REEI Essays & Dissertations

All MA Essays are available for review. Please see Emily Liverman in Ballantine Hall 561 to check one out. MA students have defended over 200 Essays since 1987.

MA Essay Procedures and Requirements

REEI and the University Graduate School have strict guidelines for the submission, defense, and acceptance of the MA Essay. Students must comply with the following guidelines and timeline when preparing to defend the Essay. A timeline for student requirements follows. Click here for a list of Essays defended to date.

Graduate Student Guidelines:

The REEI MA Essay is normally written in the spring of the second year of graduate study while the student is enrolled in the R601 REEI Seminar course. It may be based on a previous seminar paper completed in a disciplinary course. The R601 course provides the student an opportunity for guidance in revising a seminar paper and expanding its focus to meet the requirements for the MA Essay. Students are advised to take in their first year of study at least one seminar course in which an extended research paper is required.

Requirements:

• The essay should not exceed 13,000 words (excluding footnotes, endnotes, bibliography, and tabular material).
• It must be double spaced and have standard margins (refer to University Graduate School Bulletin thesis guidelines).
• It must be interdisciplinary in scope.
• It must use sources in the language of concentration as a defining element. The sources cannot be mere embellishment but must form part of the foundation on which the argument of the essay rests.

Student Responsibilities:

At the beginning of the semester in which the essay will be written:

• Select a faculty advisor. The advisor can be the R601 instructor, the instructor of the seminar course during which research was begun, or another member of the REEI faculty qualified to supervise work on the topic.
• Select two additional faculty members to read the paper and administer the master's essay defense. These two additional faculty members should represent disciplines or research approaches different from one another and from that of the essay advisor.

(Students who encounter difficulty assembling a committee should ask the director for assistance as early as possible.)

At least two months prior to intended graduation:

• Fill out an application for an advanced degree form in the University Graduate School. The form will then be forwarded to the REEI secretary.

One month prior to intended defense date:

The student must submit in writing to the REEI secretary the following information:

• Title of essay (including necessary punctuation and diacritical marks)
• Abstract of essay (not to exceed one page)
• Names of committee chair and committee members
• Intended date of defense
• Intended date of graduation
• Any subsequent changes to this information must be immediately reported to the REEI secretary.

• After receiving the above information, the director will give final approval of committee membership.
• Student should forward copies of the essay to all committee members for comments as early as possible.
• Student should confirm that committee members are familiar with the essay defense guidelines; deliver a copy of the guidelines to committee members who need it.
• Incorporate suggested revisions. Resubmit paper to the committee if significant changes are required. If difficulties are encountered in resolving conflicts in revisions suggested by the three committee members, discuss the matter with the director.

When ready to defend:

• Determine several possible days and times for the defense that will be convenient for all committee members (1 ½ hours should be scheduled, to allow ample time for discussion and evaluation).
• Communicate possible dates and times to the REEI secretary at least fifteen days in advance of the defense. The secretary will reserve a room for the defense. The committee chair may prefer to reserve a room in his or her home department. If this is done, the REEI secretary must be notified.
• Once the student submits the required information, the secretary will prepare a memo for each committee member confirming the time and place of the defense. The memo will include a list of courses taken by the student and the title of the essay and abstract. The secretary will also prepare four copies of a defense cover sheet for the student's essay to be signed by all three committee members and the director after the essay is accepted. The secretary will forward this paperwork to the chair.

After successful completion of the oral defense:

Provide the REEI secretary a final copy of the essay, unmarked and unbound. The title page should have the following format:

(toward top-center of page)
ESSAY TITLE

(toward bottom center of page)
In Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements of the Master of Arts Degree, (or enter which dual degree is appropriate: Master of Arts and Master of Business Administration, Master of Arts and Master of Library Science, Master of Arts and Master of Information Science, or Master of Arts and Master of Public Affairs)
Russian and East European Institute, (or enter which dual degree department is appropriate: and Kelley School of Business, School of Library and Information Science, or School of Public and Environmental Affairs)
Indiana University
Month and Year
Student name

Students will be notified once the director has confirmed completion of degree requirements. The REEI secretary will prepare graduation paperwork and furnish students with a copy.

MA Essays

The following table is sortable by date, author, title, region/country, and topic. To sort the table, please click on a heading.

