39 research outputs found
The Prospect of the Russian Language in Georgia. Insights from the Educated Youth
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the status of the Russian language in the new-born Republics became a central issue. In the Southern Caucasus, all the Constitutions promulgated by the three Republics opted for ethnocentric language policies that accepted the titular language as the only State Language. However, the role of the Russian language as a lingua franca remained crucial for international communication and everyday interaction. It followed that it continued to play an important role also in education. The present study focuses on Georgia, where a strong derussification policy has taken place in the last decades and aims at understanding to what extent the use of Russian among the young generations has contracted. In particular, we present an analysis conducted on data collected via (i) a survey for young people consisting of questions on their sociolinguistic background and a proficiency test in Russian, and (ii) semi-structured interviews for teachers of Russian and English as Foreign Languages on the research topics
Peasant settlers and the ‘civilizing mission’ in Russian Turkestan, 1865-1917
This article provides an introduction to one of the lesser-known examples of European settler colonialism, the settlement of European (mainly Russian and Ukrainian) peasants in Southern Central Asia (Turkestan) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It establishes the legal background and demographic impact of peasant settlement, and the role played by the state in organising and encouraging it. It explores official attitudes towards the settlers (which were often very negative), and their relations with the local Kazakh and Kyrgyz population. The article adopts a comparative framework, looking at Turkestan alongside Algeria and Southern Africa, and seeking to establish whether paradigms developed in the study of other settler societies (such as the ‘poor white’) are of any relevance in understanding Slavic peasant settlement in Turkestan. It concludes that there are many close parallels with European settlement in other regions with large indigenous populations, but that racial ideology played a much less important role in the Russian case compared to religious divisions and fears of cultural backsliding. This did not prevent relations between settlers and the ‘native’ population deteriorating markedly in the years before the First World War, resulting in large-scale rebellion in 1916
Otechestvennye Istoriki xviii-xx vv: Sbornik Statei, Vystuplenii, Vospominanii. By L. V. Cherepnin. Moscow: Nauka, 1984. 343 pp. 3.40 r., cloth.
The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress through Coercion in Russia, By Evgenii V. Anisimov. Trans. John T. Alexander. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. xi, 327 pp. Index. $19.95, paper.
G.-F. Müller and the Imperial Russian Academy. By J. L. Black. Kingston, and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. xi, 290 pp. Tables. $34.00, cloth.
Konstantin Nikolaevlč Bestužev-Rjumins Stellung In Der Russischen Historiographie Und Seine Gesellschaftliche Tätigkeit: Ein Beitrag Zur Russischen Geistesgeschichte Des 19. Jahrhunderts. By Hartmut Klinger. Europaische Hochschulschriften, vol. 144. Frankfurt/ Main: Peter D. Lang, 1980. 244 pp. S. Fr. 45.
Stepan Petrovič Ševyrev, 1820-1836: Ein Beitrag Zur Entstehung Der Romantik In Russland. By Ludger Udolph. Bausteine zur Geschichte der Literatur bei den Slaven, vol. 26. Cologne and Vienna: Bohlau, 1986. xxxiii, 445 pp. DM 148, cloth.
Russland und der Messianismus des Orients. By Emanuel Sarkisyanz. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1955. xii, 419. DM 26.00.
Russia and the Russians: A History. By Geoffrey Hosking. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xvi, 718 pp. Notes. Chronology. Index. Plates. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $35.00, hard bound.
L'emploi de citations bibliques dans l'œuvre de Charles Fourier
Riasanovsky Nicholas V. L'emploi de citations bibliques dans l'œuvre de Charles Fourier. In: Archives de sociologie des religions, n°20, 1965. pp. 31-43