April 2003 Director’S Notebook by David Ransel the Russian and East European Institute Has Enjoyed an Exceptionally Good Year

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NEWS FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN INSTITUTE

David L. Ransel, Director Jen Maceyko, Editor Vol. 27, No. 2 April 2003 Director’s Notebook by David Ransel The Russian and East European Institute has enjoyed an exceptionally good year. We have not lost a single faculty member to retirement or non- retention. At the same time, despite justified gloom about the academic budget prospects in Indiana and throughout the nation, we have been fortunate to hire three outstanding young faculty to our program this year, and we antici- pate the addition of a fourth in the next few weeks. Sarah Phillips is joining our Department of Anthropology next fall as an assistant professor. Sarah received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Features Urbana-Champaign in 2002 and has been teaching this year at the University of the South. Her dissertation explores the “ambiguities of women’s NGO Director’s Notebook 1 organizing and paternalism in post-Soviet Ukraine.” She is also interested in McCormick in Kosovo 3 the real and symbolic effects of the Chernobyl disaster and in questions of Profile: Jeffrey Holdeman 4 the disabled in Russian and Ukrainian societies. Professor Anya Peterson Hoosiers in Almaty 5 Royce of the Department of Anthropology and I have been working several Chalcolithic Period in Southeast years to win a tenure-track position for Russian and East European studies in Europe 6 anthropology, where we already train a large cohort of talented graduate Wanat in Kosovo 7 students without adequate area specialist help. Among the students currently in the anthropology graduate program are young scholars working on Buriatia, Smolensk Archives 8 Tuva, Moldova, Cherkessia, and Lithuania. The appointment of Phillips adds Polish Ambassador Visits IU 9 significantly to our strength, which until now has been built on training by anthropologists who are only secondarily interested in Russia and Eastern Europe (Nazif Shahrani, Joelle Baloul, Anya Royce, Beverly Stoeltje, and Richard Wilk), assisted by language-qualified social and cultural historians News (Maria Bucur, Jeffrey Veidlinger, and me). This new appointment will place In Memory of Cornelius van IU in the front rank of national programs in Russian and East European an- Schooneveld 2 thropology. Kanevskaya Scholarship 2 Second, our Department of Political Science is adding a specialist in our Spring Disseration Defenses 2 area to an already unmatched strength in Russian and East European studies. Beate Sissenich will join the department next fall as a scholar and teacher of SWSEEL 2003 10 European Union issues whose research focuses on East Central Europe. Student News 14 Sissenich did her undergraduate work at the Free University in Berlin, her Alumni Update 15 master’s degree at Brandeis University, and her Ph.D. degree at Cornell Faculty News 15 University. Her dissertation is titled “State-Building by a Non-State: Euro- International Studies Summer pean Union Enlargement and the Diffusion of EU Social Policy in Poland and Institute 16 Hungary.” A native German speaker, she is a language-qualified as well in Polish and Russian. Sissenich will join our large group of REEI affiliated faculty in political science, including Dina Spechler, Henry Hale, and William continued on page 12 2 Russian and East European Institute

INSTITUTE STAFF David L. Ransel, Director In Memory Denise Gardiner, Assistant Director/Outreach Coordinator Cornelis Hendrik van Schooneveld, known as “Kees” to his colleagues, passed Jessica Hamilton, Administrative away on March 18, 2003, at the age of 82, in his home at Amancy, France. He was Secretary born in ‘s-Gravenhage (The Hague), in The Netherlands, on January 19, 1921. He Lisa Giullian, Advisor/Assistant first came to work at Indiana University in 1966 and retired in 1987. Director for Student Services Professor van Schooneveld was a major international figure of Slavic linguistics and linguistic publishing for many decades. He began the study of linguistics GRADUATE ASSISTANTS under tutelage of Nicolas van Wijk, at Leiden University in his native country of Alex Dunlop, Outreach Assistant The Netherlands. He first came to the United States to study with the premier Jen Maceyko, Publications Editor Slavic linguist of that time, Roman Jakobson, who was teaching at Columbia Emily Ray, Assistant to Slavic University. After receiving his doctorate in 1949, he first taught at the University Bibliographer of Oklahoma, but then moved back to Leiden, to become chair of Slavic and Baltic Jacquelyn Henderson, World Wide philology. In 1959, he returned to the United States, taking a professorship at Web Administrator Stanford University. In 1966, he moved to a professorship at Indiana University, CONTACT INFORMATION and several of his graduate students followed him to Bloomington. Russian and East European Institute Ballantine Hall 565 Van Schooneveld’s work built on the semantic theories of Jakobson, which had Indiana University the goal of establishing the ultimate semantic distinctive features of Russian, but Bloomington, IN 47405-6615 with further application to the other Slavic systems and to language universals. Phone: (812) 855-7309 Some of van Schooneveld’s most important work concerned the semantic features Fax: (812) 855-6411 of the Russian prepositions and verbal prefixes. Many doctoral dissertations, Email: [email protected] based on the van Schooneveldian semantic theories, were written at IU during the www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/ 1966-87 period, which could well be called the period of van Schooneveldian linguistics in the Indiana Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. IU Awards for REEI Alumni Colleagues are working on a more detailed memorial column on van Schooneveld, 1994 Irene Meister which will appear in the fall 2003 Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures College Distinguished Alumni alumni newsletter. 1998 Stephen Cohen College Distinguished Alumni 1999 James F. Collins Honorary Doctorate Kanevskaya Scholarship Announced The University of Montana Foundation has announced a scholarship to be es- REEI Awards tablished in honor of Marina Kanevskaya. Kanevskaya (PhD Slavics 1997), a professor of Russian at UM, died as a result of a hit and run accident in December. DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Donations in her name may be sent to: The University of Montana Foundation, PO 1988 Alexander Rabinowitch Box 7159, Missoula, MT 59807. Checks should be made out to The University of 1988 Charles Gati Montana Foundation, mentioning the Kanevskaya Scholarship in the memo line. 1995 Gale Stokes 2000 Helena Goscilo 2002 Howard I. Aronson Dissertation Defenses 2002 William Hopkins DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Aija Beldavs (Folklore) defended her dissertation “I Sing Out Nine, You’re 1988 Theofanis Stavrou Working on One: Historical Latvian Ritual Insult Song Warring ‘Apdziedasanas.’” 1988 Robert F. Byrnes Professor Henry Glassie chaired her committee. 1989 Karen Niggle Jennifer Cash (Anthropology) defended her dissertation titled “Rhetorics of 1996 Robert W. Campbell Identity: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Children’s Cultural Programs.” Anya P. Royce 1997 Charles Jelavich chaired her committee. 