Nationalism,masculinity and multicultural citizenship in Serbia*

In Rossettiren obsesioa (Rossetti's Obsession), a short and explicitly meta-literary novel published in 2000, Ramon Saizarbitoria presents a Basque writer wrestling a formidable lover: the Spanish readership. The question that Eugenia, the woman from Madrid, constantly asks the writer, “¿Qué os pasa a los vascos?” (“What's wrong with you Basques?”), encapsulates the ambiguity of the relationship which unites these two indisputably allegorical characters. The difficult interaction between the powerful Spanish literary field and the emerging Basque literary field, doomed to coexist and moved by reciprocal feelings of fascination and irritation, becomes the novel's subject matter. Is translation – and its corollary, an access to a larger literary market – a pure and neutral instrument of liberation for the writer who expresses himself in a minority language, or could it become, in certain circumstances, a threat to his autonomy?     

苏、俄的第一夫人们

从苏联到俄罗斯,神秘的第一夫人们从幕后逐渐走到台前,她们鲜为人知的故事也随之显现在人们面前.     

苏联解体与苏联海军的命运

考察苏联解体后苏联海军的命运有三个视角:一是苏联海军是怎样被分割的;二是分割苏联海军过程中最难解决的问题;三是作为苏联海军主要继承者的俄罗斯海军发展趋势如何。本文介绍了独联体国家对前苏联海军瓜分情况,分析了独联体国家在瓜分苏联海军过程中存在的主要矛盾,最后对俄罗斯海军的发展战略和趋势作了探讨。     

The Rise and Fall of Ethnoterritorial Federalism: A Comparison of the Soviet Union (Russia), China,and India

The early Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and independent India inherited vast territories and multi-ethnic populations from the preceding empires. Their maintenance was a political and administrative challenge. The Soviet Union devised an archetype of ethnoterritorial federalism, in which nationality groups were granted their own administrative territories and subnational governments. The PRC and India imitated this system selectively, aware of its dangerous centrifugal tendency. The collapse of the Soviet Union discredited ethnoterritorial federalism, but none of the three countries has since devised a new system of multinational integration to replace it.     

Demographic trends in the Soviet Union

Current population trends in the USSR are reviewed, with particular reference to data available from the 1981 census. Topics considered include regional demographic variations, ethnic fertility differentials, the effects of deteriorating health care, and the continuation of Islamic cultural influences. The political and economic consequences of current demographic trends are discussed.