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Classics for the masses : shaping Soviet musical identity under Lenin and Stalin
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ISBN: 9780300217193 0300217196 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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"Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship, and dissonance that existed in all areas of Soviet artistic endeavor. Newly opened archives from the Leninist and Stalinist eras have shed new light on Soviet concert life, demonstrating how the music of the past was used to help mold and deliver cultural policy, how 'undesirable' repertoire was weeded out during the 1920s, and how Russian and non-Russian composers such as Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Bach, and Rachmaninov were 'canonized' during different, distinct periods in Stalinist culture. Fairclough's study of the ever-shifting Soviet musical-political landscape identifies 1937 as the start of a cultural Cold War, rather than occurring post-World War Two, as often maintained, while documenting the efforts of musicians and bureaucrats during this period to keep musical channels open between Russia and the West."--Provided by publisher.


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Red Africa : affective communities and the Cold War
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ISBN: 9781910433942 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Black Dog Publishing

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It is now almost 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fragmentation of the Soviet Union into a series of republics and the rejection of communist politics in much of the former Eastern Bloc. Seen by many as a victory for the capitalist West over the communist East, the geopolitics of this period was far more complicated than this. Across a series of essays and artist contributions, Red Africa explores the crosscurrents of international solidarity and friendship. The aesthetic experience of the works and the exhibition is also an invitation for the visitor to explore what Leila Ghandi and others have described as a politics of “affective community”.&#13;&#13;Red Africa is the culmination of a two-year research programme and exhibition project at Calvert 22 (London, UK) and Iwalewahaus (Bayreuth, Germany). This traced the work of African artists and filmmakers who studied in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc under free education schemes originally offered under the Third International , discontinued during Stalin’s reign then brought back during Khruschev’s ‘thaw’. Connections were particularly strong with countries such as Mozambique, Ghana, Ethiopia and Angola that were conducting liberation struggles or which, post-independence, were part of the Non-Aligned Movement which held its first Summit conference in Belgrade in 1961.&#13;&#13;Red Africa is beautifully illustrated with film stills, artworks and archival images drawing on the extensive research of the contributing artists, researchers and curators.&#13;&#13;Contributors include Onejoon Che, Radovan Cukic and Ivan Manojlovic, Ros Gray, Ana Balona de Oliveira, Burt Cesar, Filipa César, Angela Ferreira, Yevgenyi Fiks, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Isaac Julien, Alexander Markov, Jo Ratcliffe, Polly Savage, Nadine Siegert, Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, The Travelling Communique Group, Milica Tomic, Tonel and Vanessa Vasic-Janekovic.


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Improving Economic Instruments for Water Resources Management in the Republic of Buryatia (Lake Baikal Basin)
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ISBN: 9264266453 9264266291 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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A major challenge facing the Republic of Buryatia, subject of the Russian Federation, is how to balance the task of protecting Lake Baikal – a unique water object and ecological system included in the UNESCO list of World Natural Heritage Areas – with the need for dynamic and sustainable socio-economic development of the republic.  This requires streamlining and improving water policy jointly with economic, administrative, information and other policy instruments. The recommendations in this report aim to help achieve this objective. They include the introduction of abstraction charges for irrigation water as a  natural resource; enhancement of state support to the water sector; and improvement of economic instruments for managing risks of water-related hazards (such as compulsory insurance and differentiated land tax rates in flood prone areas). A few innovative instruments are also recommended for pilot testing such as establishing limits for discharges of certain hazardous substances in a pilot area (e.g. Selenga river basin) and progressive development of market for tradable quotas for discharges of the “capped” pollutants; and introducing a charge (tax) on toxic agricultural chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, etc.) and synthetic detergents so that to create incentives for the reduction of diffuse water pollution.


