Olga Shevchenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 335220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Shevchenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Shevchenko |
| SIGNATURE | SHEVCHENKO O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6146-8673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Taking Place: Visual Agitation in the Soviet Rural Periphery
This article explores the paradoxes of Soviet visual propaganda in the Russian rural North, using a 1965 incident in the Vologda region as a starting point. It highlights the tension between centrally issued policies and blueprints of visual propaganda, and the harsh rural realities that clashed with utopian socialist aspirations. The authors draw on regional and central Russian archives to examine how rural ideology workers dealt with this tensi…
Military Farewells: The Legacies of the Soviet-Era Dembel’ Album
The Integration of Ict (Information and Communication Technologies) Into the Teaching Practices of Fle (French as a Foreign Language)
This article is devoted the integration of ICT (information and communication technologies) into the teaching practices of FLE (French as a foreign language) teachers. The role and use of technology as a teaching tool (TICE) of the French language is increasing as educators have understood its ability to create both an independent and collaborative learning environment in which students can learn French with great ease. The integration of informa…
Models for assessing crisis dynamics in disparities of Ukraine’s regional economy to ensure the economic security of regions
The increase in the unevenness of indicators of regional socio-economic development in Ukraine is causing changes in regional economic security, in addition to the deterioration of national welfare. Therefore, there is a need to develop new theoretical and practical approaches for assessing such disparities and forecasting their dynamics. In this article, a toolkit for modelling crises and catastrophes in disparities of regional development is pr…
Long-term analysis of thermal comfort conditions during heat waves in Ukraine
The aim of this study is assessment of thermal comfort conditions during heat waves in Ukraine in the years 1961-2015. The assessment is based on the thermal index Physiologically Equivalent Temperature. This study uses data from 29 meteorological stations across Ukraine. The research showed an increasing frequency of occurrence of heat waves (HWs) in the territory of Ukraine in the last decades. East and south Ukraine (except of coastal stations…
Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
In this roundtable, five historians come together to review the collected essays in Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History. Jennifer Tucker provides an overview of the content of the book and its significance in terms of scholarship on photography and African history. Matthew Fox-Amato studies how powerful photographs can be as evidence when combined with other kinds of sources such as oral narratives. Referring to the essays o…
Recent trends on human thermal bioclimate conditions in Kyiv, Ukraine
The human-biometeorological conditions in Kyiv (Ukraine) and changes in the frequency of heat stress during the summer period due to recent climate trends were analyzed. The evaluation based on physiologically equivalent temperature (PET). The results revealed the highest probability of thermal comfortable conditions in Kyiv is from the last 10-day period of April to the end of June and from the last 10-day period of August to the end of Septembe…
Russian Protest Wave from the Bottom Up: An Invitation to a Sociology of Ripples
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Strange bedfellows? Consumer culture and the moral order in the post-socialist world – An afterword
Critiques of consumption frequently assume moral undertones, with the effect of obscuring the moral foundations underlying consumer practices themselves. The articles in this collection offer compelling and ethnographically rich evidence of the moral tensions that inform consumer preferences in post-socialist Europe. Consumer behaviors and discourses have historically played an important role in the region, determining grounds for social inclusio…
Photographs and Their Many Lives
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end?" asked Roland Barthes in his now-classic essay "Rhetoric of the image." At first glance, Barthes's questions might appear nonsensical, but as this discussion around the various uses and misuses of Evgenii Khaldei's photographs of war-time Budapest demonstrates, the question of meaning and truth in photography is anything but simple. This is because the meaning of a photograph is shaped by a …
Sergiu Musteață, Rolul anului 1991 în destinul Republicii Moldova / 1991: A Chronology of Moldova’s Independence
The year 1991 proved to be crucial for the Soviet republics, including for Moldova, and in result of incremental democratic transformations and the collapse of the USSR, the Republic of Moldova became an independent state. The year 1991 was the common starting point of independence for most of Soviet Union republics. After the events of August 1991, most of the world believed that the collapse of the Soviet Union meant a departure from the totali…
Concept of "face" in Chinese language: Vocabulary and psycholinguistic paradigm
Between Elias and Foucault: Discipline, Photography, and the Soviet Childhood
Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow
How Russians have navigated large-scale social change
Nationals" and "Expatriates: Challenges of Fulfilling "Sans Frontières" ("Without Borders") Ideals in International Humanitarian Action
The international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is strongly committed to principles of universalism, egalitarianism, and equity, in both its internal and external relations. Nevertheless, the organization distinguishes between so-called "national" staff members (those who are indigenous to the countries where MSF projects are located), and "expatriate" staff (those who are involved in projects outside their countries …
Searching for the Populus in Popular Culture
