SLAVONICAPub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2018.1472831
Tatiana E. Abramzon
{"title":"The Philosophy of Happiness in Selected Works of N. M. Karamzin: The Search for True Bliss","authors":"Tatiana E. Abramzon","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1472831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1472831","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper deals with the philosophy of happiness as found in N.M. Karamzin's poetry, publicistic texts, and Letters of a Russian Traveller, and it also examines certain key stages in the formation of Karamzin's concept of happiness and its features as found in certain of his works. When Karamzin broke off relations with the Masons and returned from a journey abroad, in Letters of a Russian Traveller (1791–1792) he proposes to readers various points of view about happiness which are not reduced to a rigid system: the author creates a narration which is fundamentally open for the reader's comprehension and where deep philosophical views are balanced with the author's irony or everyday naive tales about happiness. In his philosophical and publicistic essay “On the Happiest Time in Life” (1803). Karamzin enters into an open dispute with the ancient world and its philosophers over the issue of happiness proving that it is not attainable on earth and catching these philosophers out in a deception. Karamzin's philosophy of happiness is based on a synthesis of the ancient world and European enlighteners' concepts of happiness and the key core of this takes ethics as its starting point; however, true happiness and bliss are again relegated to heaven.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"25 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1472831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45471837","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 : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2018.1471807
G. Larocca
{"title":"New Perspectives on Jacob von Stählin: Towards an Intellectual Biography*","authors":"G. Larocca","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1471807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1471807","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article is devoted to Jacob von Stählin, an important figure of the eighteenth-century Russian Culture. The contribution is an attempt to reconstruct his intellectual biography based on new archival researches. The role of Stählin from the 1735 to his death is provided, paying particular attention to his work as a poet and his contribution to the Academy of Sciences and the artistic activities.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"42 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1471807","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42987416","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 : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2018.1473089
M. Tejerizo
{"title":"Stuart Campbell – in Memoriam","authors":"M. Tejerizo","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1473089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1473089","url":null,"abstract":"As most readers of the journal will know, Stuart Campbell died very suddenly at the end of 2017 after a long and distinguished career in both music and Russian. Stuart played a key role in the Centenary of Russian Celebrations at Glasgow University – in fact, in April 2016, as the ‘preview’ event for the Centenary, he gave the Alexander Lazarev Lecture (in the presence of Mr Lazarev himself) and the last Centenary event was the final ‘Russkaya Cappella’ concert which Stuart conducted in December 2018, shortly before his untimely death. A memorial concert for Stuart Campbell has been organized on June 9th 2018 at 6pm in Glasgow University Memorial Chapel. ‘Russkaya Cappella’, Scotland’s Russian Choir and the choir which Stuart founded with his widow Dr Svetlana Zvereva, joined forces with the vocal soloists of the ‘Scottish Voices’ ensemble and this concert was a special fund-raising event in aid of Glasgow Universitybased cancer research (the Beatson Pebble Appeal).","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"2 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1473089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45029530","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 : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2018.1473106
Endre Sashalmi
{"title":"The power of language and rhetoric in Russian political history. Charismatic words from the 18th to the 21st centuries","authors":"Endre Sashalmi","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2018.1473106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2018.1473106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"23 1","pages":"72 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2018.1473106","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47979059","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 : 2017-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382097
G. Roberts
{"title":"Roll over, Tchaikovsky! Russian popular music and post-Soviet homosexuality","authors":"G. Roberts","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1382097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"65 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45289076","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 : 2017-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1405590
Rosalind P. Blakesley
{"title":"When Art Makes News: Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia","authors":"Rosalind P. Blakesley","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1405590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1405590","url":null,"abstract":"previously mentioned. Apart from this elision, however, Berman’s work is thorough, and the book leaves us with a number of different places to take her research further. She has clearly identified an omission in the critical landscape of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and filled in the gaps with a commendably exhaustive investigation. The development Berman traces through Tolstoy’s trilogy, and from Dostoevsky’s earlier to his later works is clearly defined and convincingly articulated. Reading these works through the lens of siblinghood is indeed more fertile ground than had previously been recognized.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"120 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1405590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48832072","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 : 2017-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382673
V. Ivleva
{"title":"Poetry and film: artistic kinship between Arsenii and Andrei Tarkovsky","authors":"V. Ivleva","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1382673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382673","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"95 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382673","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46190106","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 : 2017-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382659
Andy Byford
{"title":"Political animals: representing dogs in modern Russian culture","authors":"Andy Byford","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1382659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382659","url":null,"abstract":"tured’, and that Western technical rationality, with productivity and efficiency as its highest goals, works against the humanity of socialism. Avant-garde approaches to technology accentuate its exploratory and revelatory role – a role that is thoroughly subversive in times of industrial ‘window-dressing’ (pokazukha). Without naively extolling the often misled artists of the fledgling Soviet state, Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde provides a successful antidote to The Total Art of Stalinism by offering a close analysis of key texts, and connections between them, something missing from the sweeping generalizations put forward by Groys. Vaingurt does not explicitly address the banishment of the avant-garde under Stalin, which Richard Stites characterizes as a command to stop dreaming and get to work. The third part of the book becomes more descriptive in mode, something occasioned perhaps by the move away from the author’s confident literary analysis towards a discussion of avant-garde cinema. An otherwise stimulating journey through the conceptual realms of the avant-garde here loses some of its momentum, with the theory being applied in a less challenging manner (although the Red Pinkertons phenomenon offers gripping subject matter for the final chapter). This book is essential reading for anyone studying the literature and arts of Russia in the 1920s. Vaingurt offers an original analysis of some key works of the avant-garde canon, enhancing and renewing our understanding of the motivations and the theory behind them. Irrespective of its literary focus,Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde will interest people in any field working with concepts of technology, avant-garde art and signification.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"84 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382659","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42304192","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 : 2017-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382667
Paul Maddrell, Felix Wemheuer
{"title":"Famine politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union","authors":"Paul Maddrell, Felix Wemheuer","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1382667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382667","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"90 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1382667","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45838783","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 : 2017-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1376824
D. Shlapentokh
{"title":"Fedorovism in Early Post-Soviet Russia: The Collapse of the Meta-imperial Project","authors":"D. Shlapentokh","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2017.1376824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2017.1376824","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Nikolai Fedorov, the obscure librarian in late tsarist Russia, had created a grand theory. According to it, the humanities should be united under the aegis of the Tsar to engage in the complete mastery over nature, spreading all over the universe and the resurrection of the dead. This totalitarian and messianic aspect of fedorovism could be well incorporated into totalitarian messianism, the belief in the omnipotence of science and exploration of space – all the key elements of Soviet ideology. Consequently, the regime became ‘Fedorovian’ without cognizing it. While Gorbachev’s reforms made it possible for many Soviet intellectuals to be acquainted with Fedorov, the collapse of the regime and the country had led to profound implications for these Soviet intellectuals’ perception of Fedorov’s teachings and related theories. For some, it led to embracing the peculiar cocktail of mysticism and the occult. For others, the end of the USSR implied that Fedorov’s dream – humanity’s mastery over nature – would never be accomplished. It also implied that humanity is not very different from the other species and would disappear in the future.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"22 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13617427.2017.1376824","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46963979","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}