Canadian Slavonic Papers back issues from March 2004:
Introduction: Teaching Slavic Languages and Cultures
Mar 01, 2004; ... The year 2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS). This special section of Canadian Slavonic Papers-the first ever devoted to the teaching and learning of languages-represents a fitting tribute to an association whose express purpose is to promote ...
The Role of Motivation among Heritage and Non-Heritage Learners of Russian
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: Because motivation plays a major role in the development of language proficiency, it is important to understand what motivates learners. Unfortunately, instructors of heritage languages are not often aware of the specific motivations driving their students. This article ...
Positive Negativity: Attaining Pragmatic Competence In Ukrainian
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: This study addresses the role of pragmatic and discourse theories in the foreign language classroom. It contrasts constructions of the type U tebe hroshi ie? [positive syntax] 'Do you have any money?' with such constructions as U tebe hroshei nemaie? [negative syntax] 'Do you ...
Letter-Sound Correspondence Acquisition in First Semester Russian
Mar 01, 2004; ... Although teachers of first year Russian courses know that students often mistake letters of the Cyrillic alphabet for English letters when reading aloud and writing, no studies have documented which letters cause the most frequent misreadings, how long misreading persists, and what implications ...
Accommodating Dialect Speakers in the Classroom: Sociolinguistic Aspects of Textbook Writing
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the special problems of developing teaching materials for less commonly taught languages-Macedonian, in particular. I consider materials designed for mixed groups of students with varying degrees of linguistic knowledge and with differing goals for language ...
On the Correctness of Language: The Case of Impersonal sie Constructions in Polish
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: This paper addresses the seeming dichotomy between descriptive and prescriptive linguistics. Beginning with the distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences from the point of view of Transformational-Generative Grammar, the paper discusses the notions of ...
Reading and Studying Culture with Electronic Materials
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: Electronic materials and the Web have the potential of bringing students to a higher level of reading comprehension more quickly than traditional, printed texts. Brown University On-Line Czech Literary Anthology seeks to make authentic texts accessible to students of varying ...
The Poetic Text in Teaching a Foreign Language
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: This study describes a language teaching method that is acknowledged and successfully used in the School of Polish Language and Culture at the University of Silesia in Poland. Involving the use of poetic texts, the method is informed by cognitive linguistics and communication ...
The Computer as a Tool for Teaching Grammar: The Program Grampol-Gramatyka Polska*
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: This is a detailed description of the computer program Grampol ver. 3.0 for Windows, which was designed as an aid in teaching Polish to adult students, as well as non-native speakers of Polish who wish to grasp the rules of grammar. The program covers the areas of phonetics, ...
On the Writing of the History of Peoples and States
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: Most national histories are misnamed. This is because they are not the histories of a particular state, as they pretend to be, but rather of the dominant or titular nationality associated with a given state. This essay discusses conceptual problems related to the writing of ...
Empire of Memories: Conquest and Civilization in Imperial Russian Tashkent
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: This article argues that Russian administrators and intellectuals in fin-de-siècle Tashkent employed a glorified past to guide the development of their colonial community. Memories that focused on M.G. Cherniaev, leader of the 1865 conquest, and K.P. fon-Kaufman, the region's ...
Zamiatin's Fact and Fiction: Andreev, Mrs. Fitzgerald and the 1905 Revolution
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: The literary portrait is a specific type of memoir literature. It is usually a fragment of a larger memoir or a totally independent monographic portrait, written by a professional writer. Literary portraits are highly subjective, but it is accepted that they are based on fact, ...
Deportation to Democratization: The Role of an Authentic NGO in Romania
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT: A consolidated democracy depends in part on a vital civil society, one element of which is a web of voluntary organizations. The West's attempts to develop these associations in Eastern Europe have floundered as the groups prove unsustainable. This field note details the ...
All Over the Place: The Early History of the "Serbs/Slavs"
Mar 01, 2004; ... All Over the Place: The Early History of the "Serbs/Slavs" Ivo Vukcevich's book Rex Germanorum, Populos Sclavorum* contains an immense amount of data that it probably took thousands of hours to collect. It is written for a general audience interested in the origins of the Serbian nation ....
Russian Gestures: A New Semiotics*
Mar 01, 2004; ... Russian Gestures: A New Semiotics* Despite its title, this book is not a conventional descriptive dictionary of gestures. The authors aim to work out a new theoretical approach to the description of gestures, based on a strictly defined conceptual apparatus and set of methodological ...
Sifting the Evidence for the Reconstruction of Pannonian Slavic*
Mar 01, 2004; ... Sifting the Evidence for the Reconstruction of Pannonian Slavic* Ronald O. Richards' The Pannonian Slavic Dialect of the Common Slavic ProtoLanguage, a revision of his UCLA Ph.D. dissertation, takes on the challenging task of wringing from the Hungarian-language evidence information on ...
