Slavic Review is a leading international peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 publishing scholarly studies and book reviews in all disciplines concerned with Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, Central Eurasia

Eurasia

Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...

, and Eastern

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

 and Central Europe

Central Europe

Central Europe or alternatively Middle Europe is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe...

. The journal's title, though pointing to its roots in Slavic studies, or Slavistics

Slavistics

Slavic studies or Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, Slavic languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist who researches Slavistics, a Slavic or Slavonic scholar...

, does not fully encompass the range of disciplines represented or peoples and cultures examined. The journal publishes original scholarship, book and film reviews, and review essays on scholarly topics.

History

The journal has been published quarterly under the current name since 1961 by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies is a scholarly society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe...

 (The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, beginning in 2010), continuing the series published by the same Association since 1941 under different names: Slavonic Year-Book. American Series (1941), Slavonic and East European Review. American Series (1943–1944), American Slavic and East European Review (1945–1961). Under the current name, the subtitle of the journal has changed over the years to reflect changing terminologies about the region, evolving boundaries and relations, and developing conceptions of the field. Since 2006, the subtitle has been Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies.

Since 1996, the office of the journal has been at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

. From 1996 to 2006, the editor was Diane P. Koenker, a professor of history. In 2006, the AAASS appointed Mark D. Steinberg

Mark D. Steinberg

Mark D. Steinberg is a Professor of History, and Editor of Slavic Review at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.He was born in San Francisco, California, on June 8, 1953. He received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, followed by M.A and Ph.D. degrees in history from...

, also a professor of history at UIUC, as editor.

All back issues of the journal are available electronically through JSTOR

JSTOR

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. Electronic versions of current and recent issues are available to members on the website of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and soon through JSTOR's Current Scholarship Program.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed, among others, in the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, Social Science Citation Index, Historical Abstracts, Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

The Arts & Humanities Citation Index , also known as Arts & Humanities Search is a citation index, with abstracting and indexing for more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals, and coverage of disciplines that includes social and natural science journals. Part of this database is derived from...

, and the Linguistic Bibliography.

External links

• Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies