scholarly journals KULTŪROS STUDIJŲ IDĖJOS IR VARDAI LIETUVOJE

Problemos ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Tomas Kačerauskas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Scientific Society ◽  
Period 2 ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War ◽  
Creative Role ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos Lietuvos kultūros studijos. Autorius analizuoja tris laikotarpius: 1) tarpukario; 2) pokario, kuris apima tiek kultūros tyrimus Sovietų Lietuvoje, tiek Lietuvos emigrantų užsienyje kultūros studijas; 3) posovietinį. Kultūros tyrimai interpretuojami vadovaujantis šiomis prielaidomis: 1) kultūros studijos neatsiejamos nuo modernybės diskurso, net kalbant apie postmodernios kultūros situaciją ir jos atstovus; 2) kultūra interpretuotina kaip integrali visuma, prieinama filosofinei refleksijai; 3) kultūros studijos balansuoja tarp regioninio tapatumo ir globalių tendencijų; 4) kultūros studijos plėtotinos atsižvelgiant į mūsų hermeneutinius siekius; 5) kultūros fenomenai, įtraukiami į kultūros studijas, nurodo gyvenamąjį pasaulį kaip kultūros aplinką ir mūsų kūrybinį vaidmenį joje; 6) kultūros studijų tyrinėtojai dalyvauja tiek vertikalioje tam tikro regiono kultūros bendrijoje, tiek horizontalioje pasaulinėje mokslo visuomenėje; 7) kultūros studijos iškyla kaip tarpdalykinis diskursas, t. y. kaip „ilgojo kelio“ (Ricoeuras) taktikos išdava.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: kultūros studijos, kultūros idėja, regionas, tapatumas.The Ideas and the Names of Cultural Studies in LithuaniaTomas Kačerauskas SummaryThe article deals with cultural studies in Lithuania. The author interprets three periods: 1) the interwar period, 2) the post-war period that covers both culturalresearch in Soviet Lithuania and research of Lithuanian emigrants abroad, and 3) the post-soviet period. The author interprets a number of Lithuanian cultural researchers on the basis of the following assumptions: 1) cultural studies are inseparable from the discourse of modernity even if we speak about postmodern cultural situation and its representatives; 2) culture should be interpreted as an integral whole available for philosophical reflection; 3) cultural studies balance between regional identity and global tendencies; 4) cultural studies should be developed with respect to our hermeneutic intentions; 5) cultural phenomena have been used by cultural studies referring to our life world as cultural environment and our creative role within it; 6) the researchers of cultural studies take part in both vertical cultural community of a certain region and horizontal scientific society around the world; 7) cultural studies emerge as interdisciplinary discourse, i.e. as a result of “long way” (Ricoeur) tactics.Keywords: cultural studies, idea of culture, region, identity.

China’s Relations with Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexei D. Voskressenski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Russia’s relations with China (and vice versa) have evolved steadily during the post-Soviet period. Leaders on both sides have proclaimed, for a number of years now, that their bilateral relations are at their best point in history. How did the China-Russia relationship reach such a stage, especially given their long (and largely discordant) history? This chapter traces the evolution of China-Russia relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It identifies the commonalities and common purposes Moscow and Beijing have in world affairs, as well as their bilateral economic, cultural, and military relations. The China-Russia relationship has important implications for the United States, as well as American allies in the world.

scholarly journals Civilisation approach in Russia and its historical evolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Vsevolod V. Shimov
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
World System ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Western World ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Post Soviet Period ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article examines the features of the evolution of the civilisational approach in Russia. The historical stages of the formation of the civilisational approach in Russian political thought, starting from the pre-revolutionary times and ending with the post-Soviet period, are considered. The works of N. Danilevsky, L. Gumilyov, A. Dugin, V. Tsymbursky are analysed. It is concluded that the civilisational approach in Russia was especially in demand due to the specific nature of Russia’s relations with the Western world and within the discussion about Russia’s belonging to European civilisation. In the perspective of the world-system analysis, the development of the civilisational paradigm in Russia was due to its being on the semi-periphery of the capitalist world-system. It has always complicated relations with the Western countries belonging the world-systemic core. The findings can be used within the study of the processes of formation of national and sociocultural identity in the post-Soviet space, as well as in teaching disciplines of the socio-humanitarian block (political science, history of political doctrines).

scholarly journals Legacies From a Holocaust of the Mind

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Joanna Diane Caytas
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Lethal Effects ◽  
Mathematical Ideas ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Polish Intelligentsia

