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Title: 1946 Packard ZIS-110 limousines in post World War II Russia
Date: 1946
Collection: Making of Modern Michigan
Description: 8x10 black and white sepia-toned Packard Co. file photograph of 1946 Packards in factory, two female workers pictured. Inscribed on photo back: production of ZIS-110 limousines in early post WWII Russia, powered by 8-cylinder, 140-horsepower engine, based upon 1941/42 Packard senior series dies sold to U.S.S.R. through U.S. government urging, designers reportedly began work on ZIS-110 in July 1944, & first cars began coming off assembly line early in 1946, early photographs in U.S. of ZIS-110...
Show more8x10 black and white sepia-toned Packard Co. file photograph of 1946 Packards in factory, two female workers pictured. Inscribed on photo back: production of ZIS-110 limousines in early post WWII Russia, powered by 8-cylinder, 140-horsepower engine, based upon 1941/42 Packard senior series dies sold to U.S.S.R. through U.S. government urging, designers reportedly began work on ZIS-110 in July 1944, & first cars began coming off assembly line early in 1946, early photographs in U.S. of ZIS-110 appeared in Automotive Industries, 1 July 1946, page 43.
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Title: Iconography of lubok : Russian popular prints, XVII-XX century
Creator: Vasiljević, Dragana
Date: 1995
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A study of the Russian intelligentsia from the late 1880's to 1905
Creator: Basil, John D.
Date: 1961
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Public control systems in the USSR : the People's Control Committee
Creator: Adams, Janet Steckelberg, 1920-
Date: 1970
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Tectonic implications of the May 18, 1971 Artyk earthquake, northeast Russia
Creator: McLean, Melissa S.
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Household consumption and labor supply response to economic shocks in Russia
Creator: Mu, Ren
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: An analysis of the historical accuracy of Tolstoy's War and Peace
Creator: Vollmer, Richard Arnold
Date: 1950
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The old limits between the Russian and Turkish Empires
Creator: Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767
Date: 1739
Collection: Maps
Description: Map of a portion of eastern Ukraine extending from the River Dnieper to the River Don, showing "the old Limits be-tween the Russian and Turkish Em-pires," cities and towns, forts, and notes about the populace, features, etc.

Title: Julian, Josef Oral History
Date: 1999
Collection: Making of Modern Michigan
Description: Recorded oral history of Josef Julian and his recollections of World War II in the East European Theatre.

Title: Essays in empirical microeconomics
Creator: Chu, Luke Yu-Wei
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes. There is an ongoing heated policy debate over whether these laws have increased marijuana use among non-patients. In Chapter 1, I address that question empirically by studying marijuana possession arrests in cities from 1988 to 2008. I estimate fixed effects models with city-specific time trends that can condition on unobserved heterogeneities across cities in both their...
Show moreEighteen states and the District of Columbia have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes. There is an ongoing heated policy debate over whether these laws have increased marijuana use among non-patients. In Chapter 1, I address that question empirically by studying marijuana possession arrests in cities from 1988 to 2008. I estimate fixed effects models with city-specific time trends that can condition on unobserved heterogeneities across cities in both their levels and trends. I find that these laws increase marijuana arrests among adult males by about 15-20%. These results are further validated by findings from data on treatment admissions to rehabilitation facilities: marijuana treatments increased by 10-15% after the passage of medical marijuana laws. Medical marijuana laws generate significant policy debates regarding drug policy. In particular, if marijuana is a complement or a gateway drug to hard drugs, these laws would increase not only the usage of marijuana but hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. In Chapter 2, I empirically study the relationships between marijuana and cocaine or heroin by analyzing data on drug possession arrests and treatment admissions. I find that medical marijuana laws increase marijuana usage by 10-20%. However, there is no evidence that cocaine and heroin usage increases after the passage of medical marijuana laws. In fact, the estimates on cocaine and heroin arrests or treatments are uniformly negative. From the arrest data, the estimates indicate a 0-20% decrease in possession arrests for cocaine and heroin combined. From the treatment data, the estimates show a 20% decrease in heroin treatments but no significant effect on cocaine treatments. These results suggest that marijuana could be a substitute for heroin.Are work values a cause (Weber) or consequence (Marx) of the economic environment? The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 provides a unique opportunity to investigate this link. In Chapter 3, using data collected from an employee survey conducted in over 340 workplaces in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, I and Susan Linz investigate generational differences in adherence to Protestant work ethic (PWE). The results indicate that Marx was "right" about the link between work values and economic environment. That is, despite economic and cultural differences emerging during the transformation process, in all three countries, participating workers born after 1981 adhere more strongly to PWE than workers born before 1977. Moreover, the estimate magnitudes are very similar across these economically and culturally diverse countries.
