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2023: Toward a Postnational History of Eurasia: Deconstructing Empires, Denationalizing Groupness

2023

Issue 4/2023 Bringing Agencies Back: Ecosystems of Humanism and Posthumanism

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2023

Issue 3/2023 Rethinking the Politics of Naming and the Logic of Groupness

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2023

Issue 2/2023 Citizenship and Participation in Imperial and National Polities

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Issue 1/2023 Dynamics of Imperialism and Nationalism in Eurasia

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2022: The Rise and Fall of the State as an Institution and an Analytical Concept

2022

Issue 4/2022 The Role of the State in Projects of Social Improvement

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Issue 3/2022 The State of the Nation and Empire: Was there a Difference?

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2022

Issue 2/2022 Imagining Leviathan in Myth, Religious Ideas, Literature, and Ideology

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Issue 1/2022 The Neverending Story of State-Building: Who Was Making the Power Work and How?

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2021: Historicizing Diversity

2021

Issue 4/2021 Projects: Designing a Rational Arrangement of Diversity

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Issue 3/2021 Anomie: Everything Is So Confusing

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Issue 2/2021 Transgression: Diversity as a Sin and a Crime

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2021

Issue 1/2021 Norm: Diversity as a Natural Order of Things and Lived Experience

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2020: When Postimperial Meets Postnational: Envisioning New Forms of Groupness in Historical Perspective

2020

Issue 4/2020 Groupness and Its Discontent: Historical Visions of the “Post” Order

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2020

Issue 3/2020 “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”: Hybridity, the Nationalizing Empire, and Imperialist Nation

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2020

Issue 2/2020 “We the People”: The “Nation” between Tribe and Republic

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2020

Issue 1/2020 “In a Fit of Absence of Mind”: The Mechanism of Empire-Building

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2019: Hybrid Conflicts and Diverse Societies: Civil Wars and Global Peace

2019

Issue 4/2019 Adjusting Scale: Global Conflicts – Local Consequences, and Vice Versa

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2019

Issue 3/2019 The Social Contract: In Theories and in Practices

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2019

Issue 2/2019 Civil Wars in Empires and Nations

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2019

Issue 1/2019 Encounters and Disengagements in the Imperial Situation

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2018: Rethinking Hybridity and Purity in a Global Perspective

2018

Issue 4/2018 Hybridity as a Politics and History of Globality

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2018

Issue 3/2018 The Ambiguities of Hybridity

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2018

Issue 2/2018 The Cult of Pure Forms

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2018

Issue 1/2018 Hybridity and Pure Forms in the Sociopolitical Imagination

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2017: The Global Condition: Local Names for Universalism

2017

Issue 4/2017 When Global Becomes Local: Modern Mobilities and the Reinvention of Locality

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2017

Issue 3/2017 Making Sense of Imperial and Post-Imperial Conditions in a Global Context

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2017

Issue 2/2017 Dynamics of Self-Organization and Revolution: Order out of Chaos and the Collapse of the Old

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2017

Issue 1/2017 When Local Becomes Global: Agencies and Subjectivities in Imperial Context

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2016: Situating in Empire: Agencies and Subjectivities in Imperial Spaces

2016

Issue 4/2016 Imperial Alternatives: Imagery of the Post-Imperial Order

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2016

Issue 3/2016 The Political Economy of Empire: Balancing Power, Resources, and Diversity

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2016

Issue 2/2016 Experiencing the Imperial Situation: Understanding Diversity

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2016

Issue 1/2016 Subjects of Empire, Objects of Governance: Imperial Agencies and Agents

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2015: Does the Past Have a Future?

2015

Issue 4/2015 Overcoming the Dualism of Past and Future: Making History

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2015

Issue 3/2015 Does the Past Have a Future?

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2015

Issue 2/2015 Designing the Future

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2015

Issue 1/2015 The Dialectics of Past and Future

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2014: Assemblage Points of the Imperial Situation: Places and Spaces of Diversity

2014

Issue 4/2014 Spontaneous Bricolage, Masters of Assemblage, and Their Contested Blueprints

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2014

Issue 3/2014 Ghettos and Time Gaps (bezvremenie): Negativity as “the Moment of Truth”

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2014

Issue 2/2014 Crossroads and Multiple Temporalities: Contact Zones and Middle Grounds

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2014

Issue 1/2014 Zeit und Raum: Adjacent Spaces, Overlapping Epochs

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2013: Freedom and Empire: Dialectics of Diversity and Homogeneity in Complex Societies

2013

Issue 4/2013 Emancipation of Researchers Through the Decentralization of Normative Models

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2013

Issue 3/2013 Freedom as an Object of Intellectual Import and Export: Lost in Translation, Found in Transla

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2013

Issue 2/2013 Freedom and Order: Interpreters and Intermediaries – Entrepreneurs of Groupness

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2013

Issue 1/2013 How Do We Understand Freedom Today? Free Interpretations and Predetermined Models

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2012: Structures and Cultures of Imperial and Post-Imperial Diversity