Date	Author	Title	Region/Country	Topic
2011/08	Katherine Pruess	"For Militant Soviet Satire!": Krokodil and Soviet Cultured Consumption, 1945-1951	Russia	Cultural
2012/01	Meghan White	Shadows of the Civil War: Perceptions of Democracy in Tajikistan	Tajikistan	Political
2011/12	Olia Bueva	Pictures from the Margins: Disability and Difference in Post-Socialist Art	Russia	Cultural
2011/12	Paul Anderson	Orthodoxy, Putin and the Revival of the National Idea	Russia	Social/Cultural
2011/12	Robert McVey Jr	Russian Elite Approaches towards Foreign Policy: Implications for the U.S. Military Cooperation in Central Asia	Russia	Military
2011/12	Kristopher Mitchell	The Role of Serbia in Russia’s Dual Track Foreign Policy	Russia/Serbia	Military
2010/09	Do, Dan Tam Thi	Singing and playing in a people’s state: folk music at the intersection of culture and politics in the Russian SFSR and Czechoslovakia	Russia/Czechoslovakia	Cultural
2010/08	Hodgson, Kara	From Red to Green: Transitions Towards Sustainable Forest Land Use in Northwestern Russia, 1993-2007	Russia/Finland	Environmental/Economical
2010/07	Ronald, Sara	Fruitless: Why Moldova’s Post-Election Protest Did Not Blossom into a Color Revolution	Moldova	Political/Social
2010/07	Hall, Andrew	Prisoners of the Caucasus: Chechnya, Dagestan and the Path to Secession, 1990-1999	Russia/Caucasus	Political
2010/07	Classen, Justin	A Secret Power: American Multinationals and the Construction of Greater Romania, 1919-1926	Romania	Economic
2010/05	McIntyre, Kristen	The Importance of Informal Networks in Putin’s Russia	Russia	Political/Cultural
2010/05	Butt, Lauren	Authentic Bosnia: (Re)constructing Nostalgia in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Historical / Cultural
2010/05	Napelenok, Yuriy	"Together we are many": Popular Music and Public Participation in Ukraine	Ukraine	Cultural / Political
2009/08	Bedford, Amy	The Chechen Conflict and the Model of Tatarstan	Russia	Historical
2009/05	Evans, Jennifer	Naturally Maturing: A Discussion of Turgenev's Use of Nature as a Backdrop to his Characters' Maturation in Fathers and Sons	Russia	Literature
2009/05	Kilgore, Ryan	The Shtetl and Jewish Resettlement in Soviet Cinema of the Interwar Period	Soviet Union	Historical
2009/05	Stewart, Jeremy	Exploring the Impact of Corruption on Foreign Direct Investment in Eastern Europe: Romania and Hungary as Case Studies	Romania / Hungary	Business
2009/04	Kleehammer, Joel	The Return of Jewish Communal Property Seized by the Soviets in Ukraine	Ukraine	Cultural
2009/04	Stira, David	Remembering the Baltic Deportations	Baltics	Life Stories
2009/01	Vranian, Robert Benjamin	Georgia's Westward Aims and Russia's Efforts to Prevent the Realization of These Aims	Georgia	Political
2009/12	Bloom, Joshua	The Anti-Totalitarian Art of Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Prigov	Russia	Cultural / Political
2008/11	Luck, Amy	The Other Side of Silence: Mentoring Romanian Orphans in Transition	Romania	Education
2008/10	Bernstein, Leigh	Aleksandra Marinina: Feminist Stirrings in the Russian Detective Novel of the 1990s	Russia	Literature
2008/10	Biebuyck, Erin	The Collectivization of Pleasure: Normative Sexuality in Post-1966 Romania	Romania	Cultural / Political
2008/08	Raible, Elizabeth	Dilemmas of the Projected 2011 Census of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Enumerating Ethnic Cleansing, Refugee Return, and National Identity	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Political
2008/08	Ruegsegger, Joshua	Less Bang for Our Buck: The History, Status, and Future of U.S. Threat Reduction & Nonproliferation Assistance Programs in the Former Soviet Union and the World	Soviet Union	Political
2008/06	Dietch, Colin	Nation and Regime: Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy in Ukraine and Belarus	Ukraine / Belarus	Political
2008/05	Payne-Holmes, Maren	Representations of Women in Polish Solidarity Films	Poland	Cultural
2008/05	Payne-Holmes, Richard	Orange and Denim: National Identity in Ukraine and Belarus	Ukraine / Belarus	Political
2008/05	Upart, Dmitriy	Nuclear Catastrophes and Socioeconomic Ramifications: The Belarus Case	Belarus	Economic / Social
2008/04	Belden, Laura	The Art of Survival: Life and Work in the Soviet Gulag	Soviet Union	Historical
2008/04	Beyer, Brant	The Szeklers and the European Union: The European Influence on Ethnic Politics in Romania	Romania	Political
2008/04	Burlingame, Patrick	Amending the Hungarian Tax Code: Implications for Flat Tax Reform with Regards to the Recent Flat Tax Movement in East Europe	Hungary	Business
