The Orthodox Church in revolutionary Cheliabinsk: reform,counter-reform,and popular revolution in 1917

In 1917 the Cheliabinsk Vicariate, like the Church in most areas in the Russian empire, declined to support the autocracy, welcomed the February Revolution, endorsed the Provisional Government, and envisioned a broad set of reforms that even included a greater role for the laity in Church governance. The key agent for reform in Cheliabinsk – as in other dioceses – was the Assembly of Clergy and Laity, the focus of this study. Although the Assembly did adopt a radical and ostensibly popular social and administrative program, the vicariate encountered growing lay disenchantment – because of its support for an unpopular war, because of a caveat deferring social reform, but also because of the Church’s reluctance to give parishioners full power over the parish. The intensifying crises of 1917 heightened expectations for reform, and the disintegration of authority in Cheliabinsk and within the Church itself widened the chasm between the Church and parishioners. In response, diocesan authorities supported conservative measures, which deferred reform, in an attempt to re-establish order, while parishioners – frustrated by the pace of reform and the Church’s wavering support of it – led a revolution against diocesan authority aimed at making the Church subservient to their own agendas.     

Socialization Processes and Clergy Offenders

This article uses feminist theory to investigate how the socialization processes used to maintain the clergy community in the Roman Catholic Church contributes to a vulnerability in some clergy for sexually abusing children. This vulnerability is identified first in an examination of the literature on the impact of socialization processes on clergy offenders between the 1960s and 1980s. A comparison is then made with the implications of the apostolic exhortation, Pastores Dabo Vobis, which provides a theological basis to clergy formation. The article argues that the document works to ensure a continuity of socialization processes that not only have been shown to create a vulnerability for committing child sexual abuse but compound existing vulnerabilities. The article concludes that constraints produced by the preservation of a hegemonic masculinity and patriarchy retain a threat of violence against children and require recommended reforms.     

Lena Finkle’s magic arc: hybrid influences in the Russian American graphic novel

ABSTRACT

The article examines Anya Ulinich’s graphic narrative Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel and the novel’s use of visual culture from both the author’s Russian and US American backgrounds. The article interrogates the use of history and timelines, Russian art history and Russian art education in Ulinich’s text. It also analyzes other literary constructs that influenced Ulinich’s novel: US American comics/graphic novels and their use of stereotype, and novels by Russian-speaking Jewish American writers, with their thematized Jewishness.     

Changing symbolic and geographical boundaries between penal zones and rural communities in the Russian Federation

The article examines the processes involved in the integration of the USSR's secret places into mainstream rural society in the Russian Federation. Taking the example of one rural district in the Volga-Ural region that has been the site of a large prison complex over a period of ninety years, the article examines how economic changes and local government and penal reforms have eroded the boundary that marked off the penal region from the rural district in which it was located. Using interviews and social surveys conducted among the local population, the article examines the extent to which the opening of the penal sub-region has led to changes in the symbolic boundary between the communities in the rural raion. The article concludes that although new spaces of active government are being produced in rural Russia, these are not necessarily the basis for the emergence of new common identities among the people living in them.     

大学外语多媒体网络教学的应用——以大学俄语教学为例

大学外语多媒体网络教学是信息时代飞速发展的产物,是一种新型的教学方法和手段.它与传统教学模式相比,占有明显的优势,但是在教学实践中,笔者以大学俄语多媒体网络教学应用为例,分析了多媒体教学的优势及其存在的问题.     

论清代海外华文报刊的社会功能及特点

清代的海外华文报刊是中国新闻事业的重要组成部分,也是海外华人华侨精神生活不可或缺的组成部分.在我国1000多年的新闻传播史中,清代海外华文报刊处于中国报刊走向近代化的初期和创始阶段,这些华文报刊在宣传爱国思想、弘扬传统文化、传播科技知识、引导政治导向,以及反映华侨华人的爱国之情和沟通与祖国的联系方面,发挥了重要的传媒功能.清代的海外华文报刊呈现出报刊生存时间普遍较短、处于当地主流文化之外、政治倾向性由弱到强的传播特点,但海外华文报刊的出现和发展也反映了华侨华人社会地位的提高.     

俄罗斯宪法法院审查制成因探析

独立后的俄罗斯积极推行法律制度变革,以此回应及推动社会转型。对苏联时期违宪审查制度进行反思的同时,俄罗斯也在探寻适合自己的违宪审查模式。随着“法治国”与市民社会理论的兴起及公民宪法观念的萌生,俄罗斯建立宪法法院的条件也日益成熟,而“三权分立”原则的确立以及俄罗斯司法机关无力承担违宪审查职责则使得俄罗斯宪法法院的建立成为必然。     

俄国自由主义思想史论纲

自由主义之于俄国具有特殊的意义。在俄语中,“自由主义”和“自由”概念有一个演变过程。官方自由主义是18世纪60年代始流行于俄国宫廷和上层统治阶级内部的一种政治思潮和政治传统,对俄国历史发展产生了重要的影响。自由主义在俄国只是势力强大的保守主义和政治激进主义的附属品,俄国自由主义主要关注的是具体实践,而不是理论创建,俄国仅仅是西方自由主义思想和理论的实验室。     

美华文学中的文化意象初探

北美新华文文学,作为具有特定时空意义和文化内蕴的文学类型,创造出了一系列相互关联、自成体系的意象。这些意象包含有文学和文化两方面的内涵,因而可称作“文学性的文化意象”,此种意象的营造应该是北美新华文文学的重要诗学特征。     

俄语外来词的语素化进程略说

20世纪90年代至今,大量的英美语外来词进入到当代俄罗斯政治、经济、科学、教育及人们的日常生活中。很多学者从外来词产生的原因、构词活动、功能作用等角度对这一语言现象进行了描述、概括与分析。从典型外来词入手,对这一特殊词汇群的词（语）素化进程进行一次大致的梳理,很有必要。