http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3280 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:11:17 GMT 2026-04-06T13:11:17Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20388 Book Reviews Sosnowska, Monika Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20388 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/17581 Sport in International Relations. Expectations, Possibilities and Effects. Kobierecki, Michał The aim of this article is to show how sport can matter in international relations. Sport can be a subject or a tool of international relations. It can be used by states or geopolitical blocks to display their alleged superiority or any other desired characteristic. Governments may desire athletic victories, which are meant to imply, for example, the power of the state and its political and economic system. Participation in sport can also be used for political reasons on an international scale; a number of political objectives can be achieved by states by participating (or not) in sports events. Not only is sport affected by a country’s policies, but on certain occasions sports events can influence states. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/17581 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3278 The Currency of Fantasy: Popular Culture’s Discourse in International Relations Ningchuan, Wang The “facts” of international politics constituting the first-order representations of political life, could be reflected in popular entertainment as a second-order or fictional representation. It significantly demonstrates that the discourse of Popular Culture is powerful and implicated in IR studies. In turn, it also identifies two correlated conceptions: one is that pop culture, as a humanist and anthropological methodology, if contextualized, could be applied to analyse international issues; the other is, a nation could constitute its discourse in international politics via its popular culture, as a soft power. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3278 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3277 The Almanac “Woman and Russia” and the Soviet Feminist Movement at the end of the 1970s Nadina, Milewska-Pindor This article presents a short history of the origin and creation of the Almanac “Women and Russia”, which began as a samizdat underground publication devoted to the problem of women and childrearing in the USSR. The idea for creating such an Almanac originated in the mid 1970s in the Leningrad circle of 'unofficial culture', at the initiative of the artist Tatyana Mamonova, religious philosopher Tatyana Goricheva, and the women author Natasha Malachovska. The women writers featured in the first edition of the Almanac addressed not only questions about the social conditions prevailing in the USSR, but above all exposed the consequences for women living and functioning in a patriarchal social order, and ironically one where all the questions concerning ‘women’s rights’ were deemed to have been resolved in a progressive fashion much earlier. Not only is the substance of the Almanac important, but the circumstances surrounding its publication and the subsequent consequences related to its publishing also reveal the state of the ‘women’s movement’ in the USSR of that time. These include the reactions of the representatives of the dissident culture, the interventions of the security apparatus and the attendant repression of the women activists and its effect on their lives, and the support of feminist organizations from abroad. Each of the afore-mentioned reactions and consequences became an element of and shaped the everyday lives of the activists involved in the creation of the Almanac. The events related in this work confirm the opinion of those researchers who consider that the publication of the Almanac marked the beginning of the resurrection of the feminist movement in Russia Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3277 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z