Showing papers in "Slavic and East European Journal in 1999"

Burn This House: The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia

Abstract: Preface - James Ridgeway, Village Voice, NY Introduction - Jasminka Udovicki, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston The making of Yugoslavia - Branka Prpa-Jovanovic, Institute of the History of Modern Serbia, Belgrade Tito: 1945-1980 - Mirko Tepavac The interlude: 1980-1990 - Jasminka Udovicki and Ivan Torov The media wars: 1987-1997 - Milan Milosevic The army's collapse - Stipe Sikavica Croatia: The first war - Ejub Stitkovac Bosnia and Hercegovina: The second war - Jasminka Udovicki and Ejub Stitkovac International aspects of the wars in former Yugoslavia - Susan L. Woodward, Brookings Institution The resistance in Serbia - Ivan Torov The opposition in Croatia - Sven Balas Conclusion - Jasminka Udovicki Bibliography Contributors Index

Socialist Realism without Shores

Abstract: "Socialist Realism without Shores" offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism - an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the demise of its original domain. This expanded edition of a special issue of the "South Atlantic Quarterly" brings together scholars from various parts of the globe to discuss socialist realism as it appears across genres in art, architecture, film, and literature and across geographic divides - from the 'centre,' Russia, to various points at the 'periphery' - China, Germany, France, Poland, remote republics of the former USSR, and the United States.The contributors argue that socialist realism has never been a monolithic art form and demonstrate, among other things, that its literature could accommodate psychoanalytic criticism; that its art and architecture could affect the aesthetic dictates of Moscow that made 'Soviet' art paradoxically heterogeneous; and that its aesthetics could accommodate both high art and crafted kitsch. "Socialist Realism without Shores" also addresses the critical discourse provoked by socialist realism - Stalinist aesthetics, 'anthropological' readings; ideology critique and censorship; and the sublimely ironic approaches adapted from sots art, the Soviet version of postmodernism. The contributors include: Antoine Baudin, Svetlana Boym, Greg Castillo, Katerina Clark, Evgeny Dobrenko, Boris Groys, Hans Gunther, Julia Hell, Leonid Heller, Mikhail Iampolski, Thomas Lahusen, Regine Robin, Yuri Slezkine, Lily Wiatrowski Phillips, Xudong Zhang, and Sergei Zimovets.

The unknown Lenin : from the secret archive

Abstract: Was Lenin a visionary whose ideals were subverted by his followers? Or was he a cynical misanthrope, even crueler than Stalin? This book, which contains documents from the Lenin archive in Russia, lays bare Lenin the man and the politician, leaving little doubt that he was a ruthless and manipulative leader who used terror, subversion, and persecution to achieve his goals. Edited and introducted by Richard Pipes in collaboration with Y.A. Buranov of the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Recent History in Moscow, the documents date from 1886 through the end of Lenin's life. They reveal, among other things, that Lenin's purpose in invading Poland in 1920 was not merely to sovietize that country but to use it as a springboard for the invasion of Germany and England. Lenin took money from the Germans (here we have the first incontrovertible evidence for this) and in 1919 Lenin issued instructions to the Communist authorities in the Ukraine not to accept Jews in the Soviet government of that republic. As late as 1922 Lenin believed in the imminence of social revolution in the West, and he planned subversion in Finland, Turkey, Lithuania, and other countries. Lenin had little regard for Trotsky's judgment on important matters and relied heavily on Stalin. He assiduously tracked dissident intellectuals and urged repressive action or deportation and launched a political offensive against the Orthodox Church, ordering that priests who resisted seizure of church property be shot - "the more the better".

The History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival

Abstract: List of Maps - Preface - Introduction - The Land and Its People - The First State - The Middle Ages - The Habsberg Empire - The National Awakening - The Politics of Survival - The Struggle for Nationhood - The First Czechoslovak Republic 1918-38 - The Slovak Republic 1939-45 - The Uprising of 1944 - Communism and Federalism - Democracy and Independence - Epilogue - Selected Bibliography - Index

Nabokov and his fiction : new perspectives

Abstract: 1. Nabokov at 100 Julian W. Connolly Part I. Artistic Strategies and Themes: 2. Setting his myriad faces in his text: Nabokov's authorial presence revisited Gavriel Shapiro 3. 'The gift of imagining facts': Vladimir Nabokov and the art of autobiography Galya Diment 4. The near-tyranny of the author: Pale Fire Maurice Couturier 5. Jewish questions in Nabokov's art and life Maxim D. Shrayer 6. 'The dead are good mixers': notes on individualism in Nabokov's fiction Leona Toker 7. Nabokov's trinity (on the movement of Nabokov's themes) Gennady Barabtarlo Part II. Literary and Cultural Contexts: 8. 'Imagining other and better ways of looking': Nabokov's response to the legacy of Fedor Dostoevsky Julian W. Connolly 9. Her monster, his nymphet: Nabokov, Mary Shelley, and the specter of sexism Ellen Pifer 10. Vladimir Nabokov and Rupert Brooke D. Barton Johnson 11. From time to eternity: the critique of historicism in Nabokov's Russian writings Alexander Dolinin 12. Poshlust as cultural critique: Nabokov with Adorno and Malraux at the peak of Hitlerism John Burt Foster, Jr. Selected bibliography of works by Vladimir Nabokov Selected bibliography of work on Vladimir Nabokov.

