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Summer 2013: A special section on Russian Science FIction
The Summer 2013 issue of Slavic Review is now
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Table of Contents can be viewed at http://www.slavicreview.illinois.edu/current/
READING THE HISTORY
OF THE FUTURE: EARLY SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN SCIENCE FICTION
Sibelan Forrester and Yvonne Howell, Special Section
Guest Editors
ABSTRACTS
How Nauchnaia
Fantastika Was Made: The Debates about the Genre of Science Fiction
from NEP to High Stalinism
Matthias Schwartz
Based on a detailed analysis of published and unpublished sources, Matthias
Schwartz reconstructs the making of Soviet science fiction in the cultural
context of Soviet literary politics. Beginning in the 1920s, nauchnaia fantastika (scientific fantasy)
became one of the most popular forms of light fiction, though literary critics
and activists tended to dismiss it because of its origins in popular adventure,
its ties to the so-called Pinkerton literature, and its ambiguous relationship
to scientific inventions and social progress. Schwartz’s analysis shows that
even during high Stalinism, socialist realism’s norms were far from being
firmly established, but in the case of nauchnaia fantastika had to be constantly
negotiated and reconstituted as fragile compromises involving different
interest groups (literary politicians, writers, publishers, readers). A
cultural history of Soviet science fiction also contributes to a better
understanding of what people actually wanted to read and sheds new light on the
question of how popular literature adapts to political changes and social
destabilizations.
Aleksei N. Tolstoi and the Enigmatic
Engineer: A Case of Vicarious Revisionism
Muireann
Maguire
In this article, Muireann Maguire examines the
cultural construction of the trope of the engineer-inventor in
One Billion Years after the End of
the World: Historical Deadlock, Contemporary Dystopia, and the Continuing
Legacy of the Strugatskii Brothers
Sofya Khagi
The importance of Arkadii and Boris Strugatskii in
Soviet science fiction has been thoroughly examined. A less-explored question
concerns how they have continued to inspire post-Soviet authors who muse on an
environment that differs drastically from the one that gave rise to their
works. Sofya Khagi explores how prominent contemporary writers—Garros-Evdokimov
(Aleksandr Garros and Aleksei Evdokimov), Dmitrii Bykov, and Viktor
Pelevin—examine the Strugatskiis to dramatize their own darker visions of
modernization, progress, and morality. They continue the tradition of science
fiction as social critique—in this case, a critique of society after the
collapse of socialist ideology with its modernizing projects of historical
progress, technological development, and social improvement. According to their
parables a contrario to the Strugatskiis, the dreams of modernity embodied by
the classics of Soviet fantastika have been shattered but not replaced by a
viable alternative social scenario. As they converse with their predecessors,
contemporary writers examine stagnation, not just in post-Soviet
Dancing the Nation in the
Sufian Zhemukhov and Charles King
In the north
Stories States Tell: Identity,
Narrative, and Human Rights in the Balkans
Jelena Subotiæ
Jelena Subotiæ explores how the states of the Balkans
construct their “autobiographies”—stories about themselves—and how these
stories influence their contemporary political choices. By understanding where
states’ narratives about themselves—stories of their past, their historical
purpose, their role in the international system—come from, we can more fully
explain contemporary state behavior that to outsiders may seem irrational,
self-defeating, or simply, inexplicable. Subotiæ specifically addresses ways in
which states of the western Balkans have built their state narratives around
the issue of human rights. She explores, first, how a particular narrative of
state and national identity produced—or made locally comprehensible—massive
human rights abuses. She then analyzes why contemporary identity narratives
make postconflict human rights policies very difficult to institutionalize. The
article focuses specifically on the human rights discourse, practices, and
debates in
Socialist Popular Literature and the
Czech-German
Jakub Bene¹
By 1911 it was clear that multiethnic Austrian Social
Democracy could no longer resist the currents of ethnic nationalism that had
already fragmented most of the late Habsburg political scene. The exit that
year of most Czech Social Democrats to form their own party, along with
Austrian Germans’ insensitive reactions, signaled that workers were not immune
to nationalism. The relevant historical literature has either viewed workers’ nationalism
as the product of elite manipulation and “bourgeois” influence, or, more
recently, has questioned the extent to which nationalism actually resonated
with ordinary people at society’s grassroots. Jakub Bene¹’s article attempts to
avoid the oversimplifications of both approaches and calls for more precise
engagement with workers’ own discourse. To this end, it highlights an important
dimension of working-class political culture—socialist popular literature—in
which proletarian authors articulated increasingly ethnic nationalist positions
of a class-specific sort. Examining this influential but neglected genre
illuminates how and under what circumstances workers found meaning in
nationalism.