2008/04	Lanzillotti, Ian	The Foundations of North Caucasian National Consciousness: Soviet Nationality Policies in the North Caucasus during the Early Period of Nativization (1920-1927)	Caucasus	Historical
2008/02	Hernandez, Manuel Jesus Lopez	Resigned to their Fate: Uzbekistan, Uzbeks, and International Labor Migration in the Post-Soviet Era	Uzbekistan	Economic
2007/12	Otten, Justin	Power and Conflict: Economics, Ethno-nationalism, and the State of Security in the Republic of Macedonia since 2001	Macedonia	Political
2007/11	Crescente III, Joseph James	Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serduchka and the Hybridization of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine	Ukraine	Cultural
2007/09	Ringlee, Andrew	The Military Gymnazia in Reform Era Russia, 1863-1882	Russia	Historical
2007/08	Hinnant, Andrew	Will the Last Person to Leave Poland Please Turn Out the Lights?	Poland	Immigration
2007/05	Mishiwiec, Denise	Civil Society Development and Democratization in Azerbaijan: Assessing the Influence of Local NGOs	Azerbaijan	Civil Society
2007/05	Hylton, Jennifer	Perverse Incentives or Good Parenting: The Role of the International Monetary Fund and the European Union in Romania	Romania	Economic
2007/04	Call, Meagan	Inattention or Intention? Ignoring the Roma: An Analysis of Civic Education Curriculum in Romania	Romania	Education
2007/03	Fogleman, Sarah	Education in Transition: The Challenge of Reforming Latvia's School System, 1991-2006	Latvia	Education
2007/02	Roberts, Joseph	Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia	Central Asia	Cultural
2006/12	Fitzmaurice, Richard	Nonprofit Sector Development in Postcommunist Countries: The Cases of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan	Uzbekistan / Kyrgyzstan	Civil Society
2006/12	Ranson, Courtney	Russia and the Color Revolutions	Russia	Political
2006/05	Burton, Andrew	Minority Self-Governance: Minority Representation in Flux for the Hungarian Roma	Hungary	Political
2006/05	Fitzmaurice (Hockman), Stephanie	Conversation Superhighway: The Internet as Public Space in Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	Telecommunications
2005/09	Tobin, Alice	Addressing Human Trafficking in Ukraine: Leadership from the Third Sector and the Primacy of Prevention	Ukraine	Civil Society
2005/08	Curtis, Matthew C.	Petar II Petrovic Njegos and Gjergj Fishta: Composers of National Epics	Montenegro / Albania	Literature
2005/08	Henderson, Jacquelyn	Human Development and Human Rights in Belarus: Key to a More Secure Europe	Belarus	Civil Society
2005/08	Liptak, Aron	The Impact of Educational Corruption on Culture in the Newly Independent States	Soviet Union	Education
2005/07	Causey, Janel	Russian Relics, Remembrance and Reevaluation: The Sale of Alaska and the Legacy of Russian America in Alaska Today	Russia	Historical
2005/06	Miles, Lyndsay	Russo-Georgian Post-Soviet Relations and the Impact of the Rose Revolution	Russia / Georgia	Political
2005/05	Hudgens, Jonathan	Right-Wing Movements in the State and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: Implications for Democracy	Russia	Civil Society
2005/04	Gipson, Neil	HIV/AIDS Threatens Russia's Economy, Security and Stability	Russia	Health Policy
2005/04	Hart, Philip	Red Dusk? The Defeat of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the 2003/04 Elections	Russia	Political
2005/04	Lutz, Leslie	Russian Nonprofit Tax Law: A Call for Reform	Russia	Civil Society
2005/04	Page, Steven	Conditionality and the Czech Administrative State: The European Union's Influence on Czech Reform	Czech Republic	Political
2004/12	Clark, Che	Integration Inaction: The Czech Republic, Domestic Politics, and Accession to the European Union	Czech Republic	Political
2004/09	Maceyko, Jennifer	Political and Cultural Mobilization Among Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Russians, Poles, and Hungarians	Ukraine	Political
2004/06	Bartlett, Rebecca	Russian Journal Changes after 1991: Implications for Slavic Collections	Russia	Library
2004/06	Wachs, Naomi	The Dramatic Rise and Fall of Russia's District Heating System or How Not to Run a Public Utility	Russia	Public Utilities
2004/04	Atkins, Matthew	The Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh: A look at the history, recent developments, and possible solutions	Azerbaijan	Political
2004/04	Ray, Emily	Prague Library Flood of 2002: Crisis and Experimentation	Czech Republic	Library
2003/12	Hickox, David	Citizen and Ethnic Integration in Latvia and Lithuania Since 1991	Latvia / Lithuania	Political
2003/10	Eastwood, Bill	When Discourses Clash: Religious Violence in Georgia	Georgia	Cultural
