Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology

Borodina, Svetlana. “Needed Subjects: An Ethnography of the Formation of the Inclusion Complex in Russia.” Rice, 2020.

Business and Management Practices

Greppin, Carl H. “Why do People Bribe and is it Worth it? A Mixed Methods Study of Bribing Antecedents and Outcomes in Former Soviet Countries.” Case Western Reserve, 2020.

Cinema and Film Studies

Ahava, Juho. “Lev Kuleshov and the Ontology of Silent Cinema.” Iowa, 2020.

Jung, Jaekyung. “The Eye of Ethics Study of Ethics in Visuality.” California, San Diego, 2020.

Killebrew, Zachary John. See Literature.

Razor, Sasha. “We Were the River: Screenwriters of the Left Front of the Arts, 1923–1931.” California, Los Angeles, 2020.

Reighard, Dane Michael. “Russia's New Village Cinema: Community, Death, and Potential Rebirth in the Twenty-First Century.” California, Los Angeles, 2020.

Roberts, Brittany Rae. “Becoming-with: Ecological Ethics and the More-than-Human Worlds of Russian and American Horror.” California, Riverside, 2020.

Rottman, Zachary. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Sattarova, Ellina. “Biopolitics in Contemporary Russian Cinema.” Pittsburgh, 2020.

Schneider, Simona Eva. “On Lyrical Spectatorship: Invocation and Intermedial Encounters in the 1920s and Beyond.” California, Berkeley, 2020.

Shlikhar, Tetyana. “Between History and Memory: Cultural War in Contemporary Russian and Ukrainian Cinema.” Pittsburgh, 2020.

Cultural Anthropology

Reighard, Dane Michael. See Cinema and Film Studies.

Economics

Freidman, Travis. “The Intersection of History and Trade: Essays in Trade and Trade Policy.” New Hampshire, 2020.

Carreno-Garcia, Jose. “Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics.” Northwestern, 2020.

Malkova, Alina. “Essays on Credit Market Development and Labor Market Choices.” North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2020.

Nazrullaeva, Evgeniya. “Essays in Political Economy and Economic History.” California, Los Angeles, 2020.

Uvsh, Delgerjargal. “Reversal of the Resource Curse? Negative Revenue Shocks and Development in Russia and Beyond.” Wisconsin, Madison, 2020.

Education

Johnson, Karin Annette. “Shifting Skilled Migration Trends in the Global Economy: A Comparative Analysis of International Student Mobility to the United Arab Emirates and Russia.” California, Riverside, 2020.

Sabzalieva, Emma. See Central Asia.

Émigré and Immigration Studies

Pheiffer, Brittany. “Medieval Culture and Modern Exile: The Middle Ages in the Russian Religious Émigré Imagination.” Columbia, 2020.

Energy Resources

Cinq-Mars, Tom J. “In Search of ‘Friendship’: Energy Policy, Trade, and Varieties of Socialism in the Soviet Bloc, 1872–1984.” Duke, 2020.

Uvsh, Delgerjargal. See Economics.

Environmental studies

Love, Cara Nicole. See Ukraine.

Ethnic and Minority Studies

Ayzenberg, Shimshon Ignat. “The Jewish Vanguard of the Revolution: Poale Zion in Early Soviet Period, 1917–1928.” Stanford, 2020.

Fuller, Kelsey A. “Sounding Sápmi in Multimedia: Gender, Politics, and Indigenous Solidarity in Contemporary Sámi Music.” Colorado, Boulder, 2020.

Fashion

Gabor, Ruth Serena. “Exposing Couture: Soviet Fashion on Display during the Cold War.” American, 2020.

Olmsted McGraw, Virginia Carter. “Soviet by Design: Fashion, Consumption, and International Competition during Late Socialism, 1948–1982.” North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2020.

Gender Studies

Beallor, Angela S. See Theater History.

Fatkins, Inna S. “Perceived Discrimination, Internalized Homonegativity, and Mental Health Symptoms: Comparative Analysis of Russian and United States LGB Populations.” Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2020.

Gabor, Ruth Serena. See Fashion.

Geography

Kopack, Robert Allen. See Kazakhstan.

History

Post-Soviet History, Politics, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy

Assoudeh, Mitra. “Shaping Cybersecurity Strategy: China, Iran, and Russia in a Comparative Perspective.” Nevada, Reno, 2020.

Ates, Ahmet. “Understanding the Change in Intelligence Organizations: An Institutional Framework.” Delaware, 2020.

Baranovsky, Alla Nikolaevna. “A Theory of Target State Side Determinants of Information Attacks: Russia's Information Wars in its Neighborhood and Afar.” Harvard, 2020.

