Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pro-Russian East. The volume navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions for an understanding of the current political situation. A key feature is the different politics of memory that prevail in each region, such as the Soviet past being presented as either a foreign occupation or a benign socialist project. The pluralistic culture of Ukraine (in terms of languages, national legacies and religions) forms a nation that faces both internal and external challenges. In order to address this fully, rather than following a merely chronological order, this book examines different interpretations of Ukrainian nationhood that have been especially influential, such as the Russian tradition, the Habsburg past and the Polish connections. Finally, the book analyses Ukraine's political and economic options for the future. Can the desired integration into EU structures overcome the concentration of investment of power in the hands of a few oligarchs and a continuing widespread culture of corruption? Will proposals to join NATO, which garnered robust support among the populace in the aftermath of the Russian aggression, materialise under the current circumstances? Is the political culture in Ukraine sufficiently functional to guarantee democratic procedures and the rule of law?

Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pro-Russian East. The volume navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions for an understanding of the current political situation. A key feature is the different politics of memory that prevail in each region, such as the Soviet past being presented as either a foreign occupation or a benign socialist project. The pluralistic culture of Ukraine (in terms of languages, national legacies and religions) forms a nation that faces both internal and external challenges. In order to address this fully, rather than following a merely chronological order, this book examines different interpretations of Ukrainian nationhood that have been especially influential, such as the Russian tradition, the Habsburg past and the Polish connections. Finally, the book analyses Ukraine's political and economic options for the future. Can the desired integration into EU structures overcome the concentration of investment of power in the hands of a few oligarchs and a continuing widespread culture of corruption? Will proposals to join NATO, which garnered robust support among the populace in the aftermath of the Russian aggression, materialise under the current circumstances? Is the political culture in Ukraine sufficiently functional to guarantee democratic procedures and the rule of law?

Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought scholarly and public attention to Ukraine's borders. Making Ukraine aims to investigate the various processes of negotiation, delineation, and contestation that have shaped the country's borders throughout the past century. Essays by contributors from various historical fields consider how, when, and under what conditions the borders that historically define the country were agreed upon. A diverse set of national and transnational contexts are explored, with a primary focus on the critical period between 1917 and 1954. Chapters are organized around three main themes: the interstate treaties that brought about the new international order in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the world wars, the formation of the internal boundaries between Ukraine and other Soviet republics, and the delineation of Ukraine's borders with its western neighbours. Investigating the process of bordering Ukraine in the post-Soviet era, contributors also pay close attention to the competing visions of future relations between Ukraine and Russia. Through its broad geographic and thematic coverage, Making Ukraine illustrates that the dynamics of contemporary border formation cannot be fully understood through the lens of a sole state, frontier, or ideology and sheds light on the shared history of territory and state formation in Europe and the wider modern world.

This volume aims to commemorate, criticize, scrutinize and assess the undoubted significance of the Russian Revolution both retrospectively and prospectively in three parts. Part I consists of a palimpsest of the different representations that the Russian Revolution underwent through its turbulent history, going back to its actors, agents, theorists and propagandists to consider whether it is at all possible to revisit the Russian Revolution as an event. With this problematic as a backbone, the chapters of this section scrutinize the ambivalences of revolution in four distinctive phenomena (sexual morality, religion, law and forms of life) that pertain to the revolution's historicity. Part II concentrates on how the revolution was retold in the aftermath of its accomplishment not only by its sympathizers but also its opponents. These chapters not only bring to light the ways in which the revolution triggered critical theorists to pave new paths of radical thinking that were conceived as methods to overcome the revolution's failures and impasses, but also how the Revolution was subverted in order to inspire reactionary politics and legitimize conservative theoretical undertakings. Even commemorating the Russian Revolution, then, still poses a threat to every well-established political order. In Part III, this volume interprets how the Russian Revolution can spur a rethinking of the idea of revolution. Acknowledging the suffocating burden that the notion of revolution as such entails, the final chapters of this book ultimately address the content and form of future revolution(s). It is therein, in such critical political thought and such radical form of action, where the Russian Revolution's legacy ought to be sought and can still be found.

