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Survival as Victory

Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

By: Oksana Kis

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Survival as Victory

Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

By: Oksana Kis

Survival as Victory is the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Oksana Kis pulls from the written and oral histories of over 150 survivors to bring to life the gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag.

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Harvard University Press

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0674258282

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9780674258280

Survival as Victory

Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

By: Oksana Kis

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Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

By: Oksana Kis

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In Visible Presence

Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos

By: Oksana Sarkisova,Olga Shevchenko

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In Visible Presence

Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos

By: Oksana Sarkisova,Olga Shevchenko

An absorbing exploration of Soviet-era family photographs that demonstrates the singular power of the photographic image to command attention, resist closure, and complicate the meaning of the past. A faded image of a family gathered at a festively served dinner table, raising their glasses in unison. A group of small children, sitting in orderly rows, with stuffed toys at their feet and a portrait of Lenin looming over their heads. A pensive older woman against a snowy landscape, her gaze directed lovingly at a tombstone. These are a few of the evocative images in In Visible Presence by Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko, an exquisitely researched book that brings together photographs from Soviet-era family photo archives and investigates their afterlives in Russia. In Visible Presence explores the photographic images’ singular power to capture a fleeting moment by approaching them as points of contestation and possibility. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork and interviews, as well as internet ethnography, media analysis, and case studies, In Visible Presence offers a rich account of the role of family photography in creating communities of affect, enabling nostalgic longings, and processing memories of suffering, violence, and hardship. Together these photos evoke youthful aspirations, dashed hopes, and moral compromises, as well as the long legacy of silence that was passed down from grandparents to parents to children. With more than 250 black and white photos, In Visible Presence is an astonishing journey into domestic photography, family memory, and the ongoing debate over the meaning of the Soviet past that is as timely and powerful today as it has ever been.

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489

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MIT Press

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0262375605

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9780262375603

How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes

By: Oksana Huss

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How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes

By: Oksana Huss

Leaders of hybrid regimes in pursuit of political domination and material gain instrumentalize both hidden forms of corruption and public anti-corruption policies. Corruption is pursued for different purposes including cooperation with strategic partners and exclusion of opponents. Presidents use anti-corruption policies to legitimize and institutionalize political domination. Corrupt practices and anti-corruption policies become two sides of the same coin and are exercised to maintain an uneven political playing field. This study combines empirical analysis and social constructivism for an investigation into the presidencies of Leonid Kuchma (1994–2005), Viktor Yushchenko (2005–2010), and Viktor Yanukovych (2010–2014). Explorative expert interviews, press surveys, content analysis of presidential speeches, as well as critical assessment of anti-corruption legislation are used for comparison and process tracing of the utilization of corruption under three Ukrainian presidents.

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408

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3838214307

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9783838214306

Fractional Brownian Motion

Approximations and Projections

By: Oksana Banna,Yuliya Mishura,Kostiantyn Ralchenko,Sergiy Shklyar

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Fractional Brownian Motion

Approximations and Projections

By: Oksana Banna,Yuliya Mishura,Kostiantyn Ralchenko,Sergiy Shklyar

This monograph studies the relationships between fractional Brownian motion (fBm) and other processes of more simple form. In particular, this book solves the problem of the projection of fBm onto the space of Gaussian martingales that can be represented as Wiener integrals with respect to a Wiener process. It is proved that there exists a unique martingale closest to fBm in the uniform integral norm. Numerical results concerning the approximation problem are given. The upper bounds of distances from fBm to the different subspaces of Gaussian martingales are evaluated and the numerical calculations are involved. The approximations of fBm by a uniformly convergent series of Lebesgue integrals, semimartingales and absolutely continuous processes are presented. As auxiliary but interesting results, the bounds from below and from above for the coefficient appearing in the representation of fBm via the Wiener process are established and some new inequalities for Gamma functions, and even for trigonometric functions, are obtained.

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288

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John Wiley & Sons

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1786302608

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9781786302601

Culture and Customs of Ukraine

By: Adriana Helbig,Oksana Ritz-Buranbaeva,Vanja Mladineo

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Culture and Customs of Ukraine

By: Adriana Helbig,Oksana Ritz-Buranbaeva,Vanja Mladineo

Ukraine's tumultuous history has left it standing on unstable ground, wrought with the devastation of the 20th century's wars, famines, and other struggles. Today, life in Ukraine is moving forward, stepping out of the shadows of Communism and into a modern, urban, and multicultural light, finally gaining for itself a sense of national identity. Now a cultural hotspot that serves as a crossroads between Europe and Asia, Ukraine's traditions of yesterday are evolving into today's daily life and customs. High school and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to delve into Ukraine's modern society by looking at its religious practices, language conflicts, gender issues, education policies, and media censorship struggles, as well as its cuisine, holidays, literature, music, and performing arts. A thorough and unique investigation of this young country, Culture and Customs of Ukraine is an absolute must-have for high school, public, and undergraduate library bookshelves. Coverage includes historical background, religions, language, gender, education, customs, holidays, and cuisine, media, literature, music, and Ukranian theatre and cinema in the 20th century. A chronology, photos, and bibliography including print and nonprint sources supplement this work.

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219

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313343640

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9780313343643

Dagestan

By: Edward Beliaev,Oksana Buranbaeva

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Dagestan

By: Edward Beliaev,Oksana Buranbaeva

An exploration of the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the former Soviet republic of Dagestan"--Provided by publisher.

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148

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Marshall Cavendish

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0761420150

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9780761420156

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Survival as Victory

Survival as Victory

Survival as Victory

Survival as Victory

In Visible Presence

In Visible Presence

How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes

How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes

Fractional Brownian Motion

Fractional Brownian Motion

Culture and Customs of Ukraine

Culture and Customs of Ukraine

Dagestan

Dagestan

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