SLAVONICA最新文献_第10页

Stalin's World: dictating the Soviet order 斯大林的世界：统治苏联秩序

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382765

Matthew E. Lenoe

{"title":"Stalin's World: dictating the Soviet order","authors":"Matthew E. Lenoe","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1382765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382765","url":null,"abstract":"community’ have focused on its recent, post-1990s, history, and have utilized the rhetoric of modernization and Europeanization, while attempting to appease various ethnic-based demands and opposition to the latter. Ljupcho S. Risteski and Armanda Kodra Hysa provide a detailed analysis of the processes of redefinition that befell virtually all the key state and national symbols in Macedonia. Their excellent research points to an interesting finding that the public opinion poll data presented comparatively throughout the book do not, in fact, necessarily follow from (divisive) political discourses and (opposing) nationalist narratives promulgated by state elites, and luckily so. Cecilie Endresen concludes the volume with a chapter on Albania, a country with the second-best loyalty score. The state’s separate history and centennial of independent statehood makes the case stand out, though its previous communist regime offers interesting points for comparison with the six former Yugoslav republics or provinces. For students of nationalism, the challenge is to analyse Albania as a separate case due to its greater continuity of statehood in its present form. The concluding chapter, rather surprisingly, sums up three research hypotheses that were not introduced in the opening chapter, explicating how the authors had presumed that successful nation-building process (i.e. loyalty) would depend on (a) successful state-building, (b) level of democracy, and (c) homogeneity of the population. Only the third hypothesis was found to be supported by the survey data: ‘ethnic homogeneity is associated with levels of support more than any other factor’, while religion is importantly shown to be ‘intimately linked to ethnicity’ and not an independent factor (p. 231). Overall, this volumemakes a valuable contribution to the study of symbols, rituals and nationalist narratives in contemporary nation-building processes. It is a comparative project that elucidates how primordial idea(l)s of nationhood, essential for modern ‘invented traditions’ that enable nationalist elites to promulgate one select national identity, inevitably clash when competing nationalisms fight for primacy within the complexity of multiethnic, multiconfessional and multicultural realities of human existence.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"117 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382765","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43452824","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}

引用次数: 2

Siblings in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: the path to universal brotherhood 托尔斯泰和陀思妥耶夫斯基的兄弟姐妹：通往普遍兄弟情谊的道路

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1405588

N. Hamel

引用次数: 1

An Empire of Others: Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR 他者的帝国:在俄罗斯帝国和苏联创造民族志知识

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382161

Julia Fein

引用次数: 0

Literaturnyi avangard russkogo Parizha 1920-1926. Istoriia, khronika, antologiia, dokumenty 1920年-1926年俄罗斯文学史。Istoria，khronika，选集，文件

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1405592

Andrea Gullotta

引用次数: 0

1941: The year that keeps returning 1941年:不断回归的一年

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382760

J. Byford

{"title":"1941: The year that keeps returning","authors":"J. Byford","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1382760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382760","url":null,"abstract":"imposters who falsely ruled under his name; and so on, all the way down to assertions that Christopher Columbus was, in fact, Russian, as was, in much earlier history, Moses. The activities of these charlatan historians are important to study for two reasons. First, their books are very popular. In copies sold they by far outnumber the publications by professional historians. The reason for this is indicated by the apt title of the book. When still working to overcome the psychological trauma that the dissolution of the superpower, the Soviet Union, meant for a vast number of Russians, history can be used as therapy. Showing that in the old days Russia wielded unrivalled might and glory makes it easier to claim that Russia of today has a rightful place as a global great power, and that it will, due to its inherent greatness and moral superiority, take up that dominant position again. Second, these sentiments fit well with the general direction of policies associated with Vladimir Putin over the past two decades. During his presidential tenures, as well as his four years as Prime Minister when Dmitrii Medvedev was filling in for him, the assertiveness of Russian foreign policy has grown and the international climate has almost come to approach a Cold War chill. In this context, the writings of the alternative historians have moved away from the lunatic fringe of pseudo-academia to a central position in Russia’s mainstream political debates. This is an alarming development and I wish that the authors of this volume had dwelt on it more. They do give a thorough account of the arguments of the alternative historians, but only rarely show how the claims of alternative history have been used in political discourse and by prominent political actors, including Putin himself. In fact, had the authors ventured more deeply into the role that alternative history plays in Russia’s political arena, they would have also noticed a certain contradiction between the tenets of the alternative historians and some of the arguments articulated by Putin. The claim that the Romanovs served to denigrate Russia’s global importance in earlier history does not sit well with the admiration that Putin, especially in the earlier years of his presidencies, often expressed towards Peter as modernizer, reformer and symbol of Russian greatpower prowess. The authors do note that in the eyes of radical Russian nationalists, Putin, often depicted as a bogeyman in Western public discourses, has actually come to be seen as too moderate, too soft, too pro-Western. Maybe their diverging assessments of Peter the Great are indicative of precisely this rift. This is something that the authors could perhaps pick up, should they decide to write a sequel to this thought-provoking and valuable book.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"111 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382760","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42381306","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}

引用次数: 3

Poetry and psychiatry: essays on early twentieth-century Russian Symbolist culture 诗歌与精神病学：20世纪初俄罗斯象征主义文化随笔

