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«Mother Volga» and «Mother Russia»: On the Role of the River in Gendering Russianness
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Рябов О. В.
For centuries “Mother Russia” has been one of the most important symbols of Russian culture. This symbol has been formed by various factors, which cannot be considered without analyzing another well-known maternal symbol – “Mother Volga.” Just how popular is the symbol of “Mother Volga” in Russian culture? What traits are attributed to it? How are they gendered? What role does it play? How does it influence stereotypes of Russianness? And finally, to what degree are maternal images of river and country correlated?
Tsvetkova M. V., Алентьева А. А., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2026 Т. 31 № 2 С. 385–397
The purpose of this article is to describe the specifics of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s adaptation of I.S. Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons for the theater and the reasons behind Friel’s transformations. The novelty of this study stems from the fact that the reception of Russian classical literature in Ireland in the 20th century has ...
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Tsvetkova M. V., Алентьева А. А., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2026 № 2 С. 385–397
The purpose of this article is to describe the specifics of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s adaptation of I.S. Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons for the theater and the reasons behind Friel’s transformations. The novelty of this study stems from the fact that the reception of Russian classical literature in Ireland in the 20th century has ...
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Loshkareva M. E., Шестакова Н. Ф., Новое прошлое 2026 № 1 С. 98–111
The article is devoted to the problem of constructing one of the important elements of the historical memory of Wales, the alleged abduction of Princess Nest. The myth surrounding Nest originated in the Middle Ages and, despite the rarity of female figures in historical chronicles, she emerged as a prominent heroine within the national narrative. ...
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Мулина А. А., В кн.: Балканские войны 1912–1913 гг.: далекие предпосылки и долгое эхо.: М.: Институт славяноведения РАН, 2024. С. 287–297.
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Panin N., Гуманитарный акцент 2019 № 1 С. 44–48
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Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Полис. Политические исследования 2010 № 5 С. 48–63
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Рябов О. В., Женщина в российском обществе 2017 № 2 С. 84–97
The article, focusing on Russian satirical journals research, dwells upon role of the symbol of the Motherland in discourses of Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The author points out that the symbol was exploited by majority of political forces. The authorities employed it in maintaining legitimacy of power. The author discerns two modes of ...
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Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Problems of Post-Communism 2014 No. 2 P. 23–35
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Рябов О. В., Женщина в российском обществе 2015 № 3/4 С. 78–95
The article deals with the using of the symbol of the Motherland in the symbolic politics in the post-Soviet Russia. The author demonstrates that the maternal symbol of Russia is employed in the politics of the national identity, in the practices of political mobilization, in legitimation and delegitimation of power, in the rhetoric on the ...
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Рябов О. В., Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity 2020 No. 4 P. 752–767
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Рябов О. В., Рябова Т. Б., Женщина в российском обществе 2024 № 1 С. 4–22
The paper deals with the analysis of using the Motherland symbol by the Soviet popular songs in order to represent the Cold War issues. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the authors examine more than 1500 Soviet songs (1946-1991); 350 of them employ this symbol. The article demonstrates that the “Soviet Motherland” served as one ...
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Fabrykant M., Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 2026
The article presents an empirical research on the dynamics of national pride in China from the early 1990s to the present. The research results show the trajectory of this dynamics to be nonlinear. The increase in the level of national pride is revealed to be accompanied with a much less obvious increased uniformity in the ...
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The dispute over the return to Greece of the Parthenon sculptures, currently housed in the British Museum, remains a classic example of the struggle for the restitution/repatriation of cultural property, which is directly related to the issues of the decolonization of archaeology and museum spaces. Although Greece has never formally been a colony, the Parthenon ...
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Моисеева А. А., Rozhdestvenskaya E., ИНТЕРакция. ИНТЕРвью. ИНТЕРпретация 2025 Т. 17 № 3 С. 96–111
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Polyakov L., М.: Модест Колеров, 2025.
This book is a second volume of three volume edition of scholarly publications of professor Leonid Vladimirovich Polyakov (National Research University - Higher School of Economics). This volume includes papers and scholarly publications 1997–2020 on key phases of building Russian political system. Primary attention is paid to the constitutional construction, because an issue around the ...
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Skrynnikova I. V., Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 2: Языкознание 2020 Vol. 19 No. 3 P. 107–115
The current paper presents a comprehensive literature review of research into the phenomenon of Russian national identity and emphasizes the crucial role of discourse metaphor in narratives of national culture and identity. The latter, as a complex mental construct, encompasses common or similar beliefs or opinions internalized in the course of socialization as well as emotional attitudes, behavioural ...
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