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• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I: Tonality
• Chapter 1
• Tonal Pairing in Two of Rachmaninoff's Songs
• Ellen Bakulina
• Chapter 2
• Abundant Novelty of Antitonic Harmony in the Music of Nikolai Myaskovsky
• Scott Murphy
• Chapter 3
• House of Mirrors: Distorted Proportions in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 1
• Rebecca Perry
• Chapter 4
• A Curiosity in the Early String Quartets of Shostakovich, and Its Precedents in Previous Works
• Patrick McCreless
• Chapter 5
• Navigating Post-Soviet Armenia: On Decoloniality in Tigran Mansurian's Requiem
• Knar Abrahamyan
• Part II: Modernism
• Chapter 6
• Fifths' Paths through Nikolai Roslavets's Three Poems of Zinaida Gippius
• Inessa Bazayev
• Chapter 7
• Alexander Mosolov's Piano Sonata No. 1 and Its Synthetic Modernism
• Daniil Zavlunov
• Chapter 8
• The Rebirth of Melody in Lourie's Post-Neoclassical Concerto da camera
• Klara Moricz
• Chapter 9
• The Features of Alexander Tcherepnin's Nine-Step Scale and Its Use in the First Movement of His First Symphony
• Joshua Bedford
• Chapter 10
• Timbre and Vibration in Galina Ustvolskaya's Composition No. 1, "Dona nobis pacem"
• Maria Cizmic
• Part III: Serialism
• Chapter 11
• Edison Denisov and Multiple-Row Serialism
• Zachary Cairns
• Chapter 12
• Historical and Stylistic Reconciliation in Sofia Gubaidulina's Reflections on the Theme BACH
• Joseph Straus
• Chapter 13
• Monogram, Theme, and Large-Scale Form in Alfred Schnittke's Viola Concerto
• Christopher Segall
• Index.
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This volume brings together analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers from across the twentieth century, showing how their approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism forge forward-looking paths independent from their Western counterparts. Russian music of this era is widely performed, and much research has situated this repertoire in its historical and social context, yet few analytical studies have explored the technical aspects of these composers' styles. With a set of representative analyses by leading scholars in music theory and analysis, this book for the first time identifies large-scale compositional trends in Russian music since 1900. The chapters progress by compositional style through the century, and each addresses a single work by a different composer, covering pieces by Rachmaninoff, Myaskovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Mansurian, Roslavets, Mosolov, Lourie, Tcherepnin, Ustvolskaya, Denisov, Gubaidulina, and Schnittke. Musicians, scholars, and students will find here a starting point for research and analysis of these composers' works and gain a richer understanding of how to listen to and interpret their music.
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• 1. Elections, Protest, and Hybrid Regime Dynamics--
• 2. Winning Hybrid Elections: Organized Opposition, Incumbent Regimes, and The Threat of Popular Engagement--
• 3. The Long Game: Inter-Election Efforts to Shape Electoral Victories--
• 4. The Unexpected Power of Weak Opposition: Organizations, Frames, and Political Opportunities--
• 5. The Vote Protest: State, Opposition, and Voters in Russian Elections--
• 6. The Polls Close And Two Movements Emerge--
• 7. Protest and Rally Dynamics: A National Conversation Over Russia's Future--
• 8. The Perpetual Campaign: Regime Response and Opposition Innovation--
• 9. 2018-2020: Competition and Contestation.
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In a path-breaking study of Russian elections, Regina Smyth reveals how much electoral competition matters to the Putin regime and how competition leaves Russia more vulnerable to opposition challenges than is perceived in the West. Using original data and analysis, Smyth demonstrates how even weak political opposition can force autocratic incumbents to rethink strategy and find compromises in order to win elections. Smyth challenges conventional notions about Putin's regime, highlighting the vast resources the Kremlin expends to maintain a permanent campaign to construct regime-friendly majorities. These tactics include disinformation as well as symbolic politics, social benefits, repression, and falsification. This book reveals the stresses and challenges of maintaining an electoral authoritarian regime and provides a roadmap to understand how seemingly stable authoritarian systems can fall quickly to popular challenges even when the opposition is weak. A must-read for understanding Russia's future and the role of elections in contemporary autocratic regimes.
