scholarly journals The Russian Cinema of the Dissolution

2014 ◽  
pp. 183-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Roman ◽  
Tomasz Rawski
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Break Up ◽  
Russian Cinema

The Russian Cinema of the DissolutionThe paper takes the issue of Russian reckoning cinema after 1989. This current can be defined as comprising the films which try to lay the foundations of a new narrative about the Soviet Union (alternative to the dominant narrative). The authors reflect on the specificity of the filmmakers’ critical attitude towards the previous system. The story of the break-up of the Soviet Union turns to be a story of the great catastrophe – the tragedy of the whole society, abandoned by hypocritical intelligentsia and deceived by political elites. Rosyjskie kino rozpaduTekst podejmuje problematykę rosyjskiego kina rozliczeniowego po 1989 roku – słabo widocznego nurtu próbującego stworzyć zręby nowej narracji o Związku Radzieckim, która mogłaby stanowić alternatywę wobec narracji dominującej. Stanowi próbę namysłu nad specyfiką krytyki poprzedniego systemu przeprowadzaną przez twórców tego nurtu. Opowieść o rozpadzie Związku Radzieckiego okazuje się tu opowieścią o wielkiej katastrofie – tragedii całego społeczeństwa, opuszczonego przez obłudną inteligencję i oszukanego przez elity polityczne.

Political Affinities and Maneuvering of Soviet Political Elites: Heorhii Shevel and Ukraine’s Ministry of Strange Affairs in the 1970s

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-411
Author(s):  
Olga Bertelsen
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Soviet Institution

AbstractThis article examines the goals and practices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine in the 1970s, a Soviet institution that functioned as an ideological organ fighting against Ukrainian nationalists domestically and abroad. The central figure of this article is Heorhii Shevel who governed the Ministry from 1970 to 1980 and whose tactics, strategies, and practices reveal the existence of a distinct phenomenon in the Soviet Union—the nationally conscious political elite with double loyalties who, by action or inaction, expanded the space of nationalism in Ukraine. This research illuminates a paradox of pervasive Soviet power, which produced an institution that supported and reinforced Soviet “anti-nationalist” ideology, simultaneously creating an environment where heterodox views or sentiments were stimulated and nurtured.

FORMATION OF LEGAL RELATIONSHIPS ARISING IN THE COURSE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 221-225
Author(s):  
Поляков ◽  
Aleksandr Polyakov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Break Up

The article considers the issues of interaction between public organizations and municipal authorities after the break-up of the Soviet Union. The author presents the analysis of some enactments regulating the work of public organizations and their relationships. Current problems in organizing joint activities of the presented structures are shown.

scholarly journals Synthesis of National and Transnational in A. Konchalovsky's American Movies

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Grigoriy Igorevich Kurdiaev
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Strategy ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
Russian Film ◽  
Russian Cinema ◽  
First Time

In September 2014 Andrey Konchalovskiy's White Nights of Postman Alexey Tryapitsyn won Silver Lion for the Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. European critics and advanced public have regularly marked endowments of the Soviet and Russian film director. Throughout his career he has received numerous awards at prestigious European film festivals. There are Crystal Globe in Karlovy Vary for the Romance for Lovers (1974), Grand Prix at Cannes for Sibiriada (1979), the main prizes of San Sebastian for Uncle Vanya (1971) and Homer and Eddie (1989). Meanwhile, Konchalovsky's success among American mass audience and critics has been much more modest, though Andrey Konchalovsky was the first in the early 1980s, since the time of the first wave of Russian 1910-20's emigration, who attempted to connect deeply national, Russian spirit with Hollywood production technology-oriented international strategy in his works. Being established in the Soviet Union as an esteemed author, Konchalovskiy decided to change the film industry to start over his career. Nowadays, in the context of the festival success in the European and Soviet/Russian cinema circles and the lack of attention in the United States, a question arises, if one can consider this attempt as successful one. In this article the author tries identify Russian national motives, which the filmmaker has introduced into Hollywood culture through his creative method, and those originally Hollywood themes and topics that have appeared for the first time in the works of the recognized Soviet director. Basing on Konchalovskys American works the author tries to elicit creative value in their national and transnational synthesis and expose the extent of their productivity and sensemaking.

The Baltic Boundary

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Estera Mrozewicz
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Break Up ◽  
The Baltic

This chapter focuses on the films whose plots are set in the period following the break-up of the Soviet Union and in which the Baltic Sea undergoes symbolic transformation from a metaphor of liminal space into a space which links the Nordic peripheries of Europe with neighbours on the opposite shores. Rather than being positioned as small nations facing a large and dangerous neighbour, the small Nordic countries now find themselves among equally small neighbours that have (re)emerged in the northern consciousness after the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc. In these pictures (such as Aki Kaurismäki’s Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana), Baltic is an expanse of ambivalence, reflecting both fear of and fascination with the newly opened borders and increasing globalisation. Plots structured on the cognitive binary of centre/periphery are examined as baselines for narratives showing various forms of distant neighbourhood. Here, the Nordic subjects are often ousted from the centre position they previously adopted. Filmic devices serve to compress the space in order to accentuate contiguity rather than distance between the Nordic and the Eastern European coasts of the Baltic.

Moldova’s Thirty-Year Search for Independence

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (828) ◽  
pp. 268-273
Author(s):  
Petru Negură
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
General Population ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Trust ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Systemic Corruption

Unlike in the Baltics, support for independence in Moldova was relatively low among the political elites and the general population when the Soviet Union collapsed. In the 1990s, the political parties in power pursued an incoherent program, as governments swung between reformist and conservative agendas. Economic crises and systemic corruption depleted citizens’ trust in politicians and state institutions. This low institutional trust has hampered governance at all levels, and primarily in crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anti-Pluralism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Galston
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Democratic Life

The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today's populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains up for debate. Yet this much is clear: these challenges indict the triumphalism that accompanied liberal democratic consolidation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. To respond to today's crisis, good leaders must strive for inclusive economic growth while addressing fraught social and cultural issues, including demographic anxiety, with frank attention. Although reforms may stem the populist tide, liberal democratic life will always leave some citizens unsatisfied. This is a permanent source of vulnerability, but liberal democracy will endure so long as citizens believe it is worth fighting for.

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