abstract: After the passing of the Homestead Act in 1862, a large wave of immigrants arrived in Dakota Territory, most of them during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Two of the largest immigrant populations in the Dakotas were the Norwegians and Germans who had spent approximately the last hundred years living in isolated rural colonies in Russia, referred to as Germans from Russia or russlanddeutschen. This document examines the role of music in the lives of these ethnic groups from the 1862 to 1930, and includes the discussion of sacred music, especially hymns, secular music such as folk songs and dance music, and music’s place in the rural one-room schools that their children attended. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2018

This thesis explored the health practices and religious beliefs of the recent Soviet Pentecostal refugee population in the Portland, Oregon metro area. The methodology consisted of 25 in-depth interviews over a period of twelve months. Soviet Pentecostal refugees' health practices are influenced by their religious belief system which is Pentecostalism. The four primary factors that were found to have an affect on the refugees' health were lifestyle practices; coherence; or the meaning of suffering that religion provides; cohesiveness, or group belonging to the religious community, and world view provided by the underlying theology. The language barrier, distrust of outsiders, unfamiliarity with their belief system, and a limited understanding of their experiences of persecution may limit effective health care by professionals.

The aim of this thesis is to define factors that are influential in the ethnic identification process of Crimean Tatars, Russians and Ukrainians in Crimea. To better understand the current ethnic situation in Crimea, Soviet nationality policy as well as Soviet ethnos theory are reviewed. The divergence of the definitions in Soviet and Western traditions is shown. Crucial historical events that took place in Crimea are examined from the viewpoints of Russian, Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar, Soviet and Western historiographies. The influence of the historical myths on shaping ethnic boundaries of these ethnic groups in Crimea is shown. Main factors such as the cultural, political, economic, and global ones which are shaping the ethnic self-consciousness of Crimean Tatars, Russians and Ukrainians in Crimea are studied. Therefore the thesis helps us to understand the meaning of being a Russian, an Ukrainian and a Crimean Tatar in Crimea.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-265).

A proposta desta dissertação é apresentar o histórico do processo imigratório da Rússia para o Brasil e discutir as imagens do Brasil criadas pela propaganda imigratória no início do século XX. Empreendi o estudo da história do surgimento da imagem do Brasil como Paraíso e como Inferno ou Purgatório para compreensão do papel que essa imagem dualista exerceu dentro do discurso relacionado ao processo e(i)migratório da Rússia. / The proposal of this dissertation is to present the history of the immigration process from Russia to Brazil and to discuss the images of Brazil created by the migration\'s propaganda in the beginning of the XX century. This is a study about the history of the appearance of the image of Brazil as Paradise and as Hell or Purgatory. It shows the role which this dualistic image played in the discussion related to the emigration process from Russia.

The diploma thesis explores the relation between the processes of segregation and integration through the study of everyday cohabitation and social interaction that takes place in areas of concentrated Russian immigrants in Prague. Given that some locations of Prague have a long experience with the immigration of Russians, this thesis is reflective of the historical development of the Russian immigration to the First Republic, which in some way to helps to understand and explain the processes taking place presently on the unequal social and legal status of Russians, as immigrants from third countries, perceived through migration and integration policies of the Czech Republic. Analysis of the media's discourse shows the negative impact on Russian immigrants in social interactions with the majority, subsequently reducing integration and deepening social inequality. At the beginning, locations with a significant concentration of Russian immigrants are identified and defined by the quantitative research. Next, the daily interaction among Russian immigrants and the Czech majority is examined in selected locations by the qualitative research. The conclusions discuss how research of everyday cohabitation and social interaction contributed to the understanding of the processes of segregation and the...