1997 Janet Rabinowitch Bradley Woodworth (History) defended his dissertation “Civil Society and Na- 2000 William B. Edgerton tionality in the Multiethnic Russian Empire: Tallinn/Reval, 1860-1914.” Toivo Raun chaired his committee. REEIfication, April 2003 3 Social Changes in Kosovo: Opportunities and Challenges for People with Disabilities by Bryan P. McCormick During the fall semester of 2002, I sity Hospital in Priština. This was a ing their sewn goods, but this provided spent two months in Kosovo working very interesting experience for me as only minimal income. Overall, I was as an intern for the International Or- it was the first time I had been on a very impressed by the self-reliance of ganization for Migration (IOM). IOM psychiatric ward in this organi- is an intergovernmental organization Kosovo. Although I have zation. It based in Geneva whose mission is to worked in psychiatric hos- was clear aid in the orderly management of mi- pitals in the United States, that there gration around the world. The IOM this was quite different. were virtu- mission in Kosovo was established The wards were dark, ally no ser- shortly after the end of hostilities in with few windows. In vices to June of 1999 and has worked to aid addition, due to the inter- support in the return of refugees and the re- mittent electricity in these fami- building of Kosovo society following Kosovo generally, it was lies. The the NATO-led campaign to expel also cold. As we walked situation Serbian military forces from the re- down corridors, I was was even gion. I was assigned to IOM’s Psy- struck by the fact that al- more diffi- chosocial and Trauma Response though clients were cult for (PTR) program and was based in present, nothing particular families Kosovo’s capital city of Priština. was happening. It was the which had The PTR project was a three-year level of inactivity that was children program that sought to provide ser- most remarkable to me. with more vices and training to aid in Kosovar Another of my early In addition to his time in Kosovo, severe dis- citizens’ adjustment following the meetings was with Ms. McCormick had the opportunity to abilities as visit Ohrid, Macedonia (above) armed conflict. The PTR project was Resmije Krasniqi, the they were intended to meet the psychosocial founder of the mother’s group Hader, ineligible for public schools. needs of returning refugees, ethnic in the town of Prizren. Hader was One other facility that I made a minorities, and other underserved formed by a group of mothers of chil- point of touring was the Štimlje Spe- populations in the post-conflict period. dren with disabilities who gathered on cial Institute (SSI). SSI is a large resi- My task was to develop and imple- a regular basis to meet their own dential institution that provides ser- ment a project that would serve the needs. They provided activities for vices for people with mental disabili- needs of underrepresented popula- their children, sewed diapers and ties. I learned that in Kosovo, and tions. Given my background in recre- made lunch once a week. As we met most of the Balkans, mental disability ation therapy, I sought to develop a with Ms. Krasniqi we discussed many includes both mental illness and men- project that would serve people with of the difficulties faced by families tal retardation. I had heard a number disabilities. I began by meeting with with a disabled child. First, she in- of stories about the poor conditions at advocates, parents’ groups and ser- formed me that this year (2002) was the institute, and a recent report by vice providers who were currently the first that any children with disabili- Mental Disability Rights International addressing the needs of people with ties were able to go to school. In ad- was highly critical of the care at SSI, disabilities in Kosovo in order to get dition, although Hader had received as well as at other facilities in Kosovo. some idea of the scope of need. some aid from international donors, all Bryan McCormick is an associ- My first meeting was with the only of the activities they were doing at ate professor in the School of child psychiatrist in Kosovo. We met this time were self-funded. They Health, Physical Education, and on the psychiatric unit of the Univer- were able to raise some funds by sell- Recreation. 4 Russian and East European Institute Faculty Profile: Jeffrey Holdeman by Jen Maceyko

Jeffrey Holdeman’s grandmother come back here and you can do your nology and geological surveys of came to the U.S. in 1914 from a vil- PhD work in French here at UT.” Eurasia. lage in Romania. It was the ship’s last Holdeman planned on traveling to While in Russia, Holdeman men- voyage from Europe before World Europe and Russia for a year. In his tioned his interest in Slavic linguistics War I. When she arrived, she settled transition from Western to Eastern to a teacher at the Gorny Institute. Europe, he spent a week in He wanted to study the history of the Ukraine where he finally re- Russian language. The professor ceived his first Russian-lan- agreed to work with him on an indi- guage immersion. It was not vidual basis. Holdeman picked up easy. However, by the time the subject matter so quickly that his he got to Russia a week later, teacher was soon introducing him to the pieces were beginning to her colleagues at St. Petersburg State fall into place. University. Before long, Holdeman Before traveling to Rus- was spending his mornings at the min- sia, Holdeman had searched ing institute and his evenings at lec- for and found a year-long tures at St. Petersburg State. Holdeman northeast of Prague with the Trosky study program at the Gorny By the time Holdeman returned to Castle in the background Institute in St. Petersburg, in the U.S. to begin his graduate study in Ohio, found work, and eventually which he enrolled. Since his expo- in linguistics at Ohio State Univer- married and raised a family. While sure to Russia had been limited, he sity, he had undergone an intense many immigrants of that time picked was unsure what Gorny referred to. education on the subject. “Going into up English quickly, Romanian was “I thought this was some person like a linguistics class [at OSU] and not still spoken in her household and con- Pushkin, or that this was something knowing the English word for the tinued to be passed down through like the Gorky In- linguistic terms was re- the generations. This was just the first stitute,” he said. ally incredible,” he of a number of foreign languages “The first day they says. He continued his Holdeman would learn. took us around study at OSU in Rus- In high school, Holdeman began and showed us the sian, linguistics, Czech, French and later Russian, motivated geological mu- Bulgarian, and Serbo- by warnings from friends that Rus- seum, and I Croatian – and eventu- sian was a very difficult language. He thought, ‘This insti- ally began his disserta- welcomed the challenge. He contin- tute named after tion on the Old Believer ued to study both languages at the Gorny has a fan- community in Erie, University of Tennessee, deciding late tastic museum!’ Pennsylvania. in his junior year to work toward a Probably about a Holdeman’s re- Russian, rather than French, major. week and a half in search took him from The decision dismayed his French we realized it was Holdeman playing guitar at a Erie, Pennsylvania to recent outreach event professor. When Holdeman told him a mining institute.” Suwalki, Poland in or- of his desire to travel to Russia and Luckily, Holdeman’s program was der to reconstruct the history of the then to return and pursue a PhD in tailored and courses were taught spe- Old Believer (religious) community. Russian linguistics, the professor cifically for foreign students. Mean- No substantial research had been made him a deal. “Go to Russia,” he while, the students around him talked said, “and if it doesn’t work out, then of their courses on mine shaft tech- continued on page 11 REEIfication, April 2003 5 Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: Hoosiers Descend upon Almaty by Eric Boyle

