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Sites of resistance, or sights of pleasure? Subversive queer aesthetics in Russian music videos of the 2010s
(2024-12-04) - ThesisOn 30th June 2013, the Russian Parliament passed the so-called Anti-Gay Propaganda Law, which aimed to prohibit the spread of information of ‘non-traditional sexual orientation’ among minors, as well as prohibiting any ... -
Hybrid war and visual performances in digital Donbas militarism
(2025-06) - ThesisThis thesis explores online wartime commemoration by pro-Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine from 2015 to 2020 as a part of Russian hybrid war against Ukraine. I analyze two ‘digital memory sites’: the social media account ... -
Simeon Denisov's 'Istoria o otsekh i stradal'tsekh solovetskikh' in the Old Believer tradition in Russia
(University of St Andrews, 1990) - ThesisThis dissertation is divided into three chapters. The first deals with the general historical background to the schism in the Russian Church in the seventeenth century. It looks at the social and political causes, as well ... -
The temptation of the reader : the search for meaning in Boris Akunin's Pelagia Trilogy
(2016-01-01) - Journal articleThis article discusses the games that Boris Akunin's Pelagia trilogy (2000–03) plays with the reader's attempts at interpretation and meaning-making. Most critics agree that detective fiction in this ‘whodunnit’ mode is a ... -
Between two worlds : the fairy-tale novels of Aleksandr Fomich Vel'tman
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisBetween Two Worlds: The Fairy-Tale Novels of Aleksandr Fomich Vel'tman is a thesis devoted to four of the author’s novels published during the 1830s and 1840s: Koshchei bessmertnyi (1833), Svetoslavich, vrazhii pitomets ...
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