Dear colleagues,
Ab Imperio editors are pleased to announce the third issue of the journal in 2003. Within the annual theme dedicated to "Imperial Borders and Liminalities", this issue explores the problem of Russian nationalism in the Russian empire. For more information on Ab Imperio, subscription, or manuscript submission, please, visit our website at http://abimperio.netor write directly to AI editors:
Ilya Gerasimov ai@bancorp.ru Sergey Glebov glebov@rci.rutgers.edu Alexander Kaplunovski kaplunovski@abimperio.net Marina Mogilner office@abimperio.net Alexander Semyonov semyonov@abimperio.net
Ab Imperio 3 - 2003. SEARCHING FOR THE CENTER: RUSSIAN NATIONALISM
From the Editors How Many Centers Does Russian Nationalism Have?
Methodology and Theory
Aleksandr Presniakov The Place of "Kievan Period" in a General Scheme of "Russian History"
Raymond Pearson Privileges, Rights, and Russification
Interview with Benedict Anderson "We Study Empires as We Do Dinosaurs:" Nations, Nationalism, and Empire in a Critical Perspective History
Virtual Roundtable Borders and Facets of Russian Nationalism Mikhail Dolbilov (Russia) Andreas Kappeler (Austria) Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (US) David G. Rowley (US) Andreas Umland (Germany) Vera Tolz (UK)
Paul Bushkovitch Orthodox Church and Russian National Consciousness in the 16th - 17th Centuries
Alexander M. Martin The Invention of "Russianness" in the Late 18th - Early 19th Century
Anatoly Remnev To Push Russia into Siberia: Empire and Russian Colonization in the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Century
Marina Loskutova Where Does Motherland Begin? Teaching Geography in Russian Pre-Revolutionary School and Regional Identity in the Late 19th - Early 20th Century
Sergei Podbolotov Nicholas II as Russian Nationalist
Archive
Marina Mogilner "Encyclopaedia of Russian Nationalist Project:" Foreword to the Publication
Ivan Sikorskii What is Nation and other Forms of People's Life?
Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Andreas Umland The Formation of a Fascist "Neo-Eurasian" Intellectual Movement in Russia: Alexander Dugin's Path from a Marginal Extremist to an Ideologue of the Post-Soviet Academic and Political Elite, 1989-2001
Emil Pain Activization of the Ethnic Majority in Post-Soviet Russia: the Resources of Russian Nationalism
ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
From the Editors
Diliara Usmanova Making a National History: Tatar Historiographic and Political Debates at the Turn of the Century
Sebastian Cwiklinski Tatarism vs. Bulgharism: "The First Debate" in the Tatar Historiography
Aleksei Miller Russian Empire, Orientalism, and Processes of Nation-Building in the Volga Region
Wim van Meurs Tatar Textbooks - The Next Matrioshka
The Newest Mythologies
Ilya Gerasimov "A Binge of Three Princes in a Green Courtyard," or the Birth of a "Liberal Empire"
Book Reviews
V. G. Shchukin. Russkoe zapadnichestvo. Genezis - sushchnost' - istoricheskaia rol'. Lodz. Ibidem, 2001. Olga Malinova.
Stephen Kotkin and David Wolff (Eds.), Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995), Igor Martyniuk.
Etnicheskii natsionalizm i gosudarstvennoe stroitel'stvo. Moskva. Institut Vostokovedenia RAN. Natalis, 2001. Dovile Budrite
Robert P. Geraci and Michael Khodarkovsky (Eds.), Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001). Aleksandr Polunov
A. S. Myl'nikov. Narody Tsentral'noi Evropy: formirovanie natsional'nogo samosoznania, XVII - XIX vv. SPb. Petropolis, 1997. Andriy Zayarnyuk
Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914 1921 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002) Stephen Velychenko
Gendernye istorii Vostochnoi Evropy / pod red. E. Gapovoi, A. Usmanovoi, A. Peto. Minsk. EGU, 2002. Irina Tartakovskaia.
Enn Kung, Helina Tamman (Hrs.). Festschirift fur Vello Helk zum 75. Geburtstag. Beitrage zur Verwaltungs-, Kirchen- und Bildungsgescgichte des Ostseeraumes. Tartu: Esti Ajalooarhiiv, 1998. Petr Krupnikov