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Литературная распря в «Капитанской дочке»: Из материалов для комментария (43) [The Literary Dispute in _The Captain’s Daughter_ (Notes and Queries, 43)]
No full textThis article examines a scene in Pushkin’s novel where the protagonist, Pyotr Grinev, shares his poetry, prompting a mocking response from the antagonist, Alexei Shvabrin. The rivalry reflects the literary feud between 18th-century authors Trediakovsky and Sumarokov. The scene’s narrative mode intertwines surface text with allusive layers, causing Grinev’s verses to shift between the semantic fields of the two poets. This interplay undercuts both poetic schools\u27 values. Key to understanding this scene is Pushkin’s unfinished Journey from Moscow to Petersburg, which revises the legacy of Russian eighteenth-century rhymed poetry and prefigures a shift toward blank verse.
An Empirical View on Local Residents’ Perceptions towards E-Government in Kyrgyzstan
No full textDigital transformation in the public sector has been the focus of academic studies for the last two decades. According to the literature, countries\u27 efforts towards digitalization vary both across countries and within regions of each country. Although the starting points may differ, this process has yet to be completed in any country. It is evident that various obstacles and problems are still being encountered. Along with major obstacles such as inadequate infrastructure and limited financial and human resources, the willingness of residents to adopt e-government services is also a significant factor to consider. In this context, the main purpose of this paper is to evaluate residents’ perceptions towards e-government services in Kyrgyzstan. Primary data was collected by administering a structured questionnaire to 325 residents. The results indicate that perceived functional benefits, perceived service response, and availability of resources significantly impact (p<0.05) residents’ adoption of e-government services. Significant differences have been observed in residents’ perceptions towards the dependent and independent variables of the study, based on demographic characteristics such as marital status, income, experience using e-government services, and area of residence. This study can provide valuable insights for public policy related to digital transformation. A deeper understanding of users’ behavior can provide a reliable foundation for making managerial and marketing decisions that can help overcome this problem as a barrier to digital transformation
Student Housing Choices and Aspirations: Private Renting or Ownership? The Case of Tallinn in Post-socialist Estonia
No full textGaining housing autonomy in ownership-oriented housing systems has been observed as increasingly difficult for contemporary youth, including university students. This article analyses how students make sense of their experiences in private rentals, which is assumed to shape their dispositions and capacities to act in the housing market in the future. We contribute to the conceptualisation of young people’s housing choices and aspirations by offering evidence from the understudied post-socialist context of Tallinn, Estonia. Inspired by Bourdieu’s theory of practice and combining in-depth interviews with a survey, we show how the student experience in a weakly regulated private rental market supports their selfperception as established ‘players’ in the market, while developing a distinct investmentminded disposition to housing. Furthermore, the high symbolic value of homeownership conveyed by families in a ‘super homeownership’ society has rather strengthened among students, despite restricted opportunities to market entry
Book Review: Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism
No full textInhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, & James Steinhoff, 2019, Pluto Press.
In memoriam Professor Ellu Saar (08.10.1955-02.06.2024)
No full textIt is with deep sadness that the Institute of International Social Studies (IISS), Tallinn University announces the passing of Professor Ellu Saar, an esteemed academic, sociologist, tutor and founding member of the IISS.
Юбилейное: Неизвестное немецкое письмо Вяч. Иванова [À propos of an Anniversary: An Unknown Letter by Viacheslav Ivanov]
No full textThe present publication consists of the sole letter written by Viacheslav Ivanov to the German archaeologist Ludwig Curtius (1874—1954). Ivanov met Curtius in 1935 through their mutual friend Ernst Robert Curtius (no relation). From 1928 to 1937 Ludwig Curtius was the head of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, a place dear to Ivanov’s heart. After his dismissal by the Nazis in September of 1937, Curtius remained in Rome. In 1944, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, an event was held in his honor at the Swedish (German?) Institute in Rome. It is not known whether Ivanov attended, but he did write a congratulatory letter, a copy of which remained in the family archive. In this letter, Ivanov emphazises their common conception of humanism by citing Goethe, Schiller, and (most strikingly) Mommsen
Марк Алданов в виленском зеркале [Mark Aldanov in the Vilna Mirror]
No full textThe purpose of the study is to reconstruct the literary reputation of Mark Aldanov in one of the local segments of the Russian diaspora during the interwar period. The study is based on the assumption that similar mechanisms for the formation of literary reputations also worked in other centers of Russian dispersion. The article uses information from archival documents in the library of the Vilna Russian Society and publications in periodicals, which indicates the accessibility of Aldanov’s texts to a Vilna reader. I provide an overview of the writer’s place in Russian emigré and European literatures as accessed in a series of articles published between 1929 and 1938 by Dorofey Bokhan, the leading critic of the Vilna Russian press, as well as in the only “study of the characteristics of [Aldanov’s] works” (1935) by Ksenia Kostenich and the only review (of the novel The Beginning of the End, 1939) by Bokhan. The study allows us to conclude that Mark Aldanov was seen as one of the major writers of the Russian diaspora, a reformer of the historical novel, as well as both a master of impeccable style and of the psychological portrait
Комментарий к стихотворению Пастернака «Последний день Помпеи» [Annotations to Boris Pasternak’s Poem “The Last Day of Pompeii”]
No full textThe article offers a close reading and contextual analysis of Boris Pasternak’s poem “The Last Day of Pompeii” (1915). Its title borrowed from Karl Briullov’s famous painting is misleading as it has nothing to do either with the Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius or with the painting but alludes to the defeats of Russian troops at the Western front and a political crisis in the country as clear signs of the imminent demise (“the last day”) of the Russian empire. Pasternak’s apocalyptic imagery parallels a prophesy in Mayakovsky’s contemporaneous A Cloud in Trousers (also 1915) where the poet predicted that 1916 would be the year of revolutions in Russia
Voices from transition: literary reflections on postsocialist life in German and Estonian contemporary literature [Siirdeaja hääled: postsotsialistliku elu kujutamisest saksa ja eesti nüüdiskirjanduses]
No full textThis article examines the literary representation of the transition era and its effects on individual and collective identities in Daniela Krien’s “Muldental” and selected examples of Estonian contemporary literature. Focusing on the concept of the “losers of the reunification” (Wendeverlierer) in former East Germany and the analogous experiences in postsocialist Estonia, the study explores how these works portray the disorientation and adaptation of people during and after the collapse of socialist regimes. The analysis highlights the resilience of individuals as they try to fill the “void” (Tlostanova) left by the dismantling of old social structures, offering insights into the broader human experience of loss, transformation, and the search for stability in postsocialist societies.
