[H-verkko] Arvosteltavaksi: Kikimoran kevään 2010 kirjoja

[Tapio Onnela]

Agricola - Suomen historiaverkko tarjoaa kirjoja arvosteltavaksi  
Agricolan kirja-arvostelujulkaisuun (ISSN 1796-704X)

Jos haluat saada kirjasta arvostelukappaleen, lähetä sähköpostia  
osoitteeseen: <agricolan.arvostelut at gmail.com>, jossa ilmoitat kirjan  
nimen ja kustantajan sekä aina myös postiosoitteesi (maaposti!).  
Tiedot toimitetaan kustantajalle, joka lähettää sinulle kirjan.  
Perustele lyhyesti miksi juuri sinä haluaisit arvostella kyseisen  
kirjan.

HUOMIO! Uusia arvostelukappaleita toimitetaan vain niille jotka ovat  
vanhat arvostelunsa kirjoittaneet. Kirjoista on kova kysyntä, jos et  
saa arvosteluasi kirjoitettua lähetä saamasi arvostelukappale  
Agricolan toimitukseen jotta sitä voitaisiin tarjota uudelleen  
arvosteltavaksi. Kirja-arvostelun voi julkaista lisäksi muussakin  
julkaisussa ja muualla julkaistun arvostelun voi julkaista myös  
Agricolassa.

Liitä valmis arvostelusi suoraan sitä varten tehtyyn lomakkeeseen  
Agricolan sivulle: http://agricola.utu.fi/julkaisut/kirja-arvostelut/  
josta se lähetetään ensin Agricolan toimittajalle, joka tarkistaa  
ja julkaisee arvostelun. Arvostelu lähtee sen jälkeen H-verkko ja  
Kultut-listan tilaajille sähköpostina. Arvostelu tallentuu  
"Agricolan kirja-arvostelut" julkaisun sivulle: http:// 
agricola.utu.fi/julkaisut/kirja-arvostelut/.

HUOMAA MUUTTUNUT SÄHKÖPOSTIOSOITE!

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Toim. Maija Könönen, Juhani Nuorluoto ja Merja Salo
Balkanin syndrooma?
Esseitä Kaakkois-Euroopan menneisyydestä, nykyisyydestä ja  
tulevaisuudesta
Aleksanteri-sarja 1:2010
ISBN 978-952-10-5151-7
ISSN 1796-3192
244 s.
Balkan sirpaloitui ja Jugoslavian liittovaltio hajosi – mitä  
tulikaan tilalle? Hajoamisen seurauksena syntyi paitsi uusia  
itsenäisiä valtioita myös tarve luoda uudet kansalliset  
identiteetit ja niiden tueksi ”uudet” omat kielet. Tämä Balkanin  
tutkimuksen antologia jakaantuu kielen ja identiteetin, kulttuurin ja  
kirjallisuuden sekä etnisyyden ja uskonnon osioihin. Analyysin  
kohteina ovat niin kielihistoria, ”jugonostalgia” kuin  
menneisyydenhallinta, uudet historian oppikirjat, postmoderni  
bulgarialainen kaunokir jallisuus ja nuorison autenttiseksi kokema  
serbiankielinen hiphop. Mukana ovat Sakari Pälsin 1920–1930- 
luvuilla ottamat kuvat Bosniasta ja Kosovon ortodoksikirkkojen  
kulttuuriperintö.
Kirja on suunnattu kaikille Kaakkois-Euroopasta, sen politiikasta,  
etnisyydestä ja kulttuurista kiinnostuneille lukijoille. Se sopii  
niin akateemiseksi oppikirjaksi kuin alueella työskenteleville ja  
sitä tutkiville eri alojen asiantuntijoille.

Kirjoittajat
Krista Berglund
Ulf Brunnbauer
Ranko Bugarski
Dragana Cvetanović
Damir Kalogjera
Ari Kerkkänen
Teuvo Laitila
Nicole Lindstrom
Juhani Nuorluoto
Dubravko Škiljanin
Sirkku Terävä
Pilvi Torsti

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Jouni Järvinen
Normalization and Charter 77 – Violence, Commitment and Resistance  
in Czechoslovakia
Kikimora Publications A 21
ISBN ISBN 978-952-10-5152-4
366 p.
In Czechoslovakia, the occupation of 1968 denoted the beginning of  
‘normalization’, a political and societal stagnation that lasted  
two decades. Dissident initiative Charter 77 emerged in 1977,  
demanding that the leaders of the country respect human rights.
This study contributes an empirical analysis of the normalization era  
and of Charter 77. The study suggests that normalization can be  
understood as a fundamentally violent process and discusses the  
structural and cultural manifestations of violence with relation to  
Charter 77.
Furthermore, the study provides understanding of the motives and  
impetuses behind dissent, the strategic shifts in Charter 77  
activities, and the changes in the regime’s policies toward Charter  
77. It adds new perspective on the common image of Charter 77 as a  
non-political initiative and suggests that Charter 77 was, in fact, a  
political entity, an actively political one in the latter half of the  
1980s.
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Maaseutuaiheita - Rural Motifs
Essays in Honouf of Professor Leo Granberg
Edited by Jouko Nikula

Aleksanteri Series 5:2009
ISBN 978-952-10-5147-0
236 p.

