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

1-2/2001 Imperial Mythologies | Ab Imperio

Issue 1-2/2001 Imperial Mythologies

Methodology and Theory

To the Reader

Ronald Grigor Suny

The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, “National” Identity, and Theories of Empire

Origins of the Unity Paradigm: Ukraine and the Construction of Russian National History (1620s-1860s)

History

Andrei Korenevskii

Who and When “Invented” the Theory “Moscow, The Third Rome”?

Merezhkovskii’s Third Rome: Imperial Visions and Christian Dreams

Benjamin Schenk

Political Myth and Collective Identity: The Alexander Nevskii Myth in Russian History (1263-1998)

Andrei Skorobogatov

The Semiotics of Paul I’ Authority

Ilya Vinkovetsky

Archive

Andrei Skorobogatov

Archival Collection of Historian D. V. Odinets in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Devision of the Kazan University’s N. I. Lobachevskii Research Library

Preface to the Publication

Dmitrii Odinets

The National Question

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Put in a Word for the “Russian Idea” in English

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Alexander Semyonov

Interview with Mark von Hagen and Richard Wortman on the Problem of a New Curriculum in Russian History

Newest Mythologies

The “Eastern Jew” as a Site of Memory in Interwar German-Jewish Travel Accounts

Grandchildren of the Soviet Empire: Schoolchildren Compositions on the Topic “I Myself, My Family, and My Country in the 1990s”

Historiography

Behind the Bars of Slavophilism: Nicholas Danilevsky – Shpenglerianist… Cartesianist

Book Reviews

Ghenadie Mardari

Igor Casu. Nationality Policy in Soviet Moldova: 1944-1989. Chisinau, Moldova: Cartdidact, 2000. 214 p. Conclusions in Romanian, English and Russian. Bibliographical references

Новая Польша. Общественно-политический и литературный ежемесячник. Издается Национальной библиотекой при финансовой поддержке Министерства культуры и национального наследия Республики Польша. Варшава, 2000. №№ 2-10.

Jeremy Smith, The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917-23 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), xvii, 281 p. map; Series: Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Б. П. Балуев. Споры о судьбах России: Н. Я. Данилевский и его книга “Россия и Европа”. Москва: Эдиториал УРСС, 1999.

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Circumnavigation, Empire, Modernity, Race: The Impact of Round-The-World Voyages on Russia’s Imperial Consciousness

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Ideologies of Empire in Imperial Russia

Mikhail Dolbilov

The Cultural Idiom of Russia’s Revival as a Factor of Imperial Policy in the Lithuanian-Belorussian Region in 1863-1865

Chris J. Chulos

In Praise of the Local: Post-Emancipation Authors of the Provincial Press and Celebrations of the Russian Empire

Svetlana Malysheva

The Myth of the 1917 Revolution: The First Soviet State Project

Nataliia Glebova

V dvizhenii dobrovol’nom i vynuzhdennom. Postsovetskie migratsii v Evrazii / Edited by Anatolii Viatkin, Natalia Kosmarskaia, Sergei Panarin. Moscow: Natalis, 1999. 319 p. List of authors, name index, geographical index, summaries in English.

Mariia Kazakova

История Росийской монархии: мнения и оценки. СПб.: Нестор, 2000. 193 с.

Население России в ХХ веке. Исторические очерки. В 3-х т. Том 1. 1900-1939. Москва: РОССПЭН, 2000. 463 с.

Natsionalism. Polemika 1909-1917/ Antology edited by M. Kolerov. Moscow: Dom Intellektual’noi Knigi, 2000. 238 p. Notes.

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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)...