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Papers from the 4th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26 30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman If Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the twentieth century. Always at the epicenter of events, Grossman (1905–1964) was among the first to describe the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article “The Hell of Treblinka” became evidence at Nuremberg. Grossman’s powerful anti‑totalitarian works liken the Nazis’ crimes against humanity with those of Stalin. His compassionate prose has the everlasting quality of great art. Because Grossman’s major works appeared after much delay we are only now able to examine them properly. Alexandra Popoff’s authoritative biography illuminates Grossman’s life and legacy.
Soviet Literature
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Der lange Abschied von der Unmündigkeit
Diese Darstellung richtet ihren Blick auf die von Irrungen und Wirrungen gezeichnete facettenreiche und widersprüchliche Figur Aleksandr Tvardovskijs (1910-1971), eines der bedeutendsten Akteure der sowjetischen Kultur- und Literaturszene der 1930er bis 1960er Jahre. Ihr Interesse gilt gleichermaßen dem "Dichter des Volkes" und dem Funktionär des offiziellen Kultur- und Literaturbetriebes, der kritischen Persönlichkeit und dem Reformkommunisten, der eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Entstehung des Andersdenkens, von Dissens und Renitenz in Kultur und Literatur spielte. Sie rekonstruiert Tvardovskijs politische, literaturprogrammatische und ästhetische Positionen, die Grundmuster seines Verhaltens sowie seine Rolle in der Literatur, Politik und Gesellschaft in ihren zeitgeschichtlichen Kontexten und beschreibt in seiner Person das Wechselverhältnis zwischen Politik und Literatur über die Wegscheiden der Geschichte dieser Jahrzehnte hinweg.
Baghdad and beyond
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The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917
In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fell—a collapse that, in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as inevitable. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 contests this assumption. By expanding our view of the Imperial Russian Army to include the experience of the enlisted ranks, Roger R. Reese reveals that the soldier’s revolt in 1917 was more social revolution than anti-war movement—and a revolution based on social distinctions within the officer corps as well as between the ranks. Reese’s account begins in...
