The Ukrainian language: origin, developmentand present-day situation

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 159-164
Author(s):  
Olesja Sydorenko ◽  
Lubov Matsko
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Language Origin ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Excellent Opportunity ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Language Problems

The article highlights the milestones in the development of the Ukrainian language and discusses the current trends observed mainly in the lexical sub-system as one of the first to reflect social, economic, and political changes in the life of any society. We also present main distinctives features of Ukrainian as one of the Slavic languages and discuss selected aspects of the sociolinguistic situation in Ukraine, as well as the language problems of the Ukrainian diaspora that tries to find a balance between adaptation, blending in the environment and preserving one’s identity. The study of changes in the lexical sub-system of Ukrainian from the break of the Soviet Union to the present day gives an excellent opportunity to reveal the influence of extralinguistic factors, such as the emergence of new realities and certain looseness of speech caused by a sense of freedom in the new society on the enrichment of the general vocabulary with revived words, borrowings, and derivatives, significant changes in onomastics in connection with decommunization.

scholarly journals Russia’s Foreign Policy Evolution in the New Balkan Landscape

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 179-199
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Entina ◽  
Alexander Pivovarenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Difference

The article reflects on the issue of the foreign policy strategy of modern Russia in the Balkans region. One of the most significant aspects of this problem is the difference in views between Russia and the West. Authors show how different interpretations of the events in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s predetermined the sense of mutual suspicion and mistrust which spread to other regions such as the post-Soviet space. Exploring differences between the Russian and the Western (Euro-Atlantic) views on the current matters, authors draw attention to fundamental differences in terminology: while the Western narrative promotes more narrow geographical and political definitions (such as the Western Balkan Six), traditional Russian experts are more inclined to wider or integral definitions such as “the Balkans” and “Central and Southeast Europe”. Meanwhile none of these terms are applicable for analysis of the current trends such as the growing transit role of the Balkans region and its embedding in the European regional security architecture. Therefore, a new definition is needed to overcome the differences in vision and better understand significant recent developments in the region. Conceptualizing major foreign policy events in Central and Southeast Europe during the last three decades (the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s), authors demonstrate the significance of differences in tools and methods between the Soviet Union and the modern Russia. Permanent need for adaptation to changing political and security context led to inconsistence in Russian Balkan policy in the 1990s. Nevertheless, Russia was able to preserve an integral vision of the region and even to elaborate new transregional constructive projects, which in right political circumstances may promote stability and become beneficial for both Russia and the Euro-Atlantic community.

scholarly journals The History of Celtic Scholarship in Russia and the Soviet Union

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3-41
Author(s):  
Séamus Séamus Mac Mathúna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Short History ◽  
The West ◽  
Carpathian Mountains ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Language Areas ◽  
New Generation

In recent years there has been a remarkable burgeoning of interest in Celtic scholarship in the Slavic countries. Much of the work carried out by Slavic scholars, however, is written in the Slavic languages and is not readily accessible to Western scholars. The result is that the scope and achievement of Celtic scholars in these countries is not widely known and appreciated. The aim of this paper is to give a short history of this tradition and of some of the major scholarly landmarks. While the emphasis will be primarily on Celtic Studies in Russia, reference will also be made to the work of scholars in other Slavic countries. Several centuries before Christ, the Proto-Slavic dialect area appears to be north of the Carpathian mountains between the Rivers Oder and Vistula in Poland and the River Dnepr in the Ukraine. It is in a kind of intermediate zone which includes other language areas, including Illyrian, Thracian and Phrygian, and is bordered to the west by Germanic, Celtic and Italic, and to the east by Scythian and Tocharian. The paper will examine briefly the history and contribution of Celtic Slavic scholars to the question of the links between Proto-Slavic and Celtic in this region. The writings of the famous academicians A.A. Schachmatov (1864–1920) and A.N. Veselovsky (1838–1906) are taken as points of departure in outlining the history of Celtic linguistic and literary scholarship in Russia, and both their work and methodologies, and the work of other scholars, such as V. Propp, E. Meletinsky, Yu. Lotman, V.N. Toporov and A.Ya. Gourevitch, are considered in light of their influence on modern Celtic scholarship in the Slavic countries. Consideration is also given to the work and influence of deceased Celtic scholars A.A. Smirnov, V.N. Yartseva, A.A. Koroljov and V.P. Kalygin, the work of scholars such as T.A. Mikhailova and S.V Schkunayev, and the development of a new generation of very able and productive younger scholars.

