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
EditorsFriends and Enemies in the Imperial Context (R&E)
Ilya Gerasimov, Serguei Glebov, Jan Kusber, Marina Mogilner, Alexander SemyonovNew Imperial History and the Challenges of Empire (R)
Forum AI:THE IMPERIAL TURN IN RUSSIAN STUDIES: TEN YEARS LATER
Robert D. CrewsRussia Unbound: Historical Frameworks and the Challenge of Globalism (E)
Discussion (R&E)Sheila Fitzpatrick, USAPaul Werth, USAMark von Hagen, USAMalte Rolf, GermanySvetlana Gorshenina, FranceJane Burbank, USAZaur Gasimov, GermanySerhy Yekelchyk, CanadaDarius Staliunas, Lithuania
Norman M. NaimarkImperial Russian History Then and Now (E)
Maxim WaldsteinTheorizing the Second World: Challenges and Prospects (E)
HISTORY
Omer BartovErased. Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine: Introduction to the Ukrainian Translation (E)
Iaroslav HrytsakSimply the Holocaust (R)
Ilya GerasimovMemory Judenrein and Its Discontents (R)
Andriy PortnovIs 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 KnyshVirtual Jihad in the Twenty-first Century: The Case of the Caucasus Emirate (E)
BOOK REVIEWS
Ekaterina KluchnikovaMarina 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 KamenskiiDiffuziia 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. HalperinB. 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 KhrapunovE. 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 SumpfIlya 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 ShchavinskaiaAdam Stankevich. Z Bogam da Belarusi: Zbor tvorau. Vilnia: Instytut belarusistyki, 2008. 1097 S. ISBN: 978-80-86961-13-3. (R)
Emilian KavalskiThomas 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 MouravievaYulia 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 WalkeZhenskaia 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 SeleznevaDnevnik 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’kovFenomen 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)