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1/2004 Heterogeneity of Imperial and National Memory | Ab Imperio

Issue 1/2004 Heterogeneity of Imperial and National Memory

Methodology and Theory

Can an Empire Have Memory? An Invitation to Discussion

Reflections on Memory, Empire, and Nation

History

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

European History as Comparative History

Constructing Region through the Past

Empires, Borderlands, and Diasporas: Eurasia as Anti-Paradigm for the Post-Soviet Era

Constructing Region through the Past

G. Hosking, M. Lewis, M. Bassin, D. McDonald

COMMENTS

Constructing Region through the Past

Alexander Filiushkin

How Russia Became Asia for Europe?

Archive

Sofia Tchouikina

Biographical Interview and the Sociology of Memory

Interview with L. A. Uspenskaia

Ilya Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner

Amarcord, the 20th Century: Forgetting Ideology? (Concluding Remarks to the Interview with L. Uspenskaia)

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Andreas Langenohl

Collective Memory after the Change of the Regime: Similarities and Differences between Commemorative Practices in Post-Communist and Post-Colonial Countries

Stephen Velychenko

Post-Colonialism and Ukrainian History

Narratives and Political Development in the Baltic States: History Revised and Improvised

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Introduction to the Forum

Marlène Laruelle, Sébastien Peyrouse

Russians in the Altai: Historical Memory and National Identity in Kazakhstan

Legitimizing the Ata Meken: The Kazakh Intelligentsia Write a History of Their Homeland

Elena Bezvikonnaia

The Reconstruction of National History in the Modern Republic of Kazakhstan (the Case of Russo-Kazakh Relations in the 18th – 19th c.)

Newest Mythologies

Elisabeth Gessat-Anstett

Memory Eternal or Memory Like a Sieve? Commemorative Logic in Post-Soviet Russia

Book Reviews

Benjamin Schenk

Gerald Stourzh (Hg.). Annäherungen an eine europäische Geschichts-schreibung. Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002 (= Archiv für österreichische Geschichte. Bd. 137.). 176 S. ISBN: 3-7001-3070-8.

Архив новейшей истории России. Серия “Исследования”. Т. II. Государственный Архив Российской Федерации: 10 лет работы. 1992-2002: Сборник статей / Ред. С. В. Мироненко, В. А. Козлов, В. А. Тюнеев. М.: РОССПЭН, 2002. 256 с.

Ernest A. Zitser

Российская историческая мозаика. Сборник научных статей в честь Джона Кипа / Отв. ред. А. Л. Литвин. Казань, 2003. 294 с. (на рус. и англ. яз.). Библиография работ Дж. Кипа. ISBN 5-8185-0023-3.

Michael Rouland

Daniel Brower, Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003). Xv + 213 pp. Maps. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0-415-29744-3.

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David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. xiii +329 p. Index. ISBN: 0-87580-276-1 (cloth).

НЕСТОР: Ежеквартальный журнал истории и культуры России и Восточной Европы. 2000. № 1: Православная церковь в России и СССР. Источники, исследования, историография / Главный редактор И. В. Лукоянов, ред. номера C. Л. Фирсов. Санкт-Петербург – Кишинев, 200

Elena Vishlenkova

Laurie Manchester, Secular Ascetics: The Mentality of Orthodox Clergymen’s Sons in Late Imperial Russia (Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia University, 1995), 634 p.; Laurie Manchester, “The Secularization of the Search for Salvation: The Self-Fashioning of Orthodox Clergymen’s Sons in Late Imperial Russia,” Slavic Review. Vol. 57 (1998), pp. 50-76; Laurie Manchester, “Harbingers of Modernity, Bearers of Tradition: Popovichi as a Model Intelligentsia Self in Revolutionary Russia,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. Bd. 20 (2002). S. 321-344.

Olga Khristoforova

Christine Worobec, Possessed: Women, Witches and Demons in Imperial Russia (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001). xv + 206 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 0-87580-273-7.

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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)...