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• Introduction
• Formalism and decisionism in Soviet and Russian jurisprudence
• The philosophy behind human rights : Valerii Zorkin vs. the West
• Conservatism in Russia and sovereignty in human rights
• Religion, sexual minorities, and the rule of law in Russia : mutual challenge
• Religious beliefs in the jurisprudence of the Russian Supreme Court
• Conclusion

This volume examines the elements of formalism and decisionism in Russian legal thinking and, also, the impact of conservatism on the interplay of these elements. The actual conservative narratives, about the distinctiveness of Russian law, reveal certain features of the intellectual culture that is transmitted in legal education, scholarship and practice. These narratives are based on the idea of sovereignty understood as legal omnipotence of the state. References to sovereignty justify the requirement of legality in the sense of fidelity to the letter of the law. They also often serve as a rationale for crafting exceptions to constitutional non-discrimination principles as they are applied to political, religious, sexual and other minorities.
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• List of Images Introduction
• 1. White Historical Romanticism in Soviet Culture and Politics
• 2. Rehabilitation: Judicial, Cultural, Symbolic?
• 3. The Church's Conquest of the Memory Market
• 4. White Thinkers: What Room in the Regime's Ideology?
• 5. Cultural Reverberations of the White Past Conclusion Index.
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In examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today. The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 Bolshevik revolution but celebrates the birth of a powerful Soviet Union able to bring the country to the forefront of the international scene after the victory in World War II. Yet in parallel, another historical narrative has gradually consolidated on the Russian public scene, one that favours the opposite camp, namely the White movement and the pro-tsarist groups defeated in the early 1920s. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of this 'White Revenge', looking at the different actors who promote a White and pro-Romanov rehabilitation agenda in the political, ideological and cultural arenas and what this historical agenda might mean for Russia, both today and tomorrow.
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• Developing an understanding of migrants' legal adaptation in hybrid political regimes
• Migration, the shadow economy, and parallel legal orders in Russia
• Uzbek migrant workers in Russia : a case study
• Uzbek migrants' everyday encounters with employers and middlemen
• Uzbek migrants' everyday encounters with street-level institutions
• Uzbek migrants' everyday encounters with police officers and immigration officials
• The life histories of three Uzbek migrant workers in Russia
• Discussion and concluding remarks

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptation and integration has focused on case studies of immigrant communities in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt to a new legal environment in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russia-an archetypal hybrid political regime and the third largest recipients of migrants worldwide-and investigates how Central Asian migrant workers produce new forms of informal governance and legal order. Migrants use the opportunities provided by a weak rule-of-law and a corrupt political system to navigate the repressive legal landscape and to negotiate-using informal channels-access to employment and other opportunities that are hard to obtain through the official legal framework of their host country. This lively ethnography presents new theoretical perspectives for studying immigrant legal incorporation in similar political contexts. .
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• Developing an understanding of migrants' legal adaptation in hybrid political regimes
• Migration, the shadow economy, and parallel legal orders in Russia
• Uzbek migrant workers in Russia : a case study
• Uzbek migrants' everyday encounters with employers and middlemen
• Uzbek migrants' everyday encounters with street-level institutions
• Uzbek migrants' everyday encounters with police officers and immigration officials
• The life histories of three Uzbek migrant workers in Russia
• Discussion and concluding remarks

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptation and integration has focused on case studies of immigrant communities in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt to a new legal environment in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russia-an archetypal hybrid political regime and the third largest recipients of migrants worldwide-and investigates how Central Asian migrant workers produce new forms of informal governance and legal order. Migrants use the opportunities provided by a weak rule-of-law and a corrupt political system to navigate the repressive legal landscape and to negotiate-using informal channels-access to employment and other opportunities that are hard to obtain through the official legal framework of their host country. This lively ethnography presents new theoretical perspectives for studying immigrant legal incorporation in similar political contexts. .
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• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Red Moscow
• 2. The Palace
• 3. The War
• 4. Moscow of the Plan
• 5. Moscow of the Shadows
• 6. The Vysotniki
• 7. The View from the Top
• 8. De-Stalinization and the Battle against "Excess
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper In the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of Stalinist society. Moscow Monumental explores how the quintessential architectural works of the late Stalin era fundamentally reshaped daily life in the Soviet capital. Drawing on a wealth of original archival research, Katherine Zubovich examines the decisions and actions of Soviet elites-from top leaders to master architects-and describes the experiences of ordinary Muscovites who found their lives uprooted by the ambitious skyscraper project. She shows how the Stalin-era quest for monumentalism was rooted in the Soviet Union's engagement with Western trends in architecture and planning, and how the skyscrapers required the creation of a vast and complex infrastructure. As laborers flooded into the city, authorities evicted and rehoused tens of thousands of city residents living on the plots selected for development. When completed in the mid-1950s, these seven ornate neoclassical buildings served as elite apartment complexes, luxury hotels, and ministry and university headquarters. Moscow Monumental tells a story that is both local and broadly transnational, taking readers from the streets of interwar Moscow and New York to the marble-clad halls of the bombastic postwar structures that continue to define the Russian capital today.
