eSamizdat. Rivista di culture dei paesi slavi / Journal of Slavic Cultures / Журнал славянских культур

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“eSamizdat. Journal of Slavic Cultures” is an open access scientific peer-reviewed journal. It is published online once a year.

2026-01-23

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Call for papers - "eSamizdat" XIX (2026)

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Stefano Aloe

“Protect Me Until the Jazz Started”: Soviet Rock Chronotopes of the Early 1980s in the Lyrics of Boris Grebenshchikov
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Stefania Persano

Requiem for a Lost Future? A Hauntological Reading of Late-Soviet Underground Rock Through the Lyrics of Viktor Tsoi, Aleksandr Bashlachev and Egor Letov
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Martina Napolitano, Vladimir Zherebov

Russian Rap and the Case of Husky: Traces of Counterculture?
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Maria Redaelli

Techno Carnival: Genealogy of the Russian Rave Scene
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Francesca Lazzarin

“Do you want a Muscovite to die? Then fuck him in yourself”. Some Considerations on Ukrainian Rap During the Full-Scale War
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Massimo Tria

Ukrainian Poetry as a Source of Inspiration for Metal Music: An Example of Dialogue with ‘High’ Culture
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Marco Jakovljević

“No Hope, No Fear”: The Alternative Music Scene in Slovenia on the Eve of the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
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Adam Regiewicz

Neofolk in Poland. Between a New Religious Movement and Subculture
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Anna Giust

Music and National Music in Imperial and Soviet Russia. An Introduction
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Ianuarii Neverov

On the New Opera by Glinka “A Life for the Tsar” (translated by Lara Martelozzo)
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Vladimir Odoevskii

Notes for My Grand-grandson on the Literature and Prose of Our Time (A Letter from Mr. Bishev: The Opera by Mr. Glinka “A Life for the Tsar”) (translated by Arianna Lombardo)
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Anton Rubinshtein

The Composers of Russia (translated by Francesca Lazzarin)
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Aleksandr Serov

Folksong as an Object of Scientific Study (translated by Andrea Ziggiotto and Anna Giust)
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Vladimir Stasov

Perov and Musorgskii (1834-1882 and 1839-1881) (translated by Alice D’Auria)
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Viacheslav Karatygin

“Salambô” by Musorgskii (translated by Giovanni Polizzi)
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Leonid Sabaneev

Contemporary Music (translated by Vadim Anzante)
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Boris Asaf’ev

The Crisis of Personal Creativity (translated by Eleonora Bianchi)
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Boris Asaf’ev

Composers, Keep Up! (translated by Mirella Di Vita)
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Viktor Belyi

Fundamental Issues of the Development of National Musical Cultures (translated by Marianna Celeste Cerilli and Anna Giust)
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Viktor Belyi

Speech at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers (translated by Ekaterina V. Pechenevskaya)
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Lev Kulakovskii

Notes of the Origins of Formalism (translated by Diana Bota)
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Andrei Zhdanov

Speech at the Meeting of Soviet Music Operators (translated by Anna Giust)
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Nadezhda Briusova, Lev Mazel’, Lev Knipper, Izrail’ Nest’ev

Discussion on the National Character in Soviet Music (translated by Anna Giust and Tania Triberio)
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Barbara Ronchetti

Hoping to Be Drops of Water. Interview with Alexander Etkind
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Guido Carpi, Mikhail Velizhev, Kirill Ospovat

Marxism in Literary Studies: An Interview with Kirill Ospovat
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AA.VV.

Addressing the Crisis: Assessments and Prospects of a Self-Reflective Debate
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eSamizdat. Rivista di culture dei paesi slavi / Journal of Slavic Cultures / Журнал славянских культур

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CALL FOR PAPERS - 2026

Volume 18Subcultures and Countercultures in Slavic Countries

Full Issue

Subcultures and Countercultures in Slavic Countries (edited by Alessandro Ajres and Simone Guagnelli)

“Protect Me Until the Jazz Started”: Soviet Rock Chronotopes of the Early 1980s in the Lyrics of Boris Grebenshchikov

Requiem for a Lost Future? A Hauntological Reading of Late-Soviet Underground Rock Through the Lyrics of Viktor Tsoi, Aleksandr Bashlachev and Egor Letov

Russian Rap and the Case of Husky: Traces of Counterculture?

Techno Carnival: Genealogy of the Russian Rave Scene

“Do you want a Muscovite to die? Then fuck him in yourself”. Some Considerations on Ukrainian Rap During the Full-Scale War

Ukrainian Poetry as a Source of Inspiration for Metal Music: An Example of Dialogue with ‘High’ Culture

“No Hope, No Fear”: The Alternative Music Scene in Slovenia on the Eve of the Dissolution of Yugoslavia

Neofolk in Poland. Between a New Religious Movement and Subculture

Music and National Music in Imperial and Soviet Russia

Music and National Music in Imperial and Soviet Russia. An Introduction

On the New Opera by Glinka “A Life for the Tsar” (translated by Lara Martelozzo)

Notes for My Grand-grandson on the Literature and Prose of Our Time (A Letter from Mr. Bishev: The Opera by Mr. Glinka “A Life for the Tsar”) (translated by Arianna Lombardo)

The Composers of Russia (translated by Francesca Lazzarin)

Folksong as an Object of Scientific Study (translated by Andrea Ziggiotto and Anna Giust)

Perov and Musorgskii (1834-1882 and 1839-1881) (translated by Alice D’Auria)

“Salambô” by Musorgskii (translated by Giovanni Polizzi)

Contemporary Music (translated by Vadim Anzante)

The Crisis of Personal Creativity (translated by Eleonora Bianchi)

Composers, Keep Up! (translated by Mirella Di Vita)

Fundamental Issues of the Development of National Musical Cultures (translated by Marianna Celeste Cerilli and Anna Giust)

Speech at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers (translated by Ekaterina V. Pechenevskaya)

Notes of the Origins of Formalism (translated by Diana Bota)

Speech at the Meeting of Soviet Music Operators (translated by Anna Giust)

Discussion on the National Character in Soviet Music (translated by Anna Giust and Tania Triberio)

Voices

Hoping to Be Drops of Water. Interview with Alexander Etkind

Marxism in Literary Studies: An Interview with Kirill Ospovat

Addressing the Crisis: Assessments and Prospects of a Self-Reflective Debate