Davis, Christopher M. “Presidential Authoritarianism in the United States and Russia during the Metamodern Era.” Nova Southeastern, 2020.

Elgin, Katherine Kjellström. “Recognition and Respect: Understanding Russia's Defense of its Great Power Status.” Princeton, 2020.

Gasparyan, Olga. “Decentralization and Local Development in Non-Democratic Political Systems.” Rochester, 2020.

Lerner, Alexis Monique. “Authoritarian Dissent Management: Repression of the Nonsystemic Political Opposition in the Post-Soviet Region.” Toronto, Canada, 2020.

Maschmeyer, Lennart. See Czech Lands to 1918, Czechoslovakia, and Czech and Slovak Republics.

Melo, Luciano. “Regime Juxtaposition within the Third Wave of Autocratization: Democratic Enclaves in Autocratizing Russia and Venezuela.” American, 2020.

Miromanova, Anna. “Essays in International Trade and Russian Trade Policy.” Oregon, 2020.

Oliver, Samantha. “Networked Memorialization: Victims of Communism Memorials in Germany, Russia, and the U.S.” Pennsylvania, 2020.

Povilus, Michael W. “Russian Grand Strategy: Cultivating National Will and Military Modernization.” Northwestern, 2020.

Uvsh, Delgerjargal. See Economics.

Wilcox, Mark R. See Military History.

Information Technology and the Internet

Assoudeh, Mitra. See Post-Soviet History, Politics, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy.

Babintseva, Ekaterina Igorevna. See United States and the Soviet Union.

Brown, Kenneth. “A Dangerous New Era: Analyzing the Impact of Cyber Technology on International Conflict.” South Florida, 2020.

Fisher, Aleksandr. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Lamberova, Natalia. “Essays on Political Economy of Technological Development.” California, Los Angeles, 2020.

Onuchowska, Agnieszka Anna. “Analysis of Malicious Behavior on Social Media Platforms using Agent-Based Modeling.” South Florida, 2020.

Sweet, Julia I. “Jihadist Media Networks and Virtual Propaganda in the Russian Cyberspace.” Rutgers, 2020.

Language and Linguistics

Kantarovich, Jessica. “Argument Structure in Language Shift: Morphosyntactic Variation and Grammatical Resilience in Modern Chukchi.” Chicago, 2020.

Solovyeva, Ekaterina. Czech Lands to 1918, Czechoslovakia, and Czech and Slovak Republics.

Tretiak, Valeriia. “Contingency, Contiguity, and Capacity: On the Meaning of the Instrumental Case Marking in Copular Predicative Constructions in Russian.” Oregon, 2020.

Literature

Chenoweth, Carlotta G. “The Illiterate Text: Literacy and Soviet Print Media, 1917–1928 .” Yale, 2020.

Hamren, Kelly Lynn. “‘Я Тоже Мраморною Стану’: The Poetics of Metamorphosis in Russian Modernism.” Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2020.

Keenan, Thomas Francis. “Dante Alighieri and Master and Margarita's Italian Ancestor.” Yale, 2017.

Killebrew, Zachary John. “Issues of Modernity in Russian and U.S. Southern Discourse: Literary and Cinematic Crosscurrents.” Northern Illinois, 2020.

Roberts, Brittany Rae. See Cinema and Film Studies.

Rodriguez, Irina. “My Soviet Youth: A Memoir with Critical Introduction to the Post-Soviet Cultural Identity.” Texas A&M, Commerce, 2020.

Schneider, Simona Eva. See Cinema and Film Studies.

Mass Media

Garey, Amy Marie. See Theater History.

Gerasimenko, Olga. “The War of Words? the Role of New Media in State Propaganda and Foreign Policy: The Cases of Russian, Chinese, and Turkish Media News Coverage.” Delaware, 2020.

Sokolova, Diana. “Election News Coverage in a Contemporary Autocracy: Framing Differences between State-Run and Independent Televised News Outlets in their Coverage of the 2016 Duma Election in Russia.” Indiana, 2020.

Mental Health

Atasuntseva, Anaid A. “A Consumer-Centric Survey of Soviet-Americans’ Attitudes and Perceptions of Child Therapy.” Palo Alto, 2020.

Military History

Radzinsky, Brian Joseph. See United States and the Soviet Union.

Wilcox, Mark R. “The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and Russian Foreign and Security Policy.” Kansas State, 2020.

Music

Bedford, Joshua. “Soviet Opera: Styles and Aesthetics Under Stalin, 1929–1939.” Georgia, 2020.

Berquist, Alan C. “Russian Folk Traditions and Cosmopolitan European Influences in the Flute Works of Paul Juon.” Florida State, 2020.

