Empress Catherine II, building on the military and diplomatic successes of Emperor Peter I and Empress Elizabeth, in less than two decades of rule brought Russia to the forefront among European powers. Her creation of a League of Armed Neutrality, uniting several mercantile states of Northern Europe, was intended to guarantee the security of maritime shipping on the high seas...
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2010
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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...
2009
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2009
Daniel Rowland’s writings on the political, visual, and religious culture of Muscovy have profoundly influenced a generation of American and foreign specialists in early Russian history. Inspired by his work, the essays in this volume reflect the dynamism of this field as it reinvents itself using the creative tools of cultural history. Transcending older East-West comparisons and the Cold War...
2008
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2008
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...
2002
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2002
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...
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2002
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)....
1999
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1999
Currently no content available for this book.
1996
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1996
Contents
Forward, by V.L. Yanin 9
Prefatory Note 11
1. Novgorod Between East and West 15
2. When and How Was Novgorod Converted to Christianity? 41
3. Medieval Novgorod: Political, Social and Cultural Life in an Old Russian Urban Community ...
1995
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1995
Yale Russian and East European Publications
Contents
Katherine Verdery
Introduction
Jerzy Jedlicki
Polish Concepts of Native Culture
Andrzej Chojnowski
Polish National Character, the Sanacja Camp, and the National Democracy
Andrew Lass
"What are we like?" National Character and the Aesthetics of Distinction in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Tamas Hofer
The "Hungarian Soul" and the "Historic Layers of National Heritage": Conceptualizations of Hungarian...
1994
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1994
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:...
1991
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1991
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...
1989
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1989
This is a novelistic first-person account of a typical week in the life of a Soviet woman and her efforts to hold down two full-time jobs: one as a scientist in a laboratory, the other as a mother and wife. The general problem is a familiar one in the West, too, but the story is full of intimate details of...
1987
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1987
A collection of papers in honor of Bayara Aroutunova.
Contents
Bayara Aroutunova, An Appreciation 7
Leonard H. Babby
Departicipial Adverbs in Russian 9
Diana L. Burgin
Jungian Dactyls on Death and Tolstoy (Verse Burlesque With Notations in Earnest) 27
Patricia R. Chaput
Verbs of `Teaching' in Russian
On Cross-Linguistic Lexical Equivalence 39
Catherine V. Chvany
Translating One Poem from a Cycle
Cvetaeva's `Your Name...
1986
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1986
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Predislovie
O pansemantichnosti poeticheskogo teksta i sposobakh ego prochteniia
A. Mickevich
"Trzech Budrysow"/A. S. Pushkin: "Budrys i ego synov'ia"
N. A. Nekrasov
"Utrenniaia progulka"
A. A. Fet
"Moego tot bezumstva zhelal"
V. I. Ivanov
"Iazyk"
B. L. Pasternak
"Mchalis' zvezdy"
M. I. Cvetaeva
"Zanaves"
A. A. Akhmatova
"Iz tsikla `Tashkentskie stranitsy'"
I. A. Brodskii...