What do health care reform, civil Institute for Social Action and Re- sive, accountable, and transparent society development, local govern- newal, had a program funded by the local government institutions. Eric’s ment reform, and information cam- United States Agency for Interna- work in Kazakhstan sends him to paigns all have in common? No, these tional Development (USAID) to in- exotic places like Kostanai and aren’t the latest programs to be cut cubate new-born non-government Taldykorgan working on varying in the new Federal budget in light of organizations, nurturing them with re- projects, which range from helping the war on terrorism. These are just source materials, organizational as- set regional economic development some of the activities that IU/REEI sistance, and small grants. After- boards to working with condo- alumni are carrying out in Almaty, wards, she became the deputy di- minium associations interested in Kazakhstan. REEI isn’t just about rector for Azerbaijan for the Inter- water efficiency. His wife, Yulia Slavic musicology or 17th-Century national Foundation for Election Sys- Boyle, also a graduate of IU (SPEA Serbian nation building. Often, it’s tems (IFES), getting its civic educa- MPA 1999), is a program specialist about 21st-Century paychecks from tion program on its feet, also with the at the Academy for Educational De- U. S. Government contractors in help of USAID funding. velopment. some of the farthest reaches of the Now in Almaty together with hus- Josh Abrams’ (SPEA MPA/REEI world. band Larry Held (a fellow Hoosier, MA 2001) first trip to Central Asia Almaty is not as popular a place Central Eurasian Studies 1996- was also as a Peace Corps Volun- as, say, Terre Haute or Indianapolis 1998, regional director for Academy teer, having served in Chimkent, for IU’s finest, but at the present time for Educational Development), Sara Kazakhstan from 1997 to 1999. this self-labeled “megapolis” of 1.5 is a regional program manager for He’s now back in Kazakhstan, this million people is playing host to a Zdrav Plus, managed by another time working with the Eurasia Foun- number of REEI graduates. How USAID partner, Abt Associates. dation as the outreach coordinator. does one get from the rolling hills of Among the projects she manages is The Eurasia Foundation gives grants Indiana to the barren steppes of the Health Communities Grants pro- on a competitive basis to a wide va- Kazakhstan? For each of us, the gram, which hands out both small riety of local NGO initiatives across story is a little different, but all of our grants and advice to community- the entire former Soviet Union. In tales are woven with similar threads: based health initiatives in all five Cen- Kazakhstan, funded by USAID, the federally-funded development assis- tral Asian republics. Foundation is focusing its interven- tance, a thirst for adventure, a love Eric Boyle (SPEA MPA/REEI tions on open budgeting practices of the lands, and the benefits of tax- MA 1999) had been stomping among government institutions. Josh free living as an expatriate. Here are around Central Asia as a Peace makes sure that others know of the stories from three of us. Corps Volunteer in Kyrgyzstan from successes that Eurasia’s local NGOs Almaty is Sara Feinstein’s (MBA/ 1993 to 1995. After the last three have had through various information REEI MA 1999) second Eurasian years on the other side of the Caspian campaigns. station since graduation. From 2000 in Armenia, he was given the oppor- What is life like in Almaty for an to 2002, she worked in Baku, tunity to return as a resident advisor expatriate at the dawn of the new Azerbaijan nurturing Azerbaijan’s for the second phase of the Local century? As life in any big city re- young but growing sense of civil so- Government Initiative, funded by covering from communism, it’s a ciety. She worked as information USAID and implemented by the mixed bag. Almaty lost its capital outreach program director for Urban Institute, a DC-based think- privileges to Astana in 1997. Now ISAR’s operations in Azerbaijan. tank. The Local Government Initia- having to settle with the title “South- Formerly the Institute for Soviet- tive is a four-country program in American Relations, ISAR, now the Central Asia encouraging respon- continued on page 10 6 Russian and East European Institute The Beginnings of Europe: the Chalcolithic period in southeastern Europe (ca. 4500-3000/2700 BC) by Zarko Tankosic A long debated issue exists within culminated by the end of the period. that separate it from the surrounding archaeology regarding factors that These migrations resulted in the for- areas. First, it is located on the inter- influenced cultural change during the mation of the EBA section of major prehis- period between the end of the cultures in south- toric migration, trade, Neolithic and the beginning of the eastern and cen- and exchange routes. Early Bronze Age (EBA) in south- tral Europe. From Commonly, these his- eastern Europe. In European archae- this migration, toric routes connect to ology this section of prehistory is speakers of one or the river valleys. This re- commonly known as Chalcolithic or more Indo-Euro- gion is surrounded by Eneolithic, both terms meaning the pean dialects were head of a sceptre, a symbolic the Danube, Morava, Copper Age. The importance of this probably united, object of elites at the end of the and Pek rivers. Second, period for understanding the roots of and would come Chalcolithic era the region is the location subsequent developments in prehis- to lay the linguistic foundation for al- of the earliest confirmed copper-ore tory (Bronze and Iron Ages) has not most all modern European languages. mining in the Balkans and Europe. been properly understood until rela- The demo- In fact, the entire tively recently. It has been included graphic and area has abundant in either to the preceding period technological deposits of copper (Neolithic) as its final phase, or to changes men- and other metallic the ensuing Early Bronze Age as its tioned above ores that might have beginning. In any case, the also influenced been known, and Chalcolithic has been considered an the nature of the Shaft-hole axe of the Chalolithic era, even exploited, in intermediary period. However, the societies inhab- serving practical and status purposes the Chalcolithic era, Copper Age witnessed events that iting the region. though the evidence were to change the entire demo- Explaining this cultural change is one for the latter is at present meager, graphic, social, technological, and of the main goals of my research. mostly due to the lack of proper ex- ideological basis of the following While attempting to acquire material ploration. European EBA cultures, which es- evidence, I will focus my attention to My research is leading me to ex- sentially remained unaltered until the region stretching amine the effect of new Roman times. Southeastern Europe, between modern-day technologies and and more precisely the Balkan Pen- eastern Serbia, south- population movements insula, was the site of the first autono- western Romania, and from the east on the mously developed European metal- western Bulgaria. It is structure of the local lurgy, an event that in many ways in- a mountainous region societies. I expect to fluences the lives of people even to- that has a well pre- find that the stylistic day. At the same time, horse breed- served stratigraphic change in the archaeo- ing, the first wheel, and ox-drawn sequence, which in- logical material is actu- carts were introduced to European cludes superimposed Typical pottery of the ally a consequence of society. Somewhere in the middle of cultural layers reflect- Chalcolithic era the internal structural the Chalcolithic a supposed migra- ing cultures that were developments in the tion from the East (from the steppe present in this region during the Balkan prehistoric societies (i.e. the regions north of the Black Sea, to- Chalcolithic era. The region also has day in southern Ukraine) started and two other important characteristics continued on page 13 REEIfication, April 2003 7 First Travels to Kosovo By Annisa Wanat

