Recovery

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
The Past

Beginning with the historical rupture created by the fall of the Berlin Wall, this chapter considers the presence of the past in contemporary music. Looking first at the situation of composers in the recently erased GDR, it moves outwards to consider modes of nostalgia, reflection, and defiance in music from across the former Soviet Union, and then modes of musical restoration and recomposition in music from Thomas Adès to Isabel Mundry, and finally in forms of postproduction in music by Bernhard Lang and others. Considering, last of all, two major works by Chaya Czernowin the chapter concludes with a summation of the whole book within a theory of afterness; that is, a reconsideration of figure and ground as sequential, rather than simultaneous.

Symbolic Boundaries and National Borders: The Construction of an Estonian Russian Identity

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Fein
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Soviet Rule ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
The Past ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Clean Break ◽  
Russian Identity ◽  
National Borders

If the destruction of the Berlin Wall came to symbolize freedom in Central Europe, for the republics of the former Soviet Union it was the construction and recognition of new walls in the form of national borders that represented liberation. In the case of Estonia, the end of what was considered illegal Soviet occupation marked a return to the country's republic's rightful place as an independent, European nation. In demographic respects, however, Estonia could not easily escape the legacies of Soviet rule, due in part to the migration of hundreds of thousands of non-ethnic Estonians to the Estonian SSR. Far from completing a clean break with the past, Estonian independence has replaced legal distinctions between nationalities with social and symbolic boundaries between ethnic groups.

scholarly journals ​Chemistry, Nutritional Properties and Application of Mare’s Milk: A Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaikh Adil ◽  
B.M. Mehta ◽  
Atanu H. Jana
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Nutritional Properties ◽  
Southern States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Therapeutic Properties

Mare’s milk has long been considered to have special nutritive and therapeutic properties in Mongolia and southern states of the former Soviet Union. It is now gaining popularity in some parts in Europe also. Mares’ milk is characterized by their unique nutritional profile. Therefore, interest has increased in the use of mare’s milk for human nutrition in the past several years, especially in France and Germany. As compared to many other mammal species, mare’s milk is highly appreciated for similarity to human milk in terms of chemical composition allowing its use as a substitute for mother’s milk in infant feeding. Mare’s milk also has been used for the treatment of certain human pathologies such as hepatitis, chronic ulcer and tuberculosis. This review dwells on the chemical composition, nutritional value and various health-promoting properties of mare’s milk.

scholarly journals Bacteriophages and Their Derivatives as Biotherapeutic Agents in Disease Prevention and Treatment

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Elbreki ◽  
R. Paul Ross ◽  
Colin Hill ◽  
Jim O'Mahony ◽  
Olivia McAuliffe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Pathogenic Bacteria ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Bacteriophage Therapy ◽  
Bacterial Host ◽  
The Past ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Peptidoglycan Hydrolases

The application of bacteriophages for the elimination of pathogenic bacteria has received significantly increased attention world-wide in the past decade. This is borne out by the increasing prevalence of bacteriophage-specific conferences highlighting significant and diverse advances in the exploitation of bacteriophages. While bacteriophage therapy has been associated with the Former Soviet Union historically, since the 1990s, it has been widely and enthusiastically adopted as a research topic in Western countries. This has been justified by the increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance in many prominent human pathogenic bacteria. Discussion of the therapeutic aspects of bacteriophages in this review will include the uses of whole phages as antibacterials and will also describe studies on the applications of purified phage-derived peptidoglycan hydrolases, which do not have the constraint of limited bacterial host-range often observed with whole phages.

scholarly journals Economics in the Former Soviet Union

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Alexeev ◽  
Clifford Gaddy ◽  
Jim Leitzel
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Economics Profession

One of the most notable, but least discussed, aspects of the halting attempts during the past six years to reform the economies of the Soviet Union, and now those of its successor states, has been the prominent role played by professional economists. Not since the mid-1920s has the Soviet political leadership felt so strongly the need to draw upon the expertise of the economics profession to help determine its course of action. In this paper, we attempt to characterize the current state of economics in the former Soviet Union, investigate the implications that the condition of Soviet economics has for reform, and suggest possible future directions for the discipline. Our information comes from four main sources: professional publications of Soviet and Western economists, published remarks by Soviet economists, personal interviews and discussions which we conducted with young Soviet economists in the summers of 1990 and 1991, and a questionnaire administered to Soviet economists and graduate students in the Soviet Union.

Old Regimes and Revolutions in the Second and Third Worlds: A Comparative Perspective

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Present Value ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Revolutionary Nationalism

When they saw so many ridiculous, ramshackle institutions, survivals of an earlier age, which no one had attempted to co-ordinate or adjust to modern conditions and which seemed destined to live on despite the fact that they had ceased to have any present value, it was natural enough that thinkers of the day should come to loathe everything that savored of the past and should desire to remold society on entirely new lines. —Alexis de TocquevilleThe dissolution of empires has been one of the distinguishing and most consequential characteristics of the twentieth century. The popular struggles for national sovereignty that have helped to destroy these empires have sometimes (although certainly not always) been fused with attempts to change radically the socioeconomic institutions inherited from the imperialists. The result of this fusion has been nationalist revolution—or revolutionary nationalism—another phenomenon largely unique to the present century. Most recently, in the Eastern European satellites of the former Soviet Union, imperial domination not only generated a nationalist opposition but also unwittingly radicalized it—albeit in a very peculiar way that I explain below. Thus, the Eastern European revolutions of 1989, as Pavel Campeanu (1991: 806–7) has pointed out, had “a dual nature: social, since their goal was to destroy the socioeconomic structures of Stalinism, and national, since they aspired to re-establish the sovereignty of the countries in question.”

scholarly journals The development of distance education in the Russian Federation and the former Soviet Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaf Zawacki-Richter ◽  
Anna Kourotchkina
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The Past ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Distance Education System

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scholarly journals Interethnic Conflict: A Challenge for the Future of the Newly Independent States

Refuge ◽  
1998 ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Andre Kamenshikov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Interethnic Conflict ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Sociopolitical Climate ◽  
Newly Independent States

This article focuses on the nature of interethnic conflicts in the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. The author discusses the prevailing patterns that characterize such conflicts and gives a brief account of the changes that took place in the newly independent states over the past decade that laid the ground for the present volatile sociopolitical climate there. Apart from the material causes of conflict, a lot of attention is given to psychological causes such as the loss of identity which is being compensated by a growing nationalism. In the opinion of the author, these psychological causes should be given much more attention in order to predict and prevent outbreaks of interethnic conflicts in the area.

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