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Dear friends and colleagues,
"Ab Imperio" editors are pleased to announce the release of the second issue of the journal in 2007. "Ab Imperio" is a bilingual (English Russian) international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of empire and nationalism in the post Soviet space. The second issue of the journal is devoted to the exploration of "Politics of Comparison." This issue features both theoretical reflections and empirical studies from history, political science, sociology, and anthropology on comparison as a fundamental analytical and political operation. The language of each publication (Russian or English) is indicated by a letter in brackets.
Please find below the table of contents and visit the website for more information: www.abimperio.net
For submissions, subscription or other inquiries please contact the editors at: office@abimperio.net
THE POLITICS OF COMPARISON
METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
From the Editors Politics of Comparison: Inescapable Centrality and Elusive Clarity of Matching Things Up (R&E)
Andreas Kappeler: The Center and Peripheral Elites in the Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1700-1918 (R)
Michael Werner and Bénédicte Zimmermann: Beyond Comparison: Histoire croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity (R)
Interview with Matthias Middell: The Centrality of Comparison (E)
Glennys Young: Emotions, Contentious Politics, and Empire: Some Thoughts about the Soviet Case (E)
HISTORY
Kristin Vitalich: Dictionary as Empire: Vladimir Dalґ’s Interpretive Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language (E)
Steven Seegel: Metageography Unbound: Late Nineteenth-century European Borderland Cartography and the Geopolitical Construction of Space (E)
Svetlana Gorshenina: Is the Marginality of Russian Colonial Turkestan Perpetual, or Whether Central Asia Will Be Included One Day into the Sphere of "Post-Studies" (R)
Xavier Le Torrivellec: Tatars and Bashkirs: A History in the Mirror. Ethnic Composition, Historiographic Debates, and Political Power in the Republic of Bashkortostan (R)
Tassadit Yacine: At the Origins of an Unusual Ethno-Sociology (R)
Todd Shepard Making French and European Coincide: Decolonization and the Politics of Comparative and Transnational Histories (E)
ARCHIVE
The Empire of Archives: Call for Papers
SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE
Irina Morozova: Elites, Reforms, and Power Institutions in Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia in the 1920-1940s: a Comparative Historical Analysis (E)
NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES
Joseph Crescente: Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serdiuchka and the Hybridization of Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine (E)
REVIEWS
R-FORUM RUSSIAN MUSIC, MODERNISM, AND POWER
Boris Gasparov, Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). xxii+268 pp. Musical exs., Notes, Index. ISBN: 0-300-10650-5. Amy Nelson
Amy Nelson, Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004). xvi+330 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 0-271-02369-4 (hardcover edition). Irina Kotkina
Kiril Tomoff, Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939 – 1953 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). xiv+321 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-4411-X (hardcover edition). Serhy Yekelchyk
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A. A. Komzolova. Politika samoderzhavija v Severo-Zapadnom krae v epokhu Velikikh reform. Moskva: "Nauka", 2005. 383 S., ill. ISBN: 5-02-010293-8. Darius Staliunas
Aziatskaja Rossija: Ljudi i struktury imperii: sbornik nauchnykh statej. K 50-letiju so dann rozhdenija professora A. V. Remneva / Pod. red. N. G. Suvorovoj. Omsk: Izdatelstvo Omskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2005. 603 S. ISBN: 5-7779-0629-X. Scott C. Bailey
Susanna Rabow-Edling, Slavo-phile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Conservatism (Albany, NY: State University of New York Pres, 2006). vii+183 pp. (=SUNY Series in National Identities). Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7914-6693-0 (hardcover edition). Mikhail Suslov
Frederick C. Corney, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004). xviii+301pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8931-8 (paperback edition). Ljudmila Novikova
Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). xxiv+402 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 0-520-23550-9. Andrew Gentes
David L. Ransel, Bozena Shallcross (Eds.), Polish Encounters, Russian Identity (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005). 232 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-253-21771-7. Aleksandra Petukhova
A. V. Bogomolov, S. I. Danilov, I. N. Semivolos, G. M. Javorskaja. Islamskaja identichnost v Ukranie / Per. s ukr. Izd. 2-e, dop. Kiev: Izdatelskij dom "Stilos", 2006. 200 S. ISBN: 966-8518-45-4. Andrew Wilson
I. V. Narskij. Zhizn v katastrofe: Budni naselenija Urala v 1917-1922 gg. Moskva: "ROSSPEN", 2001. 632 S. ISBN: 5-8243-0280-4. Ernest Gyjdel
O. E. Kosheleva. Ljudi Sankt-Peterburgskogo ostrova Petrovskogo vremeni. Moskva: "OGI", 2004 (=Nacija i kultura / Novye issledovanija). 486 S., ill. ISBN: 5-94282-262-X. Pavel Chechenkov
Anton Adamovich. Da gistoryi belaruskae literatury. Mensk: Vydavec "Z’micer Kolas", 2005. 1464 S. Imennoj ukasatel. ISBN: 985-90050-3-6. Aleksandr Grnoskij
Linda Murray, Peter Murray, A Dictionary of Christian Art (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 658 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 0-19-860966-3 (paperback edition). Nikita Khrapunov
List of Contributors Ab Imperio – 2007 Miscellaneous Ab Imperio – 2008 Books for Review