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Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
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The article analyzes the history of the concept of a “Slavic-Russian nation”. The concept was first used by Zacharia Kopystenskij in 1624, but its wide occurrence starts in 1674, when Synopsis, the first printed history of Russia, was published in Kiev ...
Petr S. Stefanovich
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Abstract This article brings together theories of history and filmic realism to analyze the representation of the provinces in Nataliia Meshchaninova’s The Hope Factory (Kombinat “Nadezhda,” 2014) and Andrei Zviagintsev’s Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014). It argues that these two films share a typically realist attitude of respect toward the profilmic in ...
Daria Ezerova
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Światowa slawistyka w Warszawie. Sprawozdanie z konferencji
World Slavic studies in Warsaw. Conference report The text is a report from the international conference, ‘The Identity of the Slavs past and present: language, culture, literature in young Slavists’ research’ (May 2014).
Anna Jawor, Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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/Evel Gasparini. From Russian Literature to Slavic Ethnology./ A quarter of a century has passed since the death of Evel Gasparini (1900–1982), a prominent Italian Slavicist and anthropologist.
Remo Faccani
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The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935
ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of the frontiersmen, that is, the Czech minority border communities, as a part of the discourse of the Czech nationalist movement. Via the example of the Czechoslovak National Democracy party, it traces the frontiersmen on two levels.
Dominik Šípoš
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ABSTRACT Background Bilingualism and biliteracy impact the development of phonological awareness and reading. However, existing research is Indo‐European‐centric, limiting our understanding of reading development in diverse linguistic environments. Method Addressing this gap, this study examined the relation between phonological awareness and reading ...
Shakhlo Nematova +4 more
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Starting points of national literature and culture
This is a report of the international conference on Comparative Literature and Culture, organized by the Azerbaijan Comparative Literature Association and the Azerbaijani Literature Department of the Baku Slavic University.
Rahilya Geybullayeva
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ABSTRACT Word‐final position is widely recognized as a structurally weak and restricted domain, yet languages differ strikingly in how they regulate segments and clusters at the right edge. While some systems categorically prohibit final consonants, others allow only a subset of segments, and still others impose process‐based adjustments such as final ...
Semra Baturay Meral
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