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Moscow Contemporary : museen zeitgenössischer Kunst im postsowjetischen Russland
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Mandelbaum Verlag

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The monograph is the first international study to analyze and describe the process of the post-Soviet contemporary art museums from 1992 to 2015. Based on exemplary case studies, it covers the heterogeneous museum-political development, both on the state as well as on the local Moscow level. In addition, it offers a comprehensive documentation of analogous and digital sources. Die Monografie ist international die erste Studie, die den Entstehungsprozess der postsowjetischen zeitgenössischen Kunstmuseen von 1992 bis 2015 analysiert und beschreibt. Anhand von konkreten Fallstudien zeigt sie exemplarisch die oft nicht synchron verlaufende museumspolitische Entwicklung auf staatlicher wie auf lokaler Moskauer Ebene. Sie enthält eine umfassende Quellendokumentation.


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Moscow Contemporary : museen zeitgenössischer Kunst im postsowjetischen Russland
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Mandelbaum Verlag

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The monograph is the first international study to analyze and describe the process of the post-Soviet contemporary art museums from 1992 to 2015. Based on exemplary case studies, it covers the heterogeneous museum-political development, both on the state as well as on the local Moscow level. In addition, it offers a comprehensive documentation of analogous and digital sources. Die Monografie ist international die erste Studie, die den Entstehungsprozess der postsowjetischen zeitgenössischen Kunstmuseen von 1992 bis 2015 analysiert und beschreibt. Anhand von konkreten Fallstudien zeigt sie exemplarisch die oft nicht synchron verlaufende museumspolitische Entwicklung auf staatlicher wie auf lokaler Moskauer Ebene. Sie enthält eine umfassende Quellendokumentation.


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Moscow Contemporary : museen zeitgenössischer Kunst im postsowjetischen Russland
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Mandelbaum Verlag

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The monograph is the first international study to analyze and describe the process of the post-Soviet contemporary art museums from 1992 to 2015. Based on exemplary case studies, it covers the heterogeneous museum-political development, both on the state as well as on the local Moscow level. In addition, it offers a comprehensive documentation of analogous and digital sources. Die Monografie ist international die erste Studie, die den Entstehungsprozess der postsowjetischen zeitgenössischen Kunstmuseen von 1992 bis 2015 analysiert und beschreibt. Anhand von konkreten Fallstudien zeigt sie exemplarisch die oft nicht synchron verlaufende museumspolitische Entwicklung auf staatlicher wie auf lokaler Moskauer Ebene. Sie enthält eine umfassende Quellendokumentation.


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Wettbewerb und weltwirtschaftliche Integration : Triebkräfte des Transformationsprozesses
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ISBN: 3110507242 9783110507249 9783110514582 3110514583 9783828202320 Year: 2016 Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,

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Welche ordnungsökonomischen Kräfte sind in besonderem Maße geeignet, den Transformationsprozeß von einer Zentralverwaltungswirtschaft zu einer marktwirtschaftlichen Wettbewerbsordnung voranzutreiben?Diese Frage ist Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie. Im ersten Teil wird die Bedeutung der Wettbewerbstheorie für die Transformationsgestaltung herausgearbeitet, wobei sich das prozeßtheoretisch-evolutorische Verständnis von Wettbewerb als grundlegend erweist, wenn es darum geht, Spielräume für den schöpferischen Menschen, für produktive Lernprozesse und für die Nutzung von Innovations- und Wachstumschancen zu gewinnen.Der zweite Teil befasst sich mit einer weiteren wichtigen Triebkraft, der Einbindung der Transformationsländer in die weltwirtschaftliche Arbeitsteilung. Die hierzu aus ordnungsökonomischer Sicht unterschiedenen drei Regelebenen der weltwirtschaftlichen Integration dienen als Ansatzpunkte, um die Bedeutung des Systemwissens, der Auslandsverschuldung sowie der internationalen Währungs- und Handelsordnung für Verlauf und Erfolg des Transformationsprozesses zu beurteilen.


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Russian realisms
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ISBN: 9780875807386 9781609091996 160909199X 9781501757532 1501757539 0875807380 Year: 2016 Publisher: DeKalb


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Black Wind, White Snow : The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism
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ISBN: 9780300120707 9780300223941 0300223943 0300120702 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of ";Eurasianism,"; a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism's origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia's Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism's place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin's sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin's close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia's past century, and its future.

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