Reading Russian fortunes : print culture, gender and divination in Russia from 1765

Abstract: Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Dreambooks and other fortune-telling guides 2. Divination in Russian traditional culture 3. Readers and detractors 4. Printers and publishers 5. Women, men and domestic fortune-telling 6. Fortune-tellers and their clientele 7. Sages and prophets 8. Disappearance and revival Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

Slavic gender linguistics

Abstract: 1. Background and Introdution (by Mills, Margaret H.) 2. Referential knowledge in discrourse: Interpretation of (I, You) in male and female speech (by Zaitseva, Valentina) 3. Gender, iconicity, and agreement in Russian (by Urtz, Bernadette J.) 4. A gender linguistic analysis of Mrozek's Tango (by Christensen, Jill L.) 5. Gender linguistic analysis of Russian children's literature (by Yokoyama, Olga T.) 6. Gender roles and perception: Russian diminutives in discourse (by Andrews, Edna) 7. Gender and conversational management in Russian (by Grenoble, Lenore A.) 8. "Teacher talk" in the Russian and American classroom: Dominance and cultural framing (by Mills, Margaret H.) 9. Speaker, gender, and the choise of 'communicatives' in Russian (by Sharonov, Igor) 10. The rule of feminization in Russian (by Mozdzierz, Barbara M.) 11. Gender-based results of a quantitative analysis of spoken Czech: Contribution to the Czech national corpus (by Sonkova, Jitka) 12. Whence virility? The rise of a new gender distinction in the history of Slavic (by Janda, Laura A.) 13. Index

Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images From Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917

Abstract: This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban culture and the individuals and groups that produced and consumed it. The selections translated here illustrate in colorful detail how the experiences and the composition of Russian society and culture evolved from the late eighteenth century through the 1917 revolution, in response to economic, technological, and political changes. Fortunetelling and etiquette manuals, thieves' tales, children's literature, popular songs, war stories, women's novels, satires of life in America, and vaudeville skits are just a few of the genres represented.

Ukrainian minstrels : and the blind shall sing

Abstract: This book addresses the historical and contemporary involvement of Chinese Americans from diverse walks of life in U.S.-China relations. The contributors present new evidence and fresh perspectives on familiar and unfamiliar national and transnational networks - including families, businesspersons, community newspapers, students, lobbyists, philanthropists, and scientists - and consider the likely future impact of such contacts on the most important bilateral relationship at the start of the new millennium. The volume makes a multidisciplinary contribution to understanding the extensive and vital roles and promise of Chinese Americans at this critical juncture in U.S.-China relations, and to revealing the importance of migrants as actors in contemporary global politics. The assessments shared by the contributors suggest that the nature and scope of the Chinese American involvement, particularly in global civil society networks, increasingly will determine the outcome of state-to-state relations between the United States and the PRC.

Songs of the Serbian people : from the collections of Vuk Karadžić

Abstract: In the early nineteenth century, Vuk Karadzic, a Serb scholar and linguist, collected and eventually published transcriptions of the traditional oral poetry of the South Slavs. It was a monumental and unprecedented undertaking. Karadzic gathered and heard performances of the rich songs of Balkan peasants, outlaws, and professional singers and their rebel heroes. His four volumes constitute the classic anthology of Balkan oral poetry, treasured for nearly two centuries by readers of all literatures, and influential to such literary giants as Goethe, Merimee, Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and Sir Walter Scott.This edition of the songs offers the most complete and authoritative translations ever assembled in English. Holton and Mihailovich, leading scholars of Slavic literature, have preserved here the unique meter and rhythm at the heart of Serbian oral poetry, as well as the idiom of the original singers. Extensive notes and comments aid the reader in understanding the poems, the history they record and the oral tradition that lies beneath them, the singers and their audience.The songs contain seven cycles, identified here in sections titled: Songs Before History, Before Kosovo, the Battle of Kosovo, Marko Karadzic, Under the Turks, Songs of the Outlaws, and Songs of the Serbian Insurrection. The editors have selected the best known and most representative songs from each of the cycles. A complete biography is also provided."

Petrushka : sources and contexts

Abstract: The contributors - two Slavicists, a musicologist and an art historian - offer a detailed exploration of the ballet, Petrushka, which premiered in Russia in 1911 and became one of the most important and influential theatrical works of the modernist period.

If You See the Buddha: Studies in the Fiction of Ivan Bunin

Abstract: This is an addition to the growing body of critical work on Bunin. In this study Thomas Gaiton Marullo seeks to break the deadlock that has impeded criticism on Bunin for almost a century: first, by establishing him as a "modern" writer whose images were thoroughly rooted in the twentieth century; and second, by positing Bunin's abiding interest in Buddhism as a major influence on his writing.

Conrad and Poland

Abstract: This collection, part of the series "Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives", examines the literary, cultural and linguistic significance of Joseph Conrad's Polish background. Essays address such issues as Conrad's knowledge and use of the Polish literary canon, his politics, the role of the Polish courtly tradition in his fiction, his representation of women, the impact of Polish grammar on Conrad's English style, and the influence of his works on 20th-century Polish artists such as Andrzej Wajda and Czeslaw Milosz.