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{"title":"Worlds of Hungarian writing: national literature as intercultural exchange","authors":"A. Schwartz","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1639033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1639033","url":null,"abstract":"nated, non-homely and difficult to find happiness in for the non-native dwellers. Yet, the cinematography of the late 1920s and 1930s follows the opposite trends. As Stephen M. Norris explains in his chapter on socialist apartments in Moscow, newcomers to the city are forced to overcome the ‘old ways of life’ and are in the end ‘rewarded’ with empty apartments representing the new Soviet spaces that they have to make ‘true’ Soviet history in. Drawing on an extensive filmography, Norris charts the visual archive producing an index ready to be used for further research. The volume ends with a view of the contemporary gendered film production of Russia. Anzhelika Artyukh and Arlene Forman analyse the films of women-directors (Bychkova, Melikian and Meshchaninova), tracing the changes of their style in parallel to the curtailment of liberties of Russian society in general, and the film industry in particular after 2012, but all testifying to the fact that ‘young women do possess enormous creative potential in Russia today’ (305). The volume is abundantly illustrated with historical maps, old postcards and stills from the films (although the figures are rarely directly referenced in the chapters); and if there were space for further improvement, one could engage visual elements using for instance the ‘shot-by-shot’ approach, as well as other methods of analysis in the field of visual studies. All in all, The City in Russian Culture is an engaging starting point which will provide the interested reader with a myriad of further avenues to explore: either by following the works of the authors who have often published a monograph on the topic touched upon in the present volume, or by applying the chosen analytical framework to the city of their choice. The map is now in the hands of the reader to enjoy the journey.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"152 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1639033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44464365","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":"Eternal Russia … The USSR and the RUSSIAN People in the Vision and in the Writings of the Portuguese Jesuit Fr. Manuel Antunes, SJ.","authors":"José Eduardo Franco","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1682817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1682817","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article we present a distillation of Fr. Manuel Antunes’s thought, visible in a series of texts that analyse the evolution of the Soviet Union and its ideological-political atheistic system, which kept a ‘discordant’ relationship with the millenary identity of the Russian people. Antunes’s critical view of Russia can be gleaned from many articles published in Brotéria magazine, some of which, due to their prospective character, are still relevant today. In fact, in the 1960s and 1970s, Manuel Antunes knew how to anticipate with unique lucidity the drifts, problems and outcomes that would mark international life. His texts on Russia and the ‘Soviet empire’ are a good example of this prospective thought, since they identify the difficulties and predict the fall of the Soviet regime, with the foreseeable announcement of a democratic revolution before the year 2000, which would happen with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"131 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1682817","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47256529","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":"The city in Russian culture","authors":"A. Hurina","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1639032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1639032","url":null,"abstract":"members are anything but corrupt and degenerate). Do not be put off by words denoting hypothalamus and epithalamus on pp. 8 and 9 of Brodskii’s book and proceed to pp. 80–95 for an explanation of the huge significance of labyrinths in world history, culture and civilization and, in particular, for Solovki. Then read the chapter on one of the turning points in Russian history, perhaps as important as, and a result of, the ‘Tatar-Mongol Yoke’ – the ‘successful’ attack by Moscow on Novgorod in the fifteenth century (pp. 113–135). These and other pages implicitly raise the perennial question of whether one can understand contemporary Russia without at least some knowledge of Old Russian, Old Church Slavonic and pre-Petrine Rus’. Myths and legends may be as important as facts, and the outcome of the struggle between the ‘possessors’ and ‘non-possessors’ (pp. 131–132, 138, 170, 254, 264–267) still has relevance for today, as does the seventeenthcentury schism in the Russian Orthodox Church, which still persists. The ‘Old Believers’ had a great impact on the course of Russia’s tragic history (see, e.g. pp. 286–287, 389). How many people were held against their will on Solovki in the period between 1917 or 1923 and 1939, when it was emptied (pp. 344–345)? It is still impossible to be sure, but for some figures see pp. 304, 333, 362 and 414. Whatever the number, it was only a tiny percentage of the at least 25 million political prisoners estimated by A.N. Iakovlev to have been sentenced between 1917 and 1953 by the Soviet authorities in what turned out to be a failed experiment (p. 338). The results of this massive crime can be felt today, although most people both in Russia and elsewhere are remarkably insensitive to this outcome. Brodskii concludes that ‘Russia is ill with Solovki. This is an ailment that cannot be cured either by exorcisms or by conspiracies’ (zagovOrami, zAgovorami, p. 363). His motherland (or fatherland) has still not come to terms with or atoned for its past. Nor have the current Moscow Patriarch and Patriarchate (p. 422). Politics and religion disunite people, culture unites, writes Brodskii (p. 428). But how many cultured people are there in Russia – and in the rest of the world?","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"150 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1639032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41589331","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":"Gustáv Husák and the Foundations of ‘Normalization’: Slovak, Czechoslovak and Federative Perspectives, 1968–1970","authors":"Z. Poláčková, Pieter van Duin","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1623460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1623460","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article tries to analyze the early stages of normalization by looking at three dimensions which simultaneously played a part in this complex post-liberal situation. Important was not only political developments in Czechoslovakia as a whole, but also more specifically the situation in Slovakia, the homeland of Gustáv Husák, both communist and Slovak patriot. The fact that normalization coincided with the onset of federalization of the Czechoslovak state implied that the political instrumentalization of federalization added a further dimension to the complexity of normalization. Husák proved to be the person who was best-prepared to exploit the political opportunities offered by this situation and to take command of the new dynamics in Czechoslovakia after August 1968. However, the complex process of normalization moved forward only slowly, step by step, and Husák had to work hard to bring the situation ‘under control’. The article also argues that this was only possible because the new party leader was constantly using a ‘populist’ discourse of ensuring peace and quiet and eliminating chaos and uncertainty. Husák and the other normalizers may have believed in communist ideology, but they realized that they had to define the situation in other terms as well in order to win over at least a part of the Czechoslovak population.