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slavic studies

{{short description|Studies of Slavic peoples, languages, and culture}}

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Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist researching Slavistics. Increasingly, historians, social scientists, and other humanists who study Slavic cultures and societies have been included in this rubric.

In the United States, Slavic studies is dominated by Russian studies. Ewa Thompson, a professor of Slavic studies at Rice University, described the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute".{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=Ewa M. |title=Slavic but not Russian: Invisible and Mute |journal=Porównania |volume=16 |pages=9–18 |doi=10.14746/p.2015.16.10857 |url=http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/attachments/article/371/03%20Thompson.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306114030/http://porownania.amu.edu.pl/attachments/article/371/03%20Thompson.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |access-date=February 25, 2020 }}

History

Slavistics emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, simultaneously with Romantic nationalism among various Slavic nations, and ideological attempts to establish a common sense of Slavic community, exemplified by the Pan-Slavist movement. Among the first scholars to use the term was Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829).

The history of Slavic studies can be divided into three periods. Until 1876 the early Slavists concentrated on documentation and printing of monuments of Slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. At this time the majority of Slavic languages received their first modern dictionaries, grammars, and compendia. The second period, ending with World War I, featured the rapid development of Slavic philology and linguistics, most notably outside of Slavic countries themselves, in the circles formed around August Schleicher (1821–1868) and around August Leskien (1840–1916) at the University of Leipzig. At this time, Slavonic scholars focused on dialectology.

After World War II, centers of Slavic studies were created at various universities around the world, with much greater expansion into other humanities and social science disciplines. This development was partly due to political concerns in Western Europe and the North America arising from the Cold War. Slavic studies flourished in the years from World War II into the 1990s, though university enrollments in Slavic languages have declined since then.

Subfields

Following the traditional division of Slavs into three subgroups (eastern, southern, western), Slavic studies are divided into three distinct subfields:

  • East Slavic studies, encompassing the study of East Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
  • Belarusian studies, or Belarusistics ({{langx|la|Belarusistica}});{{Cite web |url=https://rep.vsu.by/bitstream/123456789/5085/1/t11pub142.pdf |title=Gordey (2011): Morphonology in Belarusian lingvistics: The formation period, p. 142. |access-date=2021-08-26 |archive-date=2021-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826145846/https://rep.vsu.by/bitstream/123456789/5085/1/t11pub142.pdf |url-status=dead }}
  • Russian studies, or Russistics ({{langx|la|Russistica|links=no}});
  • Rusyn studies, or Rusynistics ({{langx|la|Rusinistica|links=no}});[https://in.booksc.eu/dl/28512819/f25622 Kassianova (2002), p. 1001]{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}: "Rusinistica, or Carpatho-Rusyn studies - a social science discipline focusing on the history of an Eastern Slavic people inhabiting the northern and southern slope of the Carpathian mountains and living within the borders of several Eastern and Central European countries."
  • Ukrainian studies, or Ukrainistics ({{langx|la|Ucrainistica|links=no}});
  • South Slavic studies, encompassing the study of South Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
  • Bosniac studies, or Bosniacistics ({{langx|la|Bosniacistica|links=no}});{{sfn|Greenberg|2004|p=151}}
  • Bulgarian studies, or Bulgaristics ({{langx|la|Bulgaristica|links=no}});
  • Croatian studies, or Croatistics ({{langx|la|Croatistica|links=no}});
  • Macedonian studies, or Macedonistics ({{langx|la|Macedonistica|links=no}});
  • Montenegrin studies, or Montenegristics ({{langx|la|Montenegristica|links=no}});
  • Serbian studies, or Serbistics ({{langx|la|Serbistica|links=no}});
  • Slovene Studies, or Slovenistics ({{langx|la|Slovenistica|links=no}});
  • Yugoslav studies, or Yugoslavistics ({{langx|la|Iugoslavistica|links=no}});
  • West Slavic studies, encompassing the study of West Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
  • Czech studies, or Bohemistics ({{langx|la|Bohemistica|links=no}});
  • Kashubian studies, or Kashubistics ({{langx|la|Kashubistica|links=no}});
  • Polish studies, or Polonistics ({{langx|la|Polonistica|links=no}});
  • Slovak studies, or Slovakistics ({{langx|la|Slovacistica|links=no}});
  • Sorbian studies, or Sorbistics ({{langx|la|Sorbistica|links=no}}).

