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Volume 53 - Issue 2 - Summer 1994

Contents

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Research Article

  • Living on the Edge: The East European Roma in Postcommunist Politics and Societies
  • Zoltan D. Barany
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017, pp. 321-344
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    You watch your pocket. Gypsies. They don't work, only steal, and make children so the government will give them money every time

    Nadine Gordimer

    "I am no racist," he said. "But some Gypsies you would have to shoot."

    Jozef Pacai, mayor of the Slovak village of Medzev

    The east European communist regimes, in contrast to their frequently repeated claims, not only did not weed out nationalism in their domains but in some cases attempted to manipulate and exploit it for their own purposes. Nonetheless, since the collapse of communism the region has experienced a robust resurgence of at times violent ethnic conflicts and racism explained by the simultaneous occurrence of several factors accompanying the postcommunist transition process

  • Moldovan Identity and the Politics of Pan- Romanianism
  • Charles King
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017, pp. 345-368
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    Not since the early eighteenth century, when the Moldovan prince Dimitrie Cantemir was the toast of salon society from Berlin to St. Petersburg, has the existence of a Moldovan state been as widely recognized by the international community.1 Moldova's exit from the Soviet Union on 27 August 1991 and its entry into the United Nations the following year, though, raised the difficult question of the republic's future orientation.

  • The British Foreign Office and Macedonian National Identity, 1918-1941
  • Andrew Rossos
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017, pp. 369-394
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    The study of the Macedonian identity has given rise to far greater controversies and debates than that of most, if not all, other nationalisms in eastern Europe. This has been only in part due to the hazy past of the Slavic speaking population of Macedonia and to the lack of a continuous and separate state tradition, a trait they had in common with other "small" and "young," or so-called "non-historic," peoples in the area.

  • The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism
  • Yuri Slezkine
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017, pp. 414-452
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    Soviet nationality policy was devised and carried out by nationalists. Lenin's acceptance of the reality of nations and "national rights" was one of the most uncompromising positions he ever took, his theory of good ("oppressed-nation") nationalism formed the conceptual foundation of the Soviet Union and his NEP-time policy of compensatory "nation-building" (natsional'noe stroitel'stvo) was a spectacularly successful attempt at a state-sponsored conflation of language, "culture," territory and quota-fed bureaucracy.

  • The Balkans: From Discovery to Invention
  • Maria Todorova
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017, pp. 453-482
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    Beyond and below what was once Czechoslovakia lie the deep Balkans. They are, it has been said, a sort of hell paved with the bad intentions of the powers

    By the beginning of the twentieth century Europe had added to its repertoire of Schimpfwörter, or disparagements, a new one which turned out to be more persistent than others with centuries old traditions. "Balkanization" not only had come to denote the parcelization of large and viable political units but also had become a synonym for a reversion to the tribal, the backward, the primitive, the barbarian. In its latest hypostasis, particularly in American academe, it has been completely decontextualized and paradigmatically related to a variety of problems.

  • Publics Meet Market Democracy in Central and East Europe, 1991-1993
  • Mary E. McIntosh, Martha Abele Mac Iver, Daniel G. Abele, Dina Smeltz
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017, pp. 483-512
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    The revolutions of 1989 in central and east Europe raise crucial questions for the social sciences. Is it possible to build democracy and capitalism simultaneously in societies that have no real history of either system? Will democracy really take root and flourish in societies without an existing market economy? Or will the monumental task of creating a market economy strain these new democratic governments to the limit and ultimately lead to an authoritarian backlash? Since the transition to democracy from socialism is unprecedented, history can offer little useful data from which to derive well founded predictions.

Comment

Response

  • Was There Private Property in Muscovite Russia?
  • Richard Pipes
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017, pp. 524-530
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    In a recent article in the Slavic Review, George G. Weickhardt undertook to demonstrate that Russia "gradually developed a concept of private property for land which more or less approached that of the English 'fee simple' and that the only significant limitations on individual property in [pre-Petrine] Russia were in favor of the clan rather than the state" (665). This thesis runs counter to virtually the entire historical literature in Russian as well as foreign languages.

  • Was There Private Property in Muscovite Russia?
  • George G. Weickhardt
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017, pp. 531-538
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    Richard Pipes's contribution to our understanding of Russian history has been substantial and my own interest in Russian history dates from taking his course on imperial Russia in college some thirty years ago. It is thus only with great reluctance that I would disagree with him. Nevertheless, I respectfully submit that his response to my article suffers not only from insufficient evidence but also from serious conceptual flaws.

Review Article

Film Reviews

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