Otrazhenie grafiko-orfograficheskikh norm tserkovnoslavianskogo iazyka v zhitiinoi literature vtoroi poloviny XVI veka na materiale Zhitiia Aleksandra Svirskogo
Mar 01, 2004; ... Lea Siilin. Otmzheniegrafiko-orfograficheskikh norm tserkovnoslavianskogo iazyka v zhitiinol literature vtoroipoloviny XVI veka na materiale Zhitiia Aleksandra Svirskogo. University of Joensuu Publications in the Humanities 25. Joensuu, Finland: Joensuun Yliopisto, 2001. 401 pp. Appendices ....
Im Wettstreit der Werte. Sorbische Sprache, Kultur und Identität auf dem Weg ins 21. Jahrhundert
Mar 01, 2004; ... Dietrich Scholze, ed. Im Wettstreit der Werte. Sorbische Sprache, Kultur und Identität auf dem Weg ins 21. Jahrhundert. Schriften des Sorbischen Instituts/Spisy Serbskeho Instituta, 33. Bautzen/Budysin: Domowina-Verlag, 2003. 445 pp. euro22.90, paper. The volume under review constitutes ...
Vertograd mnogocvetnyj. vol. 3: "Prav nikto ze"-"Epitafion" Simeonu
Mar 01, 2004; ... Simeon Polockij. Vertograd mnogocvelnyj. vol. 3: "Prav nikto Ze"-"Epitafion" Simeonu. eds. Anthony Hippisley and Lydia I. Sazonova, Bausteine zur slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschite. Reihe B: Editionen, Neue Folge band 10/111. Köln,Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2000. Hv, 764 pp ....
Avtobiograficheskie "Ia" ot Avgustina do Avvakuma: Ocherki istorii samosoznaniia evropeiskogo individa
Mar 01, 2004; ... Iurii P. Zaretskii. Avtobiograficheskie "la"ot Avgustina do Avvakuma: Ocherkiistorii samosoznaniia evropeiskogo individu. Moskva: Institut Vseobshchei istorii RAN, 2002. 323 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. The present volume is the second monograph by Yuri Zaretskii in which he pursues the ...
Literary Activities and Attitudes in the Stanislavian Age in Poland (1764-1795): A Social System?
Mar 01, 2004; ... Jan I.J. van der Meer. Literary Activities and Attitudes in the Stanislavian Age in Poland (1764-1795): A Social System! Studies in Slavic Literatures and Poetics, vol. 36. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002. 339 pp. Bibliography. $65.00, paper. The Polish Enlightenment is generally ...
Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's
Mar 01, 2004; ... Liza Knapp and Amy Mandelker, eds. Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003. x, 226 pp. Works Cited. Index. $37.50, cloth. $ 18.50, paper. This is the seventy-eighth in the MLA's ...
Mileposts: A Bilingual Edition
Mar 01, 2004; ... Marina Tsvetaeva. Mileposts: A Bilingual Edition. Translated from Russian by Robin Kemball. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2003. llviii, 225 pp. $24.95. The book's rather lengthy introduction (xiii-hi) highlights (Cembali's interests as a translator: he clearly loves and ...
Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine
Mar 01, 2004; ... Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann, eds. Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine. DeKaIb, 111.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. $35.00, cloth. Stressing the complex, multifaceted, ambiguous nature of lived experience in early modern Russia and Ukraine, ...
A Social History of the Russian Empire, 1650-1825
Mar 01, 2004; ... Janet M. Hartley. A Social History of the Russian Empire, 1650-1825. London and New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. xi, 312 pp. Chronology. Glossary. Maps. Select Bibliography. Index. $44.00, paper. The two overarching themes of Janet Hartley's Social History of the Russian Empire ...
Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich. 1957. Stenogramma iiun'skogo plenuma TsK KPSS i drugie dokumenty
Mar 01, 2004; ... A.N. Iakovlev. Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich. 1957. Stenogramma iiun'skogo plenuma TsK KPSS i drugie dokumenty. Rossiia, XX vek, Dokumcnty. Moscow: Mezhdunarodnyi Fond Demokratiia, 1998. 843 pp. Cloth. Rarely do scholars of Russia and the Soviet Union receive a gift like the publication ...
Changing Channels. Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia
Mar 01, 2004; ... Ellen Mickiewicz. Changing Channels. Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia. 2nd ed. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. 374 pp. Index. $23.95, paper. This has become a very widely cited book. Almost everyone, writing on media issues in the post-communist world after ...
Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725
Mar 01, 2004; ... Paul Bushkovitch. Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725. New Studies in European History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xi, 485 pp. Bibliography. Index. $70.00, cloth. In a major contribution to Petrine scholarship, the product of fifteen years of research in ...
