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Canadian Slavonic Papers

An Interdisciplinary Journal
Devoted to Central and Eastern Europe

Volume 38 • Numbers 1-2 • March-June 1996

         

IN MEMORIAM

Andrij Hornjatkevyč  

Jaroslav Bohdan Rudnyc'kyj (1910­–1995)

Bohdan Medwidsky  

Oleh Zujewskyj (1920–1996)

ARTICLES

 


Andrea Chandler

1

State Building and Social Obligations in Post-Communist Systems: Assessing Change in Russia and Ukraine

Tatiana Nazarenko

23

To Pass Through on One’s Wings: The Poetry of Oleh Zujewskyj

Roch Little

47

La réhabilitation politique de Piłsudski dans une vision communiste de l’histoire (1982–1989)

Dushan Bednarsky

61

Blood and Tears, Love and Death: Seventeenth-Century Devotional Homoeroticism and Tuptalo’s “Verses on the Lord’s Passion”

Svetalana Grenier

93

“Everyone Knew Her…” or Did They? Rereading Pushkin’s Lizaveta Ivanovna (“The Queen of Spades”)

Paul M. Waszink

109

The Recurring Grip of the Poem on the Reader: Observations on Metonymy in Pasternak’s Poverkh bar'erov

Vladimir Tumanov
135

Mythic Cycles in Chingiz Aitmatov’s “Spotted Dog Running Along the Seashore”

Halimur R. Khan

155

Building Enrollments in Russian Culture Courses: Some Reflections and Suggestions

DISCUSSION

 


Mikhail A. Molchanov

177

Borders of Identity: Ukraine’s Political and Cultural Significance for Russia

REVIEW ARTICLE

 


George Thomas
195

The Prague School Theory of Language Cultivation or Purism by the Backdoor

BOOK REVIEWS

Fiona Tomaszewski

205

Barbara Jelavich, Russia’s Balkan Entanglements, 1806–1914

Jolanta T. Pękacz

206

Joseph Held, ed., Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century

John Dingley

207

Temira Pachmuss, A Moving River of Tears: Russia’s Experience in Finland

Bohdan Y. Nebesio

208

Thomas J. Slater, ed., Handbook of Soviet and East European Films and Filmmakers

Grzegorz Balski, ed., Directory of Eastern European Film-Makers and Films 1945–1991

Irene Sywenky

210

Walter Cummins, ed., Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties

Daniel Stone

212

Janusz Duzinkiewicz, Fateful Transformations. The Four Years’ Parliament and the Constitution of May 3, 1791

Serhy Yekelchyk

213

J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning, eds., Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives

John Dingley

215

Han Steenwijk, ed., Fondamenti per una grammatica pratica resiana

Serge Cipko

216

Mikuláš Teich and Roy Porter, eds., The National Question in Europe in Historical Context

Andrej Kreutz

218

J.F. Brown, Hopes and Shadows: Eastern Europe After Communism

Peter A. Rolland

219

Martin Dimnik, The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1054-1146

John Dingley

220

Charles E. Gribble, et al., eds., Alexander Lipson In Memoriam

Jolanta T. Pękacz

222

Joseph Held, Dictionary of East European History Since 1945

J. Guy Lalande

223

David L. Hoffmann, Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929–1941

Andrej Kreutz

225

Dennis P. Hupchick, Culture and History in Eastern Europe

Paul Morris

227

Nina Kolesnikoff and Walter Smyrniw, eds., Socialist Realism Revisited: Selected Papers from the McMaster Conference

Alexander J. Matejko

230

Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein, We All Lost the Cold War

Rita Dirks

232

Magnus Ljunggren, The Russian Mephisto: A Study in the Life and Work of Emilii Medtner

Allan Reid

233

Richard H. Marshall, Jr. and Thomas E. Bird, eds., Hryhorij Savyč Skovoroda: An Anthology of Critical Articles

John Dingley

235

Derek Offord, Modern Russian: An Advanced Grammar Course

Rita Dirks

236

Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, ed., Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary

Peter Melnycky

239

George Knysh, Michael Sherbinin in Winnipeg: A Preliminary Study

Martin Katz

240

Jonathan Steele, Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and the Mirage of Democracy

Gary Hanson

242

Evgeny V. Anisimov, Empress Elizabeth: Her Reign and her Russia, 1741–1761

David G. Anderson

243

Marjorie M. Balzer, Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia

Mary Woodside

245

Rosamund Bartlett, Wagner in Russia

Stephen Velychenko

247

R.F. Byrnes, V.O. Kliuchevskii, Historian of Russia

Galina Rylkova

248

Edith W. Clowes, ed., Doctor Zhivago: A Critical Companion

Luc Beaudoin

251

Rosemarie K. Jenness, Gogol’s Aesthetics Compared to Major Elements of German Romanticism

Robert A. Orr

253

Mikołaj Kruszewski, Writings in General Linguistics: “On Sound Alternation” (1881) and “Outline of Linguistic Science” (1883)

Richard Sokoloski

255

Michael J. Mikoś, Polish Renaissance Literature: An Anthology

Marina Swoboda

257

Maureen Perrie, Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles

Serge Cipko

259

R.C. Raack, Stalin’s Drive to the West 1938–1945: The Origins of the Cold War

Susan Costanzo

261

Sabrina Petra Ramet, Social Currents in Eastern Europe. The Sources and Consequences of the Great Transformation

Halimur R. Khan

262

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, The Slave Soul of Russia. Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering

George Cummins

265

Adela Rechzieglová, On Negation in Czech

Robert N. North

266

E.A. Rees, Stalinism and Soviet Rail Transport, 1928–1941

J. Eric Myles

268

S.M. Soloviev. History of Russia. Vol. 10, The Reign of Ivan the Terrible. Kazan, Astrakhan, Livonia, the Oprichnina and the Polotsk Campaign

Roman Sawycky, Jr.

269

Yakov Soroker, Ukrainian Musical Elements in Classical Music

Jennifer Clibbon

270

Richard Stites, ed., Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia

Dushan Bednarsky

272

Lev Krevza’s A Defense of Church Unity and Zaxarija Kopystens'kyj’s
Palinodia: Texts

Lev Krevza’s A Defense of Church Unity and Zaxarija Kopystens'kyj’s
Palinodia: Sources

Susan Costanzo

274

James von Geldern and Richard Stites, eds., Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917–1953

Ljubisa S. Adamovich
275

Susan L. Woodward, Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945–1990

Diana Kuprel
277

Kazimierz Braun, A History of Polish Theatre, 1939–1990: Spheres of Captivity and Freedom

Sona S. Hoisington
278

Pamela Chester and Sibelan Forrester, eds., Engendering Slavic Literatures

Marek Haltof
280

Janina Falkowska, The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda: Dialogism in Man of Marble, Man of Iron, and Danton

Eliot Borenstein
281

Helena Goscilo, Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood During and After Glasnost

Susan Ingram
283

Peter B. Maggs, The Mandelstam and “Der Nister” Files: An Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records

Peter Kenez
284

N.G.O. Pereira, White Siberia: The Politics of Civil War

Tatiana Nazarenko
285

Johannes Poulard, Beginner’s Ukrainian

     

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