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Andrei Ivanov and Henry Miller: Comparative Analysis
No full textThe paper offers a comparative study of two figures in Russian аnd American literature: Andrey Ivanov
(b. 1971) and Henry Miller (1891—1980). One of the modern Russian writers, Andrey Ivanov deliberately
focuses and develops in his “Scandinavian trilogy” a certain tradition of American Literature
which is represented in the writings of Henry Miller and historically involves such figures as H. D. Thoreau
and W. Whitman. The paper attempts to trace the transformation of this tradition in Andrey
Ivanov’s novels. It emphasizes some similarities in their biographies, their specific alien status in the
countries where they live. Both shared a common religious search, the notion of the irrationality of
the world run by the latent energy hidden in its diverse manifestations. However the moral evaluation
toward this energy is different. While Henry Miller is positive and rejoices the reunion of his narrator
with it, Andrey Ivanov seems to be negative. Refs 25
Ivanov, Andrey V. A Spiritual Revolution. The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), xv, 363 pp.
No full textBook review: Iannis Carras. Ivanov, Andrey V. A Spiritual Revolution. The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), xv, 363 pp.Рецензія: Iannis Carras. Ivanov, Andrey V. A Spiritual Revolution. The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), xv, 363 pp
Education and Employment Opportunities for the Roma
No full textThe Roma more than anyone else lost out in the transition to the market economy in the countries of Central and South Eastern Europe. Their unemployment rate is 100 per cent in some rural areas and the Roma's dependence on government benefits is widespread. This article takes a look at unemployment and employment among the Roma on the basis of two surveys completed in 2002 and 2004. It is shown that lack of formal education cannot provide a full explanation of the relatively high unemployment rates faced by Roma and that at least part of the problem arises from discrimination in employment. Roma are also disproportionately employed in low-quality jobs in the informal sector. The paper argues that programmes aimed at combatting labour market and income disadvantages of the Roma must be based on the development of opportunities for autonomous income generation rather than the public works temporary employment programmes currently prevalent. Comparative Economic Studies (2006) 48, 6–19. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100147
A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia
No full textThe ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia’s church and society in the eighteenth century. Though the Orthodox Church was often assumed to have been hostile toward outside influence, Andrey V. Ivanov’s study argues that the institution in fact embraced many Western ideas, thereby undergoing what some observers called a religious revolution. Embedded with lively portrayals of historical actors and vivid descriptions of political details, A Spiritual Revolution is the first large-scale effort to fully identify exactly how Western thought influenced the Russian Church. These new ideas played a foundational role in the emergence of the country as a modernizing empire and the rise of the Church hierarchy as a forward-looking agency of institutional and societal change. Ivanov addresses this important debate in the scholarship on European history, firmly placing Orthodoxy within the much wider European and global continuum of religious change.</p
A Spiritual Revolution
No full textThe ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia’s church and society in the eighteenth century. Though the traditional Orthodox Church was often assumed to have been hostile toward outside influence, Andrey V. Ivanov’s study argues that the institution in fact embraced many Western ideas, thereby undergoing what some observers called a religious revolution. Embedded with lively portrayals of historical actors and vivid descriptions of political details, A Spiritual Revolution is the first large-scale effort to fully identify exactly how Western progressive thought influenced the Russian Church. These new ideas played a foundational role in the emergence of the country as a modernizing empire and the rise of the Church hierarchy as a forward-looking agency of institutional and societal change. Ivanov addresses this important debate in the scholarship on European history, firmly placing Orthodoxy within the much wider European and global continuum of religious change
THE INFLUENCE OF RUSSIAN SYMBOLISM LITERARY STUDIES ON THE THEORY OF LITERATURE OF 1910S — 1920S (ANDREY BELY)
