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The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18th- and early-19th-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to examine restrictions imposed on women. Women authors in particular were fettered by a culture of feminisation strongly influenced by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As Sentimentalism and its aesthetics began to give way to Romantic ideals, some provincial Russian women writers saw an opportunity to claim social equality, and to challenge traditional concepts of authorship and a view of women as mute and passive.

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Mariia Revakovych [Maria Rewakowicz]. </span><span>Persona non grata. Narysy pro N'iu-Iorks'ku hrupu, modernizm ta identychnist'</span><span>. </span><span>[Persona non grata. Essays on the New York Group, Modernism and Identity.] Kyiv: Krytyka, 2012. 336 pp. Paper. </span></p></div></div></div>

Abstract
This article examines the responses of early Soviet legal and juridical professionals to the 1926 group rape of seventeen-year-old Mariia N. as a starting point to discuss assumptions regarding women's sexuality, peasant consciousness, and revolutionary transformation. By 1926, anxiety over the slow pace of revolutionary change created what might be called a crisis of legitimacy among early Soviet legal professionals. This article examines how these juridical professionals perceived the limits and failures of efforts to transform Russian society along socialist lines, and highlights their explanations for those failures that rested on the persistent "backwardness" of the countryside and on traditional discourses of female sexuality. While they argued that the slow pace of transformation hindered rural development, and expected greater state intervention in the countryside to facilitate such change, they failed to challenge traditional patriarchal assumptions regarding women. The article argues that the legal system played a central role in the Soviet social transformation, and that through redefining the law, early Soviet professionals helped to construct a legal foundation for the state that ultimately facilitated the state's move away from its early emancipatory and communal impulses and toward the embrace of paternalism and individualism.

This year, the exhibition "Ukraine: War and Resistance", featuring a collection of 40 images by Fulbright Alumni from Ukraine, or American Fulbrighters who have lived and worked for several years or longer in Ukraine, had its premiere in Germany at Hotel Continental – Art Space in Berlin. For this occasion, Sophie Schmäing interviewed Mariia Kravchenko, Program Officer and Jessica Zychowicz, Director at Fulbright Program in Ukraine & Institute of International Education Kyiv Office, about how resistance was literally enacted when the exhibition was first launched in the city of Vinnytsia and how intensive exchanges on the curation of the photos contributed to forming local and intellectual communities.

The role of women in the modern socio-economic life of Ukrainian society is still underestimated. Gender issues are perceived superficially or ignored, and sometimes remain taboo despite the significant number of national and foreign research and publications, information sources and materials. Blindness to issues of the equal rights and opportunities for women and men is deeply rooted in the stereotypes and traditional views on the role and place of women in the society. The purpose of the article is to analyze the scientific and journalistic activity of Mariia Vernadska. She was the first woman who researched political and economic problems in the Russian Empire. She actively interested in the economic issues and processes in the country and analyzed them, and published a number of articles in the journal «Ekonomicheskiy ukazatel», edited by Ivan Vernadsky who was a notable economist and statistician in the first half of the 19th century. The distinguishing feature of her articles was the comprehensible writing language to present and explain the complex economic laws and principles of the genesis of the market economy. Mariia Vernadska used this method to explain the benefits of division of labor, technological progress, free trade, cost sharing and cooperation, road quality, etc. She also criticized the regulation of commodity prices and persisted in the abolition of serfdom explaining its economic inefficiency and backwardness. Mariia Vernadska espoused the ideas of classical political economy, mainly the principle of individual freedom. This basic principle was used by her for interpretation of the women's labor, the role of women in the society, the women's rights to pick and choose the activities. She paid special attention to the necessity and the value of the women's work as a basis for the equality between men and women. She emphasized that it could be achieved due to the education and fighting prejudices against the shame of women's working.

The Crimean Tatars, a Muslim Turkic ethnic group, remain the most oppressed group in Crimea after the 2014 Russian annexation. The Ukrainian public tends to view them as obedient victims forced to accommodate Russian demands, while scholars mainly avoid the issue. My ethnographic fieldwork in Crimea, however, demonstrates that what might seem like obedient behavior from the outside is, in fact, an expression of agency. This reading is based on close-range observations and conversations with people who speak and behave in ways that initially appear as compliant acts, but which do in fact challenge Russian authorities—arguably more so than other overt forms of resistance in this context. I argue that the ability to decipher many Crimean Tatars' behavior as tactics of resistance, depends on our understanding of authorities' contrary expectations. Portrayed as religious fanatics and a security threat, Crimean Tatars are stereotyped as terrorists, likely to engage in extremist activity. In light of this, Crimean Tatars' compliant behavior, expressed through patience and etiquette, festivity and humor, proves that narrative wrong. Furthermore, other seemingly compliant behaviors—such as accepting Russian passports in order to remain in Crimea—should be interpreted as an act of resistance to the political aims of state actors. By undermining the state's aim to push out Crimean Tatars and increase the Slavic population, the decision to remain in Crimea in fact challenges state power, rather than affirms it.

The article deals with the activities of the theater named after Maria Zankovetska after the death of Alexander Korolchuk in Zaporozhye (1925), but before the arrival of Alexander Zaharov. This is about the socalled «dark» or transitional period, after which the Soviet government appointed «from above» by Alexander Zaharov. The refore, the period of the theater between O. Korolchuk and O. Zaharov is indeed the least learned. ; В статье рассмотрена тема деятельности театра имени Марии Заньковецкой после смерти Александра Корольчука (1925 г.) и перед приходом Александра Загарова. Речь идет о так называемом «темном», или переходном, периоде, после которого, советская власть назначила художественным руководителем Александра Загарова. Соответственно, период деятельности театра между двумя худруками А. Корольчуком и А. Загаровым наимение изучен. ; У статті розглянуто діяльність театру імені Марії Заньковецької після смерті Олександра Корольчука у Запоріжжі (1925 р.), але перед приходом Олександра Загарова. Йдеться про так званий «темний», або перехідний, період, після якого радянська влада призначила «згори» Олександра Загарова. Відтак період діяльності театру між О. Корольчуком і О. Загаровим, справді є найменш вивченим.

The article deals with the activities of the theater named after Maria Zankovetska after the death of Alexander Korolchuk in Zaporozhye (1925), but before the arrival of Alexander Zaharov. This is about the socalled «dark» or transitional period, after which the Soviet government appointed «from above» by Alexander Zaharov. The refore, the period of the theater between O. Korolchuk and O. Zaharov is indeed the least learned. ; В статье рассмотрена тема деятельности театра имени Марии Заньковецкой после смерти Александра Корольчука (1925 г.) и перед приходом Александра Загарова. Речь идет о так называемом «темном», или переходном, периоде, после которого, советская власть назначила художественным руководителем Александра Загарова. Соответственно, период деятельности театра между двумя худруками А. Корольчуком и А. Загаровым наимение изучен. ; У статті розглянуто діяльність театру імені Марії Заньковецької після смерті Олександра Корольчука у Запоріжжі (1925 р.), але перед приходом Олександра Загарова. Йдеться про так званий «темний», або перехідний, період, після якого радянська влада призначила «згори» Олександра Загарова. Відтак період діяльності театру між О. Корольчуком і О. Загаровим, справді є найменш вивченим.