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«Сергей Иваныч»: Об одном «герое» мандельштамовского «Шума времени» [“Sergei Ivanych”: A Note on Mandel’shtam’s “The Noise of Time”]
No full text“Sergei Ivanych” is a chapter from Osip Mandel’shtam’s autobiographical narrative The Noise of Time (1925). The article represents some newly discovered details of the life story of Mandel’shtam’s private teacher Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky(1883—1953)
Дон-Кихоты «Cнежной революции». Рец. на кн: «“Мы не немы!”: Антропология протеста в России 2011–2012 годов» [Don Quixotes of the “Snow Revolution”: “My ne nemy!”: Antropologiia protesta v Rossii 2011—2012 godov. A Review Article
No full textThis review article is focussed on a recently published book analyzing various forms of the protest discourse in Russia during the winter of 2011—2012
Quantitative Analysis of Web Content in Support of Qualitative Research. Examples from the Study of Post-Soviet De Facto States
No full textIn recent years, the internet has been increasingly adopted as a key means of communication by local authorities, organisations and news media throughout the post-Soviet context. This has led to the creation and on-line publication of content that is routinely consulted and quoted by scholars of area studies, who, however, seemingly approach the web as an inordinate mass of content that can be superficially explored thanks to search engines and meaningful keywords. Structured analysis of content is still uncommon in area studies for a few reasons: it is considered to be time consuming, difficult to learn and, fundamentally, relevant datasets are usually not readily available. This paper briefly presents how to overcome these obstacles by introducing an open source package developed by the author that facilitates the creation of structured textual datasets from web content, and allows for basic word frequency analysis in a straightforward web interface.
This article argues in favour of a wider use of quantitative methods based on the analysis of word frequency in textual datasets extracted from the internet as a starting point for in depth research with established qualitative methods. The examples presented in this paper relate to the study of post-Soviet de facto states
From Irony to Solidarity: Affective Practice and Social Media Activism
No full textThis article discusses affective practice in context of social media activism. Drawing on work by Margaret Wetherell the article explores particular sensibility of political discourse and action, enhanced by the social media environment. The empirical cases involve the social media activism of anti-immigrant movement as well as solidarity activists in the context of the so called refugee crisis in Europe. It is argued that practices and sensibilities of activism enhanced and shaped by the technologies and economics of social media. While the anti-immigrant movement makes use of politics of irony on various levels from discourse to acts of trolling, solidarity movements tend to focus on compassionate, yet increasingly practical and shielded forms of practices as well as commercialized. Finally it introduces solidarity of dissonance as an opportunity for reflexive collective action and as a space to imagine alternatives
Visible Solidarities: #Asians4BlackLives and Affective Racial Counterpublics
No full textThis article examines how uses of ‘Asian-ness’ as racial presence becomes used discursively and visually to form affective racial counterpublics around #Asians4BlackLives/#Justice4AkaiGurley and #SavePeterLiang/#Justice4Liang. Specifically, I look at how how Asian American racial positioning becomes deployed in order to produce feelings of solidarity. Approaching hashtags as both indexical signifiers of solidarity and as an indexing system that archives together an array of media objects, I track media objects across multiple sites in order to examine visual modes of storytelling that affectively mobilize publics and investigate solidarity as discursively mediated, embodied, and affective phenomena. I closely examine how #SavePeterLiang protestors create narratives of victimization in response to the singularity of Liang’s racial body and how the #Asians4BlackLives selfie project uses representational visibility to activate affective politics.
Образ Петра I в повести А. Ремизова «Крестовые сестры» [The Image of Peter the Great in Alexei Remizov’s Short Novel “The Sisters of the Cross”]
No full textThis article explains the ambivalence of the image of Peter the Great, and his policy of Russia’s Europeanization. According to Alexei Remizov, Peter’s projects were mad and utopic, just like those of Ugryum-Burcheev, a character of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The History of a Town (1870), yet at the same time for Remizov they were essentially Russian in spirit
Preparing for War in the 1930s: The myth of the Independence War and Laidoner´s "active defence"
No full textThe ability to draw the right lessons from the First World War has been pinpointed as a key factor in the military effectiveness of armed forces in the inter-war period. Estonia can be seen as another case of a country leaning on the concepts and practices that had brought success in the previous war but rendered anachronistic by the rapid social and military developments preceding the Second World War. However, as the Estonian leadership chose not to fight in 1939-1940, estimates of the Estonian army’s fighting power rest on indirect evidence and will always remain speculative. The decision to capitulate before the overwhelming power of the Soviet Union can even be interpreted as a sign of prudence and recognition of the limitations of a small country. On the other hand, the trumping up of the myths and the spirit of the Independence War, questionable operational and tactical ideas displayed by the army commanders, and the unimaginative and overoptimistic scenarios at army manoeuvers that were noted by foreign military attachés, do call for a critical analysis of the Estonian imaginations and preparations for future war in the 1930s.
Imagining a Nuclear World War Two in Europe: Preparing US Troops for the Battlefield Use of Nuclear Weapons
No full textDuring the Cold War, it was widely acknowledged that the advent of nuclear weaponry had fundamentally altered the nature of war between nuclear armed nations. However, while strategic nuclear war planning was being carried out and implemented in deployed weaponry and personnel by the United States, parallel to this was the continued embrace of military strategies that had been elemental to the conduct and victory in Europe during World War Two. This article argues that at the same time while nuclear weapons dramatically altered the war planning of the United States during the Cold War, for Army battlefield commanders there was little departure from pre-existing doctrines regarding the defence of Central Europe. For these battlefield commanders, the manufacture of tactical nuclear weapons was largely overlaid upon existing strategies to repel an imagined Soviet incursion. Focusing on discussions of battlefield nuclear tactics by Army strategists, the paper demonstrates that such planning persisted and was even embedded into training throughout the first half of the Cold War, and far beyond the entry of thermonuclear weaponry into the U.S. arsenal. The paper specifically looks at the training and participation of ground forces in nuclear weapon testing to acclimate them to the “atomic battlefield.” Through an examination of the indoctrination that these forces received about nuclear weapon effects, and specifically around the dangers posed by radiation, it becomes clear that the realities of nuclear weaponry had little effect on the preparation, training and strategies of American military leaders tasked with the military defence of Central Europe against Soviet incursion
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Protection of the Environment as a Mandatory Requirement: The Possibilities of the Member States of the European Union to Favor National Products
No full textOver the years, the legal instruments of the European Union have been changed to increasingly contemplate environmental protection. Also, the CJEU has paved the way for environmental considerations by recognising in its case law that environmental protection is capable of restricting the free movement of goods. However, the Treaty amendments have not gone hand-in-hand with the development of the case law, and there seems to be one special loophole. Traditionally, only the express derogations from the free movement of goods rules were able to justify distinctly applicable measures, as compared to the mandatory requirements that could justify only indistinctly applicable measures. That is why the Court seems to now be between a rock and a hard place when it comes to distinctly applicable measures that could be justified on the grounds of environmental protection. This paper scrutinises the most recent case law of the CJEU and analyses whether the Court has even implicitly justified distinctly applicable measures on the grounds of environmental protection. The main purpose of the paper is to set the scene to explain the possibilities of the Member States to protect the environment to the detriment of the free circulation of goods