Central and East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CEERES) – Master’s Theses
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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 ... -
Visegrád countries’ engagement in ASEAN from 2011 and their prospect in the region: the cases of Hungary and Poland
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Hungary and Poland have addressed Asia-Pacific countries in their foreign policy strategy since the early 2000s. However, the European financial crisis in 2008 and the wave of Euroscepticism have influenced both countries ... -
The reality of Hungarian kin-state support in Vojvodina, Serbia: a minority perspective
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Hungary is one of the most proactive kin-states in Europe. It has more than 2 million compatriots living in neighbouring countries. With around 250.000 ethnic Hungarians, the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina is no ... -
Conservative women’s representation in the European Parliament (2014-2019)
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The European Parliament is an important institution in improving gender equality in the European Union. Generally, both descriptive and substantive women’s representation is much stronger in left-wing political parties ... -
Bringing others into line: discourse on the roles within the Russian opposition - a regional glance
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The theoretical scholarship differentiating between various types of opposition entities, coined originally in the West, was successfully applied to the Russian political habitat. Known mostly as the ‘non-/systemic opposition’ ... -
The classical reception, royal image and strengthening the king’s power in early modern Poland (1520–1572)
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)My thesis focuses on the interconnection between the phenomenon of the classical reception—that is the reception of the classical Greek–Roman antiquity and its legacy—and representation of the King (royal imagology) in ... -
Young Armenian diasporans in the fight for genocide recognition
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)One cannot underestimate the historical and political implications of genocide and its denial have had on the trajectory and formation of the Armenia diaspora. Armenians have used every kit in the toolbox to try and ... -
The commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of communism in Poland – a fractured memory regime
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The dissertation examines the 2019 commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of state socialism in Poland, seeking answers to how and why different political actors commemorated the events in the way they did. ... -
Queering security: (in)securitisation and resistance of the LGBTQ community in Poland
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis explores (in)security discourse of the LGBTQ community in Poland and their resistance to (in)securitisation. It engages with the narratives and experiences politically relevant in today’s Poland, where the ...
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