you, I won't be able to live’. The expression of vulnerability, depression and helplessness of a man who is dumped by his female lover has become, in recent years, a common theme in the lower-working-class music referred to as mahragānāt , the
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Enriketa Papa-Pandelejmoni
, despite the fact that Romani and Egyptian ethnic minorities were not persecuted politically as a class, because socialism was the dictatorship of the proletariat regardless of gender and ethnicity (110). Life under communism, as archaeologist Professor
It's Complicated
The History of Sexuality in Eastern Europe Flourishes
Maria Bucur
experience and understanding of many other sociocultural norms and practices, from religion to ethnicity, race, class, able-bodiedness, and gender. We understand better how a stance considered progressive in one context can have toxic meaning in another
The Little Entente of Women as Transnational Ethno-Nationalist Community
Spotlight on Romania
Maria Bucur
many more lower-class inhabitants, vis-à-vis the ethnic Hungarians, Austrians, and Germans living in areas that later became part of Romania. The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which compounded the military losses suffered by the Romanian army during
Zuzanna Kołodziejska-Smagała
had died. 14 Therefore, leaving one's community meant something different for a Jew and for a non-Jew. Bujwidowa's review presents a secular, middle-class perspective, and although Kallas and other Polish-Jewish female writers belonged to that class
Maria Bucur, Katerina Dalakoura, Krassimira Daskalova, and Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová
Sofia Nădejde, were not invited to participate in discussions about changes in policies with regard to working-class women. Meanwhile, Greek and Bulgarian feminist organizations, despite their differing political associations, collaborated to a certain
Roads versus Rivers
Two Systems of Spatial Structuring in Northern Russia and Their Effects on Local Inhabitants
Kirill V. Istomin
behavior; 2) how culture plays a role in selecting which class of elements structures spatial perception, thus causing differences in perception between individuals and groups; and 3) how these differences lead to certain social and even political
The Cultural Industries of the North through the Eyes of Young Russians
A Report on the Experience of Network Collaboration between Universities
Marina Maguidovitch and Lena Sidorova
of the Kola Peninsula is counted as an endangered language. Of the 1,771 Sámi (according to the 2010 census), only 300 are active speakers. The language is not taught within the school curriculum; for many years Sámi classes have been optional and it
Birgitta Bader-Zaar, Evguenia Davidova, Minja Bujaković, Milena Kirova, Malgorzata Fidelis, Stefano Petrungaro, Alexandra Talavar, Daniela Koleva, Rochelle Ruthchild, Vania Ivanova, Valentina Mitkova, Roxana L. Cazan, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, and Nadia Danova
feminist socialists more. Specifically, the history of non-elite women, of “peasant women, poor women, working-class women, women from ethnic minorities” 11 —an intersectional perspective—needs to be included. Notes 1 Maria Bucur and Krassimira
Gender and Empire
The Imprisonment of Women in Eighteenth-Century Siberia
Gwyn Bourlakov
broadly in the historical literature. 9 Exile to Siberia was not merely a space for peasants behaving badly, or a space for social and geographic control of the state over the mobility of the lower classes. In the eighteenth-century, Siberia was also a