In a series of individual essays, this volume presents the important contributors and major trends in the field of German linguistics and literary studies at the University of Leipzig from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. The volume, which addresses the broader context of the discipline s evolution during this period, is intended as a contribution to the history of German studies in Leipzig and, given the importance of the individual scholars discussed, to the history of German studies as a whole."

The volume presents a collection of papers on research into East Middle German written languages in the Late Middle Ages. The topics cover aspects of historical East Middle German from the beginning of records until about 1500 from the perspectives of linguistic geography, the sociology of language, philology, textual history and regional history.

Die "Multimedia"-Debatte steckt voller Visionen des sozialen und kulturellen Fortschritts. Medientechnische Innovationen, egal ob Buchdruck, Rundfunk oder (Kabel-)Fernsehen, waren immer ein Anlass fur derartige Hoffnungen. Doch im Ruckblick auf fruhere Medienprojekte lasst sich ebenso wie aus der Geschichte der etablierten Medien lernen, dass die ursprunglichen Nutzungskonzepte und -vorstellungen selten denen entsprachen, die sich langfristig durchsetzten. Was berechtigt also zu den gegenwartigen Erwartungen bei "Multimedia"? Und welche Voraussetzungen mussen erfullt sein, damit sich der Computer - wie vielfach behauptet - tatsachlich zu einem neuen "Massen- oder Leitmedium" entwickelt? Die Verfugbarkeit neuer Medientechniken, so die in diesem Band entwickelte These, ist zwar eine notwendige, aber keine hinreichende Bedingung. Im inhaltlich-kulturellen Sinn ist die Entstehung neuer Medien vielmehr ein lang andauernder Prozess der Organisationsentwicklung und Einbettung in den Nutzungsalltag.

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment. The analysis of biological constructions can not only lead to astonishing technical solutions but can also inspire the design of architecture. Bionics is a fascinating border area between pure research and practical application: biologists, chemists, physicists, mineralogists, and paleontologists meet up with material scientists, engineers, and architects and transfer their knowledge to architecture and construction. Using numerous practical examples, this richly illustrated introduction traces the process from the understanding of how something functions, to abstraction—for example in computer models—and the construction of initial prototypes, through to fully functional manufacture and production.

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment. The analysis of biological constructions can not only lead to astonishing technical solutions but can also inspire the design of architecture. Bionics is a fascinating border area between pure research and practical application: biologists, chemists, physicists, mineralogists, and paleontologists meet up with material scientists, engineers, and architects and transfer their knowledge to architecture and construction. Using numerous practical examples, this richly illustrated introduction traces the process from the understanding of how something functions, to abstraction—for example in computer models—and the construction of initial prototypes, through to fully functional manufacture and production.

, , . , - . - ( ) . , . - . , , , . A l'epoque du developpement de la linguistique de corpus, de l'elaboration de corpus de textes annotes qui contiennent un volume important de donnees, l'application des methodes quantitatives d'analyse devient une partie inherente de toute etude linguistique. Le livre contient les resultats de l'etude contrastive (russe-francais) des connecteurs avec l'utilisation des methodes quantitatives qui a ete menee dans le cadre du projet de recherche conjoint (Suisse-Russie) soutenu par le FNS et par la Fondation pour la recherche fondamentale de la Federation de Russie (RFBR). Les donnees statistiques pour l'etude contrastive des connecteurs ont ete obtenus grace a une nouvelle ressource informatique: une base de donnees des connecteurs qui contient des textes paralleles en russe et en francais. Le premier chapitre decrit la base de donnees, ses fonctionnalites et les possibilites qu'elle offre aux linguistes pour l'analyse contrastive, qualitative et quantitative, des connecteurs. Le deuxieme et le troisieme chapitres presentent les resultats de l'application de ce type d'analyse des connecteurs russes et francais en tant que marqueurs des relations discursives de concomitance et de reformulation. Dans le quatrieme chapitre ces methodes sont appliquees a l'analyse des resultats de traduction automatique, un domaine de recherche qui se trouve actuellement au centre des interets de la linguistique de corpus et de la linguistique computationnelle.