Dear friends and colleagues,
Ab Imperio editors are pleased to repeat the announcement of the release of the second issue of the journal in 2004. Ab Imperio is a bilingual (English-Russian) quarterly dedicated to studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the post Soviet Space. The second issue of the journal focuses on the theme "Memory Repressed, Silenced, and Lost" which is conceived within the framework of the overall annual theme "The Archeology of Memory of Empire and Nation." This issue also features a separate forum dedicated to the discussion of Cossack history, identity, and history writing in the imperial, national and post soviet space.
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Ab Imperio Issue 2/2004
“MEMORY REPRESSED, SILENCED AND LOST”(The language of publication is indicated in brackets)
I. METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
From the Editors (RUS/ENG)
Boris GroysThe Role of Museum at the Time of the Nation-State Disintegration (RUS)
Alexander EtkindTime to Compare Stones. Post-Revolutionary Culture of Political Sorrow in Contemporary Russia (RUS)
Serhy YekelchykUkrainian Historical Memory and the Soviet Commemorative Canon: Defining Ukrainian National Heritage under Stalin (RUS)
Antony PolonskyPoles, Jews and the Problems of a Divided Memory (ENG)
II. HISTORY
Ekaterina BoltunovaThe Russian Guards in the First Quarter of the 18th Century: “Antitraditionalists” or “Traditionalist Reformers” (RUS)
Elena VishlenkovaA Lost Version of War and Peace: Symbolism of Alexander I’s Era (RUS)
Igor NarskiiThe Construction of the Civil War Myth and the Peculiarities of the Collective Amnesia in the Urals, 1917-1922 (RUS)
Bert HoppeFighting the Enemy’s Past: Königsberg/Kaliningrad as a Place of Memory in the Post-War USSR (RUS)
Sergei DigolThe 1949 Operation “South” in the Left-Bank Moldavia: A Forgotten Fragment of “Rehabilitated” Memory (RUS)
Alexander OsipianEthnic Cleansings and Memory Purges: The Ukrainian-Polish Borderland in 1937-1947 in Modern Politics and Historiography (RUS)
Volodymyr KravchenkoFighting the Shadow: the Soviet Past in the Historical Memory of Contemporary Ukrainian Society (RUS)
Elena IvanovaConstructing the Collective Memory of Holocaust in Ukraine (RUS)
Jeff MankoffBabi Yar and the Struggle for Memory, 1944-2004 (ENG)
III. ARCHIVE
Lubov KudriavtsevaStruggle for a “Place of Memory” in the Empire: a History of the Monument to the Founder of Vyborg, Tyrgils Knutsson (RUS)
Memory, Conflict, Monument: Publication of Documents (RUS)
IV. SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE
Stefan Berger Quo Vadis Germany? National Identity Debates after Reunification (ENG)
Maya Nadkarni, Olga ShevchenkoThe Politics of Nostalgia: A Case for Comparative Analysis of Post-socialist Practices (ENG)
V. EMPIRE & NATIONALISM STUDIES
Sergei MarkedonovCossacks: Unity or Diversity? (RUS)
Sergei MarkedonovThe Fundamental Question of Cossack Studies: Russian Historiography in Search of the “Ancient” Cossackdom (RUS)
Serhii Plokhy“Nationalization” of Ukrainian Cossackdom in the 17th-18th c. (RUS)
Ivan BasharovTrans-Baikal Cossacks in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Historiography (RUS)
Brian J. BoeckFrom the Verge of Extinction to Ethnic Distinction: Cossack Identity and Ethnicity in the Kuban’ Region, 1991-2002 (ENG)
VI. NEWEST MITHOLOGIES
J. Alexander OgdenSiberia as Chronotope: Valentin Rasputin’s Creation of a Usable Past in Sibir’, Sibir’ …(ENG)
VII. REVIEWS
Yuehtsen J. Chung(Eric Lohr, Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01041-8). (ENG)
Ernest Gyidel(A. IU. Bakhturina. Politika Possiiskoi imperii v Vostochnoi Galitsii v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny. Moscow, AIRO-XX, 2000. 264 pp.). (ENG)
Mikhail Tyaglyi(I.A.Altman. Zhertvy nenavisti: Kholokost v SSSR, 1941-1945. Moscow: Fond ‘Kovcheg’ 2002. 544 pp. ISBN: 5-89048-110-X). (RUS)
Kate Brown(Sistema ispravitelno-trudovykh lagerei v SSSR, 1923-1960. Spravochnik. Ed. N.G.Okhtin, A.B.Roginskii. Moscow: Zveni’ia, 1998. 600 pp.). (RUS)
William R. Spiegelberger(Organizatsiia iuridicheskikh konsultatsii dlia bezhentsev I vynuzhdennykh pereselentsev v gorodakh I regionakh Rossii. Materialy pervogo seminara. Pravozashchutnyi tsentr “Memorial.” Moscow: Zven’ia, 1997. 183 pp. ISBN: 5-7870-009-9, etc.) (ENG)
Nina Kolybashkina(Norbert Götz, and Jörg Hackmann (Ed.). Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003. xii, 274 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-3317-9). (RUS)