{"title":"Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity”. Moscow, 25–26 May 2021. Section “Linguistics”","authors":"Maksim A. Gavrilkov","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.16","url":null,"abstract":"The annual conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity” is a good platform for young researchers from different universities and research centers, both domestic and foreign, where they can share their scholarly achievements with colleagues and talk about their own vision of a particular problem related to the study of the diversity of the Slavic world. The work of the “Linguistics” section was divided into four thematic blocks: “Translation and interlanguage equivalence in Slavic languages”, “Slavic languages in the past and present”, “Language and traditional culture”, and “The language of texts of the Middle Ages and Modern times”. Young scholars from Moscow (Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian State University for the Humanities), St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg State University), Sofia (Andreichin Bulgarian Language Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), and Helsinki (University of Helsinki) spoke at the conference. The subsections were moderated by researchers from the Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences: Sergej A. Borisov, Mikhail N. Saenko, Maria V. Yasinskaya, and Gleb P. Pilipenko. Almost every report was accompanied by a discussion, during which the audience gave the authors advice, recommended certain additions, and suggested possible directions for further research.","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125816180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview. 17 September 2020. Moscow, Tverskoy Boulevard","authors":"L. Gibianskii","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.10","url":null,"abstract":"At the request of the editorial board of the journal Slavic World in the Third Millennium, the eldest researcher of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leonid Ianovich Gibianskii (born 1936), recounts his life. Leonid Ianovich graduated from the Department of Southern and Western Slavs of the History Faculty of Moscow State University in 1960 and began working at the Institute in 1966, when he commenced a graduate course there. He is the prominent specialist in the history of Yugoslavia and in the problems of international relations in contemporary Central and South-Eastern Europe. The principal lines of his investigations included the history of Yugoslavia during and after World War II, the history of the formation of communist regimes in Central and South-Eastern Europe, the organization of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, and the study of foreign relations and the politics of the great powers in the region in the 1940s and 50s. Leonid Ianovich was one of the first Russian historians to elaborate the problem of the formation of the Soviet bloc, the history of the Cominform, and the conflict between Stalin and Tito using archive materials which became accessible to researchers from the end of 1980s. Gibianski is the author of several hundred academic works, which have been published in many countries all over the world, as well as the organiser of and a participant in a number of international projects and conferences on the Cold War. Leonid Ianovich describes his childhood, his studies at the Department of Southern and Western Slavs of the History Faculty of Moscow State University, and his work at the Institute of Slavic Studies.","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126829626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion / ed. J. A. Alvarez-Pedroza. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. 548 p. ISBN 978-90-04-44061-6","authors":"V. Petrukhin","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2022.17.1-2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2022.17.1-2.11","url":null,"abstract":"The review is dedicated to the fi rst publication of a complete set of sources on the Slavic pre-Christian religion. The form of anthology with parallel texts in the original language and an English translation, chosen by publishers, provides an opportunity for comparative analysis of texts provided with general numbering. Essential for this analysis are the works of the Russian experts in Slavic studies — representatives of semiotic and ethnolinguistic trends of research, publishers of ancient sources on the Slavs’ beliefs.","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128239000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rematch between Robert Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1992 as an Attempt to Break through the Sports Sanctions in Yugoslavia","authors":"Jovana Perišić","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.09","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the attempt of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to organise a breakthrough of the sports sanctions imposed on the country on 30 May, 1992. As a result of these sanctions, the country’s athletes were forced to participate in sports competitions without national emblems and flags. The next step was to be a complete ban on the participation of Yugoslav sport organisations in international competitions. In order to break through the international information blockade, the leadership of the FR of Yugoslavia tried to organise a commercial match between Robert Fischer and Boris Spassky, two veteran chess players, who played in the 1972 “Match of the Century.” The conference was organised by Jezdimir Vasiljević, a businessman who combined the cigarette and oil trade with the