Wiggle your Wits!' Social Restructuring and the Transformation of Entertainment Genres in Today's Russia
Among print genres that soared in popularity after the fall of socialism, crossword puzzles have been prominent, with their monthly sales reported around 36 million copies in 2001–02. Drawing on ethnographic observation, interviews with crossword readers, traders and publishers, as well as on analysis of the puzzles themselves, I argue that the Russian crossword boom is an instructive case of how forms of popular entertainment are borrowed and re…
In Case of Fire Emergency’: Consumption, security and the meaning of durables in a transforming society
This article argues that the study of Russian rituals and patterns of consumption reveals the intricate ways in which post-socialist actors deal with economic and political uncertainty, creating and symbolically affirming their identities in a rapidly transforming environment. Far more culturally specific than a simple globalization argument would suggest, and far more creative than simple reproduction of ‘Soviet’ attitudes, post-Soviet practices…
Between the Holes: Emerging Identities and Hybrid Patterns of Consumption in Post-socialist Russia
(2002). 'Between the Holes': Emerging Identities and Hybrid Patterns of Consumption in Post-socialist Russia. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 841-866
Bread and circuses: Shifting frames and changing references in ordinary Muscovites' political talk
The debates around the course of the Russian transformation, intensified by the sudden collapse of the Russian economic system in August 1998, typically deal with phenomena and issues involved by analyzing the structure and functioning of political elites, parties and institutions. While all of these provide interesting and revealing data, they fail to pay sufficient attention to everyday lives of the ordinary Russian people who face increasing h…
Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow
How Russians have navigated large-scale social change
In Case of Fire Emergency’: Consumption, security and the meaning of durables in a transforming society
This article argues that the study of Russian rituals and patterns of consumption reveals the intricate ways in which post-socialist actors deal with economic and political uncertainty, creating and symbolically affirming their identities in a rapidly transforming environment. Far more culturally specific than a simple globalization argument would suggest, and far more creative than simple reproduction of ‘Soviet’ attitudes, post-Soviet practices…
Between the Holes: Emerging Identities and Hybrid Patterns of Consumption in Post-socialist Russia
(2002). 'Between the Holes': Emerging Identities and Hybrid Patterns of Consumption in Post-socialist Russia. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 841-866
Nationals" and "Expatriates: Challenges of Fulfilling "Sans Frontières" ("Without Borders") Ideals in International Humanitarian Action
The international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is strongly committed to principles of universalism, egalitarianism, and equity, in both its internal and external relations. Nevertheless, the organization distinguishes between so-called "national" staff members (those who are indigenous to the countries where MSF projects are located), and "expatriate" staff (those who are involved in projects outside their countries …
Between Elias and Foucault: Discipline, Photography, and the Soviet Childhood
Wiggle your Wits!' Social Restructuring and the Transformation of Entertainment Genres in Today's Russia
Among print genres that soared in popularity after the fall of socialism, crossword puzzles have been prominent, with their monthly sales reported around 36 million copies in 2001–02. Drawing on ethnographic observation, interviews with crossword readers, traders and publishers, as well as on analysis of the puzzles themselves, I argue that the Russian crossword boom is an instructive case of how forms of popular entertainment are borrowed and re…
Bread and circuses: Shifting frames and changing references in ordinary Muscovites' political talk
The debates around the course of the Russian transformation, intensified by the sudden collapse of the Russian economic system in August 1998, typically deal with phenomena and issues involved by analyzing the structure and functioning of political elites, parties and institutions. While all of these provide interesting and revealing data, they fail to pay sufficient attention to everyday lives of the ordinary Russian people who face increasing h…
Bread and circuses: Shifting frames and changing references in ordinary Muscovites' political talk
The debates around the course of the Russian transformation, intensified by the sudden collapse of the Russian economic system in August 1998, typically deal with phenomena and issues involved by analyzing the structure and functioning of political elites, parties and institutions. While all of these provide interesting and revealing data, they fail to pay sufficient attention to everyday lives of the ordinary Russian people who face increasing h…
In Case of Fire Emergency’: Consumption, security and the meaning of durables in a transforming society
This article argues that the study of Russian rituals and patterns of consumption reveals the intricate ways in which post-socialist actors deal with economic and political uncertainty, creating and symbolically affirming their identities in a rapidly transforming environment. Far more culturally specific than a simple globalization argument would suggest, and far more creative than simple reproduction of ‘Soviet’ attitudes, post-Soviet practices…
Between the Holes: Emerging Identities and Hybrid Patterns of Consumption in Post-socialist Russia
(2002). 'Between the Holes': Emerging Identities and Hybrid Patterns of Consumption in Post-socialist Russia. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 841-866
Searching for the Populus in Popular Culture
Wiggle your Wits!' Social Restructuring and the Transformation of Entertainment Genres in Today's Russia
