Recently added articles from Canadian Slavonic Papers:
The Public Self and the Intimate Body in Radishchev's Letters from Exile
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Scholarship on Radishchev has so far neglected his fascinating letters from exile (1791-1801), using it primarily as source material on the writer's biography or ideas, instead of analyzing it as a part of Radishchev's text. The present paper examines how the writer uses his ...
Sergei Dovlatov's Zona as Metatextual Memoir
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: From the 1970s, the term metafiction has been mostly confined to studies of American and Western European literatures; I propose using metafiction as a means of approaching Sergei Dovlatov's Zona [The Zone], a novel which blurs the line between fiction and memoir. In one sense ...
Between the Cracks: Macedonia and the 'Mental Map' of Europe
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: As arguably the most peripheral region within the Balkans, itself the most peripheral subset of Europe, Macedonia at the turn of the century was represented as the crossroads of East and West. Macedonia's perceived schizophrenia crystallized during the Ilinden Uprising of 1903, ...
Police-Peasant Relations During the Formative Years of the New Economic Policy
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: This study investigates the police reports on the peasants during the early years of the New Economic Policy as the new Soviet state attempted to establish a working relationship with rural Russia through a variety of organizations, chief among these the police. As the ...
Obstacles to the Integration of the Holocaust into Post-Communist East European Historical Narratives
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Factors that have made it difficult for post-communist East European societies to integrate the Holocaust into their historical cultures include the communist heritage, which downplayed the specifically Jewish Holocaust; sensitivity to charges that a nation was complicit in the ...
From Historical to "Dialectical" Populism: The Case of Post-Communist Romania
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract: This article begins with a brief discussion of the differences between "historical populism" and "neo-populism" in the post-communist context. The second part concentrates on "neo-populism from below," exemplifying the category of neo-populist politicians aspiring to power, ...
International and Domestic Dimensions of Russia's G8 Presidency in 2006
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: In 2006, as president of the Group of Eight (G8), Russia intended to increase its global status, respond to foreign criticism about its democratic credentials, and advance key policy positions. In determining whether these goals were met, the author examines six important ...
Peering into the Abyss: Andreev's Rejoinder to Tolstoi's Kreutzer Sonata
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: This essay argues that Leonid Andreev's (1871-1919) short story "The Abyss" (Bezdna) is an important and often misunderstood response to Lev Tolstoi's (1828-1910) novella Kreutzer Sonata (Kreitserova Sonata), representing a fundamental shift in the way that pessimistic ...
Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age*
Sep 01, 2008; ... Preparing this review has been rewarding and frustrating. I have learned much of value for my current project; I have also learned that different traditions of literary criticism vary sharply. I write from die perspective of another discipline. I am a classicist - an expert on Latin poetry and ...
The Seeds of Triumph: Church and State in Gomulka's Poland
Sep 01, 2008; ... Hanna Diskin. The Seeds of Triumph: Church and State in Gomulka's Poland. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2001 . 3 1 7 pp. Bibliography. Interviews (1977-1997). Index. Cloth. In The Seeds of Triumph, Hanna Diskin has conducted an impressive amount of research ...
Folly, Foolishness, Foolery*
Sep 01, 2008; ... In Eastern Orthodox Christianity the fool for Christ (Russ. iurodivyi, Greek salos) is both a canonical saint and a social pariah. While he is an ascetic, he prefers the city's commotion to the serenity of seclusion, constantly engaging his audiences in interactive shows, which shock them into ...
Grundfragen eines Südosteuropasprachatlas. Geschichte, Problematik, Perspektive, Konzeption, Methode, Pilotprojekt
Sep 01, 2008; ... Helmut Schaller, ed. Grundfragen eines Südosteuropasprachatlas. Geschichte, Problematik, Perspektive, Konzeption, Methode, Pilotprojekt Studien zum Südosteuropasprachatlas, Band 1 . Marburg: Biblion- Verlag, 2001 . 79 pp. B/w photograph of Pavle Ivic. Notes. euro24.80, cloth. This slim ...
Straddling Borders: Literature and Identity in Subcarpathian Rus'
Sep 01, 2008; ... Elaine Rusinko. Straddling Borders: Literature and Identity in Subcarpathian Rus'. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 560 pp. Cloth. Elaine Rusinko's monograph is a ground breaking book, the first history of Rusyn literature written from a broad historical and cultural ...
Explaining Yugoslavia
Sep 01, 2008; ... John B. Allcock. Explaining Yugoslavia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xxvii, 499 pp. John Allcock's Explaining Yugoslavia is a difficult book to categorize or even adequately characterize. It is described in its cover notes as "complete," but that hardly does the book ...
A Shostakovich Casebook
Sep 01, 2008; ... Malcolm Hamrick Brown, ed. A Shostakovich Casebook. Russian Music Studies. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. xv, 408 pp. $39.95, cloth. $24.95, paper. The 1979 publication of Solomon Volkov's Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich sparked acrimonious ...
Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context. Ten Essays on Polish Prose
Sep 01, 2008; ... Knut Andreas Grimstad and Ursula Phillips, eds. Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context. Ten Essays on Polish Prose. Slavica Bergensia 5. Department of Russian Studies, University of Bergen, 2005. 286pp. In the 1990s, under the influence of new concepts and critical developments in ...
Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today
Sep 01, 2008; ... Paul R. Josephson. Red Atom: Russia 's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000-2005. x, 352. Illustrations. Map. Index. $24.95, paper. Originally published in 1 999, the 2005 ...
Preserving the Dnipro River: Harmony, History and Rehabilitation
Sep 01, 2008; ... Vasyl Schevchuk, Yuriy Satalkin, Georgiy Bilyavsky, Vasyl Navrotsky, and Oleksandr Mazurkevich. Preserving the Dnipro River: Harmony, History and Rehabilitation. Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press and the International Development Research Centre, 2005. 1 16 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index ....
Performing Justice. Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia
Sep 01, 2008; ... Elizabeth A. Wood. Performing Justice. Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. viii, 301 pp. Illustrations. Index. $49.95, cloth. Elizabeth Wood has written an engaging and evocative book, and in the process calls our attention to an ...
Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine
Sep 01, 2008; ... Dominique Arel and Blair A. Ruble, eds. Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii, 365 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Tables. $55.00, cloth. Rebounding Identities ...