2003/09	Kelley, Matthew	Khrushchev, Dissent and the Path to Dissidence	Soviet Union	Historical
2003/09	Saulean, Daniel	Assessing Societies Exposed to Communism: From Nationalism to Democracy in Romania	Romania	Historical
2003/08	Giger, Simone	Shock Therapy in Russia	Russia	Economic
2003/07	Dunlop, Alex	Humanism and Nationalism among Serbian intellectuals in the 1980s	Yugoslavia	Historical
2003/06	Ellingson, Carrie	A Black Hole in Cyberspace: Examining Problems in Internet Development in Hungary and Croatia During the Mid-1990s	Hungary / Croatia	Telecommunications
2003/05	Dumstorf, Thomas	The More Things (Ex)Change the More They...or Not?: The Effectiveness of the Business for Russia/Community Connections Program	Russia	Business
2003/05	Betka, Mark	Integration of Polish Farming to the European Union Common Agriculture Policy: Challenges and Opportunities	Poland	Economic
2003/05	Buchen, Tim	Moldova-Romania Reunification?	Moldova / Romania	Political
2003/01	K. R.	Lithuania and Russia: Redefining Post-Soviet Relations	Lithuania / Russia	Political
2002/12	Thomasson, Russell	Soviet Involvement with American POWs during the Vietnam War: An Assessment	Soviet Union	Historical
2002/08	Richard, Knepper	Information Systems and Infrastructure Development in Poland: An Evaluation of the ePolska Plan	Poland	Telecommunications
2002/08	Traicova, Renne	An Assessment of the Health Reform in Bulgaria (1989-2001): Concept vs. Reality	Bulgaria	Political
2002/08	Wanat, Annisa	Bulgaria's Integration Progress: A Journey from the Balkans into the European Union and NATO	Bulgaria	Political
2002/05	Burbank, John	The Russian Federation and its Regional Relationship with the European Union	Russia	Political
2002/05	Kinney, Patrick	National Religions and Religious Nationalities: Complexities of Identity in Communist and Post-Communist Romania	Romania	Historical
2002/05	Yoon, Sang Yeol	Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Northeast Asia during the Gorbachev Era	Soviet Union	Historical
2002/04	Popovich, Michael	Tengiz Tease: A Comparison of Rentier State Characteristics and Kazakhstan's Oil-driven Economic Development Strategy	Kazakhstan	Economic
2001/12	Abrams, Joshua	NGO's, Civil Society and the Disappearance of Environmental Activism in the Former Soviet Union	Soviet Union	Civil Society
2001/12	Guy, Kenneth	The Re-Creation of History: Soviet Folklore as Propaganda in the 1930s	Soviet Union	Historical
2001/05	Greenfield, Eve	Language of Dissent, or Language of Compromise? Native Language, Ethnicity and Bilingual Education Policy in the North Caucasus	Caucasus	Education
2001/05	Nilenders, Eve	Putting Pipe Dreams Into Practice: Investment in Water System Modernization in Estonia	Estonia	Public Utilities
2001/04	Cakars, Janis	Nonviolence and the Latvian Independence Movement, 1986-1991	Latvia	Historical
2000/12	Do, Hyun-Hee	Globalization of Telecommunications Market in Russia and the Czech Republic: Mobile Telephone Services Market	Russia / Czech Republic	Telecommunications
2000/05	Cakars, Melissa	The Far Eastern Republic: Soviet Politics and the Buffer State	Soviet Union	Historical
2000/05	Reyno, Richard	The Russian Armed Forces in Chechnya, 1994-1996: A Toothless Bear?	Russia	Military
2000/04	Berrier, Andrew	Russian Military Reform, 1992-2000: The Predominance of Moderate Thought	Russia	Military
2000/04	Metro-Roland, Dennis	Recollections of a Movement: The Memory and History of the National Organization of People's Colleges in Hungary	Hungary	Historical
2000/04	Nedell, Stephen	Politics of History: Previous Interpretations of the Origins, Development and Suppression of the Kronstadt Uprising of March 1921 in the Light of Recently Declassified Documents	Soviet Union	Historical
2000/04	Pruefer, Donald	From Throw Weights to Metric Tons: The Nuclear Threat from Russia's Northern Fleet	Russia	Military
2000/02	Jensen III, Walter	Radio and Television Transmissions as a Continuation of War by Other Means: The Case of Bosnia	Bosnia	Telecommunications
1999/12	Feinstein, Sara	A Business Incubator in the Transition Economies of Vietnam and Azerbaijan? A Comparative Perspective of Feasibility	Azerbaijan	Business
1999/12	Grewelle, John	Morale in the Russian Army: At the Breaking Point?	Russia	Military
1999/12	Sargent, Daniel	Community Foundation Development in Poland: Building Cooperation in Support of Philanthropy	Poland	Civil Society
1999/06	Olson, Rebecca	Decay, Renewal, Stagnation, and Innovation: Czech Libraries in Transition	Czech Republic	Library
1999/05	Boyle, Eric	Fixing Old Equipment with New Tools: The Nizhniy Novgorod Eurobond Experience	Russia	Economic
