Category: Resources

Join the new SOYUZ listserv!

Soyuz is broadly conceived as a group of scholars working in postsocialist studies. It serves as a vehicle to promote the study of postsocialist societies, the dissemination of current research, and collaborative and interdisciplinary work among an international community of scholars. For a long time, Soyuz had a listserv through H-Net/H-Commons, but we decided to make a more inclusive listserv with a platform (Google Groups) that is easy for people to manage. Some of you have already been added to the listserv. If you want to be added or change your email address, just email the Soyuz webmaster Dafna Rachok (darachok [at] iu.edu). This listserv is seen as complementing the Soyuz Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/SoyuzNetwork/) and the Soyuz website (https://soyuz.americananthro.org/).  

In December 2021 Academic Studies Press published The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse, Volume One: The Path from Disaster toward Russian “Democracy” by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, and Michael K. Launer. In the early 1980s the Communist Party still maintained nearly total control of political messaging in the USSR. This situation began to change after KAL007 was shot down in 1983. Then came Chernobyl (1986), which led to the development of a nascent civil society and, ultimately, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Volume One focuses on analysis of rhetoric, public address, and political argumentation during the late Soviet period. Various studies (some previously unpublished) describe interactions between the US and USSR concerning these events. 

We would like to draw your attention to some resources available for students, teachers and researchers in the Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat (PSDS) (https://samizdatcollections.library.utoronto.ca) at the University of Toronto Library. Under the button “Journals,” you will find scanned issues of over 20 samizdat journals. This is a unique resource on uncensored art and literature of the late Soviet period. The set includes the landmark edition of Soviet conceptualism, the MANI folios, from the Forschungsstelle Osteuropa at Bremen University, as well as a full set of issues of the important Leningrad journal Chasy (The Clock, 1-80), furnished by the Andrei Belyi Centre in St. Petersburg. Users will also find nearly full sets of the outstanding journals Thirty–Seven and Transponans.

NEW PUBLICATION: Online Encyclopedia of Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes

The OELN or Online Encyclopedia of Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes is a new online academic publication available at www.oeln.net. Its mission is to present and contextualize postwar literary experimentation across languages and cultures. By means of accessible introductions, readers are initiated into the literary aims, strategies, and themes of postwar authors, works, and movements showing affinity with the avant-gardes.

Ural Federal University is glad to announce the publication of its handbook “LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION DURING THE COVID-19 – PANDEMIC – AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO NEW PRACTICES AND ADAPTIONS”, which includes papers in English and Russian based on two round tables, which were held online in 2020 and 2021 at the Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

It is available online here: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=46509212