The Soviet Nationalities Collection at Columbia University

Slavic Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-293
Author(s):  
Susan Cook Summer
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
European Language ◽  
Interlibrary Loan ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
The 1960S

The Soviet Nationalities Collection at Columbia University is one of the largest and most varied collections of its kind in the nation. Established in the 1960s, it now numbers more than 15,000 volumes in forty-seven different languages from the Altaic, Transcaucasian, Uralic, Paleo-Siberian, and Indo-European language groups. It grows at a rate of about 500 books a year.The collection supports instruction and research in fields including language and literature, political science, economics, history, folklore, religion and philosophy, and the arts. Although not cataloged until recently, the collection has long been used by scholars from research centers at Columbia, such as the Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, the Center for the Study of Central Asia, the Program on Soviet Nationality Problems, and the Department of Slavic Languages. Its reputation growing by word-of-mouth, the collection has also attracted visiting scholars and requests through interlibrary loan.

The Current System of Education for Visually Impaired Children in the USSR and Plans for Improvement

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-33
Author(s):  
V.A. Feoktistova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Current System ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

The author reviews both the history of the blindness field in the Soviet Union and current trends and programs with emphasis on the development of educational programs for blind and visually impaired children. Psychosocial and employment issues are also addressed.

Current Views of the Soviet Union on the International Organization of Security, Economic Coöperation and International Law: A Summary

1945 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Prince
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Far East ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Soviet Union

The U.S.S.R. is destined to play a decisive role in establishing an effective international organization of security. Therefore a summary of current trends of thought and attitudes in the Soviet Union is here presented, reflecting its foreign policy and its views on the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, the Bretton Woods Articles of Agreement, the legal status of the Polish Govemment-In-Exile, the treatment of Germany, the Chicago Civil Aviation Conference, the legal status of the Atlantic Charter and the situation in the Far East.

scholarly journals Wildlife Utilization in China

1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Greer ◽  
Robin W. Doughty
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Threatened Species ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Wildlife Utilization ◽  
Symbolic Value

Current trends in the utilization of wildlife in China continue a tradition of satisfying material needs for meat, apparel, and medicinal and other products. Wild animals have been hunted to bolster income from agriculture and to supply the industrial sector of the economy with material goods. Decisions about conserving or protecting animals are therefore based largely upon utilitarian premises. If they decrease agricultural productivity or are harmful to humans, predatory animals are heavily persecuted.Chinese biologists have followed initiatives, begun in the Soviet Union, of introducing alien animals to areas where they can multiply and be cropped for commercial purposes. Research also continues to be focused on the possible relocation of faunal elements within China, to develop the market for meat and skins.However, there appears to be a growing concern for preserving certain rare, unusual, and threatened, species because they are unique to China or have beneficial or symbolic value. This concern is likely to increase as studies in animal behaviour, migration, and ecology, demonstrate that significant declines have occurred in the populations of many ‘useful’ birds and mammals.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of the transformation of Hungarian and East German agriculture

2007 ◽  
pp. 164-170
Author(s):  
Éva Czidor
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Cooperative System ◽  
Occupied Territory ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
East German

Agriculture, and within it, the development and later transformation of the cooperative system shows many similarities between Hungary and the Eastern German provinces. A few examples can be mentioned, such as the mistrust against the notion of cooperation, the forced development of the cooperatives and, as an occupied territory, the influence of the Soviet Union. Similar issues emerged in both countries’ agriculture and the measures taken were also alike. Similar social, economic processes and changes were started at the end of the 1980s (1989/90) and these had a significant effect on the areas that serve as a basis for this study.

Nationality Question in the Resolutions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1898–1964

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-201
Author(s):  
Silvia P. Forgus
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Domestic Power

Since its conception in 1898 the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has had to contend with the nationality question. The Party has had to formulate programs and make organizational and functional decisions pertaining to national rights. It has had to dwell on political aspects of the issue and adopt resolutions touching on the social, economic, and cultural problems of non-Russian nations in the Russian Empire and the Soviet State. What were these resolutions and what effect, if any, did ideological considerations, domestic power struggles, situational factors, and personal styles of the party leaders have on the resolutions?

The Modernization of Contemporary Chinese Law

1993 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Gregg
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Tight Control ◽  
Communist Society ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Law ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China remains the world's only major communist society. Will China's regime go the way of its Soviet counterpart, or might it survive well into the next century and beyond? I do not undertake to answer this question directly. But my analysis of one sector of contemporary Chinese society—the legal system—suggests that the Communist party is losing its tight control over several major areas of Chinese society. In the long-run the party will be progressively weakened by current trends toward legal modernization. These trends encourage more liberal (because noninstrumentalized) forms of political, and not only legal, organization.

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