Cover Image: Polyethylene Sound Postcards (pocztówki dźwiękowe), from Andrea Bohlman’s collection.
Welcome to Slavic Review
Slavic Review is an international interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present. The journal publishes articles of original and significant research and interpretation, reviews of scholarly books and films, and topical review essays and discussion forums. Submissions from all disciplines and perspectives are welcomed. A primary purpose of the journal is to encourage dialogue among different scholarly approaches. Published since 1941, Slavic Review is the membership journal of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES, formerly AAASS). Articles are peer-reviewed and editorial policy is guided by an international editorial board. Please see the Information link for details on submitting manuscripts, book review policies, and other matters.
Announcements
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Call for Abstracts: Special Issue or Cluster of Articles of Slavic Review on Disability Histories
We are seeking original research articles for a special issue or cluster of articles of Slavic Review dedicated to disability in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. Any geographic/chronological focus and methodological approach is welcome. Deadlines: abstract of 250 words due by May 1, 2024; selected papers due by October 1, 2014. Complete submissions of approximately 11,000 words (out of which 8,000 are text words and 3,000 are footnote words) should follow the journal’s publication guidelines and will go through a rigorous blind peer-review process. For more information or to submit an abstract please contact Maria Bucur atmbucur@indiana.edu and Maria Cristina Galmarini at mgalmarinikaba@wm.edu.
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Congratulations to Natalia Jarska and Agata Ignaciuk, whose article "Marriage, Gender and Demographic Change: Managing Fertility in State-Socialist Poland," published in the Spring 2022 issue of Slavic Review and submitted for the Polish Studies Article Prize 2023 received a honorable mention.
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Congratulations to Edyta M. Bojanowska, whose article “Was Tolstoi a Colonial Landlord? The Dilemmas of Private Property and Settler Colonialism on the Bashkir Steppe,” Slavic Review 81, no. 2 (Summer 2022): 324–48, was named best article in a peer-reviewed academic journal or chapter in a scholarly collection by the editors of Ab Imperio.
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Congratulations to Polly Jones, whose article "The Thaw's Provincial Margins: Place, Community, and Canon in Pages from Tarusa" in the 2021 Winter issue of Slavic Review (pp. 792-815) was honroably mentioned for the BASEES Women's Forum Article Prize for the best article of 2021 that furthers knowledge about gender and diversity relevant to the East European, Russian, and Eurasian region.
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Change in Slavic Review delievery in 2023
- Due to the extraordinary costs of printing and shipping and to reduce our carbon footprint, the default delievery mode for Slavic Review will be digital only starting with volume 82 in 2023. If you would like to receive a print copy of the journal, you will need to opt in for the print copy delivery on our new member portal. Go to "Personal Information" and edit the Slavic Review delivery to "I opt to receive a print copy of the Slavic Review..." For assistance, please contact ASEEES.
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In response to Putin’s brutal invasion and in support of Ukraine, Slavic Review has initiated a series of very brief essays from scholars in the field. We will post the essays as they come in. Please see the discussion page of the website for access.
Harriet Murav
Editor
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02/25/22
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
We Condemn the Military Assault on Ukraine
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the home of many scholars and students who have dedicated their lives to the study of Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia. Many people from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus live and work in our community. We are devastated by the assault on Ukraine ordered by President Putin. We reject the falsehoods and historical distortions used by the Russian government to justify this criminal war of choice. We know that this attack on Ukraine is an attack on humanity, democracy, and the rule of law the world over, and that it poses an extraordinary threat of wider war. We call on leaders and citizens around the world--inside and outside of Russia--to do their utmost to bring this war to an end, and to help those affected by it, first and foremost the people of Ukraine, whose lives and hopes for democratic self-governance have been upended by this vicious assault.
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ASEEES BOARD CONDEMNS RUSSIA'S MILITARY ASSAULT ON UKRAINE
Published February 24, 2022
The Board of Directors of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies condemns Russia’s military assault on Ukraine and President Putin’s use of historical distortions and cynical lies to justify Russia’s attack on Ukrainian sovereignty. We stand with all the people of Ukraine and Russia who oppose this war.
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Slavic Review Announcement
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Slavic Review had to reconsider how we do our work. Handing off paper files was nearly impossible while maintaining safe social distancing, and the health and safety of staff was our top priority. Therefore, Slavic Review began using ScholarOne for all submissions, review requests, and review reports on August 16, 2020. We nonetheless strive to maintain our personal contact with you. We will be posting updated instructions to our website. As always, please email us at slavrev@illinois.edu with questions.
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On page 216 of the Spring 2020 issue, at the bottom of the first paragraph of a book review by J. Eugene Clay of The Life and Thought of Filaret Drozdov, 1782-1867: The Thorny Path to Sainthood by Nicholas S. Racheotes, the affiliation of the book author is given as “Framington State University.” This is an error; the affiliation should be “Framingham State University.” The editorial office regrets this oversight.
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Please see the statement from ASEEES regarding ongoing demonstrations: https://www.aseees.org/advocacy/aseees-statement-condemning-systemic-racism-and-police-brutality
- Congratulations to Antony Kalashnikov, who has won the 2020 Emerging Scholar Prize awarded by the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) for his article "Historicist Architecture and Stalinist Futurity" coming out in Slavic Review vol. 79, no 3 (Fall 2020).
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Congratulations to Valeria Sobol, who has won the prize for the Best Article in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture (2018-19) from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies, for her article, “’Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish’s Gothic Ukraine,” published in Slavic Review vol. 78, no 2 (Summer 2019).
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Congratulations to Richard C. M. Mole, who's article "Identity, Belonging and Solidarity in the Russian-speaking Queer Diaspora in Berlin" in the 2018 Spring issue of Slavic Review (pp. 77-98) has won the BASEES Women's Forum Article Prize for the best article of 2018 that furthers knowledge about gender and diversity relevant to the East European, Russian, and Eurasian region.
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In the Winter 2019 issue, the first page of the article by Ondřej Slačálek, "The Paradoxical Czech Memory of the Habsburg Monarchy: Satisfied Helots or Crippled Citizens?" should contain the following acknowledgement for the author's funding agency: "This work was supported by European Regional Development Fund [grant number CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000734]." The editorial office regrets this oversight.
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Congratulations to Arthur Clech for winning the 2018 Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) for Best Article in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for his “Between the Labor Camp and the Clinic: Tema or the Shared Forms of Late Soviet Subjectivity,” published in the Spring 2018 issue of Slavic Review (vol. 77, no. 1: 6-29).
- Congratulations also to Igor Fedyukin, whose article “Sex in the City that Peter Built: The Demimonde and Sociability in mid-Eighteenth Century Saint Petersburg,” Slavic Review 76, no. 4 (Winter 2017): 907-30, received Honorable Mention from the AWSS Heldt Prize committee.
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The editorial office regrets an error made by the editors in the Cluster introduction to Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities by Richard C.M. Mole in the Spring 2018 issue: page 2, line 12, "decriminalization" should read "recriminalization."
- ASEEES now offers reduced membership dues for scholars and full-time students in eastern Europe and Eurasia who permanently reside in the region. More information can be found at the ASEEES website.
- Since 2017, ASEEES members are able to access current issues of Slavic Review from Cambridge Core, available here at the ASEEES website. Past issues, including the
Slavonic Yearbook American Series,
the Slavonic and East European Review American Series, and the
American Slavic and East European Review, which were published prior to 1961, will be available here as well. Additionally, past issues of Slavic Review will remain available online through JSTOR for institutional subscribers and ASEEES members. For more information, please visit about.jstor.org/csp or contact participation@jstor.org.