scholarly journals Geodemographic Dynamics of Crimean Population: Main Trends and Factors of Post-Soviet Period

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Sergey Suschiy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Main Trend ◽  
Rapid Decline ◽  
Migration Activity ◽  
Natural Reproduction ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article examines the geodemographic dynamics of the Crimea in the post-Soviet period: changes in the population of the peninsula, its centers and territories; changeable ratio of natural and migration components, and shifts in the settlement system. In the dynamics of the processes under analysis, four stages are distinguished: three of them relate to the Ukrainian period of the Crimea’s development, and the last one it is the Russian stage which begins in 2014. Until the mid-1990s (the first stage), the population of the peninsula continues to grow, despite the natural decline and increased outflow to Russia. The main reason for this is the large-scale re-emigration of Crimean Tatars to the peninsula, most of whom settle in the interior of the Crimea. The next stage (late 1990s – the middle of the 2000s) is associated with a significant depopulation of the region, primarily due to a high natural population decline. The third stage (the second half of the 2000s – the beginning of the 2010s), at which the depopulation is replaced by a minimal increase in the population of the peninsula, is associated with an improvement of the indicators of its natural reproduction and a certain increase in the migration influx. The features of the Russian development stage are set by two multi-component processes. Migration activity is determined by the consequences of the transition of the Crimea to Russia. Meanwhile in the natural reproduction, a central role is played by a small generation of the 1990s entering into the reproductive age, with such consequences as a rapid decline in the birth rate and an increase in natural loss. The result of these processes is a certain stabilization of the population of the Crimea. The situation in which the natural decline is offset by the migration influx is likely to continue in the nearest future and in the medium term period (until 2030–2035). The main trend in the spatial distribution of the demographic potential of the Crimea in the last 15–20 years is a gradual increase in the proportion of the population settled on the coast and in the coastal zone 15–20 km wide.

scholarly journals Russian-Estonian border in the context of post-soviet ethnic transformations

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
Andrei G. Manakov ◽  
Jaak Kliimask
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Main Trend ◽  
Border Area ◽  
Structure Of Population ◽  
Small Growth ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The authors explore the main trends and regional peculiarities of ethnic transformations during the post-Soviet period in the Russian and Estonian borderlands. Special emphasis is placed on the dynamics of the share of two dominant ethnic groups – Russians and Estonians. It is argued that the main trend of ethnic transformations is an increase of the share of the dominant ethnic groups in the structure of population. The almost Russian-speaking Ida-Viru county in Estonia is an exception, where together with a small growth in the share of Estonians, there was growth in the number of Russians. The authors analyse the dynamics of smaller Baltic-Finnic nations – Ingrians and Setus (Setos), living in the Russian border area with Estonia.

scholarly journals Food security and import substitution In the Russian Federation in the post-soviet period

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 00095
Author(s):  
Tatyana Yashkova ◽  
Sergey Kiselev ◽  
Alexey Opokin ◽  
Mikhail Rodionov
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Substitution Policy ◽  
Post Soviet Period ◽  
Strategic Goal

The article is devoted to the problem of ensuring the food security of the Russian Federation and the issue of import substitution in the context of increasing geopolitical confrontation, the adoption of sanctions and retaliatory measures, and the deterioration of the economic situation due to the pandemic. The article examines the dynamics of the processes of ensuring the country's food security in the last three decades. The expediency of using the import substitution policy as a tool for ensuring food security is justified. Recommendations are formulated to optimize the processes of import substitution and increase the level of food security. The authors propose comprehensive measures based on current global trends in macroeconomic development and the state of food security in the Russian Federation. Special attention is paid to the expediency of carrying out large-scale work on scientific justification, strategic goal setting and planning, the development of multi-variant scenarios for the development of the situation in the field of food security under the influence of changing factors, with the involvement of a large number of experts and the use of advanced approaches and modern methods.

scholarly journals SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIANS NUCLEAR POWER CITIES (THE CASE OF DESNOGORSK)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
В. Лазаренко ◽  
V. Lazarenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Young Population ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Post Soviet Period

