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{"title":"The Putin Predicament: Problems of Legitimacy and Succession in Russia by Bo Petersson (review)","authors":"D. Slider","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"191 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46032584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies ed. by James Ryan and Susan Grant (review)","authors":"C. Knight","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"181 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46005617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union by Josephine von Zitzewitz (review)","authors":"Polly Jones","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897293","url":null,"abstract":"Despite these niggles, it’s no surprise that Dragunoiu’s text has won the International Vladimir Nabokov Society’s 2022 Brian Boyd Prize for Best Second Book on Nabokov. Her monograph’s meta-argument that Nabokov’s texts are arenas where heteronomous feelings duel with autonomous thinking not only breathes new life into Nabokov’s championing of the values of curiosity, tenderness, kindness and ecstasy but, echoing Richard Rorty’s wonderful analysis in Contingency, Irony, Solidarity (Cambridge, 1989), demonstrates just how fertile philosophical interpretation of Nabokov’s oeuvre can be.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"161 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44538356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Satire and Protest in Putin's Russia ed. by Aleksei Semenenko (review)","authors":"S. Graham","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897297","url":null,"abstract":"in fact the staggering examples of representations of deaths in movies make them funeral instruments’ (p. 222). Leaving aside the oddity of opposing death to reality, realistic ‘ontologies’ like André Bazin’s (Pop’s apparent target here) were nothing if not death-haunted. Adding to the general untidiness, the use of terms like ‘philosophy’ and ‘thinking’ oscillates between the specialized and the colloquial senses. What has initially presented itself as a rigorous intervention in the filmphilosophy debates ends up with proclamations like this: ‘Whenever we feel like screaming at the screen [exasperated by Cristi Puiu’s endlessly bickering characters from Sieranevada], philosophical intuitions are never far behind’ (p. 221). For someone who had earlier sneered (p. 7) at the existence of a book called The Philosophy of Clint Eastwood (The University Press of Kentucky, 2014), Pop’s sense of the philosophical can sometimes feel rather loose, if not all-accommodating.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"169 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47929092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Post-Soviet as Post-Colonial: A New Paradigm for Understanding Constitutional Dynamics in the Former Soviet Empire by William Partlett and Herbert Küpper (review)","authors":"W. Butler","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897279","url":null,"abstract":"Sarajevo’s ‘Balkan manners’, and overcome a constant sense of ‘secondariness’ in Yugoslav identity vis-à-vis the capitalist West. In addition, Jovanovic interprets the Olympic boom in Sarajevo in the context of the contemporary paradigm change in the history of Socialist Eastern Europe, which saw the West through the lens of its consumer culture, rather than through the opposition between liberal democracy and socialism. Participation in popular consumer culture therefore took priority over any political needs. The book’s key argument is that Sarajevo’s success is an example of integration set against the dominant perception of fragmentation in 1980s Yugoslavia. Contrary to this deterministic outlook, Jovanovic shows how Yugoslav identity was celebrated (Slovene skiers were Yugoslavized, for example), new technologies, tourism and advertising were championed, and the benefits were real, not just a show. Sarajevo stood at the core of ‘New Yugoslavism’, a modern, futuristic, non-national identity. This compelling study of Sarajevo’s place in Yugoslavia during the 1980s sets the prevailing view of its history, characterized by the rise of ethnonationalism across the country, against an opposing trend that emerged in major Yugoslav cities and amongst the youth. The effect of Jovanovic’s book, therefore, is to overturn all the easily-drawn links between the two (or three) events that made Sarajevo globally famous (or notorious), to expose them as tenuous, or even tendentious.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"187 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47393789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century by Gabriella Safran (review)","authors":"D. Offord","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897289","url":null,"abstract":"family itself, and in particular on the contrasting treatment of brotherhood in the English and Russian novel. Part Two turns to ‘the historical factors that shaped the marriage plot’ (p. 21), with three chapters devoted to ideas about gender roles, the nature of courtship, and a particular Russian interest in the shortcomings of marriage as an institution. The two chapters constituting Part Three set aside conventional understandings of the family to address alternative models of kinship that go beyond blood and marriage, embracing instead ‘new kinds of family configurations’ (p. 23). If Berman’s overarching methodological claims lend her work its heuristic clarity, then her individual readings evince greater complexity and nuance. Alongside adroit and thoughtful readings of canonical family novels by Austen, Dickens and Trollope on the English side, and Tolstoi, Dostoevskii and Turgenev on the