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 ...