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European Studies Scholarly Works [86]
This collection contains publications by faculty and staff affiliated with the European Studies program.
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Phonetic evidence for the development of the “acute” tone in Slavic
(2020-11-02)The paper attempts to give a phonetic reconstruction of the processes surrounding the loss of the glottal stop as the reflex of the inherited Proto-Slavic acute. With support from typological evidence and phonetic analysis, ... -
Fab! or Drab?: Increasing the Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning in Summer Classes
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-08-08)This article reviews the pitfalls and benefits of teaching and learning in summer school and identifies the lack of student interest as the key factor affecting the effectiveness of learning in the summer. The primary goal ... -
Competing perspectives on democracy and democratization: assessing alternative models of democracy promoted in Central Asian states
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-08-12)This study examines alternative understandings of democracy and democracy promotion advanced by the US, EU, Russia and China in Central Asia using frame analysis. In the context of this study, ‘frames’ refer to the relatively ... -
WWII Cossack Newspapers and Periodicals at CRL
(Center for Research Libraries (CRL), 2010)This article summarizes the contents of the World War 2 Cossack Newspapers and Periodicals, a small collection of Cossack newspapers published mostly during World War II and microfilmed at the request of the Slavic and ... -
Slavic Studies and the World: Embracing the Revolution of Open Access Publishing
(Sofia, Bulgaria: “St. Kliment Okhridskii” University of Sofia, 2010)This study discusses patterns of open access publishing in Slavic studies. The purpose of this study is to gauge the level of open access publishing among Slavic studies scholars; to identify what types of documents are ... -
"Goodbye Doesn’t Mean Forever:" Selection Strategies for the Transfer of Slavic to Off-Site Remote Storage
(“St. Kliment Okhridskii” University of Sofia, 2007)The 21st century American research library faces a serious housing crisis. Today more than ever libraries must balance patrons’ needs for access with the responsibility of preserving and storing the deluge of published ... -
Pre-publication review. Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives
(Haworth Press, 2005)Reviews the book "Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives," the first major work to address the issue of technology and Cyrillic language resources, thus providing an important “snapshot of Slavic digital ... -
Slavic Folklore, the Library, and the Web: A Case-study of Subject-Specific Collaborative Information Literacy at the University of Kansas
(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2009)This case-study describes the on-going integration of Information Literacy (IL) into a large undergraduate general education course on Slavic folklore at the University of Kansas. The purpose of the case-study is to provide ... -
Where Library Meets Vendor: A Comparison of Six Vendors of Russian Books
(Slavica, 2006)This work compares the online catalogs, monographic holdings, and book prices of six major vendors of academic Russian books. The purpose is twofold: (1) to determine which catalogs are the most robust and, thus, most ... -
Reference Question Answered: Bibliographic Sources for the Ukrainian Periodical Press in the 1840’s: Encyclopedias, Bibliographies, Guides, and Library Catalogs
(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2008)The author answers a reference question on the bibliographic sources for the Ukrainian periodical press from 1840-1850. Helpful publications include bibliographies, guides, and library catalogs that can be used to identify ... -
Reference Question Answered: Discussion of Russian funeral rites as depicted in V posikakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness), Film, 2006
(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2008)The author answers a reference question on the depiction of a funeral in the 2006 Russian documentary film V poiskakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness), which takes place in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia. ... -
Book Review. Pushkinskaia Entsiklopediia “Mikhailovskoe” (Pushkin Encyclopedia “Mikhailovskoe”)
(Slavic & East European Information Resources, 2006)This article reviews volume one of the encyclopedia, which sets out to be a systematic guide to information about the realities of A. S. Pushkin’s life in the Pskov region. The work is intended to help both reader and ... -
Book Review. The 20th Century Libraries in the Baltic Sea Regions. Transactions of the National Library of Estonia
(Slavic & East European Information Resource, 2008)This article reviews a collection of essays about library collections of national heritage in the countries of the Baltic Sea region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and St. Petersburg, Russia). -
Murlin Croucher: Magician of Slavic Book Collecting
(Association of College and Research Libraries. Slavic and East European Section, 2012)Memorial article in honor of Murlin Croucher, long time Slavic bibliographer at Indiana University. Includes reminiscence of the author and excerpts from letters written by Murlin Croucher. -
PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in i
(John Benjamins, 2010)The unprefixed imperfective verbs of motion with present tense in -i (such as Russian vodit’, vozit’, bežat’), most of which are considered indeterminate in the modern languages, developed over a lengthy period from ... -
A Balkanism in Central Europe? Realis vs. Irrealis in Subordinate Clauses in Prekmurje Slovene
(Nakl. Kleinwächter and Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2011)The paper examines the distinction between realis- and irrealis-marking complementizers (ka vs. da in the Prekmurje (Pannonian) dialect of Slovene and compares the phenomenon to the same distinction observed in Balkan ... -
Tracking the History of Romani Publications: Challenges Presented by Flawed Data
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2012-12)Romani is a language of northern Indic origin spoken natively by an estimated 2.5 million people, primarily in Eurasia but also in North America. The history of publication patterns in Romani has not been well documented. ... -
Russia's Foreign Policy Toward Iran: A Critical Geopolitics Perspective
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)Russia’s foreign policy stance on nuclear Iran has been a subject of debate. Why has Moscow oscillated between resistance to sanctions and support for punitive measures against Iran in the meantime supplying Tehran with ...
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