Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a904403
B. Wyllie
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a904396
Ingrid Kleespies
Abstract:Isabel Hapgood (1851–1928) was among the first Americans to create a career as a Russia specialist, a surprising fact given her status as a woman who had not received a university education. Her work on Russia, in particular Russian Rambles, her 1895 account of her 1887–89 travels, offers a fascinating glimpse into a period in which more prominent roles for women were emerging in the US and into the professionalization of American interest in Russia. Her work is particularly compelling for the tensions it displays around ‘authoritativeness’ in terms of both gender and national scholarly expertise. The perceived ambiguity of Russia’s status in relation to Europe, and the newness of study of it as an academic field, presented challenges, but also offered a unique opportunity for a figure like Hapgood to assert an authoritative presence as a woman writer.
{"title":"‘A knowledge of Russian such as no American man possesses’: Isabel Hapgood on Russia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century","authors":"Ingrid Kleespies","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a904396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a904396","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Isabel Hapgood (1851–1928) was among the first Americans to create a career as a Russia specialist, a surprising fact given her status as a woman who had not received a university education. Her work on Russia, in particular Russian Rambles, her 1895 account of her 1887–89 travels, offers a fascinating glimpse into a period in which more prominent roles for women were emerging in the US and into the professionalization of American interest in Russia. Her work is particularly compelling for the tensions it displays around ‘authoritativeness’ in terms of both gender and national scholarly expertise. The perceived ambiguity of Russia’s status in relation to Europe, and the newness of study of it as an academic field, presented challenges, but also offered a unique opportunity for a figure like Hapgood to assert an authoritative presence as a woman writer.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"254 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41418686","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}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a904397
Yuki Murata
Abstract:This article explores the extent of Ukrainian and Russian national mobilization in Kyiv during the centennial of Taras Shevchenko’s birth in February 1914. Inspired by recent study on ‘national indifference’, it analyses primary sources, including local newspapers and police reports, to examine the street demonstration protesting the government’s prohibition of the centennial and the ensuing controversy caused by sensationalist reports in right-wing Russian nationalist newspapers. The article argues that although nationalized interpretation was prevalent in the imperial capital, Kyiv’s residents were only weakly nationally mobilized. Finally, it suggests that nationality issues in various locations of late imperial Russia should be studied with a focus on the gap between nationalized discourse and reality on the ground.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a904402
S. Graham
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a904404
Meghan Vicks
of his close friendship with Georgy Gessen, who reviewed films for the émigré newspaper, Rul .́ Parker not only identifies these cinemas (see the maps on pages 33 and 34), but also usefully provides, in the book’s appendix, a list of all the films reviewed by Gessen between 1924 and 1931, when Rul ́ shut down, giving the most palpable sense yet of what Nabokov would have seen in his regular visits to the movies. Nabokov Noir is not uncontroversial. It challenges the long-held view — which Nabokov himself promoted — that he resisted being drawn into contemporary concerns in order that his work remain impervious to elements that could either age or date it, or otherwise compromise its fundamental purpose as art for its own sake. It also confronts, head-on, Nabokov’s insistence that he wrote only for himself, that he didn’t ‘bother about his audience’ — an artist’s ‘best audience is the one he sees in his shaving mirror every morning’, he insisted (Strong Opinions, New York, 1973, p. 18). Instead, Parker reveals a different side to Nabokov’s creative strategy by positioning him within his immediate cultural environment and demonstrating the ways in which he engaged with it in order to reach beyond it. Nabokov Noir offers the first thorough examination of Nabokov’s path to the United States via the film industry. Moreover, Parker’s depiction of intellectual life in émigré Berlin, along with his insightful discussion of lesser-known and, until now, unpublished material, will be of great value to scholars. Original and thought-provoking, Nabokov Noir casts a compelling new light on the pressures and priorities that shaped the trajectory of Nabokov’s career.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a904399
J. Gow
Foster, Samuel. Yugoslavia in the British Imagination: Peace, War and Peasants before Tito. Bloomsbury Academic, London New York and Dublin, 2021. xiii + 225 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £85.00; £76.50 (e-book). Müller, Dietmar and Troebst, Stefan (eds). Philanthropy, Conflict Management, and International Law: The 1914 Carnegie Report on the Balkan Wars of 1912/1913. Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe. Central European University Press, Budapest, 2022. viii + 311 pp. Notes. Index. $85.00: €71.00: £61.00.
