Abstract:Every two years between 1959 and 1989 the British and Soviet governments concluded formal cultural agreements that set out the framework for cultural and scientific relations between the two countries. For close to thirty years British and Soviet citizens and organizations were able to engage in a wide range of contacts and to visit each other's countries under the auspices of these cultural agreements. Each side had different priorities when engaging in cultural diplomacy, but both the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union saw advantages in maintaining cultural contacts even when political tensions between the two states were high. This article discusses the process by which the two governments asserted control of cultural and scientific contacts between the UK and the USSR in the late 1950s and examines how these regular diplomatic agreements continued to be concluded, even when the Cold War was at its height. Both Britain and the Soviet Union saw cultural diplomacy as an integral element in the Cold War so that, even when there were very public political disagreements between the two countries, cultural contacts continued apace.
{"title":"Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War: Britain and the UK-USSR Cultural Agreements","authors":"P. Waldron","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0079","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Every two years between 1959 and 1989 the British and Soviet governments concluded formal cultural agreements that set out the framework for cultural and scientific relations between the two countries. For close to thirty years British and Soviet citizens and organizations were able to engage in a wide range of contacts and to visit each other's countries under the auspices of these cultural agreements. Each side had different priorities when engaging in cultural diplomacy, but both the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union saw advantages in maintaining cultural contacts even when political tensions between the two states were high. This article discusses the process by which the two governments asserted control of cultural and scientific contacts between the UK and the USSR in the late 1950s and examines how these regular diplomatic agreements continued to be concluded, even when the Cold War was at its height. Both Britain and the Soviet Union saw cultural diplomacy as an integral element in the Cold War so that, even when there were very public political disagreements between the two countries, cultural contacts continued apace.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"100 1","pages":"705 - 727"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46308256","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 Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic ed. by David Featherstone and Christian Høgsbjerg","authors":"Natalia Telepneva","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43361609","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}
literary system possessed and reproduced a distinct behavioural logic. As Any contends, such behaviour proved morally and psychologically corrosive, both for the individuals concerned and for the organization that they helped to run. The union, like its leadership, was weakened by its own contradictions, even though it survived to the end of the Soviet era. The extraordinary richness of the sources at the heart of this institutional and biographical narrative can make it a rather dense and indigestible read at times. The author does not always clearly guide the reader through the thickets of writers’ and bureaucrats’ doctrinal and inter-personal squabbles, and her most insightful observations are sometimes buried amongst lengthy source description and citation. Moreover, the meticulous reconstruction of Stalinist literary politics does not always sit comfortably with the psychoanalyticallyinflected analysis of writers’ ‘souls’ and ‘conscience’ that comes to the fore in the second half of the book, in particular. Overall, though, this is a ground-breaking and eye-opening book that will be essential reading for anyone interested in Soviet literature, especially of the Stalin era. It fundamentally recasts the narrative of the emergence of Soviet literature and literary institutions, and it provides the first detailed portraits of many of its leading figures, who had previously been ignored, or dismissed as party bureaucrats without considering how literary-political relationships were themselves in flux in this period. However, this somewhat demanding analysis is likely to prove most accessible and useful to researchers already well-versed in the literary history of the era, rather than to undergraduates or the general reader.
{"title":"Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and His Times by Patrick Zuk (review)","authors":"A. Gritten","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0086","url":null,"abstract":"literary system possessed and reproduced a distinct behavioural logic. As Any contends, such behaviour proved morally and psychologically corrosive, both for the individuals concerned and for the organization that they helped to run. The union, like its leadership, was weakened by its own contradictions, even though it survived to the end of the Soviet era. The extraordinary richness of the sources at the heart of this institutional and biographical narrative can make it a rather dense and indigestible read at times. The author does not always clearly guide the reader through the thickets of writers’ and bureaucrats’ doctrinal and inter-personal squabbles, and her most insightful observations are sometimes buried amongst lengthy source description and citation. Moreover, the meticulous reconstruction of Stalinist literary politics does not always sit comfortably with the psychoanalyticallyinflected analysis of writers’ ‘souls’ and ‘conscience’ that comes to the fore in the second half of the book, in particular. Overall, though, this is a ground-breaking and eye-opening book that will be essential reading for anyone interested in Soviet literature, especially of the Stalin era. It fundamentally recasts the narrative of the emergence of Soviet literature and literary institutions, and it provides the first detailed portraits of many of its leading figures, who had previously been ignored, or dismissed as party bureaucrats without considering how literary-political relationships were themselves in flux in this period. However, this somewhat demanding analysis is likely to prove most accessible and useful to researchers already well-versed in the literary history of the era, rather than to undergraduates or the general reader.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"100 1","pages":"755 - 758"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45980383","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":"Wartime Suffering and Survival: The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941–1944 by Jeffrey K. Hass (review)","authors":"Alexis Peri","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"100 1","pages":"775 - 777"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43573472","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}