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Käesoleva artikli fookuses on siirdeaja kirjanduslik kujutamine Saksa nüüdiskirjanduses. Keskendudes „siirdeaja kaotajate” (sks Wendeverlierer) kontseptsioonile endisel Ida-Saksamaal ja analoogsetele kogemustele postsotsialistlikus Eestis, uurib artikkel, kuidas kirjandusteosed kajastavad inimeste kohanemist sotsialistlike režiimide kokkuvarisemise ajal ja selle järel. Uurimus keskendub Daniela Krieni romaanile novellides „Muldental” (2014/2020). Selleks et luua teatavat võrdluspunkti Saksa kirjandusega, tuuakse mõned näited Eesti nüüdiskirjandusest (nt Lilli Luuk, Kiwa, Mats Traat ja Andrus Kasemaa).
Teoreetilise lähenemisnurgana kasutatakse Madina Tlostanova kirjeldatud „postsotsialistliku tühimiku” mõistet. See mõiste esindab sotsiaalkultuurilist ja eksistentsiaalset lõhet, mille põhjustas sotsialistliku ühiskonna lagunemine. Analüüsis näidatakse, millisel kujul see „tühimik” inimeste eludes esineb: näiteks töökoha kaotus, kunagise isikliku staatuse drastiline muutus, teatud kujuga ühiskondlike kultuuriilmingute kadumine. Samas tuuakse esile inimeste vastupidavus, kui nad püüavad täita vana sotsiaalse korra lõppemise järel tekkinud „tühimikku”, ning näidatakse, kuidas on uues ühiskondlikus situatsioonis võimalik kasvada ja leida rahulolu mõnel muul viisil.
Nii Krieni kui ka Kasemaa teosed kasutavad fragmentaarset jutustamisvormi ehk „romaan novellides” struktuuri, mis seondub mälestuste kogumise formaadiga. See omakorda rõhutab siirdeaegsete mälestuste säilitamise olulisust ja väärtustab toonaseid isiklikke lugusid. Selline jutustamisvorm loob kogemustest mosaiigi, mis peegeldab siirdeaja keerukust ning rõhutab samal ajal inimliku mälu killustatust ja mittelineaarsust. Taasjutustamise kaudu omandavad need lood ajatu mõõtme, mis kujundab kollektiivset identiteeti, dokumenteerib mitmetahulisi minevikukogemusi ja näitab, kuidas lähiminevik on kujundanud inimeste praegust identiteeti.
Daniela Krieni „Muldental” ja valitud näited Eesti nüüdiskirjandusest toovad esile Ida-Saksa ja Eesti siirdeaegse ühiskonna sarnasusi ja erinevusi. Kuigi endise Ida-Saksamaa ja Eesti ajaloolised kogemused erinevad märkimisväärselt, pakuvad „siirdeaja kaotajate” ja „Teise Eesti” kontseptsioonid veenva võrdluspunkti. Mõlemad terminid hõlmavad kaotuse ja võõrandumise tunnet, mida kogesid inimesed, kes ei suutnud kohaneda uute sotsiaal-poliitiliste reaalsustega pärast sotsialistlike režiimide kokkuvarisemist
М. О. Гершензон: Неизвестное письмо 1921 года к Б. Л. Модзалевскому [An Unknown Letter from Mikhail Gershenzon to Boris Modzalevsky from 1921]
No full textThe article is an annotated publication of a previously unknown letter by Mikhail Gershenzon to Boris Modzalevsky from 1921, accidentally found outside the Modzalevsky archival collection at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House). This newly found letter allows us to understand correctly the previously published letter from Modzalevsky to Gershenzon. The article also contains a critique of the republication of Gershenzon’s memoir about Leo Tolstoy (1960).