After bidding goodbye to the fifth Another thing I noticed immediately advantage, since it took about two floor of Ballantine Hall last August, I was the ever-present sound of the days just to master falemnderit (thank moved to Washington, D.C. and generators. The electricity appeared you), and “good morning” kept com- started working for an NGO that to work for only about three hours at ing out of my mouth as mir-something- implements pro- a time, so most jes. gramming to support of the busi- Beyond language, the international political develop- nesses had gen- presence in Kosovo was obvious in ment in transition erators that other ways. I had never been to a post- and developing kicked in when conflict region before. In addition to countries around the the power went the soldiers, tanks, constant security world; I work on out. In our of- checks, and restricted areas, the road Kosovo and Bul- fice, it took only signs clearly demonstrated the inter- garia programs. A a couple of days national influence. When the UN few weeks ago, I to get down the entered Kosovo, they set up a sys- returned from a pattern. The tem to identify the inter-city roads three-week trip to lights would go (since the Kosovars typically refer to see both programs in out, then the roads by their destinations; i.e., “the action and meet all backup batteries road to x”). Given the sensitive lan- of the people I had Alumna Annisa Wanat, left, and a on the computer guage issue in Kosovo, the UN skirted talked to on the colleague on the Duck road in would start the issue by naming the roads with phone over my first Kosovo beeping, as a re- pictograms – of animals! It is to the five months on the job. minder to save your work before it UN’s credit that they did not use En- Although the Peace Corps had was too late. The generators took glish signs, but there is still something taken me to Bulgaria for two years, I about ten seconds to kick in. How- absurd about listening to radio and had never been to Kosovo before. I ever, the secondary effect of the gen- hearing: “The Duck is flooded today. was excited about visiting a new place erators starting up was that they set To detour around the water, head and I spent the first two days walking off all of the car alarms on the nu- south on the Deer to the Snake, and around in a daze, trying to take it all merous SUVs in the area. The pat- then head west.” in. The airport in Priština is actually tern repeated itself every three hours: But as humorous as the idea is of in Fushe Kosovo Polje (the Field of lights went out, computers beeped, a road named “Rat,” on the Rat itself the Blackbirds), and every time I drove generator kicked in, car alarms went you pass an Orthodox Church, which through the village, all I could think of off. One person I met thought the se- is protected by not only barbed wire, was “This is where it all started? How quence of sounds should be the na- but by Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops. can so much history be wrapped up tional anthem if Kosovo ever gains in- The site is a mass grave. A little bit in this sleepy little village?” History dependence. farther along the Rat, you pass a me- aside, anyone who still has nightmares Until the question of independence morial to the Kosovo Liberation Army about seeing The Birds should prob- is resolved, the international commu- (KLA) soldiers, including more ably not go to Kosovo. The blackbirds nity will have a continuous presence graves, fresh flowers, benches for are everywhere, and at dusk they in Kosovo in one form or another. families to sit and mourn, and an Al- perch in the trees, lurking and watch- Almost everyone in Kosovo spoke banian flag. Memorials like this are ing. It took four days before I man- English, and the phrase book I had scattered all over the region, but the aged to reassure myself that none of been studying so diligently on the plane them would peck out my eyes. was unnecessary. This worked to my continued on page 11 8 Russian and East European Institute Smolensk Archive Home Safe and Sound

On March 25, 2003, American dip- able fodder for anti-communist pro- Central Committee was unwilling to lomat and I.U. alumnus Paul M. paganda and eventually shipped west- acknowledge the authenticity of the Carter, Jr. (MA 1984; Ph.D. and ward apparently for use by Nazi ide- documents because of their politically REEI certificate 1997) represented ologists at their anti-Bolshevik re- embarrassing nature. In the early the United States at a ceremony search center in Silesia. Most of the 1990s, a tentative agreement was marking the return of the famous archive – reportedly enough to fill reached for the archive’s return, but “Smolensk Archive” of regional So- three and a half railroad cars – was a transfer did not take place because recaptured by the Soviets at the end the U.S. wanted clarification of Rus- of the war, but about 570 files some- sian intentions with regard to the how were separated from the rest Schneerson collection of Russian of the archive and fell into American Lubavitcher documents that had fallen hands. into Bolshevik hands soon after 1917. Few of the American-held files An important event in the eventually were sensational or dramatic, the bulk successful return of the archive was consisting of ordinary personnel the 1998 Washington Conference on records, interoffice memoranda, and Holocaust Era Assets, at which the meeting reports. Nevertheless, the United States and the Russian Fed- importance of the Smolensk Archive eration pledged themselves to an in- Dr. Carter, right, stands by as the state archive director presents a file for Western understanding of the ternational effort to help research and to a regional archive official Soviet system could hardly be over- uncover cultural assets that were estimated. It provided American in- seized by the Nazis during World War viet Communist Party records, which telligence analysts, then Western II and to return them to their pre-war had been captured by the German scholars, with some of the first docu- owners or heirs. In the years follow- Wehrmacht during its invasion of the mentary evidence of the internal ing the conference, both public and USSR and held for much of the Cold workings of the Soviet War period in the U.S. National Ar- Communist Party as it chives in Washington. U.S. Ambas- attempted to remake sador Alexander Vershbow symboli- Russia along Marxist cally presented the archive to the lines through crash in- Russian government at a ceremony dustrialization, collectiv- in Moscow last December, timed to ization, and mass terror. coincide with the physical transfer of A leading American the documents to the Russian Em- sovietologist Merle bassy in Washington. The March 25 Fainsod used the ceremony in Smolensk signaled the archive as the basis for archive’s final return to its original lo- his classic 1958 study cation. Smolensk Under So- The odyssey of the Smolensk viet Rule, which detailed Open World Coordinator Khilkov, left,and Dr. Archive is a