Russian Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
The work of Aleksandr Grin (1880-1932) : a study of Grin's philosophical outlook
(University of St Andrews, 2011-11-30) - ThesisThere has been to date no attempt at a detailed examination of Aleksandr Grin’s philosophical views interpreted on the basis of his literary work. Whilst some critics have noted interesting links between the writer’s ... -
'Post-Soviet neo-modernism' : an approach to 'postmodernism' and humour in the post-Soviet Russian fiction of Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-23) - ThesisThe present work analyses the fiction of the post-Soviet Russian writers, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin against the background of the notion of post-Soviet Russian postmodernism. In doing so, ...