Search Results - "Slavonic and East European review"

Identity under Siege: Selective Securitization of History in Putin's Russia by Bækken, Håvard, Enstad, Johannes Due

“…This article explores state efforts to safeguard national history and identity in Putin's Russia. It is argued that a process of selective securitization has…”
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Re-thinking the Life of Constantine-Cyril the Philosopher by Ivanova, Mirela

“…The invention of the Slavonic alphabet is widely celebrated across the Slavonic speaking world today. Due to this, its earliest account, the Life of…”
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Where Does Informality Stop and Corruption Begin? Informal Governance and the Public/Private Crossover in Mexico, Russia and Tanzania by Ledeneva, Alena

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Glottonyms, Anachronism and Ambiguity in Scholarly Depictions of Juraj Križanić/Юрий Крижанич by Maxwell, Alexander

“…Scholarly depictions of Juraj Križanić/Юрий Крижанич illustrate difficulties inherent in using glottonyms as analytical concepts. A survey of how different…”
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Dmitrii Medvedev's Commission Against the Falsification of History: Why Was It Created and What Did It Achieve? A Reassessment by Kolstø, Pål

“…In spring 2009, three initiatives were taken in Moscow to control public presentation of Russian history: two bills were prepared for the Duma that would…”
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Rethinking Corruption: Hocus-Pocus, Locus and Focus by Heywood, Paul M

“…Although there has been a significant increase in research on the phenomenon of corruption over the last quarter-century, there is little evidence that this…”
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Peak Dictatorship: Ceauşescu's State Visit to Great Britain, June 1978 by Bowd, Gavin, Anton, Mioara

“…The Ceauşescu couple's State Visit to Great Britain in June 1978 has been considered by academic and media commentators as a dark hour for British diplomacy…”
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Corruption Studies for the Twenty-First Century: Paradigm Shifts and Innovative Approaches by Ledeneva, Alena, Bratu, Roxana, Köker, Philipp

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Towards a Lyric Phenomenology: ‘The beginnings of truly human poetry’ and Zhukovskii's Elegiac Imagination by Tapp, Alyson

“…This article suggests that Vasilii Zhukovskii's ‘Sel´skoe kladbishche’, his 1802 translation of Thomas Gray's ‘Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard’, offers…”
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Personal Friendships, Professional Manoeuvres: Edward Elgar in Russia before and after 1917 by Fairclough, Pauline

“…Edward Elgar's reception in Russia has been an obscure chapter in both Soviet and imperial Russian musical life. Due largely to a specific combination of…”
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The Birth of the Soviet Romance from the Spirit of Russian Modernism by Bullock, Philip Ross

“…Histories of the Russian art-song (or romance) written during the Soviet period tend to inscribe a crude break between the pre- and post-revolutionary eras…”
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Where Does Informality Stop and Corruption Begin? Informal Governance and the Public/Private Crossover in Mexico, Russia and Tanzania by Claudia Baez-Camargo, Alena Ledeneva

“…In this article we challenge the prevalent anti-corruption approaches in three ways. First, rather than discussing the failures of anticorruption reforms and…”
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Contemporary Russian Messianism under Putin and Russian Foreign Policy in Ukraine and Syria by Lewis, Charlie

“…When Vladimir Putin returned to the Russian Presidency in 2012 his mistrust of the West, paranoia towards democracy and fear of the burgeoning…”
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How Do You Listen to Radio Moscow? Moscow's Broadcasters, ‘Third World’ Listeners, and the Space of the Airwaves in the Cold War by Roth-Ey, Kristin

“…In the first decades after the Second World War, just as decolonization launched dozens of new nations onto the world stage, transnational radio broadcasting…”
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Symbol of the War — But Which One? The St George Ribbon in Russian Nation-Building by Kolsto, Pal

“…The article examines the short but eventful history of the St George ribbon, which since 2005 has been used in Russia as a symbol of the Soviet victory in the…”
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Horse-Racing in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Dixon, Simon

“…Whereas previous historians have traced the eighteenth-century origins of Russian horse-racing and discussed the growth of a national sport financed by mass…”
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The Zone of Freedom? Differential Censorship in the Post-Stalin-Era People's Republic of Letters by Djagalov, Rossen

“…Was there a distinct and coherent Soviet-bloc literature? We know there was because it is no more. This paper proposes to explore it through the transnational…”
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Nelli Morozova on Censors, Censorship and the Soviet Film Famine, 1948–52 by Knight, Claire

“…The late Stalin era constitutes the most overlooked period of Russian and Soviet cinema history, largely because of its reputation for extreme censorship and…”
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Propaganda on the Margins: Bruno Schulz's Soviet Illustrations, 1940–41 by Bill, Stanley

“…In 2016, Ukrainian historians uncovered a previously unknown set of propaganda illustrations produced by the Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz…”
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In Search of an Apostolic Succession: Russian Old Believers and the Legend of Belovod'e by Perrie, Maureen

“…Belovod'e ('Whitewater') was an imaginary land in the Far East which in the view of some Old Believers preserved traditional Orthodox Christianity in the form…”
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