fascinating study in the these processes and re- Carter tour storage facilities with an archive official, right. interconnection of politics, scholarship, mains even now a staple and military history. Discovered by of Soviet studies. private institutions in the United States German intelligence officers after the The first attempt by the U.S. Gov- and Europe have taken steps towards capture of Smolensk in July 1941, the ernment to return the archive was addressing issues related to Nazi- archive was soon recognized as valu- made in the 1960s, but the CPSU continued on page 13 REEIfication, April 2003 9 Polish Ambassador Visits IU, Presents Honors to Patrick O’Meara and Bill Johnston By Mark Betka His Excellency, Przemyslaw ter and for helping it to become the be reached. He said that “Poles will Grudzinski, Ambassador of the Repub- prominent learning center that it is to- never be in favor of war” but that Iraq’s lic of Poland paid a visit to Bloomington day. The center remains a focal point refusal to adhere to UN resolutions had on April 8. The purpose of his visit was for Polish studies in the forced the issue. to deliver a talk entitled “Poland and Midwest and sponsors Delving into history, the Future of Transatlantic Relations” a wide variety of aca- he reminded the au- and to honor the work of two friends demic and cultural dience that Poles un- of Poland, Dean of International Pro- events in and around derstand the meaning grams Patrick O’Meara and Bill the Bloomington cam- and brutality of war Johnston, Director of the Polish Stud- pus. and therefore do not ies Center. The ambassador also met In his remarks he enter into the coali- with a number of IU administrators, addressed Poland’s tion lightly. including interim President Gerald role as a NATO mem- Grudzinski stated his Bepko, and took time to join a group ber state, the current disappointment that of students from REEI, SPEA and His- status of Polish-U.S. all other avenues had tory for breakfast. relations, Poland’s in- been exhausted. Polish Ambassador Grudzinski, Grudzinski actually wears two hats, volvement in the Iraq When questioned right, and Polish Studies one as a statesman and one as scholar war, and how Euro- Center Director Bill Johnston about Poland’s fate and academic. His scholastic creden- pean Union-United at the ambassador’s lecture at Yalta, considered tials are as distinguished as his diplo- States relations have by some a betrayal matic ones. A historian by education, evolved in the post-cold war environ- of Poland by President Roosevelt, he he holds an MA in History from the ment. Grudzinski began by saying that once again relied on his academic back- University of Nicolaus Copernicus, NATO membership served as a mile- ground. He reminded the audience that Torun and a PhD in History from the stone in Polish-U.S. relations. During the long course of U.S.-Polish relations Polish Academy of Sciences. He noted the cold war, Europe had accepted a has been overwhelmingly positive in na- the pleasure he takes in visiting college modicum of American leadership in ex- ture. Regarding Yalta he said that the campuses throughout the U.S. and is change for security against the threat issue was a complex one. His knowl- no stranger to life in a college town. of the Soviets. Now, with the Warsaw edge comes, he said, from the research He was a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton Pact a distant memory, new challenges he did for his book on Roosevelt en- University in 1988 and was a Visiting have forced a shift in American defense titled The Future of Europe in the Ideas Professor at the Center for International policy. With this shift divergent view- of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945. Studies, University of Southern Califor- points have emerged on international Finally, the ambassador was pleased nia, Los Angeles and the Center for security among American and European to present a special award in honor of Strategic and International Studies at decision makers. Poland, as a new Dean Patrick O’Meara and Bill UCLA in 1989. member of NATO and traditional ally Johnston. Each, he said, had promoted Speaking to a large audience in the of the United States now finds itself better understanding and friendship IMU Georgian Room, the ambassador walking a tightrope between its allies between America and Poland through said he was “particularly honored” to on both sides of the Atlantic. He scholarly work and promotion of aca- be visiting IU’s Polish Studies Center. stressed a belief that NATO’s relevance demic exchange between IU and Pol- He praised the center’s promotion of in the 21st century is undisputable and ish Universities. In awarding the Am- academic research about Poland and that it may serve to strengthen demo- icus Poloniae, he stated that it was of Polish culture in Bloomington for more cratic institutions in the former Soviet particular pleasure to present it since it than twenty years. The ambassador Republics as it expands eastward. is awarded at the discretion of the am- also thanked past directors Bozena On the subject of the war in Iraq he bassador. Shallcross and Timothy Wiles for pro- expressed Poland’s “bitter disappoint- Mark Betka is a graduate student viding capable stewardship of the cen- ment” that a peaceful solution could not in REEI and SPEA. 10 Russian and East European Institute Almaty spinning the plates of multiple bu- we’re having our sleepy-time tea. continued from page 5 reaucracies, but, then again, we did In short, it’s a new adventure ev- sharpen our skills in the queues at the ery day. And the REEI graduates are ern Capital” (or, to use the technical IU registrar. Often, our jobs involve not the only Hoosiers to have made term, “City of Republican Signifi- balancing multiple expectations. the trek here. Many who have passed cance”), Almaty has many of the ad- USAID expects to report back to through the Sample Gates have also vantages of the big city (great shop- Congress that taxpayer money is negotiated the dilapidated Almaty air- ping, good restaurants, decent cable being spent on programs that are port terminal. From former Muskie TV) with fewer of the disadvantages producing measurable changes in scholars to graduates of the Central (presidential motorcades don’t block things that are impossible to count. Eurasian Studies Department and the rush-hour traffic as often). Sand- How much civil society can an extra School of Library and Information wiched between spurs of the Ala-Tau dollar buy in Kazakhstan? Local of- Sciences, many others have wound Mountains and the Siberian steppes, ficials expect “favors” for perform- up spending some time in this stop Almaty is famous for long and snowy ing what many would consider to be along the Silk Road. As investment winters, but that also means that the part of the normal functioning of any in oil continues and Kazakhstan’s skiing season can stretch into April. government. Sure, we’ll participate “strategic significance” grows, odds People drive with no respect for traf- in your anti-corruption seminar, if you are there will be even more alums of fic laws or human life, but it’s only a give our office a new computer. Our IU and REEI traveling through here. 15-minute walk to work through headquarters offices in America want So, maybe Almaty will soon match tree-lined streets. to schedule a conference call after Terre Haute’s alumni population, af- Working as U.S. Government they’ve had their morning coffee. ter all. contractors and grantees in the slip- With the 11-hour time-difference to Eric Boyle is a 1999 graduate pery post-Soviet environment means the East Coast, that’s the same time of REEI and SPEA.