banking business. The results of this costly adventure were dubious. With the complete domination of huge international media corporations, positive results were almost impossible. However, the episode itself remains a bright page not only in the gloomy history of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, but also in the history of chess.","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130696259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“On Trying To Be a Historian of Eastern Europe”: A Migratory Interim Balance. Part 1","authors":"S. Troebst","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2021.16.1-2.11","url":null,"abstract":"This autobiographic (and thus highly subjective) text asks what motived a non-East European, born in 1955 in West Germany, to become a historian of Eastern Europe. The answers are, on the one hand, an interest in (Slavic) languages and (Cold War) politics, and, to a lesser extent, family background, and on the other, coincidence and, not the least, fellowship opportunities. Part 1 of the article traces the author’s biography from his high-school years in Baden-Württemberg to universities and research institutions in Tübingen, West Berlin, Sofija, Skopje, and Bloomington, Indiana, from 1969 to 1981 – including his first modest academic achievements. Part 2 covers his professional path till retirement in 2021.","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131777160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity”. Moscow, 24–25 May 2022. Section “Literary studies”","authors":"Anna V. Grasko","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2022.17.3-4.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2022.17.3-4.16","url":null,"abstract":"This year, young scientists from Moscow and Kaliningrad took part in the work of the Literary Studies section. The reports were divided into three thematic blocks: “Literary transformations”, “Spatio-temporal paradigms”, and “Issues of genre and poetics”. As part of the fi rst thematic block, reports on inter-Slavic literary connections and transformations of literary images and plots were presented. Problems touched upon included the correlation of folklore and rock in the Belarusian cultural space, the formation of the image of a little man in Slovenian and Czech literature in comparison with Russian literature, the transformation of the motifs of Chekov in Polish absurdist dramaturgy, and the influence of ideology on the reading of Czech interwar novels about Soviet life. The second thematic block united reports with spatio-temporal issues. Many speakers correlated spatio-temporal categories with the concept of memory, clarifying its properties and functions in various literary texts. The problem of landscape visualization in Czech modernist landscape lyrics was also touched upon. Within the framework of the third block, issues of genre and poetics were discussed, for example the properties of the Czech interwar utopia and the features of the Czech postmodern novel. Special attention was also paid to narratology. The moderators of the subsections were employees of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and specialists in Slavic literature. Both the participants of the conference and the moderators actively entered into a scientific dialogue, identified problematic issues, and jointly searched for solutions. In addition to the speakers who have regularly taken part in the conference, new participants participated this year, which indicates the ongoing relevance of this event.","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133791805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On libraries, databases and the advancement of knowledge in the field of language history","authors":"Olga Mladenova","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2023.18.1-2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2023.18.1-2.07","url":null,"abstract":"Recalling her past conversations with G.K. Venediktov, a leading specialist in 19th-century standard Bulgarian, the author reflects on the correlation between the methodology of linguistic research and its outcomes. The recollections pertain mainly to the Moscow stage of the author's life (1981–1992). It was a time of transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet era in Russian history, when computers were just entering researchers’ daily routine, and when one had to sign up in advance to get access for a certain short time slot to one of the institute’s computers. Back then, there was a state monopoly on copying technology, scholars wrote their papers by hand or on typewriters, and then copied the final drafts on the office computer, using first 5.25-inch and later 3.5-inch floppy disks, and the text editor Chi-Writer for MS-DOS with encoding for Cyrillic KOI-8. Researchers spent a large portion of their time reading in libraries and checking data in index card collections, handwritten by several generations of scholars. The academic Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies was first located in a two-story mansion, built in 1860 in 30a Trubnikovskii Pereulok and after 1990 it moved to the building of the Academy of Sciences on 32а Leninskii Prospekt. The advent of the Internet, e-mail, cell phones, digital cameras, and the national corpora of the Slavic languages was not far off, which, together with the mass employment of personal computers, was to lead later to a revolution in the methodology of philological research that no one yet foresaw.","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131084506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity”. Moscow, 24–25 May 2022. Section “Linguistics”","authors":"Sergej Borisov","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2022.17.3-4.