University of Helsinki

Dissertations in chronological order

The doctoral students in the Finnish Doctoral Programmel for Russian and East European Studies defend their theses at their home universities/departments, which are also responsible for granting publishing permissions. So far, nearly 40 doctoral students participating in the programme have defended their doctoral dissertations. The list below contains further information both in chronological and alphabetical order.

Chronological list

• Koistinen Jarmo 14.4.2012
  Talousrikos Venäjällä
  University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law
  Helsinki: Aleksanteri Institute, 2012
  Series: Kikimora publications. Abstract
• Kansikas Suvi 4.2.2012
  Trade Blocs and the Cold War. The CMEA and the EC Challenge, 1969-1976.
  University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences. Abstract
• Jutila Matti 18.6.2011
  Nationalism Circumscribed: Transnational Governance of Minority Rights in Post-Cold War Europe.
  Helsinki: Acta Politica 43, Unigrafia 2011.
  Abstrakti
• Aitamurto Kaarina 8.6.2011
  Paganism, Traditionalism, Nationalism: Narratives of Russian Rodnoverie
  University of Helsinki, Department of world cultures
  Abstract
• Lassila Jussi 19.3.2011
  Anticipating Ideal Youth in Putin´s Russia: The Web-Texts, Symbolic Capital and Communicative Demands of the Youth Movements ”Nashi” and ”Idushchie Vmeste
  University of Jyväskylä, Russian language and culture
• Piattoeva Nelli 10.12.2010 (associate member)
  Citizenship education policies and the state. Russia and Finland in a comparative perspective
  Tampere: Acta Universitatis Tamperensis; 1561, Tampere University Press, 2010.
  Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis; 1010
• Dusseault David 15.5.2010 (associate member)
  Elite Bargaining and the Evolution of Centre-Periphery Relations in Post-Soviet Russia: A Comparative Analysis.
  Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2010
  Available electronically: e-thesis
• Järvinen Jouni 29.1.2010 (associate member)
  Normalization and Charter 77 – Violence, Commitment and Resistance in Czechoslovakia
  Helsinki: Aleksanteri Institute, 2009
  Series: Kikimora publications. Series A: 21
• Herrala Meri 21.11.2009
  Socialist Realism instead of Formalism: the Formation and Development of the Soviet Music Control System 1932-1950
  Abstract
• Spies Mattias 13.11.2009 (associate member)
  Oil extraction in extreme remoteness - The organisation of work and long-distance commuting in Russia's northern resource peripheries
  Joensuu: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Social Sciences and Regional Studies, 2009.
  Available electronically: Yhteiskuntatieteellisiä julkaisuja nro 99
• Koikkalainen Katja 3.7.2009
  Kansainväliset vaikutteet ja paikalliset erityispiirteet Kommersant- ja Vedomosti-sanomalehdissä (The Innovators of Business Press in Russia: International Influences and Local Features in the Newspapers Kommersant and Vedomosti)
  Tampere: Media Studies, Tampere University Press, Tampere 2009. ISBN 978-951-44-7752-2.
  Also published in: Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis; 853 , Tampereen yliopisto 2009. ISBN 978-951-44-7753-9, ISSN 1456-954X.
  
• Berglund Krista 25.6.2009
  The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker
• Tamminen Tanja 20.5.2009 (associate member)
  Des frontières convoitées aux marches de l'Union européenne: La gouvernance européenne de l'espace politique dans les Balkans du Sud après la guerre du Kosovo (1999-2008)
  Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
• Probirskaja Svetlana 3.4.2009 (associate member)
  Rajankäyntiä: Suomen ja Venäjän kahdenväliset valtiosopimukset käännöstieteellisen avainsana-analyysin valossa
  Tampere: Acta Universitatis Tamperensis; 1389, Tampere University Press, Tampere 2009.
  Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis;816
• Salminen Jenniliisa 13.2.2009 (associate member)
  Fantastic in Form, Ambiguous in Content - Secondary Worlds in Soviet Children's Fantasy Fiction
  Available in electronic form Annales Universitatis Turkuensis
• Ristolainen Mari 15.11.2008
  Preferred Realities: Soviet and Post-Soviet Amateur Art in Novorzhev
  Series: Kikimora Publications, Series A:19
• Pynnöniemi Katri 31.5.2008 (associate member)
  New Road, New Life, New Russia: International transport corridors at the conjunction of geography and politics in Russia
  Tampere: Acta Universitatis Tamperensis; 1314, Tampere University Press, 2008.
  Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis;723
• Väätänen Juha 4.9.2008
  Russian Enterprise Restructuring - the Effect of Privatisation and Market Liberalisation on the Performance of Large Enterprises
  Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto
• Tynkkynen Nina 4.4.2008
  Constructing the environmental regime between Russia and Europe. Conditions for social learning.
  Tampere: Acta Universitatis Tamperensis; 1301, Tampere University Press, 2008.
  Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis; 708
• Mäkinen Sirke 23.2.2008 (associate member)
  Russian Geopolitical Visions and Argumentation. Parties of Power, Democratic and Communist Opposition on Chechnia and NATO, 1994-2003
  Tampere: Acta Universitatis Tamperensis; 1293, Tampere University Press, 2008.
  Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis; 69
• Myllylä Yrjö 28.12.2007 (associate member)
  Murmanskin alueen teollinen, logistinen ja sosiaalinen kehitys vuoteen 2025
  Joensuun yliopiston verkkojulkaisuissa
• Huttunen Tomi 15.12.2007
  Imazhinist Mariengof: Dendi. Montazh. Ciniki. Moskova: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (NLO)
  More information in E-thesis
• Kangas Anni 14.12.2007 (associate member)
  The Knight, the Beast and the Treasure: A Semeiotic Inquiry into the Finnish Political Imaginary on Russia, 1918-1930s (Ritari, hirviö ja aarre. Semeioottinen analyysi Suomen Venäjän-politiikan poliittisesta mielikuvituksesta, 1918-1930-luvulle).
  Tampere: Acta Universitatis Tamperensis; 1283.
• Larjavaara Ilmari 5.10.2007
  Funktionaalinen transitioteoria - Hallinto, oikeusjärjestys ja instituutiot Venäjällä
  Helsinki: Aleksanteri-instituutti, 2007
  Series: (Kikimora publications Series A; 17)
  
