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    Opera after Stalin: Rodion Shchedrin and the search for the voice of a new era by Schneider, H

    Published 2021
    “…In this thesis, I analyse the development of operatic style and culture in Russia between 1953- 2020 by examining four operas by the most prominent late Soviet and post-Soviet composer, Rodion Shchedrin, and by bringing these operas into conversation with those of his peers during each phase of his career. …”
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    From resurrection to rehabilitation: Laurence Sterne and his readers in Soviet Russia (1919-1941) by Budrin, P

    Published 2020
    “…By studying individual encounters with Sterne in the context of wider biographical, cultural, and social narratives, it examines the microhistory of Sterne’s reception as a reflection of the larger history of intellectual autonomy in Soviet Russia.…”
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    The historical and political significance of the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow by Préneuf, FM, Préneuf, FM

    Published 1997
    “…In the intervening years it was one of the "blank spots” in official Soviet history. The way silence was broken and information about the cathedral became widespread, is part of the case I wish to make, but, for the purpose of this introduction, a very brief summary of the cathedral’s biography is useful.…”
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    From Aleshkovsky to Galkovsky by Ready, O

    Published 2007
    “…If Aleshkovskian folly develops in a sharply drawn historical context (Stalinism and its aftermath) and bears a markedly Christian flavour, Mamleev seeks to exclude Soviet and Christian thematics entirely, seeking deliverance from thought and reason. …”
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    Decentering Russia: Art and Empire, 1900-1973 by Bonin, Christianna

    Published 2023
    “…This dissertation examines the representation and theorization of art historical and geographical peripheries in late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, from the last decades of tsarist rule through the Soviet Union’s ascent as a leader of global decolonializing movements (1900-1973). …”
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    Britain and Revolutionary Iran 1906-1909 and 1976-1979: a comparative study by Andic, S

    Published 2016
    “…Key themes relate to how the decline of (Edwardian) Liberalism, the transformation of the Left in the twentieth century and Britain's decline as an imperial power affected its perceptions and policy-making in Iran; how civil society and public opinion exerted a disproportionately strong influence in the earlier period before Britain was even a fully democratic society; how notions of Orientalism and Aryanism shaped official and public perceptions; and how changing geopolitics impacted perceptions, particularly in the case of Tsarist Russia versus the Soviet Union. …”
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    British and American relations with independent Ukraine, 1917-1921 and 1991-1994 by Khoroshilova, Yulia

    Published 2001
    “…As this was the second attempt at state-building in Ukraine's history, the first one being a short-lived struggle for independence from Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the thesis aims to provide a comparative analysis of the two periods in which Ukraine pursued its goal of national statehood. …”
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