Canadian Slavonic Papers back issues from September 2000:
Revolution, modernization and the paradox of twentieth-century Russia
Sep 01, 2000; ... ARTICLES A key challenge faced by historians of the 1990s all over the world has been to explain the collapse of the Soviet Union and Communist rule in Russia. But a more fundamental question, less often addressed, is the real nature of the Soviet system that was finally swept away ....
The Poetic Craft of Bella Akhmadulina
Sep 01, 2000; ... Sonia 1. Ketchian. The Poetic Craft of Bella Akhmadulina. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. viii, 248 pp. Illustrations. $32.50, cloth. To date this is the only book-length study on one of the most prominent and enigmatic poets in contemporary Russia ....
Reexamining the Soviet Experience: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin
Sep 01, 2000; ... David Holloway and Norman Naimark, eds. Reexamining the Soviet Experience: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. vii, 279 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $56.00, cloth. The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union has presented extraordinary ...
Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin
Sep 01, 2000; ... Sally Dalton-Brown. Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin. Critical Studies in Russian Literature. Series Editor: Neil Cornwell. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1997. 145 pp. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. E6.95, paper. The subject of this book is the best-known work of the best-known Russian ...
Between Nation and State: Serbian Politics in Croatia Before the First World War
Sep 01, 2000; ... Nicholas J. Miller. Between Nation and State: Serbian Politics in Croatia Before the First World War. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. xiv, 223 pp. Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00, cloth. This new ...
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872-1905)
Sep 01, 2000; ... Timothy Snyder. Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Kraut (18 72-1905). Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies. Cambridge, MA: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 1997. xxv, 321 pp ....
A Calender of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
Sep 01, 2000; ... A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul. Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts by Leo Tolstoy. Trans. Peter Sekirin. New York: Scribner, 1997. 384 pp. Name Index. $20.00, cloth. This is the first appearance in English of Tolstoy's own favorite among his ...
Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith
Sep 01, 2000; ... Andrew Wilson. Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xviii, 300 pp. Maps. Tables. Notes. Select bibliography. Index. $59.95, cloth. $23.95, paper. Andrew Wilson from the University of Cambridge is an expert on the post-Soviet ...
Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers
Sep 01, 2000; ... Kazimiera J. Cottam, ed. Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers. Nepean, ON: New Military Publishing, 1998. xxviii, 451 pp. Illustrations. Appendix. $24.95, paper. Containing 92 brief biographies of Soviet women who served in combat between 1917 and ...
Defending Leningrad: Women Behind Enemy Lines / On the Road to Stalingrad: Memoirs of a Woman Machine Gunner
Sep 01, 2000; ... Kazimiera J. Cottam, ed. and trans. Defending Leningrad: Women Behind Enemy Lines. Revised edition. Nepean, ON: New Military Publishing, 1998. xii, 160 pp. Photographs. $19.95, paper. On the Road to Stalingrad: Memoirs of a Woman Machine Gunner. Revised edition. Nepean, ON: New Military ...
Serbscina
Sep 01, 2000; ... Helmut Faska, ed. Serbscina. Opole: Uniwersytet Opolski, 1998 (Najnowsze dzieje jezykow stowianskich. Ed. Stanislaw Gajda). 337 pp. Paper. This volume represents one of the most important scholarly investigations of Sorbian published since German unity prepared the way for more ...
Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest
Sep 01, 2000; ... Borys A. Gudziak. Crisis and Reform. The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. xviii, 489pp. Maps, illustrations, appendices. Cloth. A fresh approach to an old and difficult ...
Serbska bibliografija/Sorbishce Bibliographie 1991-1995
Sep 01, 2000; ... Serbska bibliografija/Sorbische Bibliographie 1991-1995. Ed. Franc 9n. Schriften des Sorbischen Instituts/Spisy Serbskeho Instituta, 19. Bautzen/ Budysin: Domowina, 1998. 396 pp. DM 49. Cloth. This volume is the eighth in a series of bibliographies of Sorbian scholarship published since ...
Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia
Sep 01, 2000; ... Peter Waldron. Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998. viii, 220 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $36.00, cloth. In 1911 an assassin fatally shot the Russian Prime Minister Peter Arkad'evich Stolypin, ...
Creating the New Soviet Woman: Women's Magazines as Engineers of Female Identity, 1922-53
Sep 01, 2000; ... Lynne Attwood. Creating the New Soviet Woman: Women's Magazines as Engineers of Female Identity, 1922-53. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 213 pp. Notes. Index. $65.00, cloth. The study of Soviet women's magazines is still in its infancy. For this reason, Lynne Attwood's new book is ...
Jeltsins Rusland. En nations svaere genfodsel
Sep 01, 2000; ... Per Dalgard. Jeltsins Rusland. En nations svaere genfodsel. Kobenhavn: Fremad, 1999. 201 pp. Few people can take pride in claiming to have a knowledge of Russia as thorough as that of this book's author. A Ph.D. graduate of Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta and now ...
Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family
Sep 01, 2000; ... Hermann Field and Kate Field. Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Prologue, illustrations, epilogue, notes, index. Afterword by Norman Naimark. 451 pp. $45.00, cloth. When Tito plotted a course of political ...
The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725
Sep 01, 2000; ... Richard Hellie. The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xi, 671 pp. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $42.00, cloth. In earlier works, such as Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy (1971), Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725 ...
Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine. The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867-1900
Sep 01, 2000; ... John-Paul Himka. Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine. The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867-1900. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1999. 236 pp. This book is the third major study by John-Paul Himka on the history ...