• Salmenniemi Suvi 1.6.2007
  Growing Flowers in the Frost: Civic Activity, Citizenship and Gender in Russia Julkaistaan otsikolla: Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia.
  Routledge Editions
  Abstract available at E-thesis
• Kahla Elina 4.5.2007
  Life as Exploit: Representations of Twentieth-Century Saintly Women in Russia
  University of Joensuu, 2007
  Series: (Kikimora publications A; 16)
• Saari Sinikukka 16.3.2007
  Form But Not the Function? Dilemmas of European Human Rights and Democracy Promotion in Russia
  London School of Economics
• Karjalainen Timo P. 17.11.2006
  The Environment in Contexts: Environmental Concern in the Komi Republic (Russia)
  University of Oulu, 2006
  Serie: (Acta Universitatis Ouluensis E ; 85)
• Ruutu Katja 1.9.2006
  Venäjän politiikka ja perustuslaki - Tutkimus Venäjän perustuslakikäsitteistön kehityksestä 1900-luvulla
  Helsinki: Aleksanteri-instituutti, 2006
  Series: (Kikimora publications. Series A; 14)
• Salmi Anna-Maria 14.6.2006
  Social Networks and Everyday Practices in Russia Helsinki: Aleksanteri-instituutti, 2006
  Series: (Kikimora publications. Series A; 13)
• Heusala Anna-Liisa 9.9.2005
  The Transitions of Local Administration Culture in Russia ( PDF 1978 kB)
  Helsinki: Aleksanteri-instituutti, 2005
  Series: (Kikimora publications. Series A; 12)
• Turunen Maija 19.3.2005
  Faith in the heart of Russia: the religiosity of post-Soviet university students
  Helsinki: Aleksanteri-instituutti, 2005
  Series: (Kikimora publications. Series A ; 11)
• Elo Kimmo 12.3.2005
  Die Systemkrise eines totalitären Herrschaftssystems und ihre Folgen: eine aktualisierte Totalitarismustheorie am Beispiel der Systemkrise in der DDR 1953.
  Münster: LIT, 2005
  Series: (Diktatur und Widerstand / herausgegeben von Manfred Wilke; Band 10)
• Rytkönen Marja 27.11.2004
  About the Self and the Time: On the Autobiographical Texts by E. Gershtejn, T. Petkevich, E. Bonner, M. Pliseckaja and M. Arbatova
  Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2004
  Series: (Acta Universitatis Tamperensis ; 1046)
• Miettinen Helena 22.6.2004
  Menetetyt kodit, elämät, unelmat. Suomalaisuus paluumuuttajastatukseen oikeutettujen venäjänsuomalaisten narratiivisessa itsemäärittelyssä ( PDF 1836 kB)
  Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto, sosiaalipsykologian laitos, 2004
  Series: (Sosiaalipsykologisia tutkimuksia ; 11)
• Torsti Pilvi 14.1.2004
  Divergent Stories, Convergent Attitudes: Study on the Presence of History, History Textbooks, and the Thinking of Youth in post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Helsingin Yliopiston elektroniset väitöskirjat (PDF10875 kB)
  
• Lindström Maarit 21.11.2003
  Locational Sources of Competitiveness: Finnish Companies' International Business Operations in the Baltic Sea Region
  Helsinki : Taloustieto, 2003
  Series: (ETLA. Sarja A ; 37)
• Rautio Vesa 21.11.2003
  The Potential for Community Restructuring - Mining towns in Pechenga
  Helsinki: Aleksanteri-instituutti, 2003
  Series: (Kikimora publications. Series A ; 9)
• Miklóssy Katalin 11.6.2003
  Manoeuvres of National Interest. Internationalism and Nationalism in the Emerging Kádárist Criticism of Romania 1968-1972
  Helsinki: Aleksanteri-instituutti, 2003
  Series: (Kikimora publications. Series A ; 8)
• Autio-Sarasmo Sari 19.1.2002
  Suunnitelmatalous Neuvosto-Karjalassa 1928-1941. Paikallistason rooli Neuvostoliiton teollistamisessa.
  Helsinki: Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura, 2002
  Series: (Bibliotheca historica ; 71)