Regio: A Review of Minority and Ethnic Studies 1994 by Zoltán FejosReview by: Martyn RadyThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Jul., 1997), p. 529Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4212440 .

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ptoblem is that it is actually quite hard to find anything so explicit in the texts - P'aral's sex is literary rather than 'anatomical' - and obviously his work could never have been published in Communist Czechoslovakia had it been there so overtly. Quotations to back up the argument might well have been helpful in this case.

Although this is a slim study, necessarily with a narrow focus, it is a pity that Pynsent has not found room to discuss literary, as well as ideological, aspects of Paral's work. No mention is made of Paral's sophisticated use of language or of the important and innovative stylistic techniques of the earlier works. In short, more work on P'aral remains to be done.

St Edmund Hall J. PARTRIDGE University of Oxford

Regio:A Review ofMinority and Ethnic Studies I994. Edited by Zoltan Fejos. Laszlo Teleki Foundation, Budapest, I 995189 pp. Tables. Notes. 300 ET: $I 2.00 (paperback).

REGIO: KISEBBSEGI SZEMLE has been published since 1990. The present English-language work represents an 'experimental undertaking' on the part of its editors who have brought together a selection of articles originally published in the parent Hungarian edition. The editor of the.review does not, however, explain the inclusion of a subscription price for what purports to be no more than a single-edition venture.

Although some of the contributors are not Hungarian scholars, most of the articles included in the present work stand firmly by what has now become the 'official' Hungarian line: a transnational regime of minority-rights protection; the primacy of justice over order; and collective rights up to and including territorial self-government. All that is missing is yet another lengthy explana- tion of the Hungarian three-phase model of personal, local and regional autonomy. Nevertheless, readers looking for wild thoughts will not be disappointed, for one piece does indeed advocate border-revision and the partition of states as a convenient remedy for ethnic disputes in the region (Georg Brunner, 'Nation-States and Minorities in the Eastern Part of Europe', pp. I4-I9).

The weight given in the present selection to the broader issues of international protection, self-determination and nationalism generally in Eastern Europe does not, however, do justice to the original Hungarian- language edition. The merit of Regio: Kisebbsegi Szemle has always been the prominence which it has given to micro-studies of ethnicity and identity in Central and Eastern Europe. A few such pieces are included in the present selection, most notably Eva Molnar's researches in the mixed Hungarian, Slovak and German village of Mezobereny.

School of Slavonic and East European Studies MARTYN RADY

University of London

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