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Canadian Slavonic Papers

An Interdisciplinary Journal
Devoted to Central and Eastern Europe

Volume 51 • Number 1 • March 2009

         

IN MEMORIAM

Wacław M. Osadnik

1

Kazimierz Polański (1929-2009)

ARTICLES [abstracts]

Andrea Chandler

3

Gender, Political Discourse and Social Welfare in Russia: Three Case Studies

Heather J. Coleman

25

Translating Canadian Models: International Partnerships and Public Policy Reform in Russia

Thomas M. Prymak

53

Inveterate Voyager: J.B. Rudnyckyj on Ukrainian Culture, Books, and Libraries in the West During the “Long Cold War”

Ihor Stebelsky

77

Ethnic Self-Identification in Ukraine, 1989-2001: Why More Ukrainians and Fewer Russians?


BOOK REVIEWS

Piotr Wróbel

101

Mikhail Krutikov. Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914.
Mark Lipovetsky

102

N.N. Shneidman. Russian Literature, 1995-2002: On the Threshold of the New Millennium.
Tom R. Trice

104

Edward Acton and Tom Stableford. The Soviet Union: A Documentary History. Vol. I: 1917-1940 and Vol. II: 1939-1991.
James Harris

105

Alter Litvin and John Keep. Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium.
James Krapfl

106

Michael Long. Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989.
Stefan M. Pugh

107

Andrii Danylenko. Slavica et Islamica. Ukrainian in Context.
Erica L. Fraser

109

Juliane Fürst, ed. Late Stalinist Russia: Society Between Reconstruction and Reinvention.
Edward Możejko

110

Iskra Likomanova. Slaviano-slavianskiiat prevod. Lingvistichen podkhod kŭm khudozhestveniia tekst.
Georg Michels

113

Heinz-Dietrich Löwe. Volksaufstände in Rußland. Von der Zeit der Wirren bis zur “Grünen Revolution” gegen die Sowjetherrschaft.
Cathy A. Frierson

114

Susan K. Morrissey. Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia.
Svitlana Krys

116

Jan Louis Perkowski. Vampire Lore: From the Writings of Jan Louis Perkowski.
Harriet Murav

119

Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein, eds. The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century.
Elissa Bemporad

120

Anna Shternshis. Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939.
Monica Ciobanu

122

Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu. Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania.
Aileen Friesen

123

James Urry. Mennonites, Politics and Peoplehood: Europe—Russia—Canada, 1525 to 1980.
Maria Popova

124

A. Verkhovskii, ed. Demokratiia vertikali.
Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

128

Stevan Weine. Testimony After Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence.
Jeff Sahadeo

129

Richard S. Wortman. Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. From Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II.
Sarah Pratt

130

Elizabeth Cheresh Allen. A Fallen Idol Is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition.
Wayne Dowler

132

Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, and Anatolyi Remnev, eds. Russian Empire. Space, People, Power, 1700-1930.
Peter Shearman

133

Robert V. Daniels. The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia.
Edward Możejko

134

Miscellanea Sociologica et Philosophica. Hope.
Lynn Visson

136

Ericka Johnson. Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance.
Elena Krevsky

137

Catriona Kelly. Children’s World: Growing-up in Russia, 1890-1991.
Susan Mikula

139

Stanislav J. Kirschbaum. Historical Dictionary of Slovakia.
James Urry

140

Arthur Kroeger. Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family’s Long Journey from Russia to Canada.
John-Paul Himka

141

Paul Robert Magocsi. Ukraine: An Illustrated History.
Darra Goldstein

142

John Randolph. The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism.
Paul Bushkovitch

144

Robert Romanchuk. Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North: Monks and Masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery 1397-1501.
David M. Crowe

145

Alfred Erich Senn. Lithuania 1940: Revolution from Above.
Alexander Titov

146

Dmitrii Shepilov. The Kremlin’s Scholar. A Memoir of Soviet Politics Under Stalin and Khrushchev.
Yedida Kanfer

147

Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk. Poyln: My Life Within Jewish Life in Poland, Sketches and Images.
David L. Ransel

148

Alexey Vinogradov and Albert Pleysier, eds. The Women of Izmaelovka: A Soviet Collective Farm in Siberia.
Tanya Richardson

150

Catherine Wanner. Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism.
Birgit Beumers

151

Robert Bird. Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema.
Alfred Erich Senn

153

Jerzy Borzęcki. The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe.
Sarah J. Young

154

Edward E. Ericson, Jr. and Alexis Klimoff. The Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to Solzhenitsyn.
Alexis Desgagnés

155

Valerie A. Kivelson et Joan Neuberger, dir. Picturing Russia, Explorations in Visual Culture.
Mara Kozelsky

158

Laurie Manchester. Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia.
Nikita Lary

159

Susan McReynolds. Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky’s Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism.
Radislav Lapushin

161

Lyudmila Parts. The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic.
Andrew Wachtel

162

Harold B. Segel. The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945.
Paul R. Josephson

163

Lewis H. Siegelbaum. Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile.
Lee A. Farrow

165

Douglas Smith. The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great’s Russia.
George Cummins

166

Tim Züwerink. Possessivadjektive in slavischen Sprachen. Morphosyntax und pragmatische Empirie.
 

 

 

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