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Canadian Slavonic Papers

An Interdisciplinary Journal
Devoted to Central and Eastern Europe

Volume 43 • Numbers 2-3 • June-September 2001

         

ARTICLES

Literature

 


Boian Biolchev

167

Writer’s “Task” and Talent’s Play

Julie W. de Sherbinin

177

Poetry of the Swamp: Blok’s “Folk” Cycle Bubbles of the Earth

Anatoly Vishevsky

195

Playing with a Used Deck: Echoes of Pushkin’s “The Queen of Spades” in Lermontov’s “The Fatalist”

Tatiana Nazarenko

209

East Slavic Visual Writing: The Inception of Tradition

Anatolii S. Karpov

227

Le réalisme fantastique dans les premiers écrits en prose d’Abram Terz

Political Science and History

Kazimierz Z. Sowa

235

The People’s Republic of Poland as a Stage on the Way to Freedom

Lynne Hartnett

249

The Making of a Revolutionary Icon: Vera Nikolaevna Figner and the People’s Will in the Wake of the Assassination of Tsar Aleksandr II

Kees Boterbloem

271

Young Zhdanov (1896–1918)

REVIEW ARTICLES

John Dingley

297

The Language of the Kyyrölä Russian

BOOK REVIEWS

David Anderson

309

Rubie S. Watson, ed., Memory, History, and Opposition under State Socialism

Elena Kosmach

310

Vitaut Kipel, Belarusans in the United States

Joseph Kadezabek

315

Julie Mertus, Jasmina Tesanovic, Habiba Metikos, and Rada Boric, eds., The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia

Peter A. Rolland

316

Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel

Gunter Schaarschmidt

319

Dietrich Scholze, Stawizny serbskeho pismowstwa 1918–1945

Gunter Schaarschmidt

321

Borsley, Robert D., and Adam Przepiórkowski, eds., Slavic in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Elena Kosmach

322

William Joseph Buckley, ed., Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions

Gunter Schaarschmidt

323

Eckhard Paul and Jana Scholze, Einblicke/Dohlady. Deutsch-obersorbisches Gesprächs- und Lesebüchlein

Denis Kozlov

324

Veniamin Tsukerman, and Zinaida Azarkh, Arzamas-16: Soviet Scientists in the Nuclear Age: A Memoir

Thomas Daiber

326

Alexander Avenarius, Die byzantinische Kultur und die Slawen: Zum Problem der Rezeption und Transformation (6. bis 12. Jahrhundert)

Paul Wexler

328

Haya Bar-Itzhak, Jewish Poland. Legends of origin. Ethnopoeticsand Legendary Chronicles

Donald L. Dyer

331

Andrei Brezianu, Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Moldova

John McCannon

333

Angela Brintlinger, Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture 1917-1937

Stefania Szlek Miller

335

J.F. Brown, The Grooves of Change: Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium

Elizabeth Yellen

336

Julie A. Buckler, The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia

Lauren G. Leighton

338

J. Douglas Clayton, Wave and Stone: Essays on the Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pushkin

Michael N. Aston

340

Anthony Cross, Peter the Great Through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698

Valentina G. Brougher

342

Pamela Davidson, ed., Russian Literature and Its Demons

Nicholas Tyrras

344

A.A. Donskov, ed., The Tolstoys’ Correspondence with N.N. Strakhov

Nicole L. Young

345

Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler, eds., Self and Story in Russian History

Nicholas G. Žekulin

347

Olga E. Glagoleva, Dream and Reality of Russian Provincial Young Ladies, 1700–1850

Johanna Granville

349

Peter Grose, Operation Rollback: America’s Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain

Jeff Plaks

354

William B. Husband, ed., The Human Tradition in Modern Russia

David Rees

356

Andrew C. Janos, East Central Europe in the Modern World: The Politics of the Borderlands From Pre- to Postcommunism

Bronisław Misztal

358

Anna Karwińska and Maksymilian Pacholski, eds., Socjologia i wyzwanie społeczne

T. Allan Smith

359

Ingunn Lunde, ed., Kirill of Turov: Bishop, Preacher, Hymnographer

Nila Friedberg

361

David MacFadyen, Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse

Susan Costanzo

363

Lynn Mally, Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theatre and the Soviet State, 1917–1938

Ihor Stebelsky

364

John Murray, Politics and Place-names: Changing Names in the Late Soviet Period

Chris Burton

367

Karen Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin

Jean Lévesque

368

Marshall T. Poe, “A People Born to Slavery”: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476–1748

Alison Rowley

370

David L. Ransel, Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria

Theodore R. Weeks

371

Gabriella Safran, Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire .

A. Colin Wright

373

Vsevolod Sakharov, Mikhail Bulgakov: pisatel' i vlast' (Dos'e).

Robert C. Austin

374

Stephen Schwartz, Kosovo: Background to a War

John Dingley

375

Janusz Siatkowski, Slawismen in den schlesischen Romanen von Horst Bienek

Gunter Schaarschmidt

377

Sorapis. Zešiwk 1 (2000)

David Rees

378

Valerie Sperling, ed., Building the Russian State: Institutional Crisis and the Quest for Democratic Governance

Tom Priestly

379

Veno Taufer, Waterlings

Marek Haltof

381

Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy and Dina Iordanova, eds., The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema

Eric Lozowy

382

Leona Toker, Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors

Kees Boterbloem

384

Susanne Conze, Sowjetische Industriearbeiterinnen in den vierzigen Jahren: Die Auswirkungen des Zweiten Weltkrieges auf die Erwerbstätigkeit von Frauen in der UdSSR, 1941–1950

Serhy Yekelchyk

385

Wayne Dowler, Classroom and Empire: The Politics of Schooling Russia’s Eastern Nationalities, 1860–1917

Wayne Dowler

386

Robert P. Geraci and Michael Khodarovsky, eds., Of Religion and Empire. Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia

Tom Priestly

388

Drago Jančar, Northern Lights

Olga E. Glagoleva

389

Thomas Newlin, The Voice in the Garden: Andrei Bolotov and the Anxieties of Russian Pastoral, 1738–1833

Ray Taras

394

Roman Solchanyk, Ukraine and Russia: The Post-Soviet Transition

Piotr Wróbel

395

Daniel Stone, The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386–1795

Emilian Kavalski

396

Anthony-Emil N. Tachiaos, Cyril and Methodius of Thessalonica: The Acculturation of the Slavs

Joyce Story

398

Leo Tolstoy and Fedor Zheltov, A Molokan’s Search for Truth: The Correspondence of Leo Tolstoy and Fedor Zheltov

John-Paul Himka

400

Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution

N.G.O. Pereira

402

Stephen White, Stephen, Alex Pravda, and Zvi Gitelman, eds., Developments in Russian Politics 5

Joan Bridgwood

403

Larry Wolff, Venice and the Slavs. The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment

Svitlana Kobets

404

Christine D. Worobec, Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia

 

 

 

Letter to the Editor

407

 

 

 

 

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