Cornish, Gabrielle. “Sounding Socialist, Sounding Modern: Music, Technology, and Everyday Life in the Soviet Union, 1956–1975.” Rochester, 2020.

Dong, Minjun. “A Comparative Study of Vladimir Leyetchkiss's 1985 Piano Transcription of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre Du Printemps.” Arizona, 2020.

Glenn, Erica Kyree. “Stefania Turkevych's Heart of Oksana (1969): A Critical Edition of a Lost Ukrainian Opera.” Arizona State, 2020.

Hillen, Shaun Patrick. “Nationalism and its Discontents: Transformations of Identity in Contemporary Russian Music on and Off the Web.” Arizona State, 2020.

Kumamoto, Yuki. “Soviet Music as Bricolage: The Case of the Piano Works of Nikolai Rakov (1908– 1990).” North Texas, 2020.

Lambert, Caleb. “The Solo Trombone Works of Vladislav Blazhevich.” Iowa, 2020.

Lee, Youngju. “Sergei Prokofiev's Third Piano Sonata, Op. 28: Stylistic Analysis and Performance Suggestions.” West Virginia, 2020.

Shamseldin, Mohamed. “Scythianism in Sergei Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 16.” Hartford, 2020.

Stiber, Adam. “The Cello Concertos of Karl Davydov (1838–1889): Historical Context and Pedagogical Role.” Nevada, Las Vegas, 2020.

Tripaldi, Miriam. “Opera, Politics, Mobility: Cultural Transformation at the Court of Catherine the Great.” Chicago, 2020.

Public Health

Balliet, Jennifer A. “Recontextualizing the Social Ecology of Intimate Partner Abuse.” Colorado, Boulder, 2020.

Religion and Religious History

David, Kathryn. See Ukraine.

Pheiffer, Brittany. See Émigré and Immigration Studies.

Theron, Antonette Rosina. See Belarus.

Theater History

Beallor, Angela S. “MG (a.k.a. I Want a Baby! Reimagined): A Feminist, Speculative, Queer Exploration of the Content and Context of Tret΄iakov's 1926 Play, I Want a Baby!” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2020.

Garey, Amy Marie. “The People's Laughter: War, Comedy, and the Soviet Legacy.” California, Los Angeles, 2020.

Lucas, Kevin. See Images of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Eastern Europe in Other Regions of the World.

Maksimovich, Polina Aleksandrovna. “Performing Suicide: Transformation of the Superfluous Man in Soviet Drama.” Northwestern, 2020.

Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Other Baltic Regions under Russian Control)

Belarus

Theron, Antonette Rosina. “Baptist Pastors Recalling their Experiences of the Soviet Era in Belarus.” Regent, 2020.

Caucasus Region

Central Asia

Republic of Moldova

Sultanli, Zhala. “Commemorations and the Politics of Memory: Narrative Dynamics and the Memory of the Second World War in Moldova.” George Mason, 2020.

Trubceac, Angela Ș. “Moldovan Secondary Education Social Studies Teachers Conceptualization of Multicultural Approaches to Peace Education (MAPE).” Miami, 2020.

Ukraine

Ates, Ahmet. See Post-Soviet History, Politics, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy.

Buchko, Olga V. “A Narrative Inquiry into the Contribution of Music Experiences to Work-Life Balance of Non-Musicians in Higher Education in Ukraine and the United States.” Pennsylvania State, 2020.

David, Kathryn. “One Ukraine, Under God: Church, State, and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Union.” New York, 2020.

Friesenegger, Dietmar. “Voices among Cultures in the Eastern European Borderlands: Music in Czernowitz, 1862–1918.” Cornell, 2020.

Kazimov, Shirin. “Adapting and Validating the Deployment Risk and Resilience Inventory-2 for use in Ukraine.” Wheaton, 2020.

Love, Cara Nicole. “Long-Term Implications of Chronic Radiation Exposure: A Genomics Study of Two Canids Reveals Evolutionary and Ecological Impacts of a Nuclear Disaster.” Georgia, 2020.

Maschmeyer, Lennart. See Czech Lands to 1918, Czechoslovakia, and Czech and Slovak Republics.

Mutz, Steven. “Mythscaping Novorossiya: Nationalism in the Donbass, 2014–2015.” Kansas, 2020.

Nikulina, Ania. “Ballet in Ukraine: A Site of Tension between Imperialism and Nationalism.” California, Riverside, 2020.

Shlikhar, Tetyana. See Cinema and Film Studies.

Shpak, Solomiya. “Essays on FDI, Oligarchs, and Firm Performance.” George Mason, 2020.