Among print genres that soared in popularity after the fall of socialism, crossword puzzles have been prominent, with their monthly sales reported around 36 million copies in 2001–02. Drawing on ethnographic observation, interviews with crossword readers, traders and publishers, as well as on analysis of the puzzles themselves, I argue that the Russian crossword boom is an instructive case of how forms of popular entertainment are borrowed and re…
Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow
How Russians have navigated large-scale social change
Nationals" and "Expatriates: Challenges of Fulfilling "Sans Frontières" ("Without Borders") Ideals in International Humanitarian Action
The international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is strongly committed to principles of universalism, egalitarianism, and equity, in both its internal and external relations. Nevertheless, the organization distinguishes between so-called "national" staff members (those who are indigenous to the countries where MSF projects are located), and "expatriate" staff (those who are involved in projects outside their countries …
Between Elias and Foucault: Discipline, Photography, and the Soviet Childhood
Concept of "face" in Chinese language: Vocabulary and psycholinguistic paradigm
Sergiu Musteață, Rolul anului 1991 în destinul Republicii Moldova / 1991: A Chronology of Moldova’s Independence
The year 1991 proved to be crucial for the Soviet republics, including for Moldova, and in result of incremental democratic transformations and the collapse of the USSR, the Republic of Moldova became an independent state. The year 1991 was the common starting point of independence for most of Soviet Union republics. After the events of August 1991, most of the world believed that the collapse of the Soviet Union meant a departure from the totali…
Photographs and Their Many Lives
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end?" asked Roland Barthes in his now-classic essay "Rhetoric of the image." At first glance, Barthes's questions might appear nonsensical, but as this discussion around the various uses and misuses of Evgenii Khaldei's photographs of war-time Budapest demonstrates, the question of meaning and truth in photography is anything but simple. This is because the meaning of a photograph is shaped by a …
Strange bedfellows? Consumer culture and the moral order in the post-socialist world – An afterword
Critiques of consumption frequently assume moral undertones, with the effect of obscuring the moral foundations underlying consumer practices themselves. The articles in this collection offer compelling and ethnographically rich evidence of the moral tensions that inform consumer preferences in post-socialist Europe. Consumer behaviors and discourses have historically played an important role in the region, determining grounds for social inclusio…
Recent trends on human thermal bioclimate conditions in Kyiv, Ukraine
The human-biometeorological conditions in Kyiv (Ukraine) and changes in the frequency of heat stress during the summer period due to recent climate trends were analyzed. The evaluation based on physiologically equivalent temperature (PET). The results revealed the highest probability of thermal comfortable conditions in Kyiv is from the last 10-day period of April to the end of June and from the last 10-day period of August to the end of Septembe…
Russian Protest Wave from the Bottom Up: An Invitation to a Sociology of Ripples
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Long-term analysis of thermal comfort conditions during heat waves in Ukraine
The aim of this study is assessment of thermal comfort conditions during heat waves in Ukraine in the years 1961-2015. The assessment is based on the thermal index Physiologically Equivalent Temperature. This study uses data from 29 meteorological stations across Ukraine. The research showed an increasing frequency of occurrence of heat waves (HWs) in the territory of Ukraine in the last decades. East and south Ukraine (except of coastal stations…
Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
In this roundtable, five historians come together to review the collected essays in Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History. Jennifer Tucker provides an overview of the content of the book and its significance in terms of scholarship on photography and African history. Matthew Fox-Amato studies how powerful photographs can be as evidence when combined with other kinds of sources such as oral narratives. Referring to the essays o…
Models for assessing crisis dynamics in disparities of Ukraine’s regional economy to ensure the economic security of regions
The increase in the unevenness of indicators of regional socio-economic development in Ukraine is causing changes in regional economic security, in addition to the deterioration of national welfare. Therefore, there is a need to develop new theoretical and practical approaches for assessing such disparities and forecasting their dynamics. In this article, a toolkit for modelling crises and catastrophes in disparities of regional development is pr…
The Integration of Ict (Information and Communication Technologies) Into the Teaching Practices of Fle (French as a Foreign Language)
This article is devoted the integration of ICT (information and communication technologies) into the teaching practices of FLE (French as a foreign language) teachers. The role and use of technology as a teaching tool (TICE) of the French language is increasing as educators have understood its ability to create both an independent and collaborative learning environment in which students can learn French with great ease. The integration of informa…
Military Farewells: The Legacies of the Soviet-Era Dembel’ Album
Taking Place: Visual Agitation in the Soviet Rural Periphery
This article explores the paradoxes of Soviet visual propaganda in the Russian rural North, using a 1965 incident in the Vologda region as a starting point. It highlights the tension between centrally issued policies and blueprints of visual propaganda, and the harsh rural realities that clashed with utopian socialist aspirations. The authors draw on regional and central Russian archives to examine how rural ideology workers dealt with this tensi…
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