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Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space

2/2000 Nationalism and Religion | Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2000 Nationalism and Religion

Methodology and Theory

To the Reader

An Orientation in Typology

Richard Wortman

Demonstrations of Godliness

History

The Invention of the Theory “Moscow, the Third Rome”

The 1767 Volga Trip of Catherine II: Acquainting with the Empire

Inorodtsy on Obrusenie: Religious Conversion, Indigenous Clergy, and the Politics of Assimilation in Late-Imperial Russia

Martin Schulze Wessel

Traditions of International Politics and Religious Conflict in the German-Russian Relations after 1871

Diliara Usmanova

Archive

Evgenii Lipakov

Introduction, preparation of publication, comments

Orthodox Missionaries on the Prospects of Conversion and Russification of Inorodtsy: Three Reports from 1900, 1905, and 1907

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Victor Avksent’ev, Igor’ Babkin

Religious Factor in the Ethnic Conflicts in the Northern Caucasus

Nikolas Gvosdev

Keeping the Faith: The Orthodox Church and Reintegration in Contemporary Eurasia

The Integrative and Disintegrative Role of Religion and Ethnic Processes in Contemporary Russia

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Rogers Brubaker

Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Nationalism – Final Part

Historian’s Argument Against Historicism: Concluding Remarks on “Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Nationalism” by R. Brubaker

Newest Mythologies

Marina Razbezhkina

Sviiazhsk Chronotop

Historiography

Alexander Semyonov

Marginalia: Richard Wortman’s Book “Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy”

Book Reviews

Диаспоры. Независимый научный журнал. Москва, 2000. № 1; № 2-3.

Arkady Toritsyn

Jack Snyder, From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict (New York, 2000).

Marina Mogilner

Евреи в России: XIX век: А. И. Паперна. Из Николаевской эпохи; В. Г. Ковнер. Из записок еврея; Г. Б. Слиозберг. Дела давно минувших дней / Вступ. Статья, сост., подгот. текста и коммент. В. Е. Кельнера. – М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2000.

Konrad Zieliński

Janusz Szczepański, Społeczeństwo Polski w walce z najazdem bolszewickim 1920 roku, Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych & Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna (Warszawa – Pułtusk, 2000).

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The Legal and Ethnoconfessional Spheres of Empire: Russian Muslims in the Mirror of Legislation (Early Twentieth Century)

Tim McDaniel, The Agony of the Russian Idea (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).

Mark Bassin, Imperial Visions. Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840—1865 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Charles Steinwedel

Имперский строй России в региональном измерении (XIX-начало XX века). Под ред. П. И. Савельева. Москва, 1997, 237 C.

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Marina Mogilner · 3/2003 Searching for the Center: Russian Nationalism · 2003

“Encyclopaedia of Russian Nationalist Project:” Foreword to the Publication

SUMMARY: In the present issue, the archival section features a pamphlet by a famous Russian nationalist and anthropologist, I. Sikorskii. The selection of this unusual archival document (it was eventually published in 1915 but became a rarity soon thereafter)...