Central and East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CEERES) – Master’s Theses
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The influence of a minister: Turanism in the Hungarian government
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)The ideology of Hungarian Turanism, which insists on a connection between the Hungarian nation and the nations of the formerly accepted Ural-Altaic language family, has in recent years experienced a revival, to the extent ... -
Exploring the dynamics between non-state cinema, audiences, and the future of the industry: contemporary Kazakhstani independent arthouse cinema from the perspectives of the filmmakers
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Recently, the Kazakhstani film industry as a whole has been experiencing many significant changes. Rising numbers of independent and arthouse filmmakers are financed by the government with fewer restrictions and now the ... -
Military signaling & geopolitical instability: a critical geopolitics view of the NATO-Russia exercise dynamic in the Baltic Sea
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)The aim of this study is to analyze how military signaling can impact geopolitical instability. I explore this issue through a case study of the NATO-Russia military exercise dynamic in the Baltic Sea region using a ... -
Legitimation in de-facto states: an analysis of media in the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic
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“It’s half being queer, and half just wanting to leave:” queer migration in Kazakhstan
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Queer migration has been studied among different groups and in different regions of the world but so far no comprehensive study has been undertaken in Central Asia. Much existing queer migration research focuses on ... -
Analysing the Korean diaspora: a case study of Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Koreans
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Koreans are ethnic Koreans living in the post-Soviet countries. This paper tries to clarify the terminology regarding these ethnic Koreans in the post-Soviet countries through the diaspora theory, ... -
Compelex Orientalism: Soviet Kurdology and Kurdish nation building
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Negotiating ‘Serbia’ and ‘Europe’ amidst the politics of nationalism and Europeanization: an exploration of identity contestation and utilization within the LGBT movement in Serbia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Europe has recently seen the rise of nationalist, populist, and anti-gender movements. These movements, while diverse, are similar in their exclusionary visions which seek to define the proper national citizen. At the same ... -
As above, so below: communicating foundational myths through monuments. A comparative study of Piłsudski Square (Warsaw) and Independence Square (Kyiv)
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Between 2014 and 2015, Ukraine and Poland experienced drastic political reconfigurations, when the former saw the Revolution of Dignity conducted by grassroots groups, and the latter saw the electoral triumph of the ... -
The myth of Crimea: Crimean narrative in Russian and Ukrainian media
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)In 2014, Crimea was annexed from Ukraine by the Russian Federation. Two opposing ways in which Crimean Peninsula, Crimean people and Crimean history are depicted in Russian and Ukrainian media constitute two separate ... -
Sovereignism through the prism of populism: the case of Law and Justice party
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Due to the unprecedented scale of globalization, the decision-making capacity of states started moving further from their borders while numerous political actors declared the fight against the diffuse state power that ... -
Using EU’s external governance to promote good governance in Eastern Partnership: evidence from Georgia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The European Union (EU) set bringing neighbouring countries closer to the European Union as a priority. The EU does so by exporting internal rules, values and modes of governance to the non-member states, thus exercising ... -
Identity construction in a transnational environment: the case of young Ukrainian migrants in Poland
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)After the political crisis struck Ukraine in 2014 and led to deterioration of its relations with Russia, new migration trends emerged in Ukraine. Within the following years migration of people from Ukraine to Poland has ... -
The church and the virus: frontiers of secularization and political theology in contemporary Georgian Orthodoxy
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This dissertation focuses on how internal ideological dynamics and political theologies of religious institutions shape their articulations of political claims. It explores how the “success” of traditionalist claims can ... -
Europeanization as a source of frame resonance. The case of Georgia’s Shame movement and 2019 Gavrilov’s night protests
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)In 2017, 74% of young Georgians supported European integration; additionally, only 1% of them reported participating in a political protest or demonstration, echoing the Georgian scholars’ argument about the low level of ... -
‘Don’t Throw Your Trash Outside the House’ Russian Discourses on Domestic Violence (2016-2020)
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Domestic violence is the most common form of violence against women. The last decades has seen a plethora of academic work dedicated to explaining its occurrences, causes and consequences. Additionally, it has become ... -
Righting the wrong? Illustrating and understanding post-authoritarian transitional justice in Georgia and Armenia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The thesis explores why post-authoritarian transitional justice (TJ) is implemented and why not and which factors influence governments’ decisions on initiating TJ after transitions. It examines post-2012 Georgia and ... -
The essence of Jadidism in Turkestan. In search of anti-colonialism and liberation in the Jadid literature
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Jadidism and the Jadid literature have been subject to various interpretations by the western and nativist scholars. The Jadid literature is often perceived as anti-colonial resistance literature that aimed at liberating ... -
Welcome Madam President: effects of a female presidential candidate on the mobilisation of young, female voters in Slovakia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Slovakia did not appear frequently in international media headlines until the election of the first female President to the republic, Zuzana Čaputová, in 2019. Women are underrepresented in Slovak politics, and young women ...
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