<p>The article presents an assessment of social development of Desnogorsk in comparison with other cities in Smolensk region. According to the research, Desnogorsk is a leader on a numbers of social development parameters. However, some parameters are lower than the average values. The social development of Desnogorsk is higher than that of the other cities in the region, but it has been declining since 1996 and now it is gradually approaching the average regional level. The main reason is the transfer of social responsibility from the city-forming enterprise to the city administration and the rapid population decline of the city. In the post-Soviet period there began an out-migration from Desnogorsk, mainly among young population. It is primarily caused by the monopropellant economy and the optimization of the industry. The socio-economic gap between the employees of nuclear power plants and other residents is gradually increasing. Desnogorsk displays the lowest level of labor mobility, if compared to other cities in the region. The low level of labor migration together with the migration outflow indicates a low adaptation of the population to economic and social changes.</p>

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE BORDER REGIONS OF RUSSIA AND BELARUS IN THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Leonid L. Rybakovsky ◽  
◽  
Anatoly G. Zlotnikov ◽  
Natalia I. Kozhevnikova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Demographic Dynamics ◽  
Regions Of Russia ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to the consideration of historical features that bring together the demographic development of the Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk regions from the Belarusian side and the Bryansk, Smolensk and Pskov regions from the Russian side, characterizes their migration interaction and its impact on the national composition of the population, as well as the specificity of the reproduction processes that thirty years in these six regions. The paper shows that although the fate of these regions is largely similar, nevertheless, in the Russian regions bordering on Belarus, the demographic dynamics turned out to be worse than in the Belarusian regions bordering on Russia. In the post-Soviet three decades, the population dynamics in the Belarusian and Russian border regions began to level out, both there and there, which entirely depended on the natural population decline. At the same time, the demographic situation in the border regions began to differ more from the average indicators for the countries, which is evident from the dynamics of the life expectancy of the population. The article also provides data on the number of Russians living in the border regions of Belarus and Belarusians living on the Russian side, which testify to the preservation of the previous ethnic proportions in the population of these regions.

scholarly journals Operative activities of the Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania against national-separatists in 1944 - 1953

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-76
Author(s):  
Evgenii Vital'evich Kilimnik
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Based on the historical-legal approach, the author studies the national-separatist organization The Forest Brothers that was acting in Lithuania in 1944 - 1953 and was resisting the authorities by means of terrorist acts. The research subject is the set of measures aimed at suppressing nationalist armed groups. Special attention to this research is caused by the necessity to analyze the activities of the Forest Brothers, as in Lithuania since the Post-Soviet period, the actions of nationalists have been heroified, many of whom, during the occupation, served in divisions under the German administration. The purpose of the research is the historical and legal assessment of the activities of separatists in postwar Lithuania. Special attention is given to the operative activities of NKVD aimed at suppressing regional extremism and introducing legal order in postwar Lithuania. Special contribution of the author is the consideration of the problem of national-separatism in Lithuania. It&rsquo;s been established that to suppress and oppose the Forest Brothers, the bodies of NKVD and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic developed a set of operative, tactical and ideological measures which helped as early as by the late 1945 to change the situation in the Republic and achieve the permanent annual decrease of destructive actions of nationalists, and since the late 1940s - the early 1950s to fully control the criminogenic situation in the Republic. It&rsquo;s been established that the set of measures against Lithuanian separatists consisted of five main directions which included the creation of People's Defense Platoons known as &ldquo;Destroyers&rdquo;, constant mopping up of forests for extinguishing the resistance zones, intelligence work, large scale amnesty of fighters, deportation of persons who shared the ideas and supported nationalism and separatism. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the critical scientific insight into Lithuanian separatism, its prerequisites and methods of struggling against it by the internal affairs bodies of Lithuania in 1944 - 1953.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Not by Firkowicz’s Fault: Daniel Chwolson’s Comic Blunders in Research of Hebrew Epigraphy of the Crimea and Caucasus, and their Impact on Jewish Studies in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-668
Author(s):  
Michael Nosonovsky ◽  
Dan Shapira ◽  
Daria Vasyutinsky-Shapira
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Academic Argument

AbstractDaniel Chwolson (1819–1911) made a huge impact upon the research of Hebrew epigraphy from the Crimea and Caucasus. Despite that, his role in the more-than-a-century-long controversy regarding Crimean Hebrew tomb inscriptions has not been well studied. Chwolson, at first, adopted Abraham Firkowicz’s forgeries, and then quickly realized his mistake; however, he could not back up. Th e criticism by both Abraham Harkavy and German Hebraists questioned Chwolson’s scholarly qualifications and integrity. Consequently, the interference of political pressure into the academic argument resulted in the prevailing of the scholarly flawed opinion. We revisit the interpretation of these findings by Russian, Jewish, Karaite and Georgian historians in the 19th and 20th centuries. During the Soviet period, Jewish Studies in the USSR were in neglect and nobody seriously studied the whole complex of the inscriptions from the South of Russia / the Soviet Union. The remnants of the scholarly community were hypnotized by Chwolson’s authority, who was the teacher of their teachers’ teachers. At the same time, Western scholars did not have access to these materials and/or lacked the understanding of the broader context, and thus a number of erroneous Chwolson’s conclusion have entered academic literature for decades.

