Australian Slavonic and East European Studies
Vol.
23
,
Nos. 1–2
(
2009
)
In memoriam Vladimir Rafailovich Kabo
vii
Marko Pavlyshyn
Literary travel: Ukrainian journeys toward the national and the modern
1
Stephen Fortescue
Putin in Pikalevo: PR or watershed?
19
Anna Taitslin
Chicherin and Shipov: two competing visions of local self-government and central representation from the 1890s to the early 1900s
39
David N. Wells
Merezhkovsky’s
Simvoly
and the early development of Russian symbolism
57
Leonard A. Polakiewicz
‘An Unpleasantness’: a rare case of violent protest in Chekhov’s works
69
Robert Lagerberg
The relationship between frequency and word stress in Russian: a case study of the verbal suffix
-ировать
95
Anne Swartz
Music, the economy and society: Szymanowska’s career path in Russia in the 1820s
107
Views and opinions
Vladimir Rafailovich Kabo
The eternal present: the people and power
131
Reviews
Olga Yu. Soboleva
,
The silver mask: Harlequinade in the symbolist poetry of Blok and Belyi
(reviewed by
David N. Wells
)
151
Katya Hokanson
,
Writing at Russia’s border
(reviewed by
John McNair
)
153
Jeff Love
,
Tolstoy: a guide for the perplexed
(reviewed by
John McNair
)
155
Anne E. Gorsuch
and
Diane P. Koenker
, eds.,
Turizm
: the Russian and East European tourist under capitalism and socialism
(reviewed by
Susan Hillman
)
157
W. Bruce Lincoln
,
The conquest of a continent: Siberia and the Russians
(reviewed by
Stephen Fortescue
)
160
Douglas W. Blum
(ed.),
Russia and globalization: identity, security, and society in an era of change
(reviewed by
Seth Unmack
)
162
A. S. Morrison
,
Russian rule in Samarkand 1868–1910: a comparison with British India
(reviewed by
Susan Hillman
)
164
John Dunn
and
Shamil Khairov
,
Modern Russian grammar: a practical guide
(reviewed by
Lyndall Morgan
)
166
Robert Horvath
,
The legacy of Soviet dissent: dissidents, democratisation and radical nationalism in Russia
(reviewed by
Roderic Pitty
)
168
Algimantas P. Taskunas
,
Lithuanian studies in Australia: the case for low-demand language and cultural courses in higher education
(reviewed by
Thomas Ray Poole
)
171
Karin Larsen
,
The evolution of the system of long and short adjectives in old Russian
(reviewed by
Robert Woodhouse
)
173