Nationalism has been a driving force in the still unfinished era of nation-building in East Central Europe. Conventionally traced to the late Enlightenment and the French Revolution, the rise of nationalism colored nineteenth-century understandings of democracy and provided fuel for aspirations to political independence. This volume brings together scholars from eight countries and focuses on nation-building and nationalism in East-Central Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is organized around the following themes: understandings of nation, understandings of nationalism, changes in nationalism, typologies of nationalism, the urban-rural cleavage, and the role played by intellectuals and other activists in the development of national movements.

Contents:

Foreword 

Sabrina P. Ramet

Controversies Concerning Nation and Nationalism: An Introduction

Linda Frey and Marsha Frey

The French Revolution and Internationalism: The Road Not Taken in Eastern Europe

George F. Jewsbury

Russia's Unintended Role in the Maintenance of Romanian Nationality in Bessarabia/Moldova

Paul Robert Magocsi

Galicia: A European Land

Hugh LeCaine Agnew

Dilemmas of Liberal Nationalism: Czechs and Germans in Bohemia and the Revolution of 1848

Jan Havranek

Nebeneinander zweier Prager Universitþten, 1882-1918

Peter Mentzel

Karl Renner's Ideas on Personal Autonomy: The Personalprinzip and the Millet System

Dusan Kovac

The Slovak Political Agenda in the 19th and Early 20th Century: From L'udovit Stur to Czech-Slovak Statehood

Zsuzsa L. Nagy

Liberal Nationalism and the Nation-State: The Case of a Hungarian Political Writer, Gusztav Beksics

Horst Haselsteiner

Hungary-Pannonian Switzerland? Mihailo Polit-Desanaic's Perceptions on a Solution to the Nationalities Question in Hungary

Sabrina P. Ramet

Ante Staraevic: Liberal Champion of a "Citizen's State"

Maria Todorova

The Absence of Nationalism in Serbian Politics before 1840 Gale Stokes Creating a National Hero: Vassil Levski in Bulgarian Public Memory

Gerasimos Augustinos

Configuring the Ethnic Nation: Macedonia in Greek Cultural Politics from the Balkan Wars to the Cold War

James Ramon Felak

The Slovak Question in Czechoslovak Politics, 1945-1948

Peter Mentzel

Peter Sugar's Contribution to East-Central European Studies: An Assessment.

Negation in Slavic joins the ranks of recent studies on negation in its attempt to deepen our understanding of negation phenomena, and is unique in its breadth and diversity of approach. What began as the proceedings of the Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Negation held during the 32nd Annual Poznan' Linguistics Meeting developed into a refereed volume of invited contributions from scholars all over the world. The editors extended invitations to contribute beyond those scholars who had participated in the workshop, and all papers were subject to thorough review by at least two anonymous referees. Consequently, only the strongest contributions found their way into this volume. These articles by Leonard Babby, Maria Babyonyshev, Sue Brown, Uwe Junghanns, Anna Kupść Asya Pereltsvaig, Ljiljana Progovac, and Jacek Witkos', address negative concord, negative polarity, and genitive of negation, in addition to exploring scope-related phenomena and the morphology of negation.

Contents
Sue Brown Negation in Slavic    

iii Leonard H. Babby

The Genitive of Negation and Unaccusativity     1

Maria Babyonyshev

The Extended Projection Principle and the Genitive of Negation Construction     31

Sue Brown

Negative Concord in Russian and Attract-all-F     71

Uwe Junghanns

Scope Conflicts Involving Sentential Negation in Czech     105

Ann Kupść

The Morphosyntax of Polish verbal Negation: towards and HPSC Account     135

Asya Pereltsvaig

Negative Polarity Items in Russian and the "Bagel Problem"     153

Ljiljana Progovac

Negative and Positive Feature Checking and the Distribution of Polarity Items     179

Jacek Witkoś

Clause Union and Non-Local Genitive of Negation     219

Name Index     263 Subject Index     267

New Labor History marks a first return to labor and workers' history in the Russian field after a decade when most historians turned to other issues. In this collection, established scholars join with younger researchers to bring new materials, innovative methods, and fresh interpretations to bear on the study of the workers' role in late tsarist and revolutionary history (1840-1918). The collection suggests the need to re-examine the experiences and aspirations of workers and, by implication, other groups in order to gain striking new insights into the pre-revolutionary era and the revolutionary process itself. The co-editors and participants hope to rekindle interest in an area of research that many have thought had exhausted its ability to intrigue, that is, to raise questions and promote hard thinking about late imperial Russia.

This book is Volume 1 of the  Allan K. Wildman Group Historical Series

Book Reviews

Review in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2-3, 2005: 288 – 290

