Slavic Review

Svetlana Is My President. By Rufi na Bazlova, from the series “The History of
Belarusian Vyzhyvanka.” Technique: Digital collage. Instagram: rufi nabazlova. “Vyzhyvanka” is
the name of the technique of traditional Belarusian embroidering; “vyshyvat” means to embroider
and to survive in Belarusian.

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

• Slavic Review Announcement

  Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we at Slavic Review have had to reconsider how we do our work. Handing off paper files is nearly impossible while maintaining safe social distancing, and the health and safety of staff has to be the top priority. Therefore, as of August 16, 2020, Slavic Review has been using ScholarOne for all submissions, review requests, and review reports. We will 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.

• Slavic Review Forum on Race and Bias

  Seeking to address current social and political upheaval around systemic racism and to engage with questions of race and bias in our profession, our field, and our research, Slavic Review will host a Critical Discussion Forum, to be published in the Summer 2021 issue. For questions regarding this Critical Discussion Forum on race and bias, please contact

  Harriet Murav at slavrev@illinois.edu.

  The organizing committee:

  Joy Carew (University of Louisville)

  Christina Kiaer (Northwestern University)

  Harriet Murav (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• 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.

• 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).

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.