In the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Hitler and Stalin devised to partition Poland for all future. Toward their goal of enslaving the nation, the Nazis systematically exterminated the Polish intelligentsia and prohibited tertiary education to create a nation of serfs. Still, the Soviets and their lieutenants continued a policy with similar if largely non-lethal effects for another 45 years under the banner of social engineering. The fate of the Lwów School of Mathematics is a prominent example of brute atrocities but also of great resilience, enduring creativity and irrepressible revival. Among the world’s most advanced biotopes of mathematics in the interwar period, the Lwów School suffered debilitating losses from Hitler’s genocide, wartime emigration, and the post-war brain drain of defections inspired by communism. The Scottish Café was perhaps the best-known liberal scholarly hotbed of cutting-edge mathematical ideas east of Göttingen, the caliber of its patrons reflective of the most noteworthy mine of mathematical talent outside of Oxford, Cambridge, Paris and Moscow in its day. It is a conclusion strikingly evidenced by the Scottish Book: three-quarters of a century later, a quarter of the mathematical challenges described therein is still awaiting resolution.

scholarly journals Traditional Japanese pottery and its influence on the American mid 20th century ceramic art

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Johannis Tsoumas
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ceramic Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Post War ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The Japanese ceramic tradition that was to emerge along with other forms of traditional crafts through the Mingei Movement during the interwar period, as a form of reaction to the barbaric and expansive industrialization that swept Japan from the late nineteenth century, brought to light the traditional, moral, philosophical, functional, technical and aesthetic values that had begun to eliminate. Great Japanese artists, art critics and ceramists, such as Soetsu Yanagi and Shōji Hamada, as well as the emblematic personality of the English potter Bernard Leach, after caring for the revival of Japanese pottery, believed that they should disseminate the philosophy of traditional Japanese pottery around the world and especially in the post-war U.S.A. where it found a significant response from great American potters and clay artists, but also from the educational system of the country.  This article aims to focus precisely on the significant influence that postwar American ceramic art received from traditional Japanese pottery ideals. The author in order to document the reasons for this new order of things, will study and analyze the work of important American potters and ceramic artists of the time, and will highlight the social, philosophical and cultural context of the time in which the whole endeavor took place. 

scholarly journals Making the Countryside Global: The Bucharest School of Sociology and International Networks of Knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219
Author(s):  
Raluca Muşat
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
International Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Rural World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War

The interwar period was a time when the rural world gained new prominence in visions of modernity and modernisation across the world. The newly reconfigured countries of Eastern Europe played a key role in focusing attention on the countryside as an important area of state intervention. This coincided with a greater involvement of the social sciences in debates and in projects of development and modernisation, both nationally and internationally. This article examines the contribution of the Bucharest School of Sociology to the creation of an idea of ‘the global countryside’ that emerged in the interwar years and only matured in the post-war period.

scholarly journals Russia in the world array of scientific publications

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (8) ◽  
pp. 820-830
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Mokhnacheva ◽  
V. A. Tsvetkova
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Global Flow ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Subject Categories ◽  
The World ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
World Ranking ◽  
Ranking Position ◽  
Post Soviet Period

This article presents the results of a study on the representation of Russian publications in the global array of publications that discuss narrow thematic areas within the entire post-Soviet period, using ranking distributions from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC). For extraction and analysis, the classifiers provided by the WoS categories were used. Of the 252 subject categories in the WoS CC, the share of Russian publications for 2010–2017 was not less than 0.4% of the global flow in 132 scientific areas. Therefore, in the period 1993–2000, a gradual recovery was found of Russia’s lost position in the world ranking of countries by number of publications in the WoS CC. Currently, positive changes have been observed both for the entire array of Russian publications in particular in narrow scientific topics. The highest-ranking position for Russian publications fell in 1993–1999, and the greatest decline, when the share of Russian publications fell to their minimum values, was in 2011–2014. Data on the scientific areas in which Russia managed to stay in the top 10 leading countries during its recent history, according to share of publications in the global array, are presented. This list slightly expanded from 2010 to 2017, and today, it includes 39 areas in which Russia is in the top 10 countries, and it is among the five leading countries in eight areas of knowledge.

scholarly journals Processes of ideologization and de-ideologization in Russian religious dictionary