Soboleva, Irina. “Efficacy, Openness, Ingenuousness: Micro-Foundations of Democratic Engagement.” Columbia, 2020.

Walker, Tatyana Shilshtut. “Exploring the Processes of Perceptual Change towards Individuals with Tattoos among Ukrainian Immigrants within the United States.” Northcentral, 2020.

General Coverage

Aslett, Kevin. “The Effect of Economic Policies/Behavior on Contemporary Threats to Democracy.” Washington, 2020.

McElroy, Brendan John. “Peasants and Parliaments: Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth Century Europe.” Harvard, 2020.

Vojvodić, Anja. “Lingering Legacies and Emerging Progress: Explaining Gender Quota Adoption in Central and Eastern Europe.” Rutgers, 2020.

Balkan Countries (General)

Gama Sosa, Michele Rodolfo Xicotencatl. See Former Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, and New Yugoslav States, General Coverage.

Mason, Andrea. “Provenance of Tin in the Late Bronze Age Balkans: Preparation of Cassiterite for Sn Isotope Analysis and the Probabilistic and Spatial Analysis of Sn Isotopes.” City University of New York, 2020.

Vuljevic, Suzana. “The Crisis of Spirit: Pan-Balkan Idealism, Transnational Cultural-Diplomatic Networks and Intellectual Cooperation in Interwar Southeast Europe, 1930–1941.” Columbia, 2020.

Albania

Barnes, David Joel II. “Estimating Unmeasured Variables in Development: Quantifying Faith in an Economic Model of Human Capital.” Delaware, 2020.

Elezi, Gazmend. “Sociocultural Dimensions of Production, use, and Circulation of Late Neolithic Pottery from Southern Balkans.” California, Los Angeles, 2020.

Mece, Merita Hysen. “Internal Migration, Social Capital and Subjective Wellbeing in Albania: The Case of Kamza Town.” Clemson, 2020.

Bulgaria

Gorczyk, John Matthew. “Fields of Care: Placing Animal-Human Communities in the Early Neolithic of the Sofia Basin, Bulgaria.” Cornell, 2020.

Ivanov, Sanja. “The Materiality of Memory: Everyday Objects in Post-Socialist Literatures and Cultures.” Toronto, Canada, 2020.

Czech Lands to 1918, Czechoslovakia, and Czech and Slovak Republics

Bratton, Lyndsay Dolf. “The Artěl Cooperative (1908–1934): Crafting Czech Modernity.” Maryland, College Park, 2020.

Hanáková, Radka. “Oskar Morawetz: The Czech Prism.” Toronto, Canada, 2020.

Maschmeyer, Lennart. “Slow Burn: Subversion and Escalation in Cyber Conflict and Covert Action.” Toronto, Canada, 2020.

Solovyeva, Ekaterina. “Cross-Linguistic Differences in the Learning of Inflectional Morphology: Effects of Target Language Paradigm Complexity.” Maryland, College Park, 2020.

East Germany and Germany since 1989

Elliot, Melissa Anne. “Forgotten Notes: Narrative Film Music in DEFA Cinema.” Michigan State, 2020.

Hadar, Misha. “Performances of Border: Theatre and the Borders of Germany, 1980–2015.” Minnesota, 2020.

Ivanov, Sanja. See Bulgaria.

McDaniel, Jocelyn Rae. “‘Schweigen als Herausforderung’: Silence as a Generational Challenge in the Post Holocaust Works of East German Jewish Authors Jurek Becker and Barbara Honigmann.” Maryland, College Park, 2020.

Oliver, Samantha. See Post-Soviet History, Politics, Political Thought, and Nationality Policy.

Puteri, Arwen A. “The West Knows Best: East Germans Left Behind After Unification.” South Florida, 2020.

Stiglich, Larissa R. “After Socialism: The Transformation of Everyday Life in Eisenhüttenstadt, 1975– 2015.” North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2020.

Weiner, Daniela R. P. “Teaching a Dark Chapter: Representations of the Holocaust and the Second World War in East German, West German, and Italian History Textbooks, 1943–2000.” North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2020.

Hungary

Anderlé de Sylor, Julia. “The Heimatklänge and the Danube Swabians in Milwaukee: A Model of Holistic Integration for a Displaced German Community.” Wisconsin, Madison, 2020.

Gabriel, Hannah Claire. See Croatia.

Hahn, Jacob Andrew. “Zoltán Kodály's Op. 9, Öt Dal: A Historical, Textual, and Musical Analysis with Translations and IPA.” North Carolina, Greensboro, 2020.

