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THE HOSTAGES OF THE 'IMAGINED PAST'. PROBLEMS OF ETHNIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITY AMONG THE GURAN MINORITY IN EASTERN SIBERIA (Zakladnicy 'wyobrazonej przeszlosci'. Problemy tozsamosci etnicznej i kulturowej Guranów zabajkalskich w Syberii Wshodniej)

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Peshkov I.
Lud
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2008
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vol. 92
27-42
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The article aims to present the role of the 'imagined past' in the development of the identity among the Guran community in Eastern Siberia. The group under analysis created a unique culture with strong Evenk and Buryat elements. The Gurans played a specific social role (Cossacks); they held the status of local Russians despite mixed origin. Their complex identity structure, with ethnic, racial, social and political elements, is very specific. The myth of the role played by the Guran ancestors in the conquest of Siberia formed the base of their identity. Russification and westernisation of the past did not interfere with the existence of eastern elements in the culture of the Gurans. We are dealing with a community, which actively configures events of the past, in this way creating concepts, which integrate the group. The Gurans can offer such an account of the events, which incorporates their history into the general trend of Russian history (the conquest of Siberia, fight against communism), without eliminating elements of Buryat and Evenk cultures.
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The Beginning of the Polish-Turkish War and Polish-Russian Relations during the First Half of 1683

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Kochegarov K.
Kwartalnik Historyczny
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2005
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vol. 112
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issue 1
53-76
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Polish-Russian negotiations from the first half of 1683 constitute an important stage in the history of relations between the two countries during the second half of the seventeenth century. Both Russia and the Commonwealth aimed at a compromise at the time of a successive phase in the expansion of the Ottoman Empire in Eastern and Central Europe. The anti-Ottoman rapprochement of those countries was rendered complicated by their rivalry for Ukraine. In the course of the Crimean-Russian negotiations of 1681, Moscow unsuccessfully demanded terrains on the right bank of the Dnieper and the Zaporozhe region. In 1682 the Commonwealth, profiting from the political crisis in Russia, embarked upon a failed attempt at depriving Russia of Ukraine and the Smolensk region. All these factors adversely affected Polish-Russian relations on the eve of the Ottoman expedition against Vienna. The Russian mission arrived in Warsaw at a time when the parliamentary session of 1683 had almost ended. Up to then, a defensive-offensive alliance had been already signed by Austria and the Commonwealth. The prime objective of both allies was to draw Russia into the league. The latter, however, did not hasten joining the alliance, since it was still facing the threat of unrest on the part of the Cossacks and the 'streltsy'. Furthermore, the government of Tsarevna Sophia and Chancellor Golitsyn wished to benefit from the international situation in order to improve the conditions of the Bakhchisarai alliance. Fearing that the Commonwealth would conduct a revision of the treaty of Andruszów (1667), the Russian diplomats insisted that King Jan Sobieski swear an oath, pledging the observance of all the earlier signed Polish-Russian treaties. The Commonwealth opted for an unwavering stand vis-a-vis Russia: Jan III refused the oath, and already in 1683 the Polish side made considerable efforts to engage Russia into an anti-Ottoman league. A Polish envoy was dispatched to Moscow. Russian diplomacy considered a grant to the state of Muscovy of terrains annexed upon the basis of the treaty of Andruszów to be an indispensable condition for joining the coalition. Despite the fact that both sides did not reach an agreement about the alliance, the negotiations conducted during the first half of 1683 delineated an eternal peace and alliance, signed in 1686 (the so-called Grzymultowski treaty).
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Kozacy w oczach polskich pamiętnikarzy-żołnierzy z początku XIX wieku

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Ślęczka T.
Prace Literackie
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2011
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vol. 51
25-39
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The article focuses on the perception of the Cossacks serving in the Russian army during Napoleonic wars by those Poles who decided to fight on the side of the “god of war.” The image that emerges from their memoirs is generally free from old sentiments and resentments from the times of the first Commonwealth. The Cossacks are portrayed as brave and tenacious opponents striking unspeakable terror into the French and their German allies, opponents that are nevertheless prone to plunder and various acts of violence; very rarely, however, are they perceived as former fellow citizens. Usually, the Cossacks from the Don River region are correctly distinguished from those from former Zaporizhian Sich.
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FOLK AND PHILOSOPHICAL NATURE OF COMIC-TRAGIC DICHOTOMY IN OLEKSA STOROZHENKO’S SHORT STORIES ON COSSACKS

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Yankovska Z., Iurieva O.
Slavica Slovaca
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2018
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vol. 53
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issue 1
38 – 48
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The culture of laughter in every nation’s tradition, including Ukrainian, is characterized by its peculiarities. With its folklore roots, the comic of all kinds has been transformed into fiction. Such receptive relations are particularly close between folk oral tradition and the literature in the period of Romanticism. In this article, the authors are the first to analyse the interaction between categories of the comic and the tragic in featured short stories on Cossacks by O. Storozhenko. The research offers an attractive prospect for the further exploration of other O. Storozhenko’s works as well as for comparative studies of works by other authors’ in the indicated period.
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