Search for dissertations about: "kalla kriget"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words kalla kriget.

2. 1. Notifications and job losses on the Swedish labour market

   Author : Ann-Christin Jans; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Arbetslöshet; Sverige; 1990-talet; uppsägning;

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4. 2. A Cold War Pursuit : Soviet refugees in Sweden, 1945-54

   Author : Cecilia Notini Burch; Magnus Petersson; Karl Molin; Ann-Marie Ekengren; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; refugee policy; Cold War; security; ethnicity; human rights; social control; Sweden; Soviet Union; Balts; Ingrians; Russians; flyktingpolitik; kalla kriget; säkerhetspolitik; etnicitet; mänskliga rättigheter; social kontroll; Sverige; Sovjetunionen; balter; ingermanländare; ryssar; History; historia;

   Abstract : What determines refugee policies in liberal democracies? Humanitarianism? International relations? Economics? Identity issues? International law? Concerns for national security? This book explores these factors through a case study of non-aligned Sweden’s management of Soviet refugees during the first decade of the Cold War. The policy of admission and political asylum; the government’s handling of direct Soviet demands regarding refugees; the Swedish authorities’ surveillance strategies and the continuing living conditions of individuals who were permitted to stay, are all studied in depth. READ MORE

5. 3. Back to the Motherland : Repatriation and Latvian Émigrés 1955-1958

   Author : Lilita Zalkalns; Maija Runcis; Per Bolin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Repatriation; Cold War studies; emigration; Soviet foreign policy; Latvian émigrés; Latvian émigré press; Soviet propaganda; compatriots; KGB; Soviet espionage; displaced persons; political refugees; Soviet Amnesty decree; repatriering; Kalla kriget; emigration; sovjetisk utrikespolitik; lettiska emigranter; lettisk emigrantpress; sovjetisk propaganda; compatriots; KGB; sovjetiskt spionage; displaced persons DPs ; politiska flyktingar; sovjetisk amnestilag; baltiska språk; Baltic Languages;

   Abstract : This thesis is about a remarkable experience lived through by Latvian émigrés in the mid-1950s. They were the targets of a Soviet repatriation campaign, operated by the KGB, which not only envisioned their repatriation to the Soviet Latvian homeland, but also anticipated the destruction of their émigré society as they knew it. READ MORE

6. 4. Reassembling the Environmental Archives of the Cold War : Perspectives from the Russian North

   Author : Dmitry V. Arzyutov; Peder Roberts; Per Högselius; Julia Lajus; Bathsheba Demuth; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmental Archive; Russian Arctic; Encounters; Cold War; Indigenous and Academic Ways of Knowing; Miljöarkiv; ryska Arktis; möten; det kalla kriget; ursprungliga och akademiska kunskapssystem.; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

   Abstract : To what extent the environmental history of the Arctic can move beyond thedivide between Indigenous peoples and newcomers or vernacular and academicways of knowing? The present dissertation answers this question by developing thenotion of an environmental archive. Such an archive does not have particular referenceto a given place but rather it refers to the complex network that marks the relationsbetween paper documents and human and non-human agencies as they are able towork together and stabilise the conceptualisation of a variety of environmentalobjects. READ MORE

7. 5. Why Sweden Suspended Military Service : The Policy Process from 1990 to 2009

   Author : Mårten Lindberg; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Military service; deinstitutionalisation; Sweden; Moderate Party; Social Democratic Party; issue-reputation;

   Abstract : For little more than a century military service enacted Swedish values of equality, solidarity and doing one's part for the public good. What started out at as mere military recruitment policy in 1901 developed into an institutional feature of Swedish society: appreciated by society, the conscripts, the Armed Forces and by political parties to the left and the right. READ MORE