This collection of essays in honour of Professor Leo Granberg  
presents fourteen scholarly contributions to rural studies as well as  
questions of economical and social transition in Finland and Central  
East Europe. The collection is bilingual, in Finnish and English.

Essays dedicated to Finnish rural motifs cover a wide spectrum. The  
first chapter reveals the impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s  
on the agricultural production in Southern Ostrobothnia, the second  
the commercialisation of Finnish agriculture in the 19th century.  
Further chapters deal with the remote areas as open spaces of hope,  
with the rise of a new sense of local identification, with the  
history of Finnish rural studies and co-operative organisations as a  
form of social innovation.

As for European developments, Vera Majerova discloses metamorphoses  
of the rural sociology in the Czech Republic, Katalin Kovacs the  
rural area transformation in Hungary, while Mariana Draganova focuses  
on Bulgaria. Jouko Nikula discusses plot farming in post-Soviet  
Russia and Estonia, whereas Pawel Starosta feeling of public safety.

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Aleksandr Bogdanov Revisited
Edited by Vesa Oittinen

Aleksanteri Series 1:2009
ISBN 978-952-10-4101-3
The radical Russian philosopher, politician, utopian novelist and  
social scientist Aleksandr Bogdanov (1873—1928) is a controversial  
figure: for some, the “rival of Lenin” and founder of an  
alternative current in Bolshevism, which might have turned the course  
of history if he had succeeded; for others, an utopist with “wild”  
ideas in social sciences, culture as well as medicine; some, finally,  
see in Bogdanov a precursor of cybernetics and scientific management  
of society.

  All these aspects of the many-faceted person of Bogdanov are  
discussed in this volume, which contains the materials of an  
international symposium held at the Aleksanteri Institute in 2006,  
with some later additions.  The contributions of scholars from  
Russia, Germany, Italy, France and Finland give an overall picture  
and open some unexpected new views on the literary and scientific  
work of a Russian scholar, whose work was neglected for a long time  
in his native country.

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The Unlimited Gaze. Essays in Honour of Professor Natalia Baschmakoff
Edited by Elina Kahla
Aleksanteri Series 2:2009
ISBN 978-952-10-4102-0
This collection of essays in honour of Professor Natalia Baschmakoff  
presents seventeen scholarly contributions to the study of Russian  
cultural history, literature, arts and society.

The festschrift is divided into three sections: Rhythms of Culture,  
Approaches to Modernism, and National and Imperial Dimensions. Each  
article offers an individual scholarly gaze into a specific topic.  
The topics range from an historical survey of taste to essays on  
modernism, Orthodox church painting, women’s writing, literary  
tourism, the cholera epidemic of 1892, nature preservation, and  
questions of national and imperial identity.

The contributors are internationally known historians, literary  
scholars, and specialists in Russian studies.

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The Dacha Kingdom: Summer Dwellers and Dwellings in the Baltic Area
Edited by Natalia Baschmakoff and Mari Ristolainen

For generations of Russian urbanites dachas have been their lifeline.  
Today, more than half of urban families own these retreats for  
recreation and privacy. Wooden or marble, big or small, a dacha is  
more than a house, a plot, a lifestyle. It is rather a cultural  
indicator of what is happening in Russian society. A dacha “may be  
not more than a shed, but for Russians it’s heaven,” writes  
Washington Post’s Moscow correspondent in his praise of the exurban  
Russian Arcadia.

This book encompasses summertime cultural encounters around the  
Baltic during the 20th and 21st centuries, as told by more than 30  
international scholars.

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Perspectives to the Media in Russia: “Western” Interests and Russian
Developments
Edited by Elena Vartanova, Hannu Nieminen and Minna-Mari
Salminen
This book combines two different approaches to the media in Russia.  
The first is a “Western” look based on an extensive review of  
current academic research in Western Europe and the USA. This renders  
us a picture of the research field still much affected by the old  
“Cold War” stereotype. The other approach is based on the research  
by Russian scholars, exposing us to a media landscape in constant  
flux. Detailed mappings of the Russian media structure, the youth’s  
media use, or the development of local media are complemented with an  
overview which sets the media developments into a wider framework of  
Russian political and social development.