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AbstractTranslation is a sociologically-related activity. Translation studies can be said to have developed on a national level in the Soviet Union, with central planning of works to be translated. In the present article, an attempt will be made to put this theoretical research in a historical perspective.
Keywords: traductologie, Union soviétique, planification, équivalence, linguistique
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AbstractThis study focuses on two novels marked by Dostoevsky's “influence”: Âmes russes (Russian Souls) by Francis de Miomandre and Un Raskolnikoff (A Raskolnikov) by Emmanuel Bove. Whereas Miomandre's novel takes advantage of some of the main writing characteristics that testify to the relatively stereotyped manner in which novelists between the wars could receive Dostoevsky's work, Bove's novel accompanies his “reading” of Dostoevsky with a very renewal of the master's aesthetic and metaphysical thought. Not only does Bove breathe new life into the character of Raskalnikov, but he proposes a new figure as well, one that is specific to the time and leads to what I call “the heroism of inaction.”
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AbstractOn July 6, 1762, just nine days after the coup d'état of June 28 that put her on the throne, Catherine II invited Diderot to come to Russia in order to publish L'encyclopédie, which had been banned in Paris. Diderot accepted her invitation and arrived in St. Petersburgh in October of 1773. Catherine spent a great amount of time with him. Their discussions focused on various subjects such as commerce, politics and arts. Unfortunatly, Catherine wasn't as receptive to his democratic ideal as he would have expected, being more concerned by the war against Turkey as long as the revolution that Pugatchev was leading. The evidence does not suggest that Diderot's five-month stay in Russia was especially pleasant or fulfilling. However, upon his return to Paris in October of 1774, Diderot went out of his way to describe his Russian experience in the most attractive light possible.
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Aware that its power was diminishing rapidly, Russia, in the same way as the Soviet Union at the eve of its dissolution, resorted to its in order to preserve its great-power prerogatives threatened as they were by major geopolitical reversals. Through three case studies, this article shows to what extent the Soviet Union during the Gulf Crisis sought with considerable difficulty to forestall the downgrading of its power; an experience repeated by Russia in the NATO enlargement issue. Only at the Security Council does Russia's power seem to be in a relatively safe place. The article concludes that Russia finds itself constantly placed under institutional constraints despite its efforts to stop the downfall of its world historical influence.
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This article outlines the main steps in the career of musician Auguste Descarries (1896-1958), since its formation in Montreal, his stay in Paris and its links with the Russian neo-romantic environment, and its contribution on his return to the development of Montreal's musical life.