The Kajkavian Dialect of Hidegseg and Fertohomok (= Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, vol. 27)
Sep 01, 2000; ... Peter Houtzagers. The Kajkavian Dialect of Hidegseg and Fertohomok (= Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, vol. 27). Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999. 343 pp. Maps. Tables. Dialect texts. Lexicon. Hfl. 140.00; USD $77.50. The Croatian-speaking populations of Hidegseg and Fertohomok ...
The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia: Trends and Perspectives
Sep 01, 2000; ... The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia: Trends and Perspectives. Edited by Vera Kaplan, Pinchas Agmon, and Liubov Ermolaeva. (The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies: Tel-Aviv University, 1999). 270 pp. Introduction. Notes on contributors. This collection, ...
Die Weisse Bewegung in Russland
Sep 01, 2000; ... Nikolaus Katzer. Die Weisse Bewegung in Russland. Koln: Bohlau Verlag, 1999. 621 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. This meticulously researched, richly documented, clearly written and thoughtprovoking magnum opus was originally completed in 1995 as a Habilitationsschrift. Nikolaus ...
Historical Dictionary of Slovakia
Sep 01, 2000; ... Stanislav J. Kirschbaum. Historical Dictionary of Slovakia. European Historical Dictionaries, No. 31. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999. lxxxvi, 320 pp. $55.00, cloth. The first fifty-five pages of this volume are devoted to a "Chronology of Slovak History," followed by a thirty page ...
Builders and Deserters: Students, State, and Community in Leningrad, 1917-1941
Sep 01, 2000; ... Peter Konecny. Builders and Deserters: Students, State, and Community in Leningrad, 1917-1941. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-- Queen's University Press, 1999. xiii, 358. Illustrations, appendix with documents, bibliography, index. $65.00, cloth. Peter Konecny starts out boldly to ...
Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture/Eros i pornografia v russkoi kul'ture
Sep 01, 2000; ... Marcus Levitt and Andrei Toporkov, eds. Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture/Eros i pornografiia v russkoi kul'ture. Moscow: Ladomir, 1999. 700 pp. Notes. Illustrations. Hardcover. This, the most recent publication in the Ladomir series Russkaia potaennaia literatura, is a collection ...
Critical Essays on Milan Kundera
Sep 01, 2000; ... Peter Petro, ed. Critical Essays on Milan Kundera. Critical Essays on World Literature. New York: G. K. Hall & Co, 1999. xi, 293 pp. Selected Bibliography. Index. $49.00, cloth. A collection of reviews, interviews, open letters, articles and essays that focus on the Czech emigre ...
Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature
Sep 01, 2000; ... Irina Reyfman. Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. xi, 364 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $49.50, cloth. The duel and its underlying codes of honour are the object of continuing fascination. In ...
Dictionary of Russian Slang and Colloquial Expressions / Pershyi slovnyk ukrains'koho molodizhnoho slenhu
Sep 01, 2000; ... Bell & Howell Information And Learning: Foreign text omitted. Vladimir Shlyakhov and Eve Adler. Dictionary of Russian Slang and Colloquial Expressions / ( ... ....) Second Edition. New York: Barrons, 1999. 296 pp. $17.50, paper. Svitlana Pyrkalo. lurli Mosenkis, ed. Pershyi slovnyk ...
Working the Rough Stone: Freemasonry and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Sep 01, 2000; ... Douglas Smith. Working the Rough Stone: Freemasonry and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. x, 257 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $38.00, cloth. Russian Freemasonry has always been an elusive topic, despite the fact that before the Revolution ...
Letters to Vilna/Listy do Wilna - 1805
Sep 01, 2000; ... Richard Sokoloski, ed. Letters to Vilna/Listy do Wilna - 18 05. Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa and the Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg), 1999. xiv, 218 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Paper. The ...
Dolnoserbsko-nimski slownik/niedersorbischdeutsches Worterbuch
Sep 01, 2000; ... Manfred Starosta. Dolnoserbsko-nimski stownik/Niedersorbisch-- deutsches Worterbuch. Budysin [Bautzen]: Domowina, 1999. 720 pp. DM 39, cloth. It is ironic that Lower Sorbian, with its dwindling number of speakers, gets a new Sorbian-German dictionary earlier than Upper Sorbian which, ...
Stories for Little Comrades: Revolutionary Artists and the Making of Early Soviet Children's Books
Sep 01, 2000; ... Evgeny Steiner. Stories for Little Comrades: Revolutionary Artists and the Making of Early Soviet Children's Books. Trans. J.A. Miller. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xv, 214 pp. Notes. Index. $30.00, cloth. Begun in 1989 and expanded in 1994, Evgeny Steiner's Stories ...
Keys to Happines
Sep 01, 2000; ... Anastasya Verbitskaya. Keys to Happines. B. Holmgren and H. Goscilo, eds. and trans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, xxix, 300 pp. The decision to translate and edit Keys to Happiness by Anastasya Verbitskaya has made one of fin-de-siecle Russia's best known novels ...
Maxim Gorky. A Political Biograhy
Sep 01, 2000; ... Tovah Yedlin. Maxim Gorky. A Political Biography. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. xiv, 260pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95, cloth. Amidst the horrors of WWI Maxim Gorky wrote to Roman Rolland: "A man must learn that he is the creator and master of the world, that he ...
Centre for Eastern studies at the University of Warsaw
Sep 01, 2000; ... The Centre for Eastern Studies at the University of Warsaw (Centrum Badan Wschodnich Uniwesytetu Warszawskiego) was founded in 1989 as an independent academic unit under the direct governance of the University's President. The Centre brings together scholars and non-academic experts who are ...