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382657

J. Stone

{"title":"Poetry and psychiatry: essays on early twentieth-century Russian Symbolist culture","authors":"J. Stone","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1382657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382657","url":null,"abstract":"towards cultural history. Her blending of these modes is successful to a large degree. Her literary tools, especially from semiotics, richly inform our understanding of the ways people from diverse social backgrounds self-presented. Her use of close literary analysis for newspaper articles and fashion spreads sets in relief the dizzying network of meanings that shaped social experience of the period. What is more, a historian’s eye for fascinating detail brings the era to life. Take, for instance, her description of a young woman who scandalized Odessa in 1911 with her transgressive outfit, inspiring a newspaper article entitled ‘Disorder Because of Bloomers’ (90–91). At times, however, the historian seems to overtake the literary scholar: a few readings of literary and visual texts seem overdetermined by the larger narrative. Her reading of a striking advertising poster for a 1901 ‘Monster Masquerade’, for instance, highlights the expected positive valences, the emphasis on pleasure and play, while overlooking a visual ambivalence that characterizes the image – a rendering of the central female figure as menacing and monstrous (4–5). Later, she reads a poster for a costume exhibition as visually opposing folk Russia and the West, and yet sets aside the strange visual conjunction of Russian folk costumes with a nude female Greek or Roman bust (71–72). Her richest literary readings address modernist texts. The rather rare less-nuanced moments, however, do not particularly affect the work as a whole, which catches the reader up in a colourful, finely rendered story and affords a captivating new look at modernism in Russia.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"81 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382657","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43758074","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}

引用次数: 0

The cinema of Sergei Parajanov Sergei Parajanov的电影院

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382668

D. Gillespie

{"title":"The cinema of Sergei Parajanov","authors":"D. Gillespie","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1382668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382668","url":null,"abstract":"paigns, usually spearheaded by local officials, against peasants accused of hiding grain. Wemheuer shows that local officials were the proximate, but not primary cause of the famine, insofar as they gave wildly exaggerated figures on food output to their political superiors. Once the reality of famine could no longer be ignored, both the Soviet and the Chinese regimes had little alternative but to make concessions to the peasants by allowing them private plots and the right to trade small surpluses and by lowering procurement quotas and taxes. In Part Three he explores how the regimes actively expunged the famines from official memory and how nationalists in Ukraine and Tibet have used the famines to promote claims for national liberation, often in ways that distorted history. This turn to discourse analysis is notwithout interest, but it left this reader a little uneasy at treating famine as rhetoric. Wemheuer ends by contending that the famines were the key reason why peasants were never integrated into the two societies. It is a suggestive claim but is underdetermined by evidence and detailed argument. Notwithstanding their undeniable second-class status, it is not clear that peasants did see themselves as ‘outside’ society. If not all arguments are equally persuasive, the book is nevertheless an impressive demonstration of the power of comparative history and an obligatory read for all who are interested in the history of communism.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"91 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382668","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45430807","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}

引用次数: 5

Cat painters: an anthology of contemporary Serbian poetry 猫画家：塞尔维亚当代诗歌选集

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1406883

A. Schwartz

引用次数: 1

Alien places in late Soviet science fiction: the ‘unexpected encounters’ of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as novels and films 苏联后期科幻小说中的异域:阿尔卡季和鲍里斯·斯特鲁加茨基在小说和电影中的“意外相遇”

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382674

M. Froggatt

{"title":"Alien places in late Soviet science fiction: the ‘unexpected encounters’ of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as novels and films","authors":"M. Froggatt","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1382674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382674","url":null,"abstract":"Tarkovsky’s poems are weaved into the texture of his son’s films – namely, Mirror, Stalker and Nostalgia – and the way they interact with these films’ central leitmotifs. Particular attention is given to the image of the father, and the poignancy of his presence and absence in Mirror. In addition, Hunter Blair studies autobiographical references in Arsenii’s poetry, particularly his love poems. The translation of 150 poems is accomplished with fine attention to detail and sensitivity in rendering the subtleties of meaning and the preservation of images. The translator also provides helpful contextual (historical, cultural, biographical, literary, and intertextual) information about the poems, and notes on some of the challenges of translation. The arrangement of the poems does not follow a strict chronology, but the order has its rationale: the poems either appear in the order chosen by Arsenii Tarkovsky for his last collection or else they are grouped in clusters when they are dedicated to the same addressees. The last group are poems not published in the poet’s lifetime. With rare exceptions, translations render the meaning of the Russian texts accurately. Tarkovsky’s sharpness of focus, poetic intonations, and precision of vocabulary are nonetheless not easy to reproduce and maintain. Many of his poems contain folk-poetic, vernacular and outdated words and expressions, rich in mythological, folkloric, and Biblical allusions, often giving earthy physicality and texture to his images – for example, krinitsa (well or spring), has the same root as krinka (a milk jug made of clay); kulesh (a simple hearty soup made of millet and lard that resembles porridge); rubishche (rags or coarse clothes), studenyi (icy cold), belyi svet (the big wide world). Such connections with folkloric and archaic worlds are at times lost in translation. Greater attention should have been paid to the modality and register of the poet’s language as certain words are occasionally given more profane meanings, losing some of their spiritual connotations. That said, the translations demonstrate painstaking work with the original, and offer many finely tuned, subtle readings of Arsenii Tarkovsky’s poems and imagery, while the editor’s identification of thematic links in the works of both masters represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the artistic and spiritual kinship that existed between father and son, poet and poet-filmmaker.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"96 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382674","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44165899","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}

引用次数: 0

“Who, what am I?”: Tolstoy struggles to narrate the self “我是谁？”：托尔斯泰努力讲述自我

IF 0.2

SLAVONICA Pub Date : 2017-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382160

Robert Harris

引用次数: 6