Recent IREX Scholar Briefs

[Julia Hon]

Please find below the links to recent Scholar Research Briefs from
recipients of IREX research support fellowships and grants for Eastern
Europe and Eurasia:


Raisa Belyavina
Teachers, Students, and Administrators Speak About Secondary Education
in Belarus: An Analysis of Education Quality and Modernization
http://www.irex.org/resource/teachers-students-and-administrators-speak-about-secondary-education-belarus-analysis-educa
Abstract: This research tackles the question of education quality
through case studies of eight schools in Belarus. Through school
visits in several regions in the country and extensive interviews with
teachers, school administrators, and students, my work offers an
inside perspective on the education system in Belarus and a glimpse
into the Belarusian centralized bureaucracy. This report provides an
overview of the education system, including the curriculum, the
pedagogy, and the perceptions of quality and shifts toward
modernization of all who are involved in the education process.

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Seth Bernstein
The Political Socialization and Militarization of Soviet Youth, 1934-1941
http://www.irex.org/resource/political-socialization-and-militarization-soviet-youth-1934-1941-research-brief
Abstract: My project examines Soviet youth programs in the eight years
before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. I focus
primarily on the Communist Youth League (Komsomol), particularly its
departments responsible for membership issues and military and
physical education. My main focus is on changes in admissions and
disciplinary policies as well as the place of youth military training
in the Komsomol and related organizations.

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Ramajana Hidic Demirovic
Performing Tradition in the Public Arena: Laura Papo Bohoreta and
Sephardic Women in Interwar Bosnia
http://www.irex.org/resource/performing-tradition-public-arena-laura-papo-bohoreta-and-sephardic-women-interwar-bosnia-r
Abstract: A work of cultural history situated in the inter-war period,
also known as first Yugoslav period, my project specifically
interrogates questions of Sephardic women’s experiences that were
caught in the midst of turbulent changes of Empires and a creation of
the new multinational state.

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Lisa Kirschenbaum
International Radical Networks: The Case of the Comintern
http://www.irex.org/resource/international-radical-networks-case-comintern-research-brief
Abstract: The project investigates files from the Comintern Archive
and the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art to chart the lives
of international students at the Comintern’s Schools and international
communists who had connections to both Moscow and Spain. Examining
transnational interactions from the perspective of the people who
together constituted the Comintern, the project offers a new social
and cultural approach to the history of international communism. The
overarching question addressed by this project remains a concern of US
foreign policy: How do radical, transnational organizations recruit
and retain adherents?


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Christina Jarymowycz
Program Associate
Education Programs Division
IREX
phone: 202.628.8188 x180
fax: 202.628.8189
cjarymowycz at irex.org
www.irex.org

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