect and technological exchanges made it difficult for scholars and policy makers at home and abroad to measure the status of Soviet advances. Consequently, some overrated the levels, while others underestimated them. Now it comes to light that, although the Soviets put the first satellite in space (Sputnik) and developed their own hydrogen bomb, these were more the exceptions of innovation from research results rather than the rule. Therefore, as the management of the entire economy increasingly malfunctioned, so did the management of R&D in contributing to economic growth and development. There is no denying the incredible investment of the former Soviet state in domestic science and research. The R&D community was one of the largest, if not the largest, in the world during the second half of the twentieth century. Now, Russia has inherited not only this enormous resource, but also the inadequate organization, management, and structure.

Author : Maia Chankseliani,Igor Fedyukin,Isak Frumin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031121418

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Building Research Capacity at Universities by Maia Chankseliani,Igor Fedyukin,Isak Frumin Pdf

This edited volume represents a collective contribution to the current debates on developing university research capacity. The chapters in this volume offer empirical case studies from post-Soviet countries which share a common history, common policies and practices of higher education. These commonalities make the regional focus meaningful and analytically valid. At the same time, the case studies demonstrate divergence from the shared Soviet tradition and offer historical, sociological, and political analyses of how and in what ways universities in former Soviet countries internalised their research mission and developed the capacity to carry out this mission. This volume is the first of its kind to examine national and institutional resources, political will, and individual agency to understand how these influenced universities’ motivation, expertise, and opportunities of undertaking research since the early 1990s, and how universities changed their structures and practices under these influences. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of education, sociology, political science, and economics.

Author : United States. Department of State. Office of Intelligence Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044054545801

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The Soviet Union as Reported by Former Soviet Citizens ... by United States. Department of State. Office of Intelligence Research Pdf