FEATURED REVIEWS
Jörn Leonhard and Ulrike von Hirschhausen, eds.,
Comparing Empires: Encounters and Transfers in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Mark von Hagen) 352
Mark Cornwall, The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth
Mission of Heinz Rutha (Chad Bryant) 357
Ante Le¹aja, Knjigocid: Uni¹tavanje knjige u Hrvatskoj
1990-ih (Robert M. Hayden) 361
Katerina Clark,
FILM REVIEW
Maple Razsa and Pancho Velez, dirs., Bastards of
Utopia (Du¹an I. Bjeliæ) 368
BOOK REVIEWS
Brian L. Davies, ed., Warfare in Eastern Europe,
1500–1800 (
Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller,
eds., Fighting Words and Images: Representing War across the Disciplines (Stephen
M. Norris) 371
Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller, eds., Histories of
the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in
Stefan Troebst and Johanna Wolf, eds., Erinnern an den
Zweiten Weltkrieg: Mahnmale und Museen in Mittel- und Osteuropa (Christina
Morina) 374
Jacques Semelin, Claire Andrieu, and
Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, and Thomas
Lindenberger, eds., Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western
European Societies (Anthony Kemp-Welch) 378
Tomislav Z. Longinoviæ, Vampire Nation: Violence as
Cultural Imaginary (Vedrana Velièkoviæ) 379
Hilde Katrine Haug, Creating a Socialist
Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten, Children
of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory (Lidia
Santarelli) 382
Andrzej Nowak, Imperiological Studies: A Polish
Perspective (Alexey Miller) 383
Jochen Böhler and Stephan Lehnstaedt, eds., Gewalt und
Alltag im besetzten Polen 1939–1945 (Catherine Epstein) 384
Iris Engemann, Die Slowakisierung Bratislavas:
Universität, Theater und Kultusgemeinden, 1918–1948 (Peter Bugge) 386
Jean Ancel, The History of the Holocaust in Romania,
trans. Yaffah Murciano, ed. Leon Volovici, with the assistance of Miriam
Caloianu (Vladimir Solonari) 387
Olga Borovaya, Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles
Lettres, and Theater in the Late
Marek Haltof, Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics
and Memory (Annette Insdorf) 390
Aurelia Vasile, Le cinéma roumain dans la période
communiste: Représentations de l’histoire nationale (Marcel Cornis-Pope)
391
Anne Quinney, ed., Paris-Bucharest, Bucharest-Paris:
Francophone Writers from
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, ed., Transitions of Lithuanian
Postmodernism: Lithuanian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period (Diana
Spokiene) 394
Charles S. Kraszewski, Irresolute Heresiarch:
Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czes³aw Mi³osz (Tadeusz
Slawek) 396
Mark Andryczyk, The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s
Ukrainian Fiction (Myroslav Shkandrij) 397
Martina Baleva, Bulgarien im Bild: Die Erfindung von
Nationen auf dem Balkan in der Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts (Matthew
Rampley) 398
Matthew Rampley, ed., Heritage, Ideology, and Identity
in Central and
Huub van Baar and Ingrid Commandeur, eds., Museutopia:
A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich (Jennifer Cash) 401
John Downey and Sabina Mihelj, eds., Central and
Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Economy and
Culture (Peter Gross) 402
Tassilo Herrschel, Borders in Post-Socialist
Armina Galija¹, Eine bosnische Stadt im Zeichen des
Krieges: Ethnopolitik und Alltag in
Ohannes Geukjian, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict
in the
Robert Collis, The Petrine Instauration: Religion,
Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689–1725 (James
Cracraft) 408
Kati Parppei, “The Oldest One in
I. A. Khristoforov, Sud<’>ba reformy: Russkoe
krest<’>ianstvo v pravitel<’>stvennoi politike do i posle otmeny
krepostnogo prava (1830–1890-e gg.) (Tracy Dennison) 410
S. Iu. Malysheva, Prazdnyi den<’>, dosuzhii
vecher: Kul<’>tura dosuga rossiiskogo provintsial<’>nogo goroda
vtoroi poloviny XIX–nachala XX veka (Susan Smith-Peter) 412
Walter Sperling, Der Aufbruch der Provinz: Die
Eisenbahnen und die Neuordnung der Räume im Zarenreich (Reinhard
Nachtigal) 413
Uyama Tomohiko, ed., Asiatic
Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber, and Alexander Semyonov,
eds., Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in
the Russian Empire (Robert D. Crews) 416
David Hoffmann, Cultivating the Masses:
Robert Service, Spies and Commissars: The Early Years
of the Russian Revolution (Rex A. Wade) 418
David Stahel,
Karel C. Berkhoff, Motherland in Danger: Soviet
Propaganda during World War II (Denise J. Youngblood) 421
Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy
Zhukov (Alexander Hill) 422
Geoffrey Roberts, Molotov: Stalin’s Cold Warrior (Eric
Duskin) 423
Elena Agarossi and Victor Zaslavsky, Stalin and
Togliatti:
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Conscience on Trial: The Fate of
Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin’s
Rosamund Bartlett and
Susanne Marten-Finnis, Der Feuervogel als
Kunstzeitschrift: ®ar ptica. Russische Bildwelten in
Jean-Paul Bronckart and Cristian Bota, Bakhtine
démasqué: Histoire d’un menteur, d’une escroquerie et d’un délire collectif
(Karine Zbinden) 430
M. [Maksim] P. Marusenkov, Absurdopediia russkoi
zhizni Vladimira Sorokina: Zaum<’>, grotesk i absurd (Ulrich
Schmid) 431
David-Emil Wickström, “Okna otkroi!”—“Open the
Windows!” Transcultural Flows and Identity Politics in the St. Petersburg
Popular Music Scene, foreword, Yngvar B. Steinholt (Sergei I. Zhuk) 433
Jarrett Zigon, ed., Multiple Moralities and Religions
in Post-Soviet
Alicja Curanoviæ, The Religious Factor in
Helene Carlba¨ck, Yulia Gradskova, and Zhanna
Kravchenko, eds., And They Lived Happily Ever After: Norms and Everyday
Practices of Family and Parenthood in
Olena Hankivsky and Anastasiya Salnykova, eds.,
Gender, Politics, and Society in
Otto Luchterhandt, ed., Rechtskultur in Russland:
Tradition und Wandel (Peter B. Maggs) 441
Genri Khail [Henry E. Hale] and Ivan Kurilla, eds.,
Rossiia “dvukhtysiachnykh”: Stereoskopicheskii vzgliad (Stephen White)
442
Andrew Wilson,
COLLECTED ESSAYS 446
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 449
IN MEMORIAM 451