The author’s focus on Joyce’s ‘style’ creates confusion rather than clarity as indeed does his choice of selecting individual ‘themes’ (such as the leitmotif of the keys in Ulysses) for comparisons. Assessing Joyce’s impact, or presence, in the Russian texts by relying on discrete categories (plot/character/narration/ style) without sufficient consideration of the highly contentious issues of the ‘narrator’, the fusion of the ‘internal’ and the ‘external’, the parody, the multilingual puns, the pastiche (all of which probe the issues of Empire, Ireland, the English language, Catholicism, sexuality, emigration, exile etc.) produces inconclusive results. Chronotopic displacement and epistemological difference in the ways the five writers read, and responded to, Joyce should have been tackled rather than ignored. Joyce’s own awareness of, and numerous references to, Russia and Russian literature should also have been considered, as should the question of how Joyce’s work may read in the light of the Russian texts; did Joyce elicit novel, original interpretation of his texts within the five writers’ works? The Conclusion and the appended collection of bizarre statements by seemingly randomly chosen literary figures from the former Soviet Union and its successor states in a unit entitled ‘Joycean Echoes’ beg the question as to who the envisaged reader of this book is. Is it the book’s intention to demonstrate that ‘Russians too’ are ‘Joyceans’? Or perhaps that Joyce’s reception in Russia had some kind of therapeutic effect? Or is it an attempt to revalidate Dostoevskii’s ‘Pushkin Speech’ which suggests that Russians can feel/understand/convey the experience of all other nations (‘all’ of course meaning major Western European ones)? If so, there is indeed little need to consider how the five authors’ texts interact or modify or expand existing frameworks for interpreting Joyce’s texts, or to find meaningful silences in the Russian novels and interrogate these, or to consider whether the discourse of spoudogéloion — the jocoserious — finds resonances and, if so, where and how.
{"title":"Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement by Yuri Leving (review)","authors":"Tim Harte","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0084","url":null,"abstract":"The author’s focus on Joyce’s ‘style’ creates confusion rather than clarity as indeed does his choice of selecting individual ‘themes’ (such as the leitmotif of the keys in Ulysses) for comparisons. Assessing Joyce’s impact, or presence, in the Russian texts by relying on discrete categories (plot/character/narration/ style) without sufficient consideration of the highly contentious issues of the ‘narrator’, the fusion of the ‘internal’ and the ‘external’, the parody, the multilingual puns, the pastiche (all of which probe the issues of Empire, Ireland, the English language, Catholicism, sexuality, emigration, exile etc.) produces inconclusive results. Chronotopic displacement and epistemological difference in the ways the five writers read, and responded to, Joyce should have been tackled rather than ignored. Joyce’s own awareness of, and numerous references to, Russia and Russian literature should also have been considered, as should the question of how Joyce’s work may read in the light of the Russian texts; did Joyce elicit novel, original interpretation of his texts within the five writers’ works? The Conclusion and the appended collection of bizarre statements by seemingly randomly chosen literary figures from the former Soviet Union and its successor states in a unit entitled ‘Joycean Echoes’ beg the question as to who the envisaged reader of this book is. Is it the book’s intention to demonstrate that ‘Russians too’ are ‘Joyceans’? Or perhaps that Joyce’s reception in Russia had some kind of therapeutic effect? Or is it an attempt to revalidate Dostoevskii’s ‘Pushkin Speech’ which suggests that Russians can feel/understand/convey the experience of all other nations (‘all’ of course meaning major Western European ones)? If so, there is indeed little need to consider how the five authors’ texts interact or modify or expand existing frameworks for interpreting Joyce’s texts, or to find meaningful silences in the Russian novels and interrogate these, or to consider whether the discourse of spoudogéloion — the jocoserious — finds resonances and, if so, where and how.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"100 1","pages":"751 - 753"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49555171","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":"Index: Volume 100, 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46073934","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":"Higher Education in Russia by Yaroslav Kuzminov and Maria Yudkevich","authors":"S. Webber","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42889235","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":"From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family's Odyssey, 1768–1870 by Alexander M. Martin","authors":"P. O’meara","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44247919","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":"Into Russia’s Cauldron: An American Vision, Undone. The Newly Revealed Century-Old Eyewitness Journal of Leighton W. Rogers by Steven Fisher","authors":"C. Alston","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43863656","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":"Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland by Ewa Stańczyk","authors":"M. Jutkiewicz","doi":"10.1353/see.2022.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2022.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49091332","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}
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