Founded in 1983 as the Scottish Slavonic Review and published in its current form since 1994, Slavonica publishes work in the fields of Russian, Central and East European Studies, ranging across literature, history, politics, language, linguistics, social issues, religion, music, culture and the arts; Russian/East European cultural links; original, or previously unpublished documents, illustrations, poetry and short prose; translations of poetry and shorter prose fiction (with commentary); feature articles of appropriate interest; reports and announcements on conferences, exhibitions and events; and anniversary tributes and obituaries. Each issue also contains around twenty specialist book reviews.