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• Framing the new START Treaty
• The talks take shape
• Rome
• the red ballroom
• The run to Moscow
• October breakthrough on verification
• Senate Observer Group in Geneva
• Losing the race to December
• Copenhagen
• the presidents meet
• January regroup in Moscow
• Long winter slog
• April glitter in Prague castle
• Up to the Senate
• The last votes
• The gold standard treaty
• lessons learned.

"Rose Gottemoeller, the US chief negotiator of the New START treaty-and the first woman to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation-delivers in this book an invaluable insider's account of the negotiations between the US and Russian delegations in Geneva in 2009 and 2010. It also examines the crucially important discussions about the treaty between President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev, and it describes the tough negotiations Gottemoeller and her team went through to gain the support of the Senate for the treaty. And importantly, at a time when the US Congress stands deeply divided, it tells the story of how, in a previous time of partisan division, Republicans and Democrats came together to ratify a treaty to safeguard the future of all Americans. Rose Gottemoeller is uniquely qualified to write this book, bringing to the task not only many years of high-level experience in creating and enacting US policy on arms control and compliance but also a profound understanding of the broader politico-military context from her time as NATO Deputy Secretary General. Thanks to her years working with Russians, including as Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, she provides rare insights into the actions of the Russian delegation-and the dynamics between Medvedev and then-Prime Minister Vladmir Putin. Her encyclopedic recall of the events and astute ability to analyze objectively, while laying out her own thoughts and feelings at the time, make this both an invaluable document of record-and a fascinating story. In conveying the sense of excitement and satisfaction in delivering an innovative arms control instrument for the American people and by laying out the lessons Gottemoeller and her colleagues learned, this book will serve as an inspiration for the next generation of negotiators, as a road map for them as they learn and practice their trade, and as a blueprint to inform the shaping and ratification of future treaties"-- Provided by publisher.

• Les mécanismes du désordre
• Le poutinisme, un village Potemkine
• Une mythologie homérique
• Patchwork idéologique
• Méthode dure
• La nouvelle agit-prop
• Les porte-voix du Kremlin
• Cyberattaques et manipulations
• Vers un Internet souverain
• L'offensive révisionniste
• "À Berlin"
• Les statues de la discorde
• Bataille mémorielle
• Le grand chambardement du droit international
• Bras de fer à l'ONU
• Syrie : les Nations unies disqualifiées-
• Barrage aux droits de l'homme
• Une guerre totale en temps de paix
• Réinventer la guerre
• Organiser le chaos
• Risques d'escalade
• Le retour en force de l'armée
• De Grozny à Alep
• Jeux de guerre
• Soldats fantômes
• Géopolitique du désordre
• En Ukraine, halte aux révolutions
• Une annexion planifiée
• Fuite en avant dans le Donbass
• La blessure permanente
• L'étranger proche, un espace de frictions
• La fronde biélorusse
• "L'URSS commence seulement à se détruire"
• Le Partenariat oriental européen en concurrence
• La Syrie, un modèle traumatique
• Soutenir Damas coûte que coûte
• Une opération militaire inédite
• Un bilan en demi-teinte
• En Europe, la percée subversive
• Saboter l'unité
• Fragiliser les États
• Réinvestir les Balkans
• Coups de poker en Amérique
• Nouvelles empreintes russes
• Le précédent de 2016
• Aggraver les fractures
• La Chine, un partenaire contrariant
• L'entente autoritariste
• Noces géopolitiques
• Asymétrie économique
• "Make Africa Safe"
• Un sommet à double détente
• L'ombre de Prigojine
• Le lent réveil des Occidentaux
• Le Grand Nord, dernier bastion stratégique
• Zone militaire
• La conquête commerciale
• Nouvelle frontière.

