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The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 37-51, January 2026.Abstract This article analyzes how the Leningrad Affair, one of the most poorly understood of Joseph Stalin’s purges, was weaponized by Nikita Khrushchev and his comrades‐in‐arms in order to consolidate power during the 1950s and early 1960s. An exposé of how Khrushchev accused four different people of being responsible for the purge over the span of ...
David Brandenberger
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Fire faith: images of fire on old belief icons
Studia Humanitatis, 2022 The article is devoted to the images of fire in the Russian Old Believer icon painting of the 18th-19th centuries. The author analyzes the main iconographic scenes where this motif appears – “Seen as Fire” Mother of God, Archangel Michael-Voivode ...
Walczak Dorota
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The syntax of slavic predicate case [PDF]
, 2013 In this article I provide a syntactic framework for case patterns found in Slavic secondary ...
Bailyn, John Frederick
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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The Courtroom Sketch: Journalism and Justice in Literaturnaia gazeta
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 52-68, January 2026.Abstract In the decades following Stalin’s death, the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta shaped Soviet legal culture through the genre of the courtroom sketch (sudebnyi ocherk), a blend of fact‐based reportage, personal memoir, literary narration, and social commentary aimed at the task of working through thorny questions of morality and legality.
Rebecca Reich
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Common Slavic Vocabulary in Teaching Russian Language for Foreign Slavic Audience
, 2023 Natalia V. Iukhimenko
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Ideology as Metaphor, Narrative, and Performance in the Writings of Václav Havel // Ideology as Metaphor, Narrative, and Performance in the Writings of Václav Havel [PDF]
Slovo a Smysl, 2015 From his pre-1989 essays to his post-1989 presidential speeches, V. Havel develops an account of ideology that avoids a standard dictionary definition (ideology as a system of political or economic beliefs) and relies almost exclusively on elaboration ...
David S. Danaher
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A Data-based Classification of Slavic Languages: Indices of Qualitative Variation Applied to Grapheme Frequencies [PDF]
, 2016 Michaela Koščová +2 more
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Studi SlavisticiThis paper is an attempt at tracing the origins of the Slavic names of the days of the week. Although these names have a clear etymology from a purely linguistic point of view, it is unknown whether they are of Christian or pagan origin, and if they were
Janusz Szablewski
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International Round Table “Language of Emotions in Literature and Art of Slavic Peoples”
, 2021 Natalia Kurennaya
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