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

2/2005 Languages of Self-Description in Empire and Multinational State | Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2005 Languages of Self-Description in Empire and Multinational State

Methodology and Theory

Politics of Language and Politics of Meaning

Andrew S. Thompson

The Language of Imperialism and the Meaning of Empire: Imperial Discourse in British Politics, 1895-1914

Andrew S. Thompson

Imperial Languages: A Postscript for Ab Imperio

Language

Interview with Vladimir Alpatov

“Contemporary Russia Does Not Have a Well Defined Language Policy...”

History

Mikhail Dolbilov, Darius Staliunas

Introduction to the Forum “Alphabet, Language and National Identity in the Russian Empire”

Forum AI: Alphabet, Language, and National Identity in the Russian Empire

Henryk Głębocki

Alexander Hilferding and the Slavophile Projects of Alteration of Cultural-National Identity in Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire

Forum AI: Alphabet, Language, and National Identity in the Russian Empire

The Ukrainian Alphabet as a Political Question in the Russian Empire before 1876

Forum AI: Alphabet, Language, and National Identity in the Russian Empire

Ricarda Vulpius

Archive

Ricarda Vulpius

Ukrainian Language and Schooling in Late Imperial Period

Struggle for the Language: Publication of Documents

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Olga Filippova, Margrethe B. Søvik

Images of Languages and the Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine:The Burden of the Past and Contestation in the Present

William Fierman

Kazakh Language and Prospects for Its Role in Kazakh “Groupness”

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Lale Yalçýn-Heckmann

Remembering the Dead and the Living of the “Kolkhoz” and “Sovkhoz”: Past and Present of Gendered Rural Life in Azerbaijan

Sergei Rumiantsev

Heroic Epic Poetry and a Construction of the Image of the Historical Enemy

Yasemin Kilit Aklar

The Teaching of History in Azerbaijan and Nationalism

Newest Mythologies

Paradigms and Paradoxes of the Concept of Nation State in Post-Soviet Moldova: Language, Statehood, and National Identity

Book Reviews

Oksana Sarkisova

Eric Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999). 320 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 0-691-02625-4 (paperback).

Евгений Глущенко. Герои империи. Портреты российских колониальных деятелей. Москва: “ХХI век-Согласие”, 2001. 464 c. ISBN: 5-293-00038-1.

Elena Vishlenkova

Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (Ed.), Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 (London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). 208 pp.+120 ill. Index. ISBN: 0-674-0127-8-X.

Oktay Tanrisever

Петр Эбэрхардт. География населения России / Пер. с польского. Санкт-Петербург: “Невский простор”, 2003. 304 с. Список литературы, список рисунков, список таблиц. ISBN: 5-94716-032-3.

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Language Policy in the Russian Empire: A Case of Translation of the Bible into Ukrainian, 1860-1906

Forum AI: Alphabet, Language, and National Identity in the Russian Empire

Darius Staliunas

Lithuanian Identity, Language, and Script in Russian Nationality Policy (in the 1860s)

Forum AI: Alphabet, Language, and National Identity in the Russian Empire

Mikhail Dolbilov

Vicissitudes of Cyrillization: The Ban on Latin Alphabet and Bureaucratic Russification of the Lithuanians in the Vilno General-Governorship, 1864-1882

Forum AI: Alphabet, Language, and National Identity in the Russian Empire

Latin or Cyrillic Alphabet: The Problem of Alphabet Choice in Byelorussian National Movement in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century

Forum AI: Alphabet, Language, and National Identity in the Russian Empire

Svetlana Smirnova

Вячеслав Леонидович Носевич. Традиционная белорусская деревня в европейской перспективе. Минск: “Тэхналогiя”, 2004. 350 с. ISBN: 985-458-096-2.

Елена Вишленкова. Заботясь о душах подданных: Религиозная политика в России первой четверти XIX века. Саратов: Издательство Саратовского университета, 2002. 444 с. Библиографический список, указатель имен. ISBN: 5-292-03001-5.

Украинская греко-католическая церковь: Преодоление мифа. Материалы семинара 25 ноября 2002 г. Москва: Институт изучения религии в странах СНГ и Балтии; Международное общество “Мемориал”; Фонд Генриха Бёлля, 2002. 148 с.

Michael Rouland

Stéphane A. Dudoignon (Ed.), Devout Societies vs. Impious States? Transmitting Islamic Learning in Russia, Central Asia, and China, through the Twentieth Century (Pro- ceedings of an International Col- loquium Held in the Carré des Sci- ences, French Ministry of Research, Paris, November 12-13, 2001) (=Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 0939-1940, Band 258) (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2004). 296 p. Summaries, Glossary, Index. ISBN: 3-87997-314-8.

Pavel Polian, Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2004). 425 p. Bibliography, Index of Personal Names, Index of Geographical Names. ISBN: 963-9241-73-3.

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). 296 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-310-5.

Советская власть – народная власть? Очерки истории народного восприятия советской власти в СССР / Под ред. Тимо Вихавайнена. Санкт-Петербург: “Европейский Дом”, 2003. 337 с. ISBN: 5-8015-0159-2.

Alexander Lokshin

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Making Jews Modern. The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004). 311 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-253-34304-6.

Alexander Osipian

Kate Brown, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004). 308 pp. Index. ISBN: 3-631-38327-4.

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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)...