SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1754573
H. Schwalm
{"title":"Imagining Compromised Creativity: Art and Fear in Shostakovich Bio-Fiction","authors":"H. Schwalm","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1754573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1754573","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The life of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich features in several contemporary anglophone bio-fictions, both novels and film, raising the question of the larger implications of Shostakovich’s life in art today. In my paper, I aim to address how such Shostakovich bio-fictions reinvent the composer’s creative labour in the context of World War II, Stalinist and post-Stalinist politics. Shostakovich’s life as artist and man appears torn between fear of persecution, social commitment, and the claim of individual, aesthetic autonomy tied to a controversial degree of political dissent. In Western eyes, the Soviet composer thus epitomizes the transnational figure of the twentieth-century artist – compromised, yet achieving an expression of his personal voice, creating an emphatically modern art that is bound to its times and yet ultimately eludes both the dictates of politics and mimesis.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"25 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1754573","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47555990","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}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1758402
Ian Turner
{"title":"Low Trust in a Time of Plague","authors":"Ian Turner","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1758402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1758402","url":null,"abstract":"Belgorod, Russia 29th March 2020 The plague of 2020, as future historians may not call it, is a time for taking stock of our relationships, social, personal, and professional. When contact becomes ...","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"62 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1758402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45549885","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}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2020.1754570
Mika Perkiömäki
{"title":"The Anthropocene on Planet Water. Competing Views on Rivers and Geography in Sergei Zalygin's Ekologicheskii roman","authors":"Mika Perkiömäki","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2020.1754570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2020.1754570","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sergei Zalygin's (1913–2000) autobiographical Ekologicheskii roman (‘An Environmental Novel’, 1993) tells the story of a Soviet water engineer and ecologist Nikolai Golubev between the Russian Civil War and the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The protagonist is repeatedly confronted with state modernization efforts, especially on issues related to harnessing major rivers. My paper examines from an ecocritical point of view how the conflicts and dialogues between the government representatives and the main character relate to the development of Russian environmental thinking. I argue that the protagonist's relationship with his environment follows Lev Berg's almost Schellingian concept of geographical landscapes, while the state authorities typically represent Andrei Grigor’ev's ideas, based on dialectical materialism and the Stalinist interpretation of Engels's dialectics of nature. The failure to understand the significance of Vladimir Vernadskii's concept of the noosphere, the precursor of the Anthropocene, is central in the novel's critique of the Soviet state's so-called amelioration of the natural environment.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"25 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2020.1754570","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46181562","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}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2019-09-27Print Date: 2019-12-01DOI: 10.3171/2019.6.PEDS19286
M Omar Iqbal, Ashirwad Merve, Nathalie Galea, Kristian Aquilina
{"title":"Recurrent Langerhans cell histiocytosis at the site of prior craniotomy: case report.","authors":"M Omar Iqbal, Ashirwad Merve, Nathalie Galea, Kristian Aquilina","doi":"10.3171/2019.6.PEDS19286","DOIUrl":"10.3171/2019.6.PEDS19286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tumors of the CNS represent the largest group of solid tumors found in the pediatric patient population. Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is an inflammatory lesion that may present in bone and/or soft tissue, including the CNS. Management depends on the extent of multisystem involvement, which determines resection with or without systemic chemotherapy. The authors report on the case of a child who underwent an open craniotomy for biopsy of a pituitary stalk lesion followed by neuropathological assessment, procedures used to diagnose LCH. The patient then underwent 12 months of systemic chemotherapy with subsequent resolution of the pituitary stalk lesion. Two years following pathological diagnosis, the patient presented with frontal orbital pain at the site of the prior craniotomy. Advanced imaging revealed MRI enhancement and radiotracer uptake of a soft-tissue growth at the frontal burr-hole site and MRI enhancement at a posterior burr-hole site without soft-tissue growth. The patient then underwent open biopsy and curettage that revealed LCH recurrence at the site of prior craniotomy. This case demonstrates that LCH may represent an abnormal reactive clonal proliferation of dendritic cells, rather than a de novo malignant neoplasm that can occur at sites of prior craniotomy despite systemic chemotherapy. The authors advocate close follow-up with contrast-enhanced imaging. Special attention should be given to sites of prior surgical manipulation to avoid missing distant sites of recurrence.</p>","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"15 1","pages":"728-732"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87639747","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}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2019.1694794