1999/05	Hawn, Michael	The Economics of Romania's Agricultural Transformation	Romania	Economic
1999/05	Shidlovsky, Ivan	Cossacks: A New National Identity or National Guard?	Ukraine	Historical
1998/11	Brown, Todd	Ethnopolitical Mobilization in Moldova 1987-1990	Moldova	Political
1998/06	Cleveland, Abigail	Dividing the Waters: Russian Policy Toward the Legal Regime of the Caspian Sea	Russia	Political
1998/06	Currie, Katherin	Nourishment for the Soul: The Importance of Culture during the Siege of Leningrad	Soviet Union	Cultural
1998/06	Donosky, Theodore	Politics and the Media in Serbia: 1987-1997	Serbia	Political
1998/06	Kaczmarek, Paul	Russian Liberalism and the Third of June System, 1905-1911	Russia	Historical
1998/06	Kohlhepp, Andrew	Beyond Economics: Integration in the Former Soviet Union	Soviet Union	Political
1998/05	Fassbender, Michael	Who are "My" (We)?: Late Imperial Newspapers in Russia and Russian National Identity	Russia	Historical
1998/05	Fiumano, Bettina	Red Don: The Russian Mafia in the Transition Economy: The Rise, Development, and Impact of the Mafia in Russia	Russia	Economic
1998/05	Kustoff, Ann	Rural Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Russia	Russia	Economic
1998/05	Katula, Michael	Sublimity and the Image of Night in the Fiction of Bruno Schulz	Poland	Literature
1998/05	Morford, Zachary	The Implementation of Bankruptcy Legislation: Lessons Provided by the Russian and Polish Experiences	Poland / Russia	Political
1998/04	McGlinchey, Russell	The Law on Production Sharing Agreements	Central Asia	Economic
1998/01	Keller, Gregory	Polish Business Culture in Transition: Legacy of the Past, Influences of the Future	Poland	Business
1998/01	Silber, Robert	The Hungarian Transformation 1989-1997: A Personal Perspective of the Political, Economic, and Social Changes	Hungary	Political / Economic / Social
1997/12	Lee, Yusin	The Process of National-Building in Kazakhstan Examined in Light of the Post-Colonial Countries' Experience: The Impact of Soviet Policy as Source and Obstacle to Nation-Building	Kazakhstan	Political
1997/12	Parks, Kendall	NATO Expansion: A Case Study of the Realist Paradigm	East Europe	Political
1997/09	Davenport, Dianne	Loss or Gain: Czech Women's Citizenship under Socialism and Democracy	Czech Republic	Gender Studies
1997/09	Lamp, David	Between Soviet Social Contract and the Russian Social Safety Net: Reasons for Poverty in the Russian Federation	Russia	Economic
1997/05	Bakke, Gretchen	Mimicking Democracy: The Symbolic Role of Law in Post-Soviet Russia	Russia	Law
1997/05	Van Gunst, Sara	The Great Transformation: A Look at Property Rights in Post-Communist Russia	Russia	Law
1997/04	Mindel, Allison	The Evolution of a Refugee Protection System: Hungary, a Case Study	Hungary	Political
1997/04	Shapiro, Barbara	To Invade or Not to Invade: A Contrast of Khrushchev and Gorbachev as Decision Makers	Soviet Union	Historical
1996/12	DeGroot, Matthew	The Cultural Dynamics of Capitalism in Russia	Russia	Cultural
1996/12	Kaempfer, Eric	Russian Military Influence on Regional Security Policy	Russia	Military
1996/09	Baker, Jennifer	Slovaks and Hungarians in the Slovak Republic: A Case Study in Nationalist Politics	Slovakia	Political
1996/09	Simpson, Peggy	Polish Women in the Transition, 1990-96: Political and Economic Changes	Poland	Political / Economic
1996/04	Kopperl, Benjamin	From Officers to Conspirators: The Peoples' Will and the Russian Military	Russia	Military
1996/04	Wilson, Tracie	Rewriting History and Identity: The German Minority in Modern Poland	Poland	Cultural
1995/11	Pelloso, Beth	Social Benefits Policy in the New Russia: Strategies for Health Care and Pension Reform	Russia	Political
1995/11	Temple, Mark	The Politicization of History: Marshall Antonescu and Romania	Romania	Historical
1995/09	Wandycz, Joanna	Radio Free Europe: A Key Player in the Downfall of Communism in Poland?	Poland	Historical
1995/06	Brown, Jeffrey	Persistent Legacies, Precarious Gains: Problems of the Post-Soviet Press in Central Asia	Central Asia	Political
1995/05	Korfhage, David	Interpretation and Reinterpretation of Rukopis Královédvorský and Rukopis Zelenohorský	Czech Republic	Literature
1995/05	Lahue, William	Coup Attempt in the USSR: The Events Leading to the August Coup and Why it Failed	Soviet Union	Historical
1995/04	Gutierrez, Brad	Hungarian Exile Movement in the United States during WWII and the American Response	Hungary	Historical
1995/04	Rajagopalan, Sudha	The Bylina: Narrative and Hero in the Construction of Identity	Russia	Literature
1995/04	Scherer, Trent	Russo-Chechen Relations in the Post-Soviet Era	Russia	Political
