Sökning: "USSR"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 30 uppsatser innehållade ordet USSR.

  1. 1. Vetenskapen vid vägskälet: En studie av sovjetisk vetenskapssyn vid trettiotalets början

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Johannes Malmgren; [2023-09-19]
    Nyckelord :Nikolaj Bucharin; Boris Hessen; Sovjetisk vetenskap; borgerlig vetenskap; politisering; vetenskapshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : At the Second International Congress of the History of Science in 1931, Soviet academics had a rare opportunity to present their view of science to an international audience. At this time, science was becoming an increasingly politicized endeavor in the Soviet Union. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Russian Playbook : Using History & Path Dependence to Analyse How Russia Operationalises Grand Strategy in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova.

    Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Författare :Justine Westbrook; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Russia; Security; International Relations; Conflict; History; Path Dependence; Georgia; Ukraine; Moldova; War; Historical Institutionalism; USSR; Post-Soviet; Deception; Russian Influence; Weaponization; Weaponisation; Donba; South Ossetia; Crimea; Transnistria; Pridnestrovia; Russian Grand Strategy; Abkhazia; Frozen Conflict; Playbook;

    Sammanfattning : To predict and prevent future armed conflicts like Russia’s war against Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2022, there is more value in knowing how these wars occurred rather than why they occurred. The Russian Playbook is built from three distinct “plays” employed by Moscow and organised in the theoretical framework of Historical Institutionalism through Path Dependence modelling. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Conflict in Central Asia - A Soviet Affair

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Hugo Axelsson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Soviet Union; Central Asia; relative deprivation; state coercion; historical legacies; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : After the fall of the Soviet Union, two prominent Islamic groups, the IMU in Uzbekistan and the IRPT in Tajikistan, took to arms against their governments. To explain the contexts of these movements, this thesis utilises historical legacy theory to establish a continuity between the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes, which together with relative deprivation theory can explain why violent religious conflicts arose in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan after the collapse of the USSR. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Cold War Politics and Sports : Ice Hockey Competitions and the Image of the USSR in Western Mass Media

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Författare :Oscar Angestav; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Sports; Politics; Cold War; Ice hockey; Soviet Union; USA; Canada; Critical Discourse Analysis;

    Sammanfattning : The notion that politics and sport should not be mixed together have been a common notion throughout the 20th century. Nevertheless, the fact that sport is political has continuously been revealed and apparent, in particular during the period of the Cold War. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Economic Interdependence and Conflict: The case of the post-Soviet space

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Linn Alice Backlund; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Trade; Interdependence; Conflict; Former Soviet Union; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : There is still little consensus on whether trade promotes peace or not This thesis aims at investigating the relationship between economic interdependence and conflicts in post-Soviet countries, contributing to the empirical literature on the regional level. Using dyadic measures of trade and conflict, I investigate the relationship between interdependence and onset conflict, ongoing conflict, and conflict intensity. LÄS MER