T Zarycki and G Kolankiewicz (editors)
REGIONAL ISSUES IN POLISH POLITICS
SSEES Occasional Paper No 60.
ISBN 978-0-903425-71-1.
This volume of papers is the product of the Annual Anglo-Polish Colloquium held at SSEES in April 2002 devoted to the "Regional Dimension of the Polish Political Scene". The value of the conference came from the mix of perspectives and intellectual projects albeit often based on quite similar axioms. It is hoped that this volume will provide a statement of the current status of scholarship in Polish regional politics as well as signal the future directions of research.
Available from the Publications Office, The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW . Contact: publications@ssees.ucl.ac.uk. Price £16.
Elizabeth Skomp and Roman Žyla (editors)
HARMONY AND DISCORD Moving towards a New Europe
SSEES Occasional Papers No. 57.
ISBN 978-0-903425-68-1.
This book presents a small selection of papers from a conference, 'Between the Bloc and the Hard Place', which took place at SSEES in November 1999. In the four years since the conference, the existing members of the European Union have moved closer on several issues and farther apart on as many others. The one area in which there seems to have been a concerted move forward is the impending accession of several postcommunist states in to the European Union.
Available from the Publications Office, The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW . Contact: publications@ssees.ucl.ac.uk. Price £16.
Rebecca Haynes (editor)
OCCASIONAL PAPERS IN ROMANIAN STUDIES No 3 Moldova, Bessarabia, Transnistria
SSEES Occasional Papers No. 52.
ISBN 978-0-903425-63-6.
£16.00
This book is the product of a conference held at SSEES-UCL in 1999 on the history and contemporary affairs of Moldova and Transnistria. The articles published here deal primarily with the as yet unresolved conflict between the Republic of Moldova, the break-away region of Transnistria and Russia, as well as with the problems of Moldova's transition to a market-economy. Also included is a discussion, based on newly-researched archival material, of the Holocaust in war-time Transnistria. The volume has a comprehensive introduction, surveying the history of Moldova from the earliest times to the twentieth century: the first of its kind in English, and includes a history of Bessarabia under Russian and Romanian rule.
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FURIOUS VISSARION Belinskii's Struggle for Literature, Love and Ideas by Richard Freeborn.
SSEES Occasional Papers No 58.
ISBN 978-0-903425-69-8.
Vissarion Belinskii (1811-48) is Russia's greatest literary critic, the 'discoverer' of Dostoevsky, author of the famous Letter to Gogol, friend of Herzen and Turgenev and a founding member of the Russian intelligensia. By concentrating on his struggle as a critic to nurture a Russian literature that could match its European counterparts, FURIOUS VISSARION emphasises both the role of ideas in this process and Belinskii’s lifelong passion for literary values. It is the first study in English to reveal the intellectual and emotional range of his correspondence and to illustrate the close relationship between his literary criticism and his personal life.
Available from the Publications Office, The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW . Contact: publications@ssees.ucl.ac.uk Price £16.