1994/11	Kershaw, John	Reforming the Russian Military: A Study of Russian Military Doctrine and Efforts at Reform	Russia	Military
1994/05	Curthoys, Andrew	The Political Philosophy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	Soviet Union	Historical
1994/05	Mixon, Charles	Contemporary Russian Monarchism	Russia	Political
1994/04	Desmond, Dennis	The Structure and Organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under Mikhail Gorbachev	Soviet Union	Political
1994/04	Choppa, Richard	Russia: Invest or Ignore. An Investment Worthiness Assessment in Case Studies	Russia	Economic
1994/04	Moore, Kelly	What Happened to the Honeymoon? Domestic Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	Political
1994/04	Perry, Valery	A New Conscious Intelligentsia: The Disillusionment of a Generation of Communists	Soviet Bloc	Historical
1994/01	Panos, Caterina	"The Hardest Path": A Political Biography of Alexander Tvardovskii	Soviet Union	Historical
1994/01	Tyson, David	Literacy in Turkestan Prior to Soviet Rule	Central Asia	Historical
1993/12	Koncki, Sara-Jane	The Implementation and Effects of the Soviet Economic Development Pattern in the Baltic Republics	Baltics	Economic
1993/12	McNamara, Jason	Nuclear Power in the CMEA: The Ignalina AES and the Greifswald KKW--Similar Problems, Different Solutions	Soviet Bloc	Economic
1993/12	Pearlman, Jamie	Gorbachev's Conversion to Democratization	Soviet Union	Political
1993/11	Bell, Craig	Rethinking National Security: The Development of a Russian Military Doctrine	Russia	Military
1993/09	Mullin, Suzanne	Russian Minority Reaction to the 1989 Baltic Language Laws	Baltics	Political
1993/09	Pennington, Jeffrey	From the Alfold to the Carpathians: A History of the Railroad between Debrecen and Yasinya	Hungary / Ukraine	Historical
1993/08	Cloyd, Margaret	The Czech and Slovak Republics: A Scrutiny of Government Energy Policies	Czech Republic / Slovakia	Economic
1993/08	Gaffney, John	A New Era in Russian Relations in Northeast Asia	Russia	Political
1993/07	Caldwell, Melissa	"Let's Eat!"--The Cultural and Social Significance of Food Rituals as Practiced in 19th Century Russia	Russia	Historical
1993/04	Beisel, Larry	Conversion of the Defense Industry of the Soviet Union	Soviet Union	Military
1993/04	Dausch, Linda	Gogol's Ruins: Fragmentation vs. Totality	Russia	Literature
1993/04	Gallagher, Darel	Russian Conversion Program Prospects for Success on the Regional Level	Russia	Military
1993/04	Orsay, Ellis (Spethman)	Pedagogical Science: Victim or Villain?	East Europe	Education
1993/04	Terrell, Richard	Soviet Nationality Policy and National Consciousness in the Transcaucasian Republics: Drawing Together or Tearing Apart?	Caucasus	Historical
1993/03	Perchatsch, Gregory	Solving Ukraine's Energy Crisis	Ukraine	Economic
1993/02	Anderson, Earideth	Environmental Analysis of Privatization Programs	Soviet Bloc	Environmental
1993/01	Barrall, Ted	Biological Weapons, Biotechnology and the Soviet Union	Soviet Union	Military
1992/12	Bilas, Roger	Economic Development of the Soviet Far East	Soviet Union	Economic
1992/12	Paustenbaugh, Jennifer	Tsiganite, the Gypsies of Bulgaria: Assimilation, Rejection, and Stormy Co-existence	Bulgaria	Cultural
1992/10	Pyle, William	Soviet Banking Reform	Soviet Union	Economic
1992/09	Oehme, Patricia	Prospects for Foreign Economic Liberalization in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltics and Russia	Soviet Bloc	Economic
1992/06	Shultz, Daniel	Vavilov's Plant Science, Lysenko's Agrobiology and Soviet Agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s	Soviet Union	Historical
1992/05	Harris, Calvin	Was Stalin a Russian Nationalist? Some Thoughts on Stalin's Approach to the National Question	Soviet Union	Historical
1992/05	McFadden, William	The Environmental Impact of Economic Transformation in the Former Soviet Union	Soviet Union	Environmental
1992/04	Herron, Erik	Defense Conversion in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods	Soviet Union / Russia	Military
1992/04	Meyer, Christopher	Reform and Research and Development in Ex-Soviet Union and East Germany	Soviet Union /German Democratic Republic	Political
1991/12	Cornwell, Dorene	Soviet-Czechoslovak "Cooperation" in Nuclear Energy Development	Soviet Union / Czechoslovakia	Political
1991/12	Lally, Michael	The Soviet National Security Decision-Making 1985-1991: Perestroika and Institutional Change	Soviet Union	Political
1991/11	Sheffer, Lesle	The Demise of the CMEA: Too Much of a Burden to Share	Soviet Bloc	Economic
1991/05	Raisner, William	The Effect of the Invasion of Afghanistan on Soviet-Pakistani Relations: An Historical Perspective	Soviet Union	Military