{"title":"External Engagement in and Perceptions of the Balkans before the Second World War","authors":"J. Gow","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a904399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a904399","url":null,"abstract":"Foster, Samuel. Yugoslavia in the British Imagination: Peace, War and Peasants before Tito. Bloomsbury Academic, London New York and Dublin, 2021. xiii + 225 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £85.00; £76.50 (e-book). Müller, Dietmar and Troebst, Stefan (eds). Philanthropy, Conflict Management, and International Law: The 1914 Carnegie Report on the Balkan Wars of 1912/1913. Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe. Central European University Press, Budapest, 2022. viii + 311 pp. Notes. Index. $85.00: €71.00: £61.00.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"357 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42530058","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}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a904408
Ian D. Thatcher
{"title":"The Spark that Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics that Changed the World by Robert Henderson (review)","authors":"Ian D. Thatcher","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a904408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a904408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"385 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44095453","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}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a897280
R. Freedman
offers insights into constitution-formation and collateral issues not readily observable through alternative paradigms. All of which enriches the discipline of comparative law. Omitted from their study and virtually all others in this field is a consideration of the twenty-one-volume verbatim transcript of the 1993 Russian constitutional convention that prepared the draft text and the sixvolume (in ten) Shakhrai collection of Russian constitutional documentation circulated in connection with the drafting process. There is still much to be learned about recent post-Soviet constitution-making that is well within our memory.
{"title":"Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence by Anna Borshchevskaya, and: Russia Rising: Putin's Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa ed. by Dimitar Bechev, Nicu Popescu and Stanislav Secrieru (review)","authors":"R. Freedman","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897280","url":null,"abstract":"offers insights into constitution-formation and collateral issues not readily observable through alternative paradigms. All of which enriches the discipline of comparative law. Omitted from their study and virtually all others in this field is a consideration of the twenty-one-volume verbatim transcript of the 1993 Russian constitutional convention that prepared the draft text and the sixvolume (in ten) Shakhrai collection of Russian constitutional documentation circulated in connection with the drafting process. There is still much to be learned about recent post-Soviet constitution-making that is well within our memory.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"189 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42632904","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}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a897278
B. Aleksov
Stubbs describes the book as a ‘multivoiced’ effort ‘revealing the contradictions, contestations, and complexities’ of Yugoslav non-alignment (p. 4). There is much to commend in the rejection of unitary narratives. Yet at points, perhaps more so than usual in edited volumes, the authors speak past each other. Videkanić, Kolešnik, and Bojana Piškur and Đorđe Balmazović’s presentations of non-aligned culture are particularly difficult to reconcile, but do not tackle each other’s differences. A reader new to the topic may be confused — although those with an existing understanding can find themselves usefully challenged, and from this strengthen their own arguments and research.
{"title":"A Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics: The Making of Olympic Sarajevo by Zlatko Jovanovic (review)","authors":"B. Aleksov","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897278","url":null,"abstract":"Stubbs describes the book as a ‘multivoiced’ effort ‘revealing the contradictions, contestations, and complexities’ of Yugoslav non-alignment (p. 4). There is much to commend in the rejection of unitary narratives. Yet at points, perhaps more so than usual in edited volumes, the authors speak past each other. Videkanić, Kolešnik, and Bojana Piškur and Đorđe Balmazović’s presentations of non-aligned culture are particularly difficult to reconcile, but do not tackle each other’s differences. A reader new to the topic may be confused — although those with an existing understanding can find themselves usefully challenged, and from this strengthen their own arguments and research.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"185 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41789765","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}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/see.2023.a897299
D. Goldstein
Superfluous Women is remarkable for its blend of erudite theory, close analysis of visual culture and personal experience. The author’s first-hand engagement with the people and events she discusses facilitates a unique and well-balanced insight that any scholar of contemporary Slavonic studies should welcome. The only critique of Superfluous Women possible is that its richness of material begs for expansion; an entire monograph could have been dedicated to any one of Zychowicz’s chapters. Given the text’s 2020 copyright mark, references to the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine are few but always pertinent. Superfluous Women draws our attention to the fact that, despite the current narrative of Russian nineteenth-century imperial ambition, Ukraine’s twenty-first-century unofficial art, politics and feminism are all alive and kicking.
{"title":"Ingredients of Change: The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria by Mary C. Neuberger (review)","authors":"D. Goldstein","doi":"10.1353/see.2023.a897299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897299","url":null,"abstract":"Superfluous Women is remarkable for its blend of erudite theory, close analysis of visual culture and personal experience. The author’s first-hand engagement with the people and events she discusses facilitates a unique and well-balanced insight that any scholar of contemporary Slavonic studies should welcome. The only critique of Superfluous Women possible is that its richness of material begs for expansion; an entire monograph could have been dedicated to any one of Zychowicz’s chapters. Given the text’s 2020 copyright mark, references to the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine are few but always pertinent. Superfluous Women draws our attention to the fact that, despite the current narrative of Russian nineteenth-century imperial ambition, Ukraine’s twenty-first-century unofficial art, politics and feminism are all alive and kicking.","PeriodicalId":45292,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW","volume":"101 1","pages":"173 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48658851","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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