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Holdeman Wanat in Kosovo continued from page 4 continued from page 7 Holdeman loves language learn- done on the community before he ar- ing and linguistics. But what led him one on the Rat is the largest I have rived. Thus, Holdeman was forced to Indiana was his hands-on experi- seen at about sixty graves. The me- to become a historian, a genealogist, ence in a different field – pedagogy. morials, combined with the bombed- a dialectolo- After exhausting the out barracks on the edge of Priština, gist, and a funding he had re- and the breathtaking snowcapped sociologist – ceived for research- mountains paint a very surreal land- all in order to ing and writing his scape. map the lan- dissertation, Sights and sound of Kosovo aside, guage shift Holdeman took a several significant political develop- from Russian job as a teaching ments had taken place there just be- to English of consultant at Ohio fore I arrived. The international com- the Erie Old State. To supple- munity had made it clear that any Believers in ment his formal discussion of the final status of Holdeman plays the balalaika for a Kosovo would not occur in 2003. the early group of students at a recent outreach training, twentieth event Holdeman’s super- The Serbs in the Kosovo Central century. The visor sent him to the Assembly had returned from their shift, common among urban immi- library. For twenty hours a week, a November 2002 walkout to protest grant communities, resulted from a regimen that lasted over a month, the assembly’s resolution that pro- complex web of factors. As families Holdeman spent his time in the library tested the inclusion of Kosovo in the grew and children began attending reading on pedagogy and theories of Constitution of Serbia and English-language schools and mak- teaching. Soon after this crash Montenegro. The Serbian govern- ing friends with children whose com- course, he was observing classes ment had called for the reintroduc- mon language was English, English with his colleagues and consulting tion of Serbian troops into Kosovo. became the dominant language. with instructors. He spent a year and Finally, the first Albanians were in- What made this situation unique, a half working with teaching assis- dicted at the Hague tribunal, one of Holdeman says, is the speed at which tants to improve their teaching meth- whom was a member of the Cen- it occurred. Russian was almost ods. After finishing his dissertation tral Assembly. completely lost within one genera- and receiving his PhD, Holdeman ac- The day after I arrived, a protest tion. cepted a position at IU as the Slavic in Priština took place in response to the indictments. All business own- In addition to his dissertation re- Language Coordinator. He has been ers closed down during the protest, search, Holdeman took an interest supervising the Slavic Department’s guarding against the potential for a in Czech at OSU. He began his study Associate Instructors and holding a violent crowd. As it happened, the of Czech with a visiting Fulbright Russian Tea hour on campus on protest was well-attended and scholar at OSU, a professor who Tuesdays and a Russian Table at peaceful, one of the many signs I later invited him to study at her home Bear’s Place restaurant on Fridays took to indicate that Kosovo is on university’s summer school in each week. Next on his plate: its way to being a sustainable demo- Olomouc, Czech Republic. He com- Holdeman has been entertaining cratic society. I was relieved to find pleted four levels of Czech at the ideas of beginning a Russian or East that Kosovars are increasingly find- summer school and passed the Czech European Club. He has also re-es- ing non-violent ways to make their state exam. He also established a tablished the Indiana University voices heard. study abroad program for CIC chapter of Dobro Slovo, the Slavic Annisa Wanat (MA REEI/MPA graduate students to participate in the honor society, which will hold induc- SPEA 2002) works for the Na- summer program in Olomouc and tions and elections next fall. tional Democratic Institute in served as its resident director. Jen Maceyko is a graduate stu- Washington, DC. dent in REEI. 12 Russian and East European Institute Notebook fortune in having the world renowned the current ambassador to the United continued from page 1 scholar Mihaly Szegedy-Maszak to States András Simonyi. On April 7-8, Fierman, who work on Russia and lead the program, he can be in the Polish ambassador, Przemyslaw other countries of the former Soviet Bloomington only one semester each Grudzinski, was on campus to give a Union; Jack Bielasiak and Aurelian year. We also benefit from having each talk and meet with faculty and stu- Craiutu, who work on Eastern Eu- year a visiting instructor of Hungar- dents to discuss the cooperation be- rope; and Jeffrey Hart and Jeffrey ian language and a Hungarian Chair tween IU and academic institutions Isaac, who use East European stud- Professor, who is always a well-pub- in Poland, a part of the longstanding ies in their comparative analyses. lished scholar from Hungary. But the exchange relationship we have en- Third, we are building strength in persons in these positions may be dif- joyed under the management of the the Department of Criminal Justice. ferent each year. We very much need IU Polish Studies Center. William Pridemore has just accepted and look forward to the kind of conti- April also saw the 3rd in our series a position in that department. An IU nuity and organizational oversight that of Roundtables on Post-Communism, graduate with B.A. and M.A. degrees can only come from a full-time ten- a cooperative effort of REEI and three in Sociology and Criminal Justice, ure-track professor. The current other area studies programs at IU. We Pridemore went to the State Univer- search for such a person has brought bring public figures and scholars from sity of New York at Albany for doc- three scholars to campus this month. former communist countries (and toral degree studies. In 2000 he com- We hope to be able to greet a new China, which is increasingly capitalist pleted his degree with a dissertation addition to our Hungarian studies fac- in its economic organization) to dis- titled “Social Structure and Homicide ulty in the fall. cuss the effects of recent structural in Post-Soviet Russia.” Pridemore will Moving eastward, I can report on change on various aspects of society add considerably to our recent start our very large and active Romanian and culture. This semester’s in the Department of Criminal Justice, studies program, which brought us a roundtable focused on popular culture where Dennis Rome just this year ini- number of prominent visitors in recent and featured presentations by Florian tiated an REEI-sponsored course on weeks. Among others were a leading Pittis, a Romanian actor, director and “Mafias in Russia and the United Romanian philosopher and public in- musician as well as the head of a States,” an offering that has proved tellectual Horia Patapievici, who Romanian radio station; Chen to be very popular with students. spoke about the psychological defor- Xiaomei, professor of East Asian lan- Crime is, unfortunately, a prominent mations that took place in Romanians guages and literatures at Ohio State feature of Russian life in recent times, during the communist era and the University, a specialist on Chinese