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Research Reports 2005-2006

Below are IARO research reports organized by author. The reports are available for download in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The opinions expressed in these reports are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of IREX or the program's funders.

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• Babiracki, Mr. Patryk: Moscow, Russia
  Topic: Visions of Empire: Soviet Union, Poland and the Refashioning of a Soviet Identity

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• Derrick, Mr. Matthew: Jadidism: Russia's "Euro-Islam" Between Multi-Scalular Threats

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• Esmer, Mr. Tolga: Religion and Rebellion: The Cultural Practices of Christian and Muslim Notables in Ottoman Bulgaris, 1750-1839

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• Galbraith, Dr. Marysia: Narratives of Affiliation: EU Enlargement and National Sovereignty in Life Stories of Urban and Rural Poles

• Grama, Emanuela: Europeanizing Labor, Rethinking Belonging: Romanian-German Relations in Postsocialist Romania

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• Hardy, Jeffrey S.: The Crumbling of Stalinism in the ‘Capital of the Gulag’: Political and Economic Transition in Magadan, 1953-1956

• Hodges, Mr. Benjamin: Balkan Futures: Producing Commercial and State Images of Bulgaria's Future

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• Janco, Andrew Paul: The Soviet Refugee in Postwar Europe and the Cold War, 1945-1957

• Jones, Kevin: “The Dynamics of Civil Protests: A Case Study of the Kyrgyz Republic”

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• Kalo, Sofia, The Development of Visual Art in Transitional Albania

• Kenney, Dr. Padraic: The Polish Political Prisoner in the Twentieth-century

• King, Elizabeth: Confronting Domestic Violence in Russian Communities: A Needs Assessment for the Health Care Sector

• Koesel, Karrie J.: Religious Revivals, the Local State, and the Transition from State-Socialism

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• Matthew Light, PhD: Regional Migration Policies in Post-Soviet Russia:  From Pervasive Control to Insecure Freedom

• Loring, Mr. Benjamin: State-Building, Rural Development, and Social Change in Soviet Kerghizia, 1921-1941

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• O’Keeffe, Brigid: Making “Gypsies” Soviet:Nationality Policy, Social Practice, & the Roma of the Soviet Union, 1917-1939

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• Alyssa Park: From Fluid Borderland to Divided Spaces: Transformation of the Russian-Korean Borderland, 1860-1937

• Platais, Ingrida: Empowerment through Civil and Social Action: Discrimination against Sex Workers in Georgia

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• Ryan, Patricia: Family, Violence and Health in the Kyrgyz Republic

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• Sabol, Dr. Steven: Identity Through History: The Kenesary Kasymov Revolt and the Shaping of Modern Kazak National Identity

• Sanchez, Oscar: Red Globalization: The Political Economy of Soviet Foreign Relations, 1956-68

• Sarkissian, Ms. Ani: Religion and Democratization in Comparative Perspective: Evidence from Armenia and Georgia

• Sogindolska, Klara: Regime Change and Survival in the Post-Communist ‘Gray Zone’: The Rise of Electoral Revolutions

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• Young, Ms. Karen: The State of Money: How the Erosion of Monetary Sovereignty Affects State-Society Relations in Bulgaria