No full textThis article deals with the way the heritage of literary studies of Russian Symbolists (V. Ya. Bryusov, Andrey Bely, V. Ivanov, etc) influenced the establishment of poetics in Russia. Their studies provided an impetus for the Russian formal school (B. M. Eykhenbaum, Yu. N. Tynyanov, etc.) and development of the approaches to text studies in the works of V. M. Zhirmunskiy and M. M. Bakhtin. As literary studies of Symbolists are synthetic by nature, one of its parts (attention to form) refracted in formalism, for example, in the works by Zhirmunsky, and the other part (semantics) is found in works by M.M. Bakhtin. A significant role in this process was played by Andrey Bely. He was the one to provide an impetus for supporters of the morphological school to aim for precision, he pioneered the idea of fusing the sciences and the humanities. Bely was the first to put forward an idea of separating form and content, central for future Russian formalism, and other concepts that made the basis of the formal school. It sheds a new light on the development of Russian literary studies, primarily on the establishment of the formal school that has its roots mainly in theoretical contemplation. Russian Symbolists, especially Andrey Bely with his sharp interest to the form and poetics of works, introduction of new approaches to a word, new methods in literary studies and his input in poetry studies, reawakened the Russian formalists. They are their precursors
Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany: A Search Equilibrium Approach
No full textApproach Author & abstract Download 16 References 1 Citations Related works & more Corrections Author Listed: Launov, Andrey ([email protected]) (University of Kent) Wolff, Joachim ([email protected]) (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg) Klasen, Stephan ([email protected]) (University of Göttingen) Registered: Stephan Klasen Abstract In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search equilibrium model and analyze how workers’ search behaviour responded to these reforms. We try both nonparametric and fully-parametric estimation methods and identify the cases in which the nonparametric approach cannot be applied. We find that the entitlement reforms are largely responsible for the increase of unemployment among unskilled workers
Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany: A Search Equilibrium Approach
No full textApproach Author & abstract Download 16 References 1 Citations Related works & more Corrections Author Listed: Launov, Andrey ([email protected]) (University of Kent) Wolff, Joachim ([email protected]) (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg) Klasen, Stephan ([email protected]) (University of Göttingen) Registered: Stephan Klasen Abstract In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search equilibrium model and analyze how workers’ search behaviour responded to these reforms. We try both nonparametric and fully-parametric estimation methods and identify the cases in which the nonparametric approach cannot be applied. We find that the entitlement reforms are largely responsible for the increase of unemployment among unskilled workers
Temperature-dependent as K-edge EXAFS studies of LaFe 1−xCoxAsO (x = 0.0 and 0.11) single crystals
No full textWe report the experimental results of temperature-dependent polarized As K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) of LaFe1−xCoxAsO (x = 0.0 and 0.11) single crystals. By aligning the Fe–As bond direction in the direction of the X-ray beam polarization, we have been able to identify an anomaly in the Fe–As bond correlations at the tetragonal to orthorhombic transition at 150 K, while previous investigations with standard unpolarized EXAFS of undoped LaFeAsO powder samples were not able to detect any such anomaly. Using our approach, we have been able to identify in the superconducting doped sample, LaFe0.89Co0.11AsO, a broad anomaly around 60 K. The low-temperature anomaly has good correlations with the temperature dependence of several properties like resistivity, magnetic susceptibility and linear thermal expansion, indicating the emergence of the dynamical oscillations of the Fe–As pairs
Bishop Andrey (Ukhtomsky): Church Comprehension and Criticism of Ideology and Practice of Socialism
No full textThe question of the attitude of the famous church publicist Bishop Andrey (Ukhtomsky) to the theory and practice of socialism in Russia and the USSR is considered. For the first time, the views of the bishop on the similarities and differences between socialist ideology and the Orthodox faith, starting with the events of the First Russian Revolution and ending with the Soviet period, are reconstructed and analyzed. Particular attention is paid to Andrey (Ukhtomsky)’s criticism of socialism, professed by left political forces and attempts to oppose it with a different socialism, which the church publicist called Christian and ecclesiastical. The legitimacy of classifying the bishop as a supporter of Christian socialism is questioned and a view is proposed according to which Bishop Andrey’s opposition to political socialism was forced and was intended to deprive the socialists of the monopoly on knowledge about the just reorganization of society, as well as to conduct polemics with the adherents of socialism in a way they understand language. It is argued that changing political views and attitudes towards various forms of state power throughout his life, Andrey (Ukhtomsky) remained consistent in upholding his views, both on the nature of socialism and on the ways to overcome it
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