and our students need expertise in this prospects, given this legacy, for build- theater; and Paul Wilson, a Canadian subject if they are going to be able to ing a democratic society there. The journalist and translator of the works understand and analyze events in filmmaker Nae Caranfil came to of Vaclav Havel. Russia and other countries of the Bloomington for a showing of the Planning for a future installment of former Soviet Union. We therefore prize-winning Romanian feature film these roundtables is also taking place consider the contributions of “Filantropica.” This event brought here in April with the assistance of Pridemore and Rome to be of great Romanian Counsel-General in Chi- another visitor, the Polish scholar importance to the success of our cago, Sever Voinescu to campus. Agnieszka Graff. She is here as a teaching programs. Voinescu is a close friend of many on fellow of IU’s Institute for Advanced Fourth, a search is currently under our REEI faculty and an enthusiastic Study. A prominent writer on gender way for a tenure-track appointment supporter of Romanian studies at IU. issues, Graff will work with our in Hungarian studies. Although we still In addition to the Romanian Coun- roundtable planning team (Maria pride ourselves at IU in having the only sel General, two other diplomats vis- Bucur, Marci Shore, Jeffrey complete program of Hungarian stud- ited campus this term. On March 28- Wasserstrom, Jeffrey Isaac, Bill ies in the United States, a number of 29, IU’s Hungarian Studies program Johnston, and me) in designing next retirements in recent years have hosted a symposium on Hungarian eroded its strength. Despite our good foreign policy that was attended by continued on page 14 REEIfication, April 2003 13 Smolensk Vorotnikov, regional archival officials, continued from page 8 the significance of the Smolensk historians, and a large contingent from Archive’s return as a further step in confiscated cul- the regional the strengthening of U.S.-Russian tural assets. press. relations. In an interview with Rus- Chairman of the The cer- sian State Radio, Carter also dis- Commission on emony took cussed the importance of the archives Art Recovery place in the for his own understanding of Soviet Ronald Lauder large facility communism and offered his opinion and his represen- that houses on the nature of the system. tatives played a the entire col- Following the ceremony, Carter and particularly im- lection of Khilkov were given a tour of the ar- portant role in post-1917 archival facility and shown the newly ensuring the re- chives for the returned files in their rightful places. turn of the region. Re- Archive director Alvina Dedkova ex- Smolensk Documents from the Smolensk archives marks by plained that they had preserved the archive. Russian offi- numbering and filing system and the Moscow Embassy Second Secre- cials noted the historical importance storage method used for the docu- tary Paul Carter, accompanied by Li- of the Smolensk archive and their ments as developed by the National brary of Congress Open World Pro- deep gratitude to the United States for Archives and opened a few boxes to gram Moscow Coordinator Aleksandr its return. In his remarks, Carter de- reveal the contents. The documents Khilkov, represented the United States scribed the opportunity to participate – made of low-grade Soviet paper – at the March 25 ceremony marking in the historic ceremony as a great were yellowed, and the information the archive’s return to the Smolensk honor and pleasure and discussed printed on them, whether hand- or region. Also in attendance were the some of the historical background type-written, was in many cases Director of the Russian State Archives leading up to the archive’s return. He faded beyond legibility. The archivists, Vladimir Kozlov, several other federal noted the archive’s tremendous im- nevertheless, were overjoyed to have archival officials, Deputy Director of portance for Western scholarship, the the documents back and promised to the Diplomatic History Department of commitment of the United States to do their best to preserve them for pos- the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Valerii the return to their original owners of terity. Kushpel, Deputy Governor of all archives and other cultural assets This article was generously sub- Smolensk region Aleksandr displaced during World War II, and mitted by Paul M. Carter.

Chalcolithic some of my initial hypotheses in the In any case, I hope to determine continued from page 6 archaeological record from the area the quality of data and the validity of emergence of social complexity). in question. Answering my questions my own hypotheses in order to con- This summer, thanks to the finan- will not be an easy task. Due to the tinue my research. I will be able to cial help from the E. A. Schrader En- political and economic instability of draw on broad archaeological analo- dowment Fund and from the Office the region in the last decade of the gies from all the parts of southeast- of International Programs, I will be twentieth century, instability that is still ern Europe. With luck, this work will able to conduct preliminary field re- lingering in the area, the quality of have a significant impact in explain- search investigating the relationship scientific research is not up to mod- ing the contemporary cultural change between the change in technology ern standards. I suspect this might of the entire region. and the change in the stylistic appear- render the search for relevant con- Zarko Tankosic is a graduate ance of the archaeological material textual information from the excava- student in the Department of An- in connection to the supposed change tions somewhat difficult. thropology. of population. I will be able to test (All photos courtesy of the author) 14 Russian and East European Institute Student News Notebook continued from page 1

Martin Blackwell (History) pre- 2002 Cooper was elected to the execu- year’s session on questions of the sented “’An Investigation Has Estab- tive board of the International Associa- opportunities and difficulties that the lished…’: The Communist Party Elite tion of Hungarian Studies. recent changes in the former com- and the New Rigidity of the Soviet munist world have created for Union’s Social Structure in the Mid- Jon Giullian (Library Science) pre- women. 