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Kikimora

(also, shishimora or mara), in Russian folk superstitions, a tiny invisible female character, with a head the size of a thimble and a body as thin as a straw. A kikimora lives in a house behind the oven and spins and weaves.

In popular speech, a kikimora is an untidy or unattractively dressed woman.

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Sharpe, 1980); Pryde, Environmental Management in the Soviet Union (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991); Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature under- Siege (New York: Basic Books, 1992); Ann-Mari Satre Ahlander, Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy: 'Ihe Legacy of Soviet Environmental Policy (Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1994); Feshbach, Ecological Disaster: Cleaning Up the Hidden Legacy of the Soviet Regime (New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995); Oleg Yanitsky, Russian Greens in a Risk Society: A Structural Analysis (Helsinki: Kikimora Publications, 2000); and Josephson, ed., An Environmental History of Russia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Soviet Environment, Capitalist World

Beautiful too was Liadov's delightful miniature Kikimora, an elvish scherzo of Mendelssohnian grace and wit but with a distinctly Russian accent, which opened the concert.

reviews; OPERA Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci Midland Opera at Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham ????? ....

(Kikimora Publications A., 15.) Gummerus Printing, Vaajakoski, 2006, 192-193.

The sovietization of Estonian community houses (Rahvamaja): Soviet guidelines/Eesti Rahvamajade sovetiseerimine: noukogude kultuuritoo juhendid

University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, Kikimora Publications: Helsinki, Finland.

Cities in transition

Peca, Sutela (1998), The Road to the Russian Market Economy: Selected Essays, 1993-1998, Kikimora Publications, Helsinki, 1998.

La transformacion del concepto frontera en la transicion de la URSS a la Federacion Rusa: implicaciones para la supervivencia del Estado

Oppositions within the Finnish Communist Party in Soviet Russia 1918-1935, Helsinki: Kikimora Publications, 2003, pp135-7, 253309.

Dead martyrs and living leaders: the cult of the individual within finnish communism

Julian's weaved his music, set to lyrics by Berlie Doherty, around three classical pieces conjuring up witches, magic and death: Danse Macabre by Camille Saint Saens, Kikimora and The Enchanted Lake by Anatol Liadov and Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas.

A first bite at opera; music/theatre

See Maija Turunen, Faith in the Heart of Bussia: The Beligiosity of PostSoviet University Students (Saarijarvi: Kikimora, 2005), 129-33.

Orthodoxy and public education in the Russian Federation: the first fifteen years

21 Leginska, Ethel Six Nursery Rhymes for Soprano and 2/5/1928 Small Orchestra Leginska, Ethel Triptich for Eleven Instruments 4/29/1928 Leoncavallo "Ballatella" from Pagliacci 1/18/1927 Leoncavallo "Ballatella" from Pagliacci 11/13/1929 Leoncavallo "Ballatella" from Pagliacci 12/15/1930 Liadov Kikimora, Legend for Orchestra, op.

The Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago

Christopher Morley St Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Hall Liadov's magical scamperings in his Kikimora were very appropriate for this year's Hallowee'n, inspired as it was by a legendary witch.

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