2020 ◽  
pp. 204-215
Author(s):  
E. Yu. Bulygina ◽  
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T. A. Tripolskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Value System ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Ideological Context ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The paper is focused on studying the changing fragments of the Russian picture of the world documented in lexicographic sources of the Soviet era and the post-Soviet period, as well as in contemporary discourse. There are “eternal” concepts in the ideological field of society, reflected in the lexicon of native speakers as ideologemes. These lexemes represent the value system of a particular confession, social group, etc. It is this lexical layer that most acutely responds to socio-economic and political changes in society. The authors analyze the dynamic processes of a pragmatically marked fragment of a dictionary (religious vocabulary) during the 20th – early 21st centuries. The starting point is D. N. Ushakov’s Russian Explanatory Dictionary, which provides a thorough representation of religious lexicon, with interpretations determined by the ideological context of 1930–1940. Today, the strong and weak points of describing the lexicon, that was “alien” for the Soviet period, are obvious. The analysis of vocabulary and corpus data allows us to formulate a hypothesis about the emergence of ambivalent (positive and negative) connotations in the lexical array, which has recently been interpreted as neutral by dictionaries. Thus, when filled with new pragmatic content and reflecting significant changes in the socio-political life of society, the semantics of a religious word, as ideologically marked during a century, changes its connotative halo several times. The ideological and related evaluative components reflect one of the most controversial fragments of the linguistic picture of the world in modern Russia.

scholarly journals Travesty of the cult image of Lenin in post-Soviet cinematography on the materials of the films “Comedy of the Strict Regime” and “Village of Khlyupovo Separates from the Union”

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Vera Vladimirovna Shelest
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Core Problem ◽  
Made In ◽  
Post Soviet Period

This article is written within the framework of the topic “The Image of Lenin in Art Cinematography of Russia of the XX – XXI centuries”. The author explores the period at the turn of eras, from collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 until the appearance of a new state of the Russian Federation on the world map. In the focus of attention are two films made in 1992, which subject to travesty the cult image of Lenin created by the founders of artistic Leniniana on stage and screen. Since the films were made at the turn of historical eras, there are attributes of a new artistic way of thinking – postmodernism, which are also analyzed in the article. The goal of this work lies in proving on the materials of films “Comedy of the Strict Regime” and “Village of Khlyupovo Separates from the Union” that the stylistic method of travesty is applied by cinematographers of post-Soviet period for debunking and ridiculing the cult image of Lenin created by the founders of secular Leniniana. The novelty of research is defined by the fact that these films have not been previously viewed from such perceptive. The article may serve as the foundation for future research on post-Soviet Leniniana. The author comes to the conclusion that it is not the persona of V. I. Ulyanov-Lenin to be debunked and ridiculed, but the image created by the masters of Soviet Leniniana. In ideological aspect, both films fall into the category of “iconoclastic”; the authors refer to the core problem of postmodernism – liberation of a person from totalitarian system, and display it in the ironic way.

How Do Post-Soviet Citizens View Democracy? Democratic Knowledge and Support in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-425
Author(s):  
Emily Look
Keyword(s):  
Political Socialization ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Support For Democracy ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Democratic Support ◽  
Democratic Knowledge ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Abstract Recent concerns around the declining support for democracy worldwide add urgency to the question of why ordinary citizens desire a democratic system. An emerging theory is democratic knowledge, which argues that knowing more about the rights and liberties provided by a democratic system leads citizens to want democracy as a result. This paper tests this theory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, where conventional wisdom suggests that citizens will be less familiar with the features of a democratic system. Using the World Values Survey, it finds that democratic knowledge is a stronger predictor of democratic support than modernization, political learning or political socialization. Moreover, this effect is strongest amongst Ukrainians who grew up in the post-Soviet period, indicating that democratic knowledge is a powerful antidote to the disillusionment that flawed or limited democratization may bring.

Comparing Comparisons: Political Implications of Different Notions of Difference

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
Glenn Odom
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
David Damrosch ◽  
Location Point

With the rise of the American world literature movement, questions surrounding the politics of comparative practice have become an object of critical attention. Taking China, Japan and the West as examples, the substantially different ideas of what comparison ought to do – as exhibited in comparative literary and cultural studies in each location – point to three distinct notions of the possible interactions between a given nation and the rest of the world. These contrasting ideas can be used to reread political debates over concrete juridical matters, thereby highlighting possible resolutions. This work follows the calls of Ming Xie and David Damrosch for a contextualization of different comparative practices around the globe.

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