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2022.17.3-4.17","url":null,"abstract":"This year, young scientists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Smolensk, and Regensburg (Germany) took part in the Linguistics section of the conference. The reports were divided into three thematic blocks. The first block was devoted to the connection between the past and the present in modern Slavic languages. The reports touched upon the issues of lexicology, morphology, and syntax of the Russian language in comparison with other Slavic languages, the results of corpus studies of the grammar of modern Slavic languages, and special attention was paid to sociolinguistic research in Slavic national minorities. During the second session of the “Linguistics” section, topical problems of ethnolinguistics were discussed. The vast geography of the research conducted by young scientists involved in the study of traditional culture included the Saratov region of Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, and China. The third thematic block of reports was devoted to studies of printed and handwritten monuments of Slavic writing, as well as texts in modern Slavic languages. Reports were presented in which the glosses in the monuments of the 17th century were analysed, a classification of ancient Russian toponyms was proposed, and the linguistic means of expressing the national idea in a Polish play of the early 20th century were studied. The moderators of the subsections were employees of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who are experts in each of the designated topics. Scientific communication took place between young scientists, and many presentations were accompanied by lengthy discussions, in which not only the speakers themselves, but also their senior colleagues participated. Some of the speakers take part in the conference every year, while others presented the results of their research within the walls of the Institute for the first time, which indicates the relevance of this conference.","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115059563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dmitry I. Chizhevsky about the Ukrainian-Russian Cross-Cultural Communications (To the 125 Anniversary since His Birth)","authors":"E. Zadorozhnyuk","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2019.14.3-4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2019.14.3-4.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115180187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dialect Word as “Archetype” of Russian Culture","authors":"Tat’yana I. Vendina","doi":"10.31168/2412-6446.2019.14.1-2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2019.14.1-2.8","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the problems of anthropological linguistics. In the last decades, the ideas of anthropological linguistics have been actualized, which contributed to the revival of interest in Alexander von Humboldt’s idea that a language is “activity of national spirit.” It focuses on the study of the manifestations of the “human spirit” in language, customs, rituals, myths – in other words, the analysis of the processes of perception, knowledge, thinking, and man’s emotional attitude to the world. Language as “activity of national spirit” in accordance with the direction of anthropological linguistics is considered both as a tool of mental ordering of the world and as a mirror of ethnic worldview. Before linguistics opened a new field of research related to the hermeneutic study of language, which allowed us to move from empirical data to their interpretation analysis, i.e. to rise from the level of registration of facts to the level of their explanation. From linguistics “in itself and for itself” (F. Saussure), it turned into a “why/why-linguistics” (A.E. Kibrik). And in this transformation of interpretative linguistics, cognitive science has a special role and gives cultural, ethno-psychological, and historical explanation to the linguistic facts. The author believes that an adequate description of the nation’s psychology and its culture should be obtained based on the data of their language. Appeals to authorities’ opinions in the field of literature or philosophical thought are not convincing, because it is always a point of view from the outside, which is subjective. According to the author, it is necessary to abandon the imposed assessments and penetrate into the ideology of language. Moreover, the success of cognitive-oriented linguistics suggests that the language structure is not arbitrary and it is significantly motivated by the organization of cognitive structure, which is reflected in the mirror of natural language. Using a lot of dialect material, the author proves that by studying the dialect word we will be able to understand not only the archetype of our culture, but also its true essence. The author illustrates this position on the example of such basic concept of Russian traditional culture as WORK. The analysis of dialect material in the proposed perspective allowed to critically assess the negative perception of the Russian people, who are allegedly characterized as lazy and passive. According to the author, WORK is not just an activity, but an ethically significant activity, which is still determined by the Russian mentality, so the idea that Russians do not accept hard work is denial of the moral basics of their life.","PeriodicalId":412661,"journal":{"name":"Slavic World in the Third Millennium","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115274001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}