Russian, there are discussions of less familiar authors, particularly women. If female novelists have long been central to the English novel and its reputation, then Berman — generously building on the work of earlier generations of pioneering feminist critics — continues the important task of restoring writers such as Khvoshchinskaia and Tur to the canon. Some of the most productive readings proposed by Berman are those in which she draws on queer theory in order to arrive at a more complex and reflective understanding of relationship within and beyond the nuclear family. As she writes in her conclusion, ‘the nineteenth-century family novel can be a conservative story of marriage and reproductive fertility, but it can also be a story of breaking with the past and embracing the messy and unfinalizable present’ (p. 233). It is, perhaps, this gently disruptive spirit that best characterizes The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800–1800. At a time when ‘traditional values’ are vigorously promoted by politicians around the globe and the nuclear family is vaunted as the essential building block of stable societies, Berman’s study reminds us of the messy contingency of human relations and the power of fiction to allow us to imagine alternative ways of understanding what really constitutes fellow feeling.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"152 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49210625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sergei Rachmaninoff by Rebecca Mitchell (review)","authors":"S. Morrison","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897295","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"165 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42858952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe: Unwilling Nomads in the Age of Two World Wars ed. by Bastiaan Willems and Michal Adam Palacz (review)","authors":"E. A. Hatto","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897302","url":null,"abstract":"illustrations, ‘placates’ is surely meant to be ‘plates’ (p. 2); ‘whatever puzzling’ should presumably be ‘however puzzling’ (p. 7); ‘Morton Price, a correspondent to the Manchester Guardian’ (p. 24) is surely Morgan Philips Price; and ‘fatherfounders’ is more conventionally rendered as ‘founding fathers’ (p. 168). This frustration aside, Sergeev’s book is to be very much welcomed for its wellresearched and carefully rounded treatment of a complex subject.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"179 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48194863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Losers of Modernization: The Decline of Burgher Shooting Societies in Hungary, 1867–1914","authors":"Aliaksandr Piahanau","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897284","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Shooting societies organized by town citizens (burghers) were considered the traditional guardians of many autonomous settlements in Central Europe from the Middle Ages up to the late nineteenth century. In seeking to identify the causes of their decline in late Habsburg Hungary, this article draws attention to a variety of modernizing drives that undermined the stability of burgher marksmanship. One was the emerging Hungarian nation-state, which hindered the development of paramilitary citizen groups by limiting local self-governance and freedom of association. Another was the modern appeal to ethnic homogenization in the form of Magyarization. It aroused hostility towards the burgher riflemen because of their frequent use of the German language and loyalty to the Habsburgs, and not to the Magyar nation. Although the surviving burgher shooting societies had espoused Magyar nationalism by the early 1900s, they nonetheless maintained their elitism, excluding the growing urban populations from membership. At the same time, the burgher riflemen failed to engage sufficiently actively in rifle training to secure the support of the Defence Ministry and the radical Magyar nationalists. Instead, they remained traditional venues for socializing and networking for the increasingly isolated ennobled petty bourgeoisie. This created a situation where the burgher marksmen became marginal players not only in urban political life but also in Hungary's rapidly developing paramilitary culture. The story of the decline of the burgher shooting societies sheds new light on the ambiguities of modernization, but also demonstrates the weakness of societal militarization in pre-1914 Central Europe.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"28 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43080116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ekho Avstralii: Australia's First Russian Newspaper and Its Revolutionary Reverberations","authors":"Kevin Windle","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897285","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In June 1912, Fedor Sergeev, a Russian Revolutionary who had made his way from Siberian exile to Australia, launched a weekly newspaper in Brisbane. Entitled Ekho Avstralii, it would cater to a community of Russian immigrants then said to number approximately 11,000. Sergeev sought by this means to give the immigrants a sense of communal identity and common purpose, and 'uphold the interests of the Russian-speaking worker in Australia'. This article reviews the newspaper's contents and draws attention to some of its journalists and contributors, including the poet Nikolai Il´in and Petr Simonov (later to be Consul), in the Australian context of the time.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"64 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41586953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}