2012

Issue 4/2012 Imperial Diversity and Modern Knowledge

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2012

Issue 3/2012 Varieties of Exceptionalism

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2012

Issue 2/2012 Varieties of Colonialism

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2012

Issue 1/2012 Periphery as the Center

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2011: Second World – Second Time? The Concept of the “Second World” at the Crossroads of Social Sciences and Imperial History

2011

Issue 4/2011 The Second World Between Comparative and Global Histories

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2011

Issue 3/2011 Time of the Second World: Imperial Revolutions and Counterrevolutions

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2011

Issue 2/2011 The Second World Beyond Geopolitics: Political Trajectories and Spatial Configurations

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2011

Issue 1/2011 The Diversity of Otherness: Studies of the Second World and New Historical Paradigms

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2010: Friends, Foes, and Neighbors: Ascribing Meaning to Imperial Political, Economic, and Social Order

2010

Issue 4/2010 War and Imperial Society: Dynamics of “Friendship” and “Hostility”

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2010

Issue 3/2010 Neighbor: Social and Political Encounters in the Imperial Context

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2010

Issue 2/2010 Political and Economic Unions: Dialectics of Poverty, Wealth, and Political Domination

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2010

Issue 1/2010 Ascribing Stance: Making Friends and Enemies in Imperial Contexts

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2009: Homo Imperii: The Imperial Situation of Multiple Temporalities and Heterogeneous Space

2009

Issue 4/2009 From Homo Imperii to Civitas: Projects of Imagined Imperial Communities

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2009

Issue 3/2009 Maison des sciences de l’Homme: Human Sciences in the Empire

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2009

Issue 2/2009 Homo Imperii in Space and Time: Settling and Unsettling Imperial Spaces

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2009

Issue 1/2009 Narrating the Multiple Self: New Biographies for the Empire

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2008: Gardening Empire

2008

Issue 4/2008 Nature and Nurture: Ecology of Imperial Gardens

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2008

Issue 3/2008 Vandalizing the Garden: Multiple Forms of Violence in the Imperial Space

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2008

Issue 2/2008 Gardening the Imperial Subject: Intimate and Collective in the Imperial Space

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2008

Issue 1/2008 Imperial Exceptionalisms: Mechanisms and Discourses

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2007: The Imperium of Knowledge and the Power of Silences

2007

Issue 4/2007 The Future of the Past

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2007

Issue 3/2007 History on Trial

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2007

Issue 2/2007 The Politics of Comparison

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2007

Issue 1/2007 The Discipline of History and the Punishment of Empire

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2006: Anthropological Reflections on Languages of Self-Description of Empire and Nation

2006

Issue 4/2006 The Letter of the Law: the Institutionalization of Belonging to Polity

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2006

Issue 3/2006 The Chorus of Nations: Constructing and Describing Group Unity

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2006

Issue 2/2006 Conversations about Motherland: Individual and Collective Experiences of “Homeland”

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2006

Issue 1/2006 Language Difficulties: How and Why We Write the History of Empires and Nations

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2005: Languages of Self-Description in Empire and Multinational State

2005

Issue 4/2005 Discussing Imperial Legacy: Archaisms and Neologisms

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2005

Issue 3/2005 Empire & the Challenge of Nationalism: Searching for Modes of Self-Description

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2005

Issue 2/2005 Languages of Self-Description in Empire and Multinational State

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2005

Issue 1/2005 Empire: The Lexicon of Praxis and the Grammar of Analysis

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2004: Archaeology of Memory of Empire and Nation

2004

Issue 4/2004 Reconciliation through the Past: Pan-European Perspective

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2004

Issue 3/2004 Historical Memory and National Paradigm

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2004

Issue 2/2004 Memory Repressed, Silenced, and Lost

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2004

Issue 1/2004 Heterogeneity of Imperial and National Memory

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2003: Imperial Borders and Liminalities

2003

Issue 4/2003 The Limits of Marginality: Jews as “inorodtsy” in Continental Empires

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2003

Issue 3/2003 Searching for the Center: Russian Nationalism

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2003

Issue 2/2003 Beyond the Borders: Political and Economic Migrations, Internal and External Exile

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2003

Issue 1/2003 Russian Empire: Boundaries and Frontiers

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2002: The Russian Empire/USSR and Paradoxes of Modernization

2002

Issue 4/2002 Socioeconomic Sturctures and Paradoxes of Imperial Modernization

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2002

Issue 3/2002 Russian Society: Structures and Cultures

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2002

Issue 2/2002 Organization of Political Space of Empires and Nations

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2002

Issue 1/2002 “Russia’s “Special Path” and Varieties of Imperial and National Experiences of Modernization

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2001

2001

Issue 4/2001 Empire at War

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2001

Issue 3/2001 Ethnicity and Nation

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2001

Issue 1-2/2001 Imperial Mythologies

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2000

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Issue 3-4/2000 Liberalism and Nationalism

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2000

Issue 2/2000 Nationalism and Religion

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2000

Issue 1/2000

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