Dear friends and colleagues,
"Ab Imperio" editors are pleased to announce the release of the first issue of the journal in 2010. "Ab Imperio" is a bilingual (English Russian) international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of empire and nationalism in the post Soviet space. The first issue of the journal is devoted to the exploration of "Ascribing Stance: Making Friends and Enemies in Imperial Contexts". The language of each publication (Russian or English) is indicated by a letter in brackets.
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Ascribing Stance: Making Friends and Enemies in Imperial Contexts
METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
Editors Friends and Enemies in the Imperial Context (R&E)
Ilya Gerasimov, Serguei Glebov, Jan Kusber, Marina Mogilner, Alexander Semyonov New Imperial History and the Challenges of Empire (R)
Forum AI:THE IMPERIAL TURN IN RUSSIAN STUDIES: TEN YEARS LATER
Robert D. Crews Russia Unbound: Historical Frameworks and the Challenge of Globalism (E)
Discussion (R&E) Sheila Fitzpatrick, USA Paul Werth, USA Mark von Hagen, USA Malte Rolf, Germany Svetlana Gorshenina, France Jane Burbank, USA Zaur Gasimov, Germany Serhy Yekelchyk, Canada Darius Staliunas, Lithuania
Norman M. Naimark Imperial Russian History Then and Now (E)
Maxim Waldstein Theorizing the Second World: Challenges and Prospects (E)
HISTORY
Omer Bartov Erased. Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine: Introduction to the Ukrainian Translation (E)
Iaroslav Hrytsak Simply the Holocaust (R)
Ilya Gerasimov Memory Judenrein and Its Discontents (R)
Andriy Portnov Is Ukraine Ready for Maturity? (R)
SOCIOLOGY, ETHONOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENECE
Ekaterina Khodzhaeva, Elena Shumilova "Who Is the Believer?" Everyday Typifications of "Us" and "Them" in Orthodox Christian and Muslim Discourses: The Case of Kazan (R)
NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES
Alexander Knysh Virtual Jihad in the Twenty-first Century: The Case of the Caucasus Emirate (E)
BOOK REVIEWS
Ekaterina Kluchnikova Marina Frolova-Walker, Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008). 416 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-11273-3. (R)
Alexander Kamenskii Diffuziia evropejskikh innovacij v Rossiiskoj imperii: Materialy vserossiiskoi nauchnoi konferencii, Ekaterinburg, 10-11 nojabrja 2009 g. / Otv. red. E. V. Alekseeva. Ekaterinburg: Institut istorii i arkheologii Ural'skogo otdeleniia RAN; "Bank kul'turnoi informacii", 2009. 420 S. ISBN: 978-5-7851-0719-9 (R)
Charles J. Halperin B. R. Rahimzjanov. Kasimovskoe khanstvo (1445–1552 gg.): Ocherki istorii. Kazan': Tatarskoe knizhnoe izdatel'stvo, 2009. 207 S. Bibliografiia. Prilozhenija. Cvetnye illjustracii. ISBN: 978-5-298-01721-3. (E)
Nikita Khrapunov E. Genderson. Bibleiskie razyskaniia i stranstviia po Rossii, vkliuchaia puteshestvie po Krymu i perekhod cherez Kavkaz s obzorom polozheniia evreev, ravvinistov i karaimov, magometan i iazycheskikh narodov, obitaiushchikh v iuzhnykh guberniiakh Rossiiskoi imperii / Per. s angl.: V. L. Vikhnovich, A. A. Alekseev. Sankt-Peterburg: Rossiiskoe Bibleiskoe obshchestvo, 2006. 349 S. ISBN-10: 5-85524-90-0. (R)
Alexandre Sumpf Ilya V. Gerasimov, Modernism and Public Reform in Late Imperial Russia: Rural Professionals and Self-organization, 1905–1930 (Houndmills, Basingstoke, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). x+325 pp. Bibliographical References, Index. ISBN: 978-0-230-22. (E)
Iurii Labyntsev, Larisa Shchavinskaia Adam Stankevich. Z Bogam da Belarusi: Zbor tvorau. Vilnia: Instytut belarusistyki, 2008. 1097 S. ISBN: 978-80-86961-13-3. (R)
Emilian Kavalski Thomas W. Simons Jr., Eurasia’s New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008). xx+180 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4743-3 (hardback edition). (E)
Marianna Mouravieva Yulia Gradskova, Soviet People with Female Bodies. Performing Beauty and Maternity in Soviet Russia in the mid 1930-1960s (Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Stockholm University, 2007). 347 pp. ISBN: 978-91-85445-72-1. (R)
Anika Walke Zhenskaia ustnaia istoriia: Gendernye issledovaniia / Sost. Andrea Peto. Bishkek: “Centr izdatel'skogo razvitiia”, 2004. Ch. 1. 339 S., bibl.; 2005. Ch. 2. 512 S. ISBN: 9967-11-193-3. (E)
Ludmila Selezneva Dnevnik L. A. Tikhomirova. 1915–1917 gg. / Sost. A. V. Repnikov. Moskva: “ROSSPEN”, 2008. 440 S., ill. Imennoj ukazatel’. ISBN: 978-5-8243-0896-9. (R)
Maksim Vas’kov Fenomen Vladimira Putina i rossiiskie regiony: Pobeda neozhidannaia ili zakonomernaia? Sbornik statei / Pod red. K. Macuzato [K. Matsuzato] (=Slaviano-evraziiskie issledovaniia. Vyp. 1). Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University; “Materik-Alfa”, 2004. 368 S. ISBN: 978-5-85646-126-7. (R)