DURING THE SOVIET YEARS, Fyodor Dostoevsky was the most troublesome of the nineteenth-century Russian novelists. Religious, opinionated, conservative, and chauvinistic, his work challenged the atheistic and communist foundation of the Soviet state. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dostoevsky rapidly became the most popular Russian classic. Taking advantage of the freedoms that came with glasnost, Russian scholars have produced a wealth of new studies exploring previously neglected aspects of the writer’s life and work. The New Russian Dostoevsky: Readings for the Twenty-First Century presents a broad range of works by Russia’s finest Dostoevsky scholars, appearing here in English translation for the first time. The collection offers general studies, including essays on the latest trends in Dostoevsky scholarship, on the 150-year history of anti-Dostoevsky sentiment in Russia, on the use of new technologies to study manuscripts and print materials, and on Dostoevsky’s religion and philosophy, as well as close readings and annotations of the classic novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. These essays combine the meticulous scholarship and authority that have always characterized the work of Russian scholars with a bracing originality and a new respect for the religious and cultural aspects of the writer’s work that were neglected in the Soviet years. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Dostoevsky’s work and eager to learn how he is read and studied in his homeland. CAROL APOLLONIO is Associate Professor of the Practice of Russian at Duke University. Author of numerous articles on nineteenth-century Russian literature and of the book Dostoevsky’s Secrets: Reading Against the Grain (2009), she is also a translator of Russian and Japanese literature and has worked as a conference interpreter of Russian. Her current projects include a translation of German Sadulaev’s 2008 novel The Maya Pill (Tabletka) and a study of the history of translation of Russian classics into English. This book is recommended for library collections at community colleges, four-year colleges, and research universities.

Along with an analysis of the New York Missal itself (a Croatian Glagolitic manuscript of the second quarter of the 15th century), this volume represents a statement of the phonetic, orthographic, and graphic characteristics of Croatian Church Slavonic during the 14th and 15th centuries. In it the author attempts to define criteria for linguistic and paleographic dating and localizing of Croatian Church Slavonic manuscripts. These criteria are then applied to the New York Missal in an attempt to determine as closely as possible the time and place of its origin. This is the first monograph to focus on the language and script of a Croatian Glagolitic liturgical codex. It should be of interest to those who study any of the national redactions of Church Slavonic. On the one hand, it can serve as an introduction to the graphic, orthographic, and phonological norms of Croatian Church Slavonic. On the other hand, the methodological innovations introduced in this volume should be of interest to all who are engaged in philological and paleographic research. First, conclusions concerning the New York Missal are based upon a preliminary comparative study of a corpus of text from the remaining Croatian Church Slavonic missals. Second, wherever possible, Corin has applied quantitative methods to the study of certain traditional issues of Slavic historical linguistics and philology (vocalization of jer, use of the symbols for jer, reflexes of jat', use of the letter "jat'," reflexes of the front nasal). While this study significantly advances the prospects for linguistic and paleographic dating of Church Slavonic manuscripts, it illustrates at the same time the dangers inherent in such procedures. One of the most important characteristics of the New York Missal is the fact that it was copied by probably eleven scribes (the book is illustrated with reproductions of samples of each of the hands). It turns out that the scribes demonstrate a strikingly broad range of variation with respect to various linguistic and paleographic features. If any one of them had copied the manuscript in its entirety, it is possible that we would reach significantly different conclusions concerning the age and provenance of the manuscript.

"Indeed, anyone concerned with problems of paleography may read this study with pleasure and profit. ... Corin's exposition is scrupulously lucid..." (MLR)

"Mozhem da obobshchim, che retsenziranata monografiia predstavliava ne samo znachitelen prinos v izuchavaneto na x''rvatskata redakciia, no i otbeliazva znachitelen napred''k v razrabotkata na metodicheskite principi za analiz na edin otdelen r''kopis i na chla grupa ot r''kopisi v blizko edno do drugo izp''lnenie." (SE)

"Das Buch stellt ein wichtigen Schritt... dar." (Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch)

The first, and larger, part of the volume (all the papers from Aronson's through Tuite's) are homage to the great Georgian scholar, Akaki Shanidze (1887-1987). The remainder of the papers cover a variety of topics. We would particularly call your attention to the papers of Catford and Colarusso, which have great theoretical and typological significance.

Contents:
Howard I. Aronson: Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Subject in Georgian;
Roland Bielmeier: On Iranian Influence in Old Georgian;
J. C. Catford: Vowel Systems of Caucasian Languages;
John Colarusso: How to Describe the Sounds of the Northwest Caucasian Languages;
Victor Friedman: Assertive Verb Forms in Lak;
Zbigniew Gob: Prehistoric Contacts between Ossetic and Slavic;
Alice C. Harris: On the History of Relative Clauses in Georgian;
Dee Ann Holisky: Notes on Auxiliary Verbs in Tsova-Tush (Batsbi);
Johanna Nichols: The Structure of the Nakh-Daghestanian Verb Root and Verb Stem;
Alfred G. Paludis: The Subjunctive in Classical Armenian: Significant Differences between Eznik and Eishò;
K. H. Schmidt: Class Inflection and Related Categories in the Caucasus;
Wolfgang Schulze-Fuerhoff: Tracing Aspect Coding Techniques in the Lezgian languages;
David Testen: The Correspondence: Scythian Bastakaw = Ossetian basta;
Kevin Tuite: Syntactic Subject in Georgian;
Robert Austerlitz: Gilyak Internal Reconstruction, 3: Ligneous Matter;
Donald L. Dyer: Moldavian Linguistic Realities;
Rachel Lehr: Complex Infinitives and Other Deverbal Nominals in Tajik;
Jules Levin: Stressing Freely in Lithuanian and Russian;
Roy Andrew Miller: The Original Geographic Distribution of the Tungus Languages;
Stefan Pugh: Observations on the Russian Component in Karelian;
Steven Young: The Scope of Saussure's Law in Colloquial Lithuanian.

"This is an excellent collection;..." (SEER)

"The volume includes a number of major contributions to our understanding of the structure and history of the languages of the former USSR..." (SEEJ)