1940s – The Case of Kyiv” at the Cen- sented “Authentic Video in the Inter- An important new step in our East tral Slavic Conference in Lawrence, mediate Russian Class: The Case of European studies programs is an ex- Kansas. Beregis’ Avtomobilia” at the Central change agreement between IU and Slavic Conference. the University of Rijeka in Croatia. Janis Cakars (Journalism) won the Professor Henry Cooper, recent chair Frances G. Wilhoit Award for his pa- Irina Khmelko (Political Science/ of our Department of Slavic Lan- per “Soldiers of the Pen: The Use of SPEA) presented “Institutionalization: guages and Literatures and a special- Nonviolence in the Liberation of Evidence from Ukraine” at the Central ist on South Slavic languages and cul- Latvia.” The award recognizes the best Slavic Conference in Lawrence, Kan- research paper written by a graduate sas. tures, took the initiative and did virtu- student in the School of Journalism in ally all the work in organizing this ef- the academic year 2001/2002. He will P. Matt Loveless (Political Science) fort, which will bring Croatian fac- present a version of the paper at the has been selected to participate in the ulty to IU to teach intermediate and annual conference of the International IU graduate student exchange program advanced Croatian and will afford IU Communication Association in San Di- with the University of Debrecen, Hun- students and faculty the opportunity ego on May 25. Cakars also published gary. to work and study in Croatia. The a review of Soldiers: Fighting Men’s long-term goals are to establish at IU Lives, 1901-2001 by Philip Ziegler Katherine Metzo (Anthropology) the first lectureship in the United (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) in has accepted a position as Assistant Pro- States in Croatian language, with fund- the February issue of Military History. fessor of Anthropology at the Univer- ing from the Republic of Croatia, and Cakars has received an IREX grant to sity of North Carolina – Charlotte be- to facilitate continuing exchanges be- aid in dissertation research during the ginning August 2003. tween IU and the University of Rijeka fall semester. in a variety of disciplines. Mimoza Rista-Dema (Linguistics) These are just a few of the Melissa Cakars (History) pre- recently published “Controversial Atti- achievements and activities of the sented “Settling the Buryats: A Com- tudes toward Standard Albanian” in busy faculty and students associated Political Independence with Linguis- parison of Two Policies” at the Central with REEI. A full listing of the menu tic Servitude: The Politics about Lan- Slavic Conference at the University of of activities managed or sponsored Kansas. guages in the Developing World. S. through the institute would take more Obeng and B. Hartford, eds. New York: space here than we have. In just a Thomas Cooper (CEUS/ Compara- Nova Science Publishers, 2002. single week of April the REEI calen- tive Literature) has accepted a position at the University of North Carolina as Natasha Ruser (undergraduate, dar included 15 separate events out- Visiting Lecturer in Hungarian Lan- Slavics) received the 2002-03 Chair’s side the regular curriculum. This guage and Culture. He will teach Award for Russian Language, which schedule keeps our students and fac- courses on the Hungarian language and is awarded to the most outstanding un- ulty continually engaged in expand- Hungarian literature and culture. Mr. dergraduate student of Russian. ing their knowledge of the societies Cooper has recently had two articles and cultures of Eastern Europe and published in the Journal of Hungarian Daniel Whyatt (History) has been the countries of the former Soviet Studies: “Zsigmond Kemény’s Gyulai selected to participate in the IU gradu- Union and makes REEI highly active Pál: Novel as Subversion of Form”; ate student exchange program with War- and intellectually stimulating center of and “Narrative Voice in Zsigmond saw University during summer 2003. learning. Kemény’s The Fanatics.” In August REEIfication, April 2003 15

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Malcolm Brown (Emeritus Mu- ing Group of the Institute for Col- Robert Frowick (BA French sic) read a paper, “Prokofiev’s ‘Sac- laborative Research and Public Hu- 1953, MA Government 1957) is cur- rifice to the Bitch Goddess’” manities at Ohio State University to rently a visiting scholar at Stanford’s (Stravinsky’s flinty characterization give the first paper in the OSU re- Hoover Institution on War, Revolu- of Prokofiev’s return from European search series. The paper, given in exile to live in Stalinist Russia), at the January, was entitled, “Erie Old Be- tion, and Peace. He is writing a book symposium/concert series “Music liever Russian: A Grave Situation.” He on his experience as head of mission and Terror in Stalinist Russia,” 20- was invited by the University of in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 22 January, sponsored by Reed Col- Michigan Center for Russian and East 1994 to 1997. lege and Chamber Music Northwest. European Studies to conduct their annual pedagogy workshop. The Martha Merritt (MA Political Murlin Croucher (Slavic workshop, “Teaching Students of Science 1986) is Assistant Profes- Bilbiographer) participated in a panel, Varied Preparation and Background: “The Current Crisis in Research Li- Challenges and Approaches in the sor of Political Science at Notre braries and the Future of Slavic Col- Language Classroom” took place on Dame University, and recently led a lections” at the Central Slavic Con- March 22. Prior to the workshop he discussion, “Accountability for War- ference in Lawrence, Kansas. gave a concert of Czech and Russian time Presidents in Russia and the music (guitar and vocal) at the uni- United States” at the Kennan Insti- Steven Franks (Slavics) has been versity. tute in Washington, DC. awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Linguistics and Philosophy Charles Jelavich (Emeritus His- of Language. Franks will spend three tory) published “South Slav Educa- Daniel Pennell (MA History months next year at the University tion: Was There Yugoslavism?” in 1999/MLS 2001) participated in the of Venice delivering a series of lec- Yugoslavia and Its Historians: Un- panel “The Current Crisis in Research tures on “Slavic Syntax from a Uni- derstanding the Balkan Wars of the Libraries and the Future of Slavic versal Grammar Perspective” and 1990s. Norman M. Naimark and Holly Collections” at the Central Slavic consulting with faculty and students. Case, eds. (Stanford University Press, Conference at the University of Kan- Franks received his first Fulbright 2003). sas grant in 1977 for research in Croatia. Martin Spechler (Economics, Halina Goldberg (Musicology) IUPUI) has recently published: “Re- Bradley Schaffner (MA History has been nominated to participate in gional Cooperation in Central Asia,” 1984/MLS 1989) chaired a panel the 2003 short-term faculty exchange Problems of Post-Communism (Nov- at the Central Slavic Conference en- with Jagiellonian University in Dec 2002): 42-47; and “Economy and titled “The Current Crisis in Research Krakow, where she plans to take ad- Security in Central Asia since 9/11: A Libraries and the Future of Slavic vantage of the University’s music li- Skeptical Look,” Central Asia and Collections” at the University of brary and Czartoryski collection. the Caucasus 19, no. 1 (2003), published in Russian and English. Kansas on April 3. Henry Hale (Political Science) published “Teaching Central Eurasian Roman Zlotin (Geography) pub- Sang-Yeol Yoon (MA REEI Politics in Comparative Perspective” lished a chapter, “Biodiversity and 2002) has returned to Korea and is in Central Eurasian Studies Review Productivity of Ecosystems,” in The working for LG, a private-sector 2, no. 1 (Winter 2003). Physical Geography of Northern Korean company which collects in- Eurasia (Oxford University Press, formation on global market activity. Jeffrey Holdeman (Slavics) was 2002). This is based on Zlotin’s pre- invited by the Endangered and Mi- vious academic work as a biogeog- He is currently researching Russian nority Languages and Cultures Work- rapher in the Russian Institute of Ge- markets, business environments, and ography. consumer trends. Russian and East European Institute Non-Profit Organization Ballantine Hall 565 U.S. Postage PAID Indiana University Bloomington IN

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