Utopias of One

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kotin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
World War I ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Original Research ◽  
The Soviet Union

This book is a new account of utopian writing. It examines how eight writers—Henry David Thoreau, W. E. B. Du Bois, Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Anna Akhmatova, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and J. H. Prynne—construct utopias of one within and against modernity's two large-scale attempts to harmonize individual and collective interests: liberalism and communism. The book begins in the United States between the buildup to the Civil War and the end of Jim Crow; continues in the Soviet Union between Stalinism and the late Soviet period; and concludes in England and the United States between World War I and the end of the Cold War. In this way it captures how writers from disparate geopolitical contexts resist state and normative power to construct perfect worlds—for themselves alone. The book contributes to debates about literature and politics, presenting innovative arguments about aesthetic difficulty, personal autonomy, and complicity and dissent. It models a new approach to transnational and comparative scholarship, combining original research in English and Russian to illuminate more than a century and a half of literary and political history.

Russian Parliamentarism Party Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 245-255
Author(s):  
Rostislav F. Turovsky
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to the study of the party model of Russian parliamentarism in post-soviet period. The focus is on the issues of party representation and its correlation with the distribution of the managerial positions and introduction of collective legislation at State Duma. These issues are examined from the point of view of reaching cross-party consensus and implementation of fair parliament party representation principle. According to the author Russian parliamentarism model aims at reaching full-fledged party consensus that corresponds better to the principles of popular representation than strict parliament polarization along the line of “authority-opposition”. Understanding of those issues by the majority of the players was noted from the very start of the State Duma activities, in spite of the acute conflicts in the 1990-ies.The author draws the conclusion that the equation of party representation continues to grow at the level of managerial positions in the parliament that allows to improve cooperation of the parties and to reduce authority and opposition conflicts. Thereby the Russian parliamentarism model makes an important contribution to the stabilization of socio-political situation of the country.

POST-SOVIET CITY AS A PALIMPSEST

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Elena A. Kosovan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Coordinator ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The author of the publication reviews the photobook “Palimpsests”, published in 2018 in the publishing house “Ad Marginem Press” with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The book presents photos of post-Soviet cities taken by M. Sher. Preface, the author of which is the coordinator of the “Democracy” program of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Russia N. Fatykhova, as well as articles by M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush, which accompany these photos, contain explanation of the peculiarities of urban space formation and patterns of its habitation in the Soviet Union times and in the post-Soviet period. The author of the publication highly appreciates the publication under review. Analyzing the photographic works of M. Sher and their interpretation undertaken in the articles, the author of the publication agrees with the main conclusions of N. Fatykhova, M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush with regards to the importance of the role of the state in the processes of urban development and urbanization in the Soviet and post-Soviet space, but points out that the second factor that has a key influence on these processes is ownership relations. The paper positively assesses the approach proposed by the authors of the photobook to the study of the post-Soviet city as an architectural and landscape palimpsest consisting mainly of two layers, “socialist” and “capitalist”. The author of the publication specifically emphasizes the importance of analyzing the archetypal component of this palimpsest, pointing out that the articles published in the reviewed book do not pay sufficient attention to this issue. Particular importance is attributed by the author to the issue of metageography of post-Soviet cities and meta-geographical approach to their exploration. Emphasizing that the urban palimpsest is a system of realities, each in turn including a multitude of ideas, meanings, symbols, and interpretations, the author points out that the photobook “Palimpsests” is actually an invitation to a scientific game with space, which should start a new direction in the study of post-Soviet urban space.

Radicalization of Dagestan’s youth in the post-Soviet period

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10-4) ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Yusup Guseynov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Regular Process ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is based on archival materials, field ethnographic material and examines the problem of youth radicalism in the post-Soviet period. In the XXI century the second regular process of recruiting young people into the ranks of terrorists began. However, thanks to the official clergy (the Muftiate of the Republic of Dagestan), state authorities, public associations of the Republic, the process of radicalization of young people has stopped.

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