Dear colleagues,
Ab Imperio editors would like to draw your attention to the third issue of AI in 2005.
Please, visit AI website at www.abimperio.net for detailed information on the journal, including editorial contacts and the journal's annual program.
With best reagrds,
Ab Imperio editors
2005 annual theme:LANGUAGES OF SELF-DESCRIPTION IN EMPIRE AND MULTINATIONAL STATE
Issue 3/2005 “Empire and the Challenge of Nationalism: Searching for Modes of Social, Political, and Cultural Self-Description” (The language of publication is indicated in brackets)
METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
EditorsEmpire as a “Claim,” Nation as a “Resolution”: Languages for Describing Unity and Diversity in a Multicultural Setting (E)
Miroslav HrochLanguage as a Tool of Civic Equality (R)
Mark R. BeissingerRethinking Empire in the Wake of the Soviet Collapse (R)
Mark R. BeissingerSituating Empire (E)
HISTORY
Elena VishlenkovaThe Visual Language of “Russianness” from the 18th to the First Quarter of the 19th Century (R)
Michael KemperAdat against Shari?a: Russian Approaches towards Daghestani “Customary Law” in the 19th Century (E)
Alexander KaplunovskiiDescribing Empire Societally: The “Polyphony” of Prikazchiki in theSocial Register of Russian Empires’ Languages of Self-Description (R)
Simon RabinovichPositivism, Populism and Politics: The Intellectual Foundations of Jewish Ethnography in Late Imperial Russia (E)
Laurie CohenLooking In From the Outside. Bertha and Arthur von Suttner in the Caucasus, 1876-1885 (E)
Willard SunderlandBaron Ungern, Toxic Cosmopolitan (E)
Serguei GlebovA Life with Imperial Dreams: Petr Nikolaevich Savitsky, Eurasianism, and the Invention of “Structuralist” Geography (E)
ARCHIVE
Alla ZeideThe Empireless. Texts and Contexts in the Life of a Russian Jew, Aleksei Goldenweiser (R)
DocumentAleksei Goldenweiser: Diaries and Correspondence from Different Years (R)
SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE
Elena GapovaOn the Political Economy of “National Language” in Belarus (R)
ABC: EMPIRE & NATIONALISM STUDIES
The “Imperial Turn” at the ICCEES VII World Congress, Berlin, July 2005
Kimitaka MatsuzatoRussian Imperiology and Area Studies (Impressions on the ICCEES Berlin Congress) (E)
Jan KusberThe Russian Empire as a Subject Matter of East European Historic Research. Some Reflections on Its Prospects at the ICCEES VII World Congress in Berlin (E)
William G. RosenbergThe Problems of Empire in Imperial Russia (E)
NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES
Jelena GrigorjevaOn the Morphology of Visual Post-Soviet Post-Folklore (R)
HISTORIOGRAPHY
Oksana KlimkovaGULAG: From Myth-Telling toward Analysis (R)
BOOK REVIEWS
R-Forum I: “Writing Soviet History as Imperial History”
Ilya GerasimovTerry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire. Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001). Xvi + 496 pp., 4 maps, 46 tables. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8677-7 (paper).
Marina MogilnerFrancine Hirsch, Empire of Nations. Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005). 367 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8908-3 (paper).
R-Forum II: “Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature”
Igor MartyniukChristopher Ely, This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002), 278 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-303-2.
Adam FergusHarsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). x+307 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-299-18190-1 (hardback edition).
Maksim KirchanovMiroslav Shkandrii. V obiimakh imperii. Rosiiska і ukrainska literaturi novitnoi dobi. Kiiv: “Fakt”, 2004. 496 S. ISBN: 966-8408-45-4.
Helene Perrin-WagnerRossiiskaia imperia v sravnitelnoi perspektive: Sbornik statei / Pod red. A. I. Millera. Moskva: “Novoe Izdatelstvo”, 2004. 384 S. ISBN: 5-98379-011-0.
Thomas SandersAlter L. Litvin, Writing History in Twentieth-Century Russia: A View From Within (Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave, 2001). xi+201 pp. Translated and Edited by John L. H. Keep. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography. ISBN: 0-333-76487-0.
Marc L. GreenbergSvoi ili chuzhoi? Evrei i slaviane glazami drug druga/ Otv. red. O. V. Belova. Moskva: “Sefer”, Institut slavianovedenia RAN, 2003. 504 S. (= Akademicheskaia seria. Vyp. 11). ISBN: 5-98370-002-2.
Tomasz KamusellaJacob M. Landau and Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States: Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan (London: Hurst and Company, 2001), xiv+260 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 1-85065-442-5
Sebastian CwiklinskiNovaia volna v izuchenii etnologicheskoi istorii Volgo-Uralskogo regiona / Sbornik statei . Pod red. K. Matsuzato. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2003. 335 S. ISBN: 4-98637-28-6.
Iurii Labyntsev, Larisa ShchavinskaiaZenon Kogut. Korinnia identichnosti. Studii z rannomodernoi ta modernoi istorii Ukraini. Kiiv: “Kritika”, 2004. 352 S. Pokazchik imen. ISBN: 966-7679-48-9.
Magdalena ZolkosJane Leftwich Curry and Joan Barth Urban (Eds.), The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies. The Cases from East-Central Europe, Russia and Ukraine (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003). 284 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7425-2664
Andreas DemuthJean-Jacques Subrenat (Ed.), Estonia. Identity and Independence (Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi B.V., 2004). ix+310 pp. (=On the Boundary of Two Worlds. Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. Vol. 2). ISBN: 9-0420-0890-3 (paperback).
Olga KhristoforovaChris J. Chulos, Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861-1917 (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). 201 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-317-2.
Caleb WallJames W. Heinzen, Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). 312 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8229-4215-1.
Marina Krasilnikova, Alexander CherniavskiiIstroia i foliosofia kulturi: Aktualnie problemi. Sbornik nauchnikh trudov. Vypusk 6 / Pod red. S. V. Arkhipova. Vladikavkaz: Izdatelstvo Severo-Osetinskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2003. 284 S. ISBN: 5-8336-0316-1.
Aleksei ChesnokovV. I. Diatlov. Sovremennye torgovye menshinstva: faktor stabilnosti ili konflikta? (Kitaicy i kavkazcy v Irkutske). Moskva: “Natalis”, 2000. 190 S. ISBN: 5-8062-0025-6.
Boris P. ChichloA. S. Zuev. Sibir: Vekhi istorii (XVI – XIX vv.) / Uchebnoe posobie... Novosibirsk, 1999; A. S. Zuev. Russkie i aborigeny na krainem severo-vostoke Sibiri vo vtoroi polivine XVII – pervoi chetverti XVIII vv. Novosibirsk, 2002. 330 S.
Katya VladimirovGubernatory Sakhalina / Pod red. A. I. Kostanova, A. I. Baialdina, L. V. Dragunovoi i dr. Iuzhno-Sakhalinsk: Arkhivnyi otdel Administracii Sakhaliskoi oblasti, Gosudarstvennii arkhiv Sakhalinskoi oblasti, 2000. 392 S.
Dmitriy RezunA. D. Ageev. Sibir i amerikanskii Zapad: Dvizhenie frontirov. Irkutsk: Irkutskii universitet, 2002. 294 S. ISBN: 5-7430-0154-5 (v obl.).