Slavic countries and areas of interest

Notable people

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Journals and book series

{{Main|List of journals about Slavic studies}}

Conferences

Institutes and schools

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;University

;Others

  • Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
  • [https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/gcsees Ghent Centre for Slavic and East European Studies], Ghent, Belgium

Organisations

See also

References

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Sources

  • {{Cite book|last=Greenberg|first=Robert D.|title=Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and its Disintegration|year=2004|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-151455-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_lNjHgr3QioC}}

External links

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  • [https://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/cas/ Canadian Association of Slavists] {{in lang|en|fr}}
  • [http://www.slavicreview.uiuc.edu/info/related.html List of Journals in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Slavic Review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226182145/http://www.slavicreview.uiuc.edu/info/related.html |date=2009-02-26 }}
  • [https://www.aseees.org Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies] (ASEEES)
  • [https://www.slavistik-portal.de/en/ Slavistik-Portal] The Slavistics Portal (Germany)
  • {{cite journal|last1=André|first1=Mazon|title=Slavonic studies in France|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.185585/2015.185585.The-Slavonic-Reviewvol64#page/n205/mode/2up|journal=The Slavonic and East European Review|date=November 1946|volume=25|issue=64}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Maslenikov|first1=Oleg A.|title=Slavic studies in America, 1939–1946|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.185585/2015.185585.The-Slavonic-Reviewvol64#page/n529/mode/2up|journal=The Slavonic and East European Review|date=April 1947|volume=25|issue=65}}
  • [http://www.polyslav-as.org Association of Slavists POLYSLAV]
  • [https://www.slaviclinguistics.org Slavic Linguistics Society]

=Library guides=

  • [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/slavonicinternetresources/slavoniclinks.html Slavonic and East European studies: a guide to resources (British Library)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114140857/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/slavonicinternetresources/slavoniclinks.html |date=2015-11-14 }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://library.columbia.edu/subject-guides/slavic.html |publisher=Columbia University Libraries |title=Russian & East European Studies Research Guides |location=New York, USA |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=2017-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621000807/http://library.columbia.edu/subject-guides/slavic.html |url-status=dead }}
  • [http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/slavic/ Slavic Studies Guide (Duke)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516054257/http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/slavic/ |date=2008-05-16 }}
  • [http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/slavic/part4.html Slavic Studies: A Research Guide (Harvard)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222020924/http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/slavic/part4.html |date=2017-02-22 }}
  • [http://www.library.illinois.edu/spx/webct/index.html Slavic and East European Resources (University of Illinois)]
  • {{cite web |url= http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000125 |publisher= Indiana University Bloomington Libraries |title= Slavic and East European Studies |work= Resources by Subject |location= USA |access-date= 2014-04-23 |archive-date= 2014-06-04 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140604160833/http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000125 |url-status= dead }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://library.leeds.ac.uk/german-and-russian |publisher=University of Leeds |author=University Library |title= German, Russian and Slavonic Studies |location=UK }}
  • [http://library.nyu.edu/research/slav/ Slavic Studies Guide (NYU)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314154955/http://library.nyu.edu/research/slav/ |date=2009-03-14 }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://ox.libguides.com/cat.php?cid=23919 |publisher=University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries |title=Slavonic, Central and Eastern European Studies |work=Oxford LibGuides |location=Oxford, UK |access-date=2013-11-18 |archive-date=2015-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004174839/http://ox.libguides.com/cat.php?cid=23919 |url-status=dead }}
  • {{cite web |url= http://libguides.princeton.edu/?group_id=1909 |publisher= Princeton University Library |title= Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies Research Guides |work=Princeton LibGuides |location=USA }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://libguides.rutgers.edu/content.php?pid=148787 |title=German, Slavic, & East European Languages & Literatures |work=Research Guides |author=University Libraries |publisher=Rutgers University |location=New Jersey, USA }}
  • [http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/library/collections.htm Guides to Resources]. University College London, School of Slavonic & East European Studies
  • [http://www.library.yale.edu/Internet/slavic.html Slavic & East European Collections (Yale)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209233722/http://www.library.yale.edu/Internet/slavic.html |date=2006-12-09 }}

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