Papp, Susan M. “The Politics of Exclusion and Retribution in the Hungarian Film Industry, 1929– 1947.” Toronto, Canada, 2020.

Vansteenburg, Jessica. See Romania.

Verostick, Kirsten A. “Characterizing Childhood and Diet in Migration Period Hungary.” South Florida, 2020.

Poland

Bias, Matthew. “The Bamberger Myth: The Poznanian Bambergers, the Construction of Nationalism, and the Mythologization of History in Poznania, 1871–1918.” George Washington, 2020.

Borowski, Krzysztof E. “Online Conflict Discourse, Identity, and the Social Imagination of Silesian Minority in Poland.” Kansas, 2020.

Flaws, Jacob Allen. “Spaces of Treblinka.” Colorado, Boulder, 2020.

Jarosz, Klaudia. “Grażyna Bacewicz and Her Contributions to the Cello Repertoire.” Nebraska, Lincoln, 2020.

Kless, Andrew Hoyt. “Infighting at the Front: Officers, Bureaucrats, and Politicians at War in German- Occupied Russian Poland, 1914–1915.” Rochester, 2020.

Kulicka, Karolina. “The Problem with no Name: Hidden Mechanisms of Sustaining Gender Inequality in the Polish Civil Service.” State University of New York, Buffalo, 2020.

McInteer, Nicole L. “Writing the Edge of Empire: Joseph Roth's Galicia.” Pennsylvania State, 2020.

Michalik, Anna. “Dark Love: Polish Identity and the Holocaust in Krzysztof Baczyński's Poetry.” St. John's, New York, 2020.

Olszewska, Aleksandra Ita. “Counter-Stories from Poland: Identities and Language Identities of Adolescent Refugee-Background Students.” Florida, 2020.

Reece, Steven D. “The Third Space: The Meeting of Jew and Christian in the Act of Remembering, Restoring, and Reconciling: A Case Study of the Matzevah Foundation.” Andrews, 2020.

Rodriguez, Allison Ann. “‘Silesia at the Crossroads’: Defining Germans and Poles in Upper Silesia during the First World War and Plebiscite Period.” North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2020.

Rose, Eliza. “Plein-Air Politics: Labor as Means, Matter and Milieu for the Arts: The People's Republic of Poland (1965–1981).” Columbia, 2020.

Shlyakhter, Andrey Alexander. See Baltic States.

Toussaint, Mark Paul. “Excavating Gender: The Embodiment and (Re)Presentation of Social Relations in Mierzanowice Communities of the Early Bronze Age.” Nevada, Las Vegas, 2020.

Wojciechowski, Amalia C. “‘Visions of Their Land’: Młoda Polska and the Making of Landscape.” Bryn Mawr, 2020.

Zator, Michal. “Essays in Technology, Finance, and Labor.” Northwestern, 2020.

Republic of North Macedonia

Babic, Maja. “Curating a Nation in Skopje: A Tale of One City's Architecture and Politics.” Michigan, 2020.

Bloodworth, Aryn Lynn. “Achieving Equity for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students.” Colorado, Boulder, 2020.

Harris-Brandts, Suzanne. See Republic of Georgia.

Romania

Armstrong, Cameron D. “Finding Yourself in Stories: Romanian Theology Students’ Experience of Oral-Based Teaching Methods.” Biola, 2020.

Chinan, Ioana. “Vernacularization for Comfort and the Politics of Housing Occupancy. Romania 1968– 1989.” California, Berkeley, 2020.

Johnson, Glen L. “An Examination of the Effect of Capital Structure on Financial Performance among Construction Firms in Romania 2010–2016.” Capella, 2020.

Klimaszewski, Cheryl. “An Ethnographic Study of Romanian Vernacular Museums as Spaces of Knowledge-Making and their Institutional Legitimation.” Rutgers, 2020.

Manelici, Isabela. “Essays on Globalization and Economic Development.” California, Berkeley, 2020.

Noh, Yuri. “A Performance Guide to George Enescu's Violin Sonata no. 3 in a Minor, Op. 25, Emphasizing its use of Romanian Lăutari Violin Techniques and Style.” North Texas, 2020.

Rice-Misura, Sarah Burnett. “Romanian Folk Music for Bassoon and Piano: Three New Arrangements and Recordings from the Works of George Enescu and Béla Bartók.” Arizona State, 2020.

Sendroiu, Ioana. “Managing Crisis: Decision-Making, Memory, and Legality in Post-World War Two France and Romania.” Toronto, Canada, 2020.

Vansteenburg, Jessica. “Transnationalism and Popular Music at Transylvanian Hungarian Festivals.” Colorado, Boulder, 2020.

Former Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, and New Yugoslav States