Search for dissertations about: "economic Russia"

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2. 1. Ports in Transition in Countries in Transition - The changing situation for ports in Russia and the Baltic states in times of geopolitical and economical transition

   Author : Alf Brodin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Port; transition; Baltic Sea; transport geography; geopolitics; Russia; Baltic states; former Soviet Union; trade statistics; entrepôt; trade relations;

   Abstract : Ports in Transition in Countries in Transition - The changing situation for ports in Russia and the Baltic states in times of geopolitical and economical transition. Edited by the Department of Human and Economic Geography, University of Göteborg. CHOROS 2000:1. 254 pages. READ MORE

4. 2. Urban policies for a contemporary periphery : Insights from eastern Russia

   Author : Vasileios Kitsos; Zhanna Kravchenko; Lisa Kings; Sasha Tsenkova; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; urbanism; global city; globalizing city; globalization; post-socialism; policy mobility; mega-events; boosterism; urban regeneration; corporate social responsibility; participatory planning; Russia; Siberia; Asia-Pacific region; contemporaneity; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : In recent decades, the notion of quality of life has been closely associated with the built urban environment and urbanistic practice. Policies addressing public space and aiming at cities’ increased international competitiveness are proliferating. READ MORE

5. 3. Russia on the Move-The Railroads and the Exodus From Compulsory Collectivism 1861-1914

   Author : Sylvia Sztern; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Institutions; technology; village commune-obshchina; insurance; famines; calamities; railroads; rationality; collectivism; individualism;

   Abstract : Western scholars of Tsarist Russia emphasize the continuity of collectivism on the Russian plain. Numerous endogenous factors explain the human clustering that occurred as kinship structures evolved into territorial agrarian communal patterns. READ MORE

6. 4. Everyday life in avant-garde housing estates : A phenomenology of post-Soviet Moscow

   Author : Alexander Kalyukin; Irene Molina; Tom Mels; Tim Cresswell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; built environment; housing; everyday life; avant-garde architecture; humanistic geography; phenomenology; Henri Lefebvre; post-Soviet city; Moscow; Russia; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the social meaning and function of what is known as avant-garde, or constructivist, housing estates located in central Moscow. Five of these estates – Budenovsky, Dubrovka, Khavsko-Shabolovsky, Nizhnyaya Presnya and Usachevka – comprise the empirical foci of the study. READ MORE

7. 5. Entrepreneurship in Russia: Western Ideas in Russian Translation

   Author : Oksana Shmulyar Gréen; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Russia; entrepreneurship; capitalist development; Western business education; Russian marchants; Soviet managers; middle classes; networks;

   Abstract : Aim of this thesis is to outline, both historically and in our own time, the development of entrepreneurship in Russia, a country where the very existence of the phenomenon has for a long period of time been either denied or confined to the margins of illegality and semi-legality. The primary focus of this work is on the emergence of a new generation of entrepreneurs that came to thrive in the 1990s, the most turbulent but also the most promising years of Russia’s economic, political, and social transformation. READ MORE