Будто голая я, а не героиня вашего фильма’: Скандалы ‘порноноваторства’ времен перестройки.

This article regards the scandals of the “MetrOpol” almanac, Viktor Erofeev’s Russian Beauty and especially the perestroika films “Little Vera” and “Intergirl”. Through their performance of provocations, of­tentimes sexual, transgressors activate the suppressed desires of their audience, whose defensive reaction copies the performative mechanisms of the initial trans­gression. In applying such a reading to perestroika scandals and their reception, this article critically examines “Little Vera” and “Intergirl” as cinematic scandals and explores their ability to start productive debates about moral values and social rules

Soviet Journals Reconnected: Periodicals and Their Networks under Late Socialism

Soviet Journals Reconnected uses bibliographical data from the Soviet index of periodical contributions (Letopis’ zhurnal’nykh statei) to trace how communities of shared aesthetic and ideological inclination took shape. The data has been cleaned and normalized. It is organized in a relational database that allows for targeted queries in light of the central research questions

Impact of Early Parenting on Female Alcoholism

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Presenter: Margaret F. Gleissner, D.S.W., Clinical Therapist, Center for Life Decisions, Spanish Fort, Alabama - "Impact of Early Parenting on Female Alcoholism".The Ohio State University College of Social Wor

Recent U.S. Efforts to Control Nuclear Proliferation

The explosion of a nuclear device by India on May 18, 1974, initiated a new wave of concern for the prospects of limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Subsequent developments such as the Nixon proposal to provide nuclear materials to Egypt and Israel and the announcement by West Germany of its intentions to sell Brazil a plutonium reprocessing facility increased fears in the United States that the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons would continue to grow at the expense of world peace and security. Apprehension is likely to continue since the development of an atomic bomb blueprint by a Princeton undergraduate, using publicly available information, demonstrated to the world--and to the agent of Pakistan who tried to obtain the report--the relative simplicity of designing an atomic bomb. The United States government has stepped up its activity and interest at executive, legislative, diplomatic, and administrative levels in an effort to control the spread of nuclear weapons. Increased risks of nuclear war and terrorist blackmail justify this stimulated activity and call for stronger concerted action in the face of world wide diffusion of nuclear material and technology. Present trends in nuclear energy technology test not only the United States\u27 position as the leader in this field but also the ability of one nation to control nuclear proliferation. Some critics of United States nonproliferation policy have argued that the possession of nuclear weapons by other nations might have a stabilizing effect. Former Secretary of State Kissinger, in 1957, wrote that Soviet aggression would be deterred if our European allies obtained nuclear weapons and that the diffusion of nuclear weapons technology will be to our net strategic advantage. Future members of the nuclear weapon club would not possess sophisticated weapon delivery systems, a fact which would severely limit their ability to use nuclear weapons. Others argue that if smaller powers engage in a nuclear war it need not develop into a global disaster and might even serve to promote disarmament through greater awareness of the danger. Arguments discounting the need to control nuclear proliferation are usually overshadowed, however, by concern over the grave consequences of increased membership in the nuclear weapon club. Proliferation is regarded by most to be a serious danger. In a world of frequent armed conflict, the threat of nuclear weapons use appears very real. The risk of a nuclear disaster increases in proportion to the number of countries accumulating a nuclear weapon arsenal

Periodical Studies: Why and How to Re-read East European Journals

Nearly a decade ago, Sean Latham and Robert Scholes ambitiously proclaimed “The Rise of Periodical Studies” in the PMLA, the premier publication that institutionalizes new trends in literary and cultural studies. Latham and Scholes proposed a seemingly radical reorientation in the philological scholarship of magazines and journals: treat them as “autonomous objects of study” rather than just as “containers of discrete bits of information.” And while this approach has provoked significant, if at times polemical response in English and American Studies, the Slavic and East European fields have remained surprisingly silent. Is the notion of periodical studies as a discrete field applicable to our work? Does it differ from the ways Slavists have been analyzing journals for decades? At “Decoding the Periodical,” a workshop at Princeton University in March 2015,2 we explored these questions with participants from fields of history, art history, and literary studies. Our conclusion was an emphatic yes, that periodical studies does offer Slavic new methodological avenues that reveal the dynamism of our specific periodical culture