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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Kaliningrad – an ambivalent transnational region within a European-Russian scope
2. The Kaliningrad region and its historical background
2.1. Birth of the Kaliningrad Oblast
2.2. Migration as a source of demographic shift before the collapse of the USSR: Formation of regional society
2. 3. Generational change and perception of cultural and historical heritage: Change in cultural paradigm
2.4. The Kaliningrad region as enclave: Theoretical and historical background
3. Positioning between Europe and Russia: Strategies and experiences of Europeanization and everyday exceptionality in Kaliningrad
3.1 «Fragment of Russia», «poor neighbour», and «pilot region»: Community with inherent qualities
3.2 SEBA: The initiative of modernization of the South Eastern Baltic Area through regional cooperation
3.3 What is an everyday «European’ life for Kaliningradians?
3.4 Small border traffic as an example of cross-border European life in Kaliningrad
3.5 Europeanization and European integration: Kaliningrad between Russia and the EU
3.6. Between the complex of «hostage» and «distinctiveness»: Separatist sentiment as a manifestation of «distinctiveness»
3.7. Kaliningrad as a «pilot region»
3.8. The consciousness of third-generation Kaliningradians: Historical heritage as an actor of mental transformation
3.9. Kaliningradian identity in transition
4. Kaliningrad regional culture: self-consciousness (Selbstverständigung) in transnational space
4.1. Boundary modalities: Historical context and cultural dialogue
4.2. Migration mobility after the collapse of the Soviet Union
4. 3. Transnational and regional: Kaliningrad regional culture
4.4. How and from whom do young Kaliningradians distinguish themselves?
4.5. Kaliningrad: From «periphery» to «bridge»
4.6. All-Russian National Census 2010: Phenomenon of nationality «Kaliningradian»
4.7. Consumption strategy: Materialistic concerns of Kaliningradians
4.8. The Berlin start-up scene as a channel of transnational mobility for young Kaliningradians
Conclusions
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I am grateful to the people who have guided and supported me throughout the research process and provided assistance for my work.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my scientific supervisor Prof. Dr. Regina Römhild, who has been following the research work from the initial phase up to its finishing touches. Her contribution both to the development of the objectives of this research and to the choice of empirical research method is by all means invaluable. Moreover, she provided me with guiding lines during my search and analysis of methodological approaches. Without her critical feedback, ideas, profound knowledge, help and an inspiring positive attitude, this dissertation would not have been possible.
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I pay intent attention to the dynamics of tradition of the Kaliningrad region’s cultural study, which has its specific features that are directly related to the distinctive social and cultural situation in the region. Complex solving of research’s tasks and analysis of socio-spatial form of the regional community required the implementation of following approaches:
– a systematic approach, which helped to identify and clarify the features of everyday self-positioning of actors under conditions of Kaliningrad’s regional culture;
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