The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia, 1762-1907
Mar 01, 2004; ... David Moon. The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia, 1762-1907. London: Pearson Education, 2001. xix, 203 pp. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia by David Moon is the latest addition to the Seminar Studies in History series. The book aims to ...
Stalin's Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism
Mar 01, 2004; ... Matthew Payne. Stalin's Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. x, 384pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $37.00, cloth. Stalin's Railroad is a thoroughly researched, well-presented case study of one of the largest ...
L'anthropologie soviétique des années 20-30. Configuration d'une rupture
Mar 01, 2004; ... Frédéric Bertrand. L'anthropologie soviétique des années 20-30. Configuration d'une rupture. Pessac, France : Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2002. 344 pp. euro 28.00, paper. By his own account, the French anthropologist Frédéric Bertrand arrived in St. Petersburg with a ...
Life in an Austro-Hungarian Military Prison: The Slovak Tolstoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan's Story/The Night of the Barbarians: Memoirs of the Communist Persecution of the Slovak Cardinal
Mar 01, 2004; ... Peter Brock, Irans, and ed. Life in an Austro-Hungarian Military Prison: The Slovak Tolstoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan's Story, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. ix, 70 pp. Illustrations. $8.95, paper. Jan Chryzostom Cardinal Korec, S.J. The Night of the Barbarians: Memoirs of the ...
Die Deutschen in der Moskauer Gesellschaft. Symbiose und Konflikte (1494-1941)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Victor Dönninghaus. Die Deutschen In der Moskauer Gesellschaft. Symbiose und Konflikte (1494-1941). Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, 18. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2002. 576 pp. Bibliography. Index. euro45.00, cloth. The experience of ...
Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities
Mar 01, 2004; ... Igal Halfin, ed. Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities. Cummings Center Series. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2002. x, 403 pp. Index. $54.50, cloth. $26.50, paper. Edited collections are often criticized for being uneven or for lacking focus, but it seems to ...
Stadt und Öffentlichkeit in Ostmitteleuropa, 1900-1939: Beiträge zur Entstehung moderner Urbanität zwischen Berlin, Charkiv, Tallinn und Triest
Mar 01, 2004; ... Andreas R. Hofmann and Anna Veronika Wendland, eds. Stadt und Öffentlichkeit in Ostmitteleuropa, 1900-1939: Beiträge zur Entstehung moderner Urbanität zwischen Berlin, Charkiv, Tallinn und Triest. Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kutur des östi ichen Mitteleuropa, vol. 14. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner ...
A Chronicle of the Civil War in Siberia and Exile in China: The Diaries of Petr Vasil'evich Vologodskii, 1918-1925
Mar 01, 2004; ... Semion Lyandres and Dietmar Wulff, eds. A Chronicle of the Civil War in Siberia and Exile in China: The Diaries of Petr Vasil'evich Vologodskii, 1918-1925. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2002. vol. 1: 455 pp., vol. 2: 471 pp., Paper. These two volumes are based essentially on seven ...
Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture
Mar 01, 2004; ... Paul Robert Magocsi and Ivan Pop, eds. Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xiii, 520 pp. Tables. Maps. Illustrations. $95.00, cloth. As the first broad encyclopedic work dealing with the historical past and culture of the Rusyns, one of ...
New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Russia, 1840-1918
Mar 01, 2004; ... Michael Melancon and Alice K. Pate, eds. New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Russia, 1840-1918. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2002. v, 248 pp. $25.95, paper. Beginning with the title, the editors and contributors to this volume self-consciously distinguish their project from ...
Russian Intellectual Anti-Semitism in the Post-Communist Era
Mar 01, 2004; ... Vadim Rossman. Russian Intellectual Anti-Semitism in the Post-Communist Era. Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 309 pp. $55.00, cloth. Intellectual anti-Semitism has enjoyed a long tradition in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. Its birth as an ideology was ...
Jews, Lithuanians and the Holocaust
Mar 01, 2004; ... Alfonsas Eidintas. Jews, Lithuanians and the Holocaust. Vilnius: Versus Aureus, 2003. 534 pp. Photographs . Bibliography. Index. Important changes in the interpretation of the Holocaust in Lithuania have only recently begun. Alfonsas Eidintas, a Lithuanian historian, points out that ...
Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue
Mar 01, 2004; ... Sascha L. Goluboff. Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 199 pp. Map. Glossary. Works Cited. Index. $19.95, paper. Sascha Goluboff combines two themes that have received tremendous scholarly attention since the fall of ...
Russia Between East and West: Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshold of the New Millennium
Mar 01, 2004; ... Gabriel Gorodetsky, ed., Russia Between East and West: Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshold of the New Millennium. Cummings Center Series 18. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. xxii, 202 pp. $26.50, paper. For the student of Russian foreign policy, an initial glance through the ...