"Au pouvoir depuis vingt ans, Vladimir Poutine a ouvertement annoncé son intention de replacer la Russie au centre de la politique mondiale. Sa stratégie : perturber les règles du jeu partout où il le pourra. C'est ce que montre cette enquête passionnante. Isolée par son intervention en Ukraine, la Russie s'est servie du conflit syrien comme d'un tremplin pour revenir en puissance dans les affaires internationales. Le chef du Kremlin use, sans complexe, de méthodes de déstabilisation hors-champ et recourt à ses réseaux de l'ombre en Europe, aux États-Unis, dans l'espace postsoviétique, en Afrique, en Asie, et jusque dans le Grand Nord. Tous les moyens sont bons : ingérence dans des élections, élimination d'opposants, pressions politiques, économiques et énergétiques, cyber-attaques, interventions militaires... Face à cette offensive globale, les Occidentaux, divisés, hésitants, voire bienveillants, semblent incapables de trouver une parade efficace. Moscou façonne pourtant un monde plus dur, instable et conflictuel. Un monde où le rapport de force s'impose sur la coopération, où les droits de l'homme s'effacent, où la démocratie cède devant l'autocratie. Un monde favorable aux ambitions du Kremlin que Vladimir Poutine impose par sa stratégie du désordre."--Page 4 of cover.

• List of Images Introduction: Foolish Inconsistency
• 1. Penis Riot: Pussy Riot's Pre-Feminist Roots
• 2. Inciting a Pussy Riot
• 3. When is a Church not a Church?
• 4. Like a (Punk) Prayer
• 5. Hurting Believers' Feelings
• 6. Pussy Riot and Political Speech
• 7. Performance vs. Archive
• 8. Feminism and Other Dirty Words
• 9. Anonymity and Glamour: Does the Camera Love Pussy Riot? Conclusion.
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Both more and less than a band, Pussy Riot is continually misunderstood by the Western media. This book sets the record straight. After their scandalous performance of an anti-Putin protest song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the imprisonment of two of its members, the punk feminist art collective known as Pussy Riot became an international phenomenon. But, what, exactly, is Pussy Riot, and what are they trying to achieve? The award-winning author Eliot Borenstein explores the movement's explosive history and takes you beyond the hype.
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• Introduction
• 1. A Geopolitical Meaning of History
• 2. State Affiliates Manufacturing the "Historical Truth"
• 3. For Victory, for Stalin, for Putin!
• 4. Militant Patriotism
• 5. Monumental Mediocrity
• 6. Hijacking the Holocaust
• 7. Injustice of Historic Proportion Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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This book provides a bold examination of the political use of history in contemporary Russia. Anton Weiss-Wendt argues that history is yet another discipline misappropriated by the Kremlin for the purpose of rallying the population. He explains how, since the pro-democracy protests in 2011-12, the Russian government has hamstrung independent research and aligned state institutions in the promotion of militant patriotism. The entire state machinery has been mobilized to construe a single, glorious historical narrative with the focus on Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. Putin's Russia and the Falsification of History examines the intricate networks in Russia that engage in "historymaking." Whether it is the Holocaust or Soviet mass terror, Tsars or Stalin, the regime promotes a syncretic interpretation of Russian history that supports the notion of a strong state and authoritarian rule. That interpretation finds its way into new monuments, exhibitions, and quasi-professional associations. In addition to administrative measures of control, the Russian state has been using the penal code to censor critical perspectives on history, typically advanced by individuals who also happen to call for a political change in Russia. This powerful book shows how history is increasingly becoming an element of political technology in Russia, with the systematic destruction of independent institutions setting the very future of History as an academic discipline in Russia in doubt.
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• Part I: Russia Resurrected?
• Chapter 1: Is Russia Resurrected? Assessing State Power and Its Domestic Determinants Part II: Russian Power Abroad: A Multidimensional Approach
• Chapter 2: Where Does Russia Matter? Russian Influence in its "Near Abroad"
• Chapter 3: Where Else Does Russia Matter? Beyond the Neighborhood Part III: The Means of Projecting Russian Power Abroad
• Chapter 4: The Unsteady Economic Basis of Russian Power
• Chapter 5: Russian Power is Hard and Soft: The Revitalized Russian Military, Media and Cyber Capabilities
• Chapter 6: Russian Society: Empowered or Enfeebled? Part III: The Domestic Determinants of the use of Russian Power Abroad
• Chapter 7: Is Autocracy an Advantage? How, When and Why Russia Projects its Power Abroad
• Chapter 8: The Implications for Global Politics of the Domestic Determinants of Russian Power.