Inner-state conflicts arising from cultural, ethnic, linguistic and other differences started appearing after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Kazakhstan, being one of the main recipients of the Slavic diaspora in Soviet times encountered the problems of interethnic distrust and alienation after 1991. Despite the fact the Kazakhstani government had announced as its main priority the construction of a civic nation and of the feeling of belonging to one state, it strongly supported Kazakh self-consciousness, which led to several consequences, one of which was intensive emigration of the Slavic population. It has resulted in demographic, socio- economic and interethnic tensions. Despite the fact these were studied to some extent, no comprehensive approach has been taken to analyze these issues. Therefore, this research paper aims to answer the question of how the Kazakhstani nation- building policy influenced the relations between Kazakhs and Russians. Given that the instilling of the national idea can be achieved through many institutions this research focuses on the historical narratives in school and university textbooks; administrative regulations and legislative systems, and their implications for each ethnic group; plus their implementation in the symbolic realm of the cities, which...

The historical record of the Orthodox Church's missionary efforts in North America and of the development of a viable local church administration is extremely scarce at best. No major scholarly work exists in English covering the historical development of any of the national Orthodox jurisdictions which followed the mass immigration of Arab, Greek, and Slavic Christians to the New World. More unfortunately, few scholarly records exist of local or regional church histories. In a very real sense, until these “grass roots” histories are gathered and recorded, no truly complete history can be written on Orthodox Christianity in North America. The researcher at tempting to compose such a "grass roots" religious or ethnic history, then, is confronted with two immediate problems: the total lack of any suitable secondary sources related to such local histories and hence, the lack of a suitable outline or structure to model. The first problem is easily surmounted by becoming familiar with local resources, especially church archives, libraries, local newspapers, historical societies; governmental and private agencies, and of course, the people who have lived the history. The researcher soon discovers how to balance oral interviews, which are sometimes factually vague, with primary documents, which often fail to communicate the human side of history. In short, the serious research of local religious or ethnic history will often discover a deluge, rather than an absence of sound primary data. How to organize this wave of information then becomes the chief problem. The author hopes that the structure of this history of Russian settlement and church life in Oregon offers a viable outline to follow. A general history of the early development of the Orthodox Church in America is presented as an introduction to give the reader a feeling for what led to the establishment of the Russian branch of the Orthodox Church in Oregon and of how it related to the growth patterns of the Orthodox Church throughout North America. The body of this is a chronological history of the Russian Orthodox Church and settlement in Oregon, with each chapter focusing on different stages of this historical development. A concluding chapter summarizes this history, compares it to the patterns of other local and national Orthodox groups, and offers “educated guesses" on the future of Orthodoxy in Oregon and America. Until such time as complete histories of the Orthodox Church in America are written, any comparisons between local and national developments must remain just that, "educated guesses" The Orthodox Faith arrived in Oregon in the 1880's with immigrants from Alaska, Europe, and the Middle East. Initially these groups worshiped together, in a Russian chapel in East Portland, following a pattern common to other Orthodox parishes in the American West. Soon, however, feelings of ethnic separation destroyed this initial catholicity and the Greeks (1907), Syrians (1934), and Ukrainians (c. 1959) established their own parishes away from Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Chapel (1894-1927) and St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church (1927-1976). Other ethnic groups, such as the Serbs and Bulgarians, remained with the Russians, due to a lack of their own resources and sufficient numbers. St. Nicholas Church was increasingly Russified following small waves of new Russian immigrants in the 1920's·and 1950's. This Russification was another factor which drove away non-Russian Orthodox and discouraged converts. By the late 1960's, due to a lack of new immigrants and to the loss of old immigrants, St. Nicholas Church was slowly dying. The arrival in the 1970's of a new breed of energetic, Americanized priests literally resurrected the parish, which is now growing, Americanizing, and preparing to build a new church building in West Portland. Whether St. Nicholas Orthodox Church can meet the missionary challenge offered by a non-Orthodox population remains the challenge of the future facing the Pacific Northwest’s oldest Orthodox parish.

To the individual interested in the history of California, and the influence of early inhabitants of the state on its future life and development, a study of the coming of the Russians early in the nineteenth century, of their comparatively brief stay of about thirty years, and of the effect which their presence had upon the policies and activities of at least three other nations, is one which will prove to be of surprisingly great interest. Taken together with the events leading up to the "re-discovery" of Americans by Russian navigators, and with their pioneering struggles in Alaska, such a study will reveal an era of romance and daring no great as that leading up to, and following that earlier discovery of America by Columbus

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