Editors
Issue 1/2003 Russian Empire: Boundaries and Frontiers
Methodology and Theory
History
Claus Scharf
Pugachev as Emperor between Center and Periphery: Defining the Problematic
Marina Vituhnovskaja
Karelians at the Edges of Competing National Projects: Socioeconomic Differences between Russian and Finnish Karelias as a Nationality Policy Factor
Pavel Varnavskii
The Boundaries of the Soviet Buryat Nation: “Cultural Nation-Building” in Buryatia in 1926-29 in Blueprints of National Intelligentsia and National-Bolsheviks
Vladimir Bobrovnikov
Violence and Power in the Historical Memory of a Muslim Borderland (Toward a New Interpretation of the “Hochbar Tale”)
Archive
Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
From the Editors
Stefan Troebst
“We Are Transnistrians!” Post-Soviet Identity Management in the Dniester Valley
Sergiu Musteata
“We are Rumanians?” History Teaching in the Republic of Moldova over the Last Decade
Andrei Cusco, Viktor Taki
“Who Are We?” A Historiographic Choice between the Rumanian Nation and Moldavian Statehood
Newest Mythologies
Book Reviews
Igor Martyniuk
Denis J. B. Shaw, Russia in the Modern World: A New Geography (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999). 314 p., paperback edition. Ј16.99
Emilian Kavalski
Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002); xii+2000 p. Index. ISBN: 0-691-09054-8 (cloth).
Paul du Quenoy
Alexander J. Motyl, Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). 128 p. ISBN: 0-231-12110-5 (cloth).
Maia Lavrinovich