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An assessment of Russia that suggests that we should look beyond traditional means of power to understand its strength and capacity to disrupt international politics. Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nations cards are better than we know. Russia ranks significantly behind the US and China by traditional measures of power: GDP, population size and health, and military might. Yet 25 years removed from its mid-1990s nadir following the collapse of the USSR, Russia has become a supremely disruptive force in world politics. Kathryn E. Stoner assesses the resurrection of Russia and argues that we should look beyond traditional means of power to assess its strength in global affairs. Taking into account how Russian domestic politics under Vladimir Putin influence its foreign policy, Stoner explains how Russia has battled its way back to international prominence. From Russias seizure of the Crimea from Ukraine to its military support for the Assad regime in Syria, the country has reasserted itself as a major global power. Stoner examines these developments and more in tackling the big questions about Russias turnaround and global future. Stoner marshals data on Russias political, economic, and social development and uncovers key insights from its domestic politics. Russian people are wealthier than the Chinese, debt is low, and fiscal policy is good despite sanctions and the volatile global economy. Vladimir Putins autocratic regime faces virtually no organized domestic opposition. Yet, mindful of maintaining control at home, Russia under Putin also uses its varied power capacities to extend its influence abroad. While we often underestimate Russias global influence, the consequences are evident in the disruption of politics in the US, Syria, and Venezuela, to name a few. Russia Resurrected is an eye-opening reassessment of the country, identifying the actual sources of its power in international politics and why it has been able to redefine the post-Cold War global order.
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• Introduction
• 1. Analysis of Key Practices for the Development of the Russian Far East's Labor Resources 1.1. Labor Resource Endowment in the Russian Far East During the Tsar Period 1.2. Soviet Mechanisms to Strengthen the Attractiveness of Employment in the Far Eastern Region 1.3. Russian Motivation Models Intended to Increase the Able-Bodied Population in the Far Eastern Region
• 2. Trends in the Development of the Far Eastern Federal District's Labor Resources 2.1. Labor Resource Dynamics 2.2. Educational Potential of Labor Resources 2.3. Qualitative Characteristics of Population Employment 2.4. Population Migration 2.5. Workforce in the Digital Economy
• 3. Priorities to Increase the Labor Force in the Russian Far East 3.1. Earned Income of Residents in the Region 3.2. Development of Small Businesses and Self-Employment
• 4. Key Elements of "The Strategy of Labor Force Development in the Far Eastern Federal District Until 2035" 4.1. Global, National, and Regional Trends in Workforce Development 4.2. Workforce Development: Mission and Vision 4.3. OTSW Analysis of Workforce Development in the Far Eastern Federal District 4.4. Competitive Strengths in Workforce Development 4.5. Strategic Priorities in Workforce Development 4.5. Mechanisms to Implement the Workforce Development Strategy 4.6. Social and Economic Effects of Implementing the Strategic Priorities Conclusion.
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This monograph presents an integrated concept of workforce development strategy for the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. This concept is based on the strategizing methodology developed by Vladimir L. Kvint. The concept takes into account contemporary global, national, and regional development trends in workforce, employment, and labor market issues, including the active influence of information and communication technologies and the appearance of numerous novel forms of employment. The Russian Far East is a region of geostrategic importance for the whole world, rich in minerals that can be extracted provided that the region has the necessary-and correctly applied-workforce. This volume shows the uniqueness of the region's workforce and factors that impact workforce development. The author identifies strategic factors influencing workforce development, namely, migration, education system, income sources, and business climate. The monograph identifies, with allowance made for global trends, the main components of workforce development strategy for the Far East: mission, vision, strategic advantages, and priorities. The measures proposed are evaluated in terms of public and economic efficiency. The conclusions and proposals in this work are built on the analysis of this wide range of analytical data. Workforce development programs, from the Tsarist era until the present, are analyzed in this work, and creative approaches to the workforce provision problems of the Russian Far East and appraisal criteria for the strategy's public and economic efficiency are proposed. Applying the information provided in this book will help to improve efficiency of investments in the economy of the Russian Far East using its labor potential. This book belongs to the Strategy of the Russian Far East Library developed under the editorial supervision of Sergey Darkin and Vladimir Kvint.
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