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"36 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1623460","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45101564","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":"Post-Soviet Russian Nation-Building: ‘Purposefully Ambiguous’ or ‘Sufficiently Flexible’ with ‘a Russian Flavour’?","authors":"Yerkebulan Sairambay","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1573554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1573554","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses post-Soviet Russian nation building through examining the contradictions of ‘ethnic’ and ‘civic’ nation building processes. In so doing, this paper argues Shevel’s (2011) characterization of post-Soviet Russia’s nation-building as ‘purposefully ambiguous’, further discussing the legal framework of Russia’s nation building and contemporary policies of the Russian government. As a result, this article proposes to characterize post-Soviet Russian nation building as a ‘sufficiently flexible’ combination of controversial ethnic and civic nationalisms with ‘a Russian flavour’.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1573554","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49594284","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":"Translation and Transcreation: Scottish Perspectives","authors":"T. Hubbard","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1601806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1601806","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The role of both Scots and English as target languages for translation is discussed, together with consideration of the contrasting concepts of utilitarian ‘translation’ and literary ‘transcreation’. Aesthetic, linguistic and cultural challenges to the ‘transcreation’ process are set forth, followed by examples of the influence of one culture upon another.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"12 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1601806","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42861339","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":"Rhetorical Devices in the Contemporary Orthodox Sermon: Case Study of Patriarch Kirill in His Own Words","authors":"N. Naydenova, Y. Ebzeeva, L. Sorokina","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1604469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1604469","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Today, religion and communication as aspects of public life are becoming more and more closely linked. While the contemporary sermon is developing as an independent speech genre within the framework of religious discourse, it does not only acquire attention and interest of believers but also becomes the object of research. This paper focuses on the main rhetorical devices and linguistic and structural mechanisms used for their implementation in modern sermons. The study is based on the book Patriarch Kirill in His Own Words by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill. The main features of the patriarch's style are considered at the semantic, cognitive and pragmatic levels. The rhetorical devices – logical, dialogical and those of repetition – are identified in the texts of the sermons and analyzed from the point of view of their essence and persuasive efficiency.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"24 1","pages":"25 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1604469","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42775979","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":"Haunting and the Aesthetics of Trauma in A Woman in Berlin and For Those Who Can Tell No Tales: Redefining Cultural Memory","authors":"Mythili Rajiva, A. Schwartz","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1555923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1555923","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper offers a comparative analysis of the aesthetics of trauma in the German film A Woman in Berlin and the Bosnian film For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, both of which address wartime rapes that happened in mid-to late twentieth century Europe. We use trauma studies as well as Avery Gordon's sociological theory of haunting to examine how two historical episodes of war-time rape (post-WWII Germany and late twentieth century Bosnia) have created ghostly effects that can be seen in the periodic return to these histories through artistic productions. Gordon argues that a traumatic past continues to co-exist with the present in the form of ghosts; thus, we need to produce case studies of haunting that attend to the social and political effects/affects of the ghostly and how they complicate our accounts of social trauma and oppression. We focus on: (1) the national and transnational reception of the two narratives; (2) the films’ similarities and differences regarding the cinematography of trauma, narrative styles used and female agency; and (3) masculinity and the male voices’ ‘right’ to tell a story. We conclude by addressing the limits of representation in both films and their role in challenging the dominant cultural memory.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"75 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1555923","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46366787","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":"Russia: a photographic perspective","authors":"Peter Taggart","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2019.1573467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1573467","url":null,"abstract":"As an undergraduate student of Central and East European Studies and Russian, I had the opportunity to spend a year studying in Tver State University, Russia and during that time I was also able to travel further afield. The experiences from these years have stayed with me and they also had a great impact on my academic and cultural interests. Indeed, they left such a resonance that I attended a summer school at Kazan Federal University the following year. This collection of photos, exhibited at the University of Glasgow’s Centenary of Russian Studies, document my time out there. When taking pictures, I am always conscious of the space which I find myself and I try to reinterpret a subject’s surroundings to create a unique aesthetic. Russia, with its unique mixture of culture, religion and architecture, is a consistently inspirational space in which to take photographs.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"158 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2019.1573467","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47586141","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":"The Political Configuration of Historical Narrative: The Case of Kazakhstan","authors":"D. Shlapentokh","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1563955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1563955","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As time has progressed, Russia has shed the historical legacy of the Soviet era. The same process is going on in Central Asia. The obliteration of the Soviet historical legacy reflects the dying out of the memories of the Soviet Union and the very fact that all these countries had been parts of one state in the not-so-distant past. At the same time, some of these states started to engage in bitter rivalry. The historical legacies were adjusted to new realities. Here, two models compete: one could be called “Turkic” and the other “Iranian.” The “Turkic” model implies that Turkic people are truly autokthonous and have lived in Central Asia since the Bronze Age, and that Iranians/Indo-Europeans are newcomers, without much legitimacy. The “Iranian” model implies that it is Iranians/Indo-Europeans who are truly autokthonous people of Central Asia, and creators of the ancient culture. At the same time, Turkic people are nothing but destructive brutes. Meanwhile, China increasingly fills the discursive and geopolitical vacuum.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"135 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1563955","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49545122","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}