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«Смерть Анны Андреевны Ахматовой — великая потеря» (Из писем Льва Аренса Григорию Петникову) [“Anna Akhmatova’s Death is a Great Loss”: From Lev Ahrens’ Letters to Grigory Petnikov]
No full textThis article, completed during Dr. Polina Poberezkina’s stay in Estonia, examines several accounts of Anna Akhmatova’s last years and the poet’s funeral. It is centered around some letters of Lev Ahrens to Grigory Petnikov from the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Arts (Kyiv, Ukraine) supplemented by letters from Anna Garf and Natalia Briukhanenko to the same addressee
«Не делать не в ее характере» (Новые материалы к биографии В. И. Икскуль фон Гилленбанд) [“She’s Not Accustomed to Staying Inactive”: New Materials Concerning the Life Story of Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband]
No full textThe article is based on a series of memoirs dedicated to a pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg socialite baroness Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband (e.g., those of Ekaterina Letkova-Sultanova and Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik). It also specifies the date of a sculptor Prince Sergei Ukhtomsky’s (1886—1921) arrest, and makes public a previously unknown letter from Korney Chukovsky concerning the living conditions of Uexküll von Gyllenband in 1921
Co-Creating Community-Based Solutions through Social Media in Estonia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full text In this study, we aimed to explore and describe the prosocial behaviour of the community during the COVID-19 crisis in Estonia on Facebook, using mixed-method content analysis.
This article focuses on the role of social media in co-creation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the use of Facebook (FB) as a modern communication technology in times of crisis. Our goal was to learn how Facebook as a social media channel can be a tool and accelerator that allows people to find solutions to social problems in communities experiencing crises. The focus of the research is on finding solutions in co-creation for vulnerable target groups, including the elderly, people with disabilities, and other people who need support. This research expands on the role and potential of using FB as a communication platform to enhance co-creation.
We used Kaun and Uldam’s (2018) model as a theoretical framework for this study. The study is characterised by a descriptive and exploratory research design. We studied the prosocial behaviour of the community on Facebook through a three-stage mixed method content analysis of existing data, including posts and comments on FB pages, using both quantitative (descriptive statistics) and qualitative (thematic analysis) data analysis methods. Our findings suggest that Facebook as a social media channel could be successfully utilised as a tool for sharing calls to action, activating citizens to co-create solutions, and disseminating results.
Из материалов для комментария к «Капитанской дочке»: 12–25 [Notes and Queries on _The Captain’s Daughter_ (12—25)]
No full textIn these notes (see also the previous volume of Slavica Revalensia), Prof. Alexander Ospovat of UCLA identifies the sources of several segments of Alexander Pushkin’s novel _The Captain’s Daughter_, uncovers themes and events silently implied in the text (e. g., the protagonist’s sexual amusements, the money system in 18th-century Russia, a bath ritual in the Russian countryside, etc.), and reconstructs hidden meanings of individual episodes
Неизвестная заметка Ю. М. Лотмана [An Unknown Juri Lotman’s Note]
No full textThis is a prefaced publication of Juri Lotman’s brief note “Lenin in Mayakovsky’s Poems and Eisenstein’s Art,” which he wrote for his student in the Spring of 1970, and softly encouraged to publish under her name in Materialy XXV nauchnoi konferentsii molodykh filologov (Proceedings of 25th Junior Scholar Conference)
Trends in Living Arrangements for Older Persons in Estonia Compared to Belgium
No full textThe proportion of older people is increasing. During the years lived with disease and functional mobility loss, ensuring their well-being becomes a challenge for society. In addition to health, well-being in old age depends on various circumstances of an individual’s personal life. While contact with family members from a distance or irregular contact may be sufficient for satisfying the need for communication and may alleviate loneliness, it cannot replace the assistance that being present can provide. The difficulties or disadvantages are associated with some types of living arrangements. Therefore, patterns of living arrangements for older people are of key importance in studies of their well-being.
The demographic characteristics vary by country but differences are expected to be less between societies experiencing a similar path in development. Since the last decade of the 20th century, rapid changes have brought Eastern Europe closer to the more developed areas of Europe, both in economic and social terms. The patterns of living arrangements for older people in Estonia compared to people of similar age in Belgium show some signs of convergence, the latter being considered representative of Western Europe. The studied period for Estonia includes the transition period from the Soviet regime to the current situation. Accordingly, we address the question of whether this transition accounts for some specific features in Estonia, compared with Belgian trends. We find rather different patterns in the distribution of older people’s living arrangements in the two countries but similar trends in the changes indicating convergence between the two countries
Book Review: The Transformation of Work in Western Societies
No full textAdvanced Introduction to the Sociology of Work by Amy S. Wharton, 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing.
The bilingual advantage: performing the non-word repetition test
No full textThe study investigated the accuracy of non-word production by bilingual and monolingual children. The participants (125 children in total) belonged to two groups of bilingual children with different language repertoires and one group of monolingual Lithuanians. The analysis revealed that the overall performance of both bilingual groups was better than in the monolingual group. The bilingual children demonstrated more accurate and statistically significant results in repeating longer and structurally more complex non-words. The findings of this study suggest that the bilinguals being acquainted with two phonological systems had a greater experience with diverse phonology, which ensured a more precise performance of the task
Reforms of Social Insurance Governance in a Quasi-Bismarckian Welfare State: How Estonia Moved from Tripartism to Direct State Management
No full textContinental welfare regimes in Western Europe have in last decades gone through a set of paradigmatic reforms that significantly altered the initial Bismarckian principles of social insurance and welfare governance. Existing research overwhelmingly concludes that social partners have rendered up their power to the governments that inter alia facilitated expansion of non-contributory social security instruments. This article asks to what extent this reform trajectory can be found in quasi-Bismarkian welfare states, which already initially lacked solid social dialogue and favoured market-oriented approach to the social security. Tracing the process of main social policy governance reforms in Estonia 2009-2019 we test the assumption that fiscal prudence is in quasi-Bismarkian regimes important similarly to the typical Bismarckian countries, yet – it is achieved by using different means. The main empirical finding is that the governments in Estonia acted much more autocratically and used social insurance funds to execute various priorities of government programs. Differently from full Bismarckian regimes, insurance contributions were neither lowered nor complemented by tax instruments. We discuss these findings in the light of the institutional theory and welfare state change in times of increasing EU pressure
Internet and Social Media Use by Young People for Information about (Inter)National News and Politics in Russia and Kazakhstan
No full textIn this research note, I examine whether research conducted among young internet and social media users in Russia and Kazakhstan is representative of generalisable conclusions, particularly in relation to political participation studies. At present there is no reliable information on this topic in these societies. I commissioned four questions per country using omnibus surveys conducted in the 2020 autumn intake of the voting-age (18+) population using funding from the ‘Bolashaq’ programme. Based on the findings I procured through the omnibus surveys conducted by national public opinion poll companies (Levada Center and Central Asian Barometer) in Russia and Kazakhstan, my analysis shows that (1) more than 99% of all young people aged 18–29 use the internet and social media; and (2) nearly three out of four young people use social media for information about national and international news and politics. However, despite these high indicators, the frequency of the usage of social media for news and politics varies considerably in both countries. The paper with its up-to-date data as of 2021 fills a gap in Russian and Kazakhstani research, providing scholars with data to conduct further research about internet, social media, and politics among new media users. In addition, it provides a comparative analysis of the frequency of internet and social media use by young people for information about (inter)national news and politics in Russia and Kazakhstan