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3/2005 Empire & the Challenge of Nationalism: Searching for Modes of Self-Description | Ab Imperio

Issue 3/2005 Empire & the Challenge of Nationalism: Searching for Modes of Self-Description

Methodology and Theory

Empire as a “Claim,” Nation as a “Resolution”: Languages for Describing Unity and Diversity in a Multicultural Setting

Language as a Tool of Civic Equality

Mark R. Beissinger

Rethinking Empire in the Wake of the Soviet Collapse

Mark R. Beissinger

Situating Empire

History

Elena Vishlenkova

The Visual Language of “Russianness” from the 18th to the First Quarter of the 19th Century

´Adat against Shari´a: Russian Approaches towards Daghestani “Customary Law” in the 19th Century

Alexander Kaplunovskii

Describing Empire Societally: The “Polyphony” of Prikazchiki in the Social Register of Russian Empires’ Languages of Self-Description

Simon Rabinovitch

Positivism, Populism and Politics: The Intellectual Foundations of Jewish Ethnography in Late Imperial Russia

Archive

The Empireless. Texts and Contexts in the Life of a Russian Jew, Aleksei Goldenweiser

Aleksei Goldenweiser: Diaries and Correspondence from Different Years

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

On the Political Economy of “National Language” in Belarus

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Kimitaka Matsuzato

Russian Imperiology and Area Studies (Impressions on the ICCEES Berlin Congress)

The “Imperial Turn” at the ICCEES VII World Congress,
Berlin, July 2005

The Russian Empire as a Subject Matter of East European Historic Research. Some Reflections on Its Prospects at the ICCEES VII World Congress in Berlin

The “Imperial Turn” at the ICCEES VII World Congress,
Berlin, July 2005

William G. Rosenberg

The Problems of Empire in Imperial Russia

The “Imperial Turn” at the ICCEES VII World Congress,
Berlin, July 2005

Newest Mythologies

Jelena Grigorjeva

On the Morphology of Visual Post-Soviet Post-Folklore

Historiography

Oksana Klimkova

GULAG: From Myth-Telling toward Analysis

Book Reviews

Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire. Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001). Xvi + 496 pp., 4 maps, 46 tables. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8677-7 (paper).

R-Forum I: Writing Soviet History as Imperial History

Marina Mogilner

Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations. Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005). 367 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8908-3 (paper).

R-Forum I: Writing Soviet History as Imperial History

Christopher Ely, This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002), 278 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-303-2.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

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Editors, Agnieszka Jagodzińska

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Looking In From the Outside. Bertha and Arthur von Suttner in the Caucasus, 1876-1885

Willard Sunderland

Baron Ungern, Toxic Cosmopolitan

A Life with Imperial Dreams: Petr Nikolaevich Savitsky, Eurasianism, and the Invention of “Structuralist” Geography

Harsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). x+307 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-299-18190-1 (hardback edition).

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Maksim Kirchanov

Мирослав Шкандрій. В обіймах імперії. Російська і українська літератури новітньої доби. Київ: “Факт”, 2004. 496 с. ISBN: 966-8408-45-4.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Hélène Perrin-Wagner

Российская империя в сравнительной перспективе: Сборник статей / Под ред. А. И. Миллера. Москва: “Новое издательство”, 2004. 384 с. ISBN: 5-98379-011-0.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Alter L. Litvin, Writing History in Twentieth-Century Russia: A View From Within (Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave, 2001). xi+201 pp. Translated and Edited by John L. H. Keep. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography. ISBN: 0-333-76487-0.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Marc L. Greenberg

Свой или чужой? Евреи и славяне глазами друг друга / Отв. ред. О. В. Белова. Москва: “Сефер”, Институт славяноведения РАН, 2003. 504 с. (= Академическая серия. Вып. 11). ISBN: 5-98370-002-2.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Tomasz Kamusella

Jacob M. Landau and Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States: Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan (London: Hurst and Company, 2001), xiv+260 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 1-85065-442-5

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Sebastian Cwiklinski

Новая волна в изучении этнополитической истории Волго-Уральского региона / Сборник статей. Под ред. К. Мацузато. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2003. 335 c. ISBN: 4-98637-28-6.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Iurii Labyntsev, Larisa Shchavinskaia

Зенон Когут. Коріння ідентичности. Студії з ранньомодерної та модерної історії України. Київ: “Критика”, 2004. 352 с. Показчик імен. ISBN: 966-7679-48-9.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Magdalena Żółkoś

Jane Leftwich Curry and Joan Barth Urban (Eds.), The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies. The Cases from East-Central Europe, Russia and Ukraine (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003). 284 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7425-2664

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Jean-Jacques Subrenat (Ed.), Estonia. Identity and Independence (Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi B.V., 2004). ix+310 pp. (=On the Boundary of Two Worlds. Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. Vol. 2). ISBN: 9-0420-0890-3 (paperback).

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Olga Khristoforova

Chris J. Chulos, Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861-1917 (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). 201 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-317-2.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

James W. Heinzen, Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). 312 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8229-4215-1.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Marina Krasilnikova, Alexander Cherniavskii

История и философия культуры: Актуальные проблемы. Сборник научных трудов. Выпуск 6 / Под ред. С. В. Архипова. Владикавказ: Издательство Северо-Осетинского государственного университета, 2003. 284 с. ISBN: 5-8336-0316-1.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Aleksei Chesnokov

В. И. Дятлов. Современные торговые меньшинства: фактор стабильности или конфликта? (Китайцы и кавказцы в Иркутске). Москва: “Наталис”, 2000. 190 с. ISBN: 5-8062-0025-6.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Boris P. Chichlo

А. С. Зуев. Сибирь: Вехи истории (XVI – XIX вв.) / Учебное пособие... Новосибирск, 1999; А. С. Зуев. Русские и аборигены на крайнем северо-востоке Сибири во второй половине XVII – первой четверти XVIII вв. Новосибирск, 2002. 330 с.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

Katya Vladimirov

Губернаторы Сахалина / Под ред. A. И. Костанова, A. И. Баялдина, Л. В. Драгуновой и др. Южно-Сахалинск: Архивный отдел Администрации Сахалинской области, Государственный архив Сахалинской области, 2000. 392 с.

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

А. Д. Агеев. Сибирь и американский Запад: Движение фронтиров. Иркутск: Иркутский университет, 2002. 294 с. ISBN: 5-7430-0154-5 (в обл.).

R-Forum II: Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature

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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)...