1991/05	Rosenblum, David	New Thinking in Soviet Foreign Policy toward Eastern Europe and the Revolutions of 1989	Soviet Bloc	Political
1991/04	Griffith, Scott	The Opening of the Soviet Economy to Foreign Investment	Soviet Union	Economic
1991/04	McGuire, Donald	The Aral Sea Crisis	Soviet Union	Environmental
1991/04	Reed, Douglas	Soviet Military Power in the Baltics	Soviet Union	Military
1990/12	Auslin, Michael	The Aimless Territorial Questions: Soviet Foreign Policy Towards the Kurils	Soviet Union	Political
1990/10	Hartten, Erik	The Demise of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Its Integration into the World Economy via the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank	Soviet Bloc	Economic
1990/08	De Luca, Duane	Soviet-Albanian Relations	Soviet Union / Albania	Political
1990/07	Skirkanich, Laurie	Coalescing of Interest Groups within the Soviet Military: A Help or Hindrance for Reform?	Soviet Union	Military
1990/06	Costello, Bryan	The Evolution of Neutrality: Finnish-Soviet Relations in the Post-War Years, 1948-1961	Soviet Union / Finland	Political
1990/05	Guenther, Stephen	The Effects of Glasnost' on the KGB	Soviet Union	Political
1990/05	Wright II, J. Laurence	CMEA Standardization and the World Economy	Soviet Bloc	Economic
1990/04	Crabtree, William	Environmental Cooperation among CMEA Member Countries	Soviet Bloc	Environmental
1990/04	Milenkovich, Melinda	The Soviet Commitment to the Environment	Soviet Union	Environmental
1990/04	Murtha, Michelle	A History of the Party Programs of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a Point by Point Comparison of the 1961 and 1986 Programs	Soviet Union	Political
1990/04	Peyronnin, Edgar	Global Safety and the Environment: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and the Emerging World Political Order	Soviet Bloc	Environmental
1990/04	Sentz, Lisa	Regional Economic Autonomy in the USSR: The Baltic Region as a Case Study	Baltics	Economic
1989/11	Milkie, Michael	Soviet Attitudes toward the Command and Control of Strategic Nuclear Forces	Soviet Union	Military
1989/08	Iwasyszyn, Jane	Religious Freedom in East Germany and the Soviet Union in the Era of Glasnost'	Soviet Union / German Democratic Republic	Cultural
1989/05	Blanton, Lorri	The Baltic National Front Movements: An Expression of Nationalistic Interest Group Articulation	Baltics	Political
1989/05	Hutchinson, Amy	The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Burden Sharing and Reform: An Overview	Soviet Bloc	Economic
1989/04	Clough, Virginia	From Transmission Belt to Spark Plug: The Union of Cinematographers under Gorbachev	Soviet Union	Cultural
1989/04	Panek, Sue	The Energy Factor in Soviet-East European Relations	Soviet Union	Economic
1989/04	Smith, Joyce	The Corruption in Uzbekistan and the Trial of Churbanov	Uzbekistan	Political
1989/04	Smith, Michael	The Dynamics of Current Soviet Efforts to Develop Soviet Central Asia	Central Asia	Economic
1989/04	Warlinski, Zenia	The Coexistence of Official Medicine and Medicinal Herbs in Poland in the Last Decade	Poland	Cultural
1989/02	Arapakos, Anna	Soviet Leadership Responses to the Crisis in the Agro-Industrial Complex: The Food Programs 1982-1987 and Changing Attitudes Toward the Military	Soviet Union	Military
1989/02	Gelsinger, Shaun	How Reform Affects Defense Priorities: The Case of Hungary	Hungary	Military
1989/01	Brett, Thomas	The Dilemma of the "Nation" in the German Democratic Republic 1967-1976	German Democratic Republic	Political
1988/11	Aleshin, Nicholas	Contemporary Nationalism and Marxism	Soviet Bloc	Political
1988/11	Green, Richard	Case Study of Soviet Tank Developments	Soviet Union	Military
1988/11	Brown, Fred	Background and Implications of a Shift to a Reasonable Sufficiency Doctrine	Soviet Union	Military
1988/11	Costello, Ted	Soviet Defense Decision-making and Priority Allocation	Soviet Union	Military
1988/11	Sun, I-Fen Crystal	Sino-Soviet Relations in 1980s: A Political, Economic & Trade Overview	Soviet Union	Political
1988/05	Kirkpatrick, Ted	World Revolution and the Red Army — The Soviet-Polish War of 1919-1920	Soviet Union / Poland	Historical
1988/05	Smidchens, Guntis	Life Stories of Four Chicago Latvians	Latvia	Life Stories
1988/04	Geskin, Michael	Soviet Defense Manpower Policy: Non-Russian Nationalities in the Soviet Armed Forces – The Need for Integration	Soviet Union	Military
1987/11	Rhea, Ralph	Soviet Military Power Projection into the Third World: Actors, Capabilities, and Doctrine	Soviet Union	Military
1987/05	Koropeckyj, Andriy	Soviet Population and the Future of Minority Territorial Areas	Soviet Union	Minorities

