Word: slavicize
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...affinity between Stalinist art and American commercial art that drives the show. Both evolved almost simultaneously on the strength of new media developments. Both aimed at mass appeal. And both presented an unattainably idyllic family life. Look at Alexander Laktionov's 1947 Letter From the Front: it's pure Slavic Norman Rockwell...
...fresh-faced, foppish but surprisingly resourceful young detective named Erast Fandorin, who quickly becomes swept up in a glamorous whirl of moneyed expatriates and gambling, champagne-guzzling aristocrats. You'll understand right away what the Russians see in Akunin: he writes gloriously pre-Soviet prose, sophisticated and suffused in Slavic melancholy and thoroughly worthy of 19th century forebears like Gogol and Chekhov. The Winter Queen is as delicate and elegant as a Faberge egg, and, thank the Czars, we still have nine more untranslated Fandorin mysteries to look forward...
Graduate student of Slavic studies Alexander Pring-Wilson is arrested for allegedly stabbing and killing 18-year-old Michael Colono of Cambridge in an early morning fight outside Pizza Ring...
...worry that it won’t be dramatic enough, that the ‘If it’s not broke, don’t fix it’ policy will prevail,” notes Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures William Mills Todd III, former dean of undergraduate education. “There needs to be some changes, beyond fine-tuning...
Buckler’s research has focused on imperial Russia. Her first book, entitled The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia received the “Best Work of Literary and Cultural Criticism for 2000” award from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East-European Languages Publications Committee. She said she plans to submit her second book, which examines the “middle culture” of St. Petersburg, to Princeton University Press at the end of the summer...