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Title: Globalization, gender, and partner selection age preference-entitlement : a Russo-American case study
Creator: Dovlatov, Aleksandr Gurgenovich
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Mixed signals : incentive structures and party strategies in mixed electoral systems
Creator: Herron, Erik S.
Date: 2000
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Equine empire : horses and power on the kazakh steppe, 1880s-1920s
Creator: McDaniel, Sean (Sean Patrick)
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Located in the north of Kazakhstan and extending the entire width of the country, the Kazakh Steppe is a temperate grassland ideal for the mobile pastoralism Kazakhs had practiced for thousands of years prior to the Russian Empire's encroachment on the region. An occupation naturally inclined toward the use of horses, Kazakhs developed an economy, culture, and society in which ownership of and access to these animals played a central role. Their reverence for the horse, coupled with the...
Show moreLocated in the north of Kazakhstan and extending the entire width of the country, the Kazakh Steppe is a temperate grassland ideal for the mobile pastoralism Kazakhs had practiced for thousands of years prior to the Russian Empire's encroachment on the region. An occupation naturally inclined toward the use of horses, Kazakhs developed an economy, culture, and society in which ownership of and access to these animals played a central role. Their reverence for the horse, coupled with the suitability of the region toward horse breeding resulted in the Kazakh Steppe claiming the world's largest horse population by the end of the nineteenth century. However, their use of horses and understanding of the land differed fundamentally from that of the growing numbers of Slavic peasant settlers making their way to the region in the aftermath of Russian serf emancipation. The collision of these two societies and ecologies drastically altered the landscape of horse breeding in the steppe as well as Kazakh horse culture itself. During this same period, Russian authorities were witnessing a steep decline in horse breeding throughout the traditional hotbeds of the empire and began to look toward the Kazakh Steppe as a potentially limitless supply of horses for their military, agricultural, and even industrial sectors. Their vision of the steppe's potential is evident in the various campaigns to count, categorize, and "improve" the region's horse population. This imperial gaze was subsequently embraced by Soviet authorities who feverishly attempted to revitalize a decimated breeding industry throughout the 1920s and restock a depleted economy in dire need of horse power. Throughout these processes, the horse occupied a central role at the intersection of state, settler, and Kazakh power relations. Increasingly, however, Kazakhs were alienated from their animals and traditional means of subsistence. Ending with the collectivization campaigns of the late 1920s, this study of horses and horse culture in the Kazakh Steppe uncovers a tumultuous period for the Kazakh people who were, in many ways, stripped of their very identity.
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Title: Shared space, varied lives : Finnish-Russian interactions in dacha country, 1880s-1920s
Creator: Lam, Kitty Wing On
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation examines the Russian summer house (dacha) communities in southeastern Finland as a site of diverse social interactions from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. It covers the period from the 1880s to the mid-1920s because it seeks to address how Finnish-Russian social, economic and cultural contacts were significant in the political context of Finnish nationalists' resistance to Russian authority and Finland's transition to independent...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the Russian summer house (dacha) communities in southeastern Finland as a site of diverse social interactions from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. It covers the period from the 1880s to the mid-1920s because it seeks to address how Finnish-Russian social, economic and cultural contacts were significant in the political context of Finnish nationalists' resistance to Russian authority and Finland's transition to independent statehood after the Russian empire's collapse. This project investigates why the dacha, entrenched in Russian thought as a symbol of Russian middle-class status, also became a physical and mental meeting place for Russians and Finns from various social backgrounds. Dacha communities in Finland were heavily concentrated in the Karelian Isthmus, a region within a few hours reach by train from St. Petersburg, Russia's imperial capital. This meant that interaction between dacha-goers from Russia and Finnish-speaking inhabitants formed an integral part of the social landscape. These summer house settlements therefore offer a lens through which to examine how social boundaries were created, sustained, and destabilized. This case study is illuminating because Finns and Russians came into contact with each other in a space that was generally seen as part of the personal, private sphere; yet, these contacts also resonated in the public context of community. By examining intercultural exchanges in a specific spatial setting, and asking how imperial imaginings of particular places intersected with everyday social realities, this project prompts us to reconsider issues of nationality, identity, and state-building from an alternate perspective that than of Russian authorities' efforts to control recalcitrant minorities.
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Title: Soviet techniques and devices for automating instruction
Creator: Zender, Bryce Franklin, 1934-
Date: 1970
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Social disjunction : Russian peasant-state relations, 1860- 1921
Creator: Anderson-Rast, Christine
Date: 1993
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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