D. Shlapentokh
{"title":"Distribution of gas and oil in Russia and Chechnya’s special position","authors":"D. Shlapentokh","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1694794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1694794","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Putin is hardly an overpowerful autocrat. He most likely resembles a late medieval kings, who balanced between various groups. Such kings dealt harshly with the powerless and those who created problems for them. At the same time, they tried to find compromise with powerful members of nobility. Putin acts in the same way, and his gas policy reflects this. On one hand, the Kremlin is relentless in demanding payment from the powerless populace from Russia’s heartland. At the same time, it tries to be more cautious in dealing with potentially rebellious outskirts of the state.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"106 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1694794","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44869237","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}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2019.1688944
Tania Konn-Roberts
{"title":"From Novorossiisk to Alexandria: British Involvement in the Evacuation of White Russian Refugees, 1920","authors":"Tania Konn-Roberts","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1688944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1688944","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Events during Russia’s Civil War (1918–1920) produced a serious refugee crisis focused on the port of Novorossiisk in south Russia towards the end of 1919 and the opening months of 1920. Lloyd George’s Coalition Government was persuaded to support a rescue mission of selected refugees with most to fear from a Bolshevik victory. The decision was taken against Admiralty advice and against Treasury unwillingness to meet expected high resettlement costs. Thousands of White Russians were rescued and, without wishing or planning the end, the British Government found itself saddled with distracting refugee responsibilities in the politically unstable Protectorate of Egypt.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"105 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1688944","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46586840","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}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2019.1681746
Ian L Turner, I. Boichuk, Anastasia Krivorutchenko
{"title":"Life and Work in Russia … Some Personal Views","authors":"Ian L Turner, I. Boichuk, Anastasia Krivorutchenko","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1681746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1681746","url":null,"abstract":"In the Autumn of 1994, I returned from working in various locations around the world, to my home in Liverpool, and then on to Glasgow University. Glasgow would be my home for the next eighteen year...","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"123 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1681746","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48091207","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}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2019.1639030
D. Shlapentokh
{"title":"Bolshevik Revolution and Disintegration of Soviet/Russian Historical Space in Central Asia","authors":"D. Shlapentokh","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1639030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1639030","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With disintegration of Soviet space, the historical narrative also changed. This could well be seen in Central Asia. Here, several narratives emerged.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"73 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1639030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44425728","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}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2019.1639031
M. Dewhirst
{"title":"Intellectual life and literature at Solovki 1923–1930: the Paris of the northern concentration camps / Solovki: Labirint preobrazhenii","authors":"M. Dewhirst","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1639031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1639031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"147 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1639031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49270307","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}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2019.1634907
Andrea Liebschner
{"title":"Pragmatic Relations in the Communication of Public Groups in the Russian Social Network Vkontakte","authors":"Andrea Liebschner","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1634907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1634907","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research project deals with the analysis and classification of pragmatic relations with act-types in messages on the public message wall of three selected public groups in the Russian social network Vkontakte. The theories of Sinclair and Coulthard (1975), Korpimies (1978), Diekmannshenke (1999) and Tuor (2009) on exchange structures and act types served as a starting point for the development of a new classification of act types typical for communication on Vkontakte. The practical analysis revealed and classified 29 different act types which support the pragmatic relations between individual messages on the public message wall of Vkontakte. The analysis showed that a large group of acts in Vkontakte messages consists of multimedia-files such as audio-files, video-files, hyperlinks, which can support the pragmatic connection between messages. These files can form the single content of messages or interact with the verbal text in the messages.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"52 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1634907","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47586206","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}