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PhD Dissertations

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The following table is sortable by date, author, title, and discipline. To sort the table, please click on a heading.

Date	Name	Title	Discipline
2010/12	Kanig, Christian	Reeducation Through Soviet Culture: Soviet Cultural Policy in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949	History
2010/12	Muller, Anna	"If the walls could talk: Women Political Prisoners in Stalinist Poland, 1945-1956”	History
2009/09	Prestia, Joseph	'The Most Momentous Choice of All...', The Romanian Decision to Enter the Great War, 1914-1916	History
2009/06	Chung, Bora	Changing the Shape of Existence: Utopian in Andrei Platonov's Chevengur and Bruno Jasienski's I Burn Paris	Slavic Languages & Literatures
2008/10	Cakars, Melissa	Being Buryat: Soviet Modernization in Siberia	History
2007/10	Massino, Jill	Engendering socialism: A History of Women and Everyday Life in Socialist Romania	History
2007/09	White, Angela	Jewish Lives in the Polish Language: The Polish-Jewish Press, 1918-1939	History
2007/09	Shrager, Miriam	The Accentual Systems of Masculine Nouns in the Krivici Dialects	Slavic Languages & Literatures
2005/06	Ehrlich, Adam	Between Germany and Poland: Ethnic-Cleansing and Politicization of Ethnicity in Upper Silesia under National Socialism and Communism (1939-1950)	History
2005/06	Pauly, Matt	Building Socialism in the National Classroom: Education and Language Policy in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-30	History
2005/04	Lazda, Mara	Gender and Totalitarianism: Soviet and Nazi Occupation of Latvia, 1940-1945	History
2005/03	Rajagopalan, Sudha	Indian films, Soviet audiences, 1954-1991: the pursuit of escapist pleasures	History
2005/01	Reindl, Donald	The Effects of Historical German-Slovene Language Contact on the Slovene Language	Slavic Langauges & Literatures
2004/12	Thomas, Julie	International Intercourse: Establishing a Transnational Discourse on Birth Control in the Interwar Era	History
2004/11	Blackwell, Martin J.	Regime City of the First Category: The Experience of the Return of Soviet Power to Kyiv, Ukraine, 1943-1946	History
2004/06	Wood, Nathan	Becoming Metropolitan: Krakow Popular Press and the Representation of Modern Urban Life 1900-1915	History
2004/05	Cash, Jennifer	In Search of an Authentic Nation: Folkloric Ensembles, Ethnography, and Ethnicity in the Republic of Moldova	Anthropology
2004/04	Aligica, Dragos Paul	The Spread of Economic Ideas and the Political Economy Paradigm Shift in Eastern Europe: Diffusion, Institutional Processes and Epistemic Choice	Political Science
2004/04	Goldenberg, Amy	Polish Amber Art	Folklore & Ethnomusicology
2003/11	Fisher, David	Exhibiting Russia at the World's Fairs, 1851-1900	History
2003/08	Metzo, Katherine	"It didn’t used to be this way": Households, Resources, and Economic Transformation in Tunka Valley, Buriatia, Russian Federation	Anthropology
2003/05	Cooper, Thomas	On Struction of the Psychological Novel: Mimesis of Consciousness in the Novels of Zsigmond Kemeny	Comparative Literature
2003/04	Beldavs, Aija	I Sing Out Nine, You're Working on One: Historical Latvian Ritual Insult Song Warring "Apdziedasanas"	Folklore & Ethnomusicology
2003/04	Woodworth, Bradley	Civil Society and Nationality in the Multiethnic Russian Empire: Tallinn/Reval, 1860-1914	History
2001/05	Johnson, Janet	State Transformation and Violence Against Women in Russia	Political Science
2001/04	Erickson, John A.	Language Contact and Morphosynactic Change: Shift of Case-Marker Functions in Turkic	CEUS/Linguistics