Ab Imperio

SUMMARY: Anticipating the publication of archival documents, the article reconstructs the history of the Russian Art Exhibition of 1924–1926 in the United States, presenting it as an element of early Soviet cultural diplomacy. The author emphasizes the...

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Ab Imperio

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

Methodology and Theory

To the Reader

Interview with Carl E. Schorske. Between Modernity and Modernism: The Scene is Laden with Paradox…

Modernization as a Concept

The “German Sonderweg” as an Interpretative Instrument: History, Impulses, Limitations

Russian “Long 19th Century”: A “Special Path” of European Modernization?

History

Translatio imperii

Empire and Universe. An Interpretation of a Medieval Description of the Empire of Dzengiz-khan

Officium Stratoris and “Coming, Sitting on an Ass’s Colt”: The Question of Compatibility of West-European and Russian Medieval Religios-Political Doctrines

From the Golden Horde to Russia

Archive

From the Editors

Foreword to the Publication

Writing Non-Eurocentric History: Russian Scholars' Reactions to G. Vernadsky's Eurasianist History

On the 50th Anniversary of the Bakhmeteff Archive

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

New Russian Nationalism as a Reaction to Globalization: Sources, Mechanisms of Spreading, and Scenarios of Development

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

From the Editors

Russia Between East and West: the Intelligentsia, Russian National Identity and the Asian Borderlands

Russian Historiography Between East and West: Some Afterthoughts in 2002

Historiography

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Modernization of Russian Empire and Paradoxes of Orientalism

A Subtle Matter – Orientalism

The Shaved Man’s Burden, or the Inner Colonization of Russia

Was Russia its own Orient? Reflections on the Contributions of Etkind and Schimmelpenninck to the Debate on Orientalism

On the Question of Orientalism in Russia (in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries)

The Issue of Russian Colonialism in Ukrainian Thought. Dependency Identity and Development

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