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Full-Text Articles in Russian Linguistics
Odesa Will Never Be A 'Russian' City Again, Ian R. Singleton
Odesa Will Never Be A 'Russian' City Again, Ian R. Singleton
Living in Languages
Russophone poet Galina Itskovich wrote the statement serving as the title of this text about the identity of her native Odesa, Ukraine in 2023, more than a year and a half after the full-scale invasion by Russia. I propose an examination of the relationship of contemporary Odesan writers to the Russian language. Sources for this examination include the work of writers in or from Odesa such as Galina Itskovich, Maria Galina, Oleg Fesenko, and Igor Bozhko. To discuss what this situation means for translation, such as is demanded by Ukraine’s 2019 law on the status of the Ukrainian language, I …
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The Genetics Of Morality: Policing Science In Dudintsev’S White Robes, Yvonne Howell
The Genetics Of Morality: Policing Science In Dudintsev’S White Robes, Yvonne Howell
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
The Men and women in White Robes (Belye odezhdv), Vladimir Dudinstev's fictional account of the banning of genetics in the Soviet Union, are acutely aware that in the 20th century, the study of the fruit fly is the study of man. The key to unraveling the mystery of human nature lies in the easily observed chromosomes of the forbidden fly (drosophila melanogaster). Under Stalin, the banned geneticists were branded “Morganists” after their hero Thomas Hunt Morgan, the Columbia University researcher who pioneered the technique of mapping locations on drosophila chromosomes to specific traits in the flies. To …