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

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

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Methodology and Theory

Editors

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

3/2005

Miroslav Hroch

Language as a Tool of Civic Equality

3/2005

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Mark R. Beissinger

Rethinking Empire in the Wake of the Soviet Collapse

3/2005

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Forthcoming in: Mark R. Beissinger. Rethinking Empire in the Wake of Soviet Collapse // Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser (Eds.). Ethnic Politics and Post-Communism: Theories and Practice. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Copyright © 2005 by Cornell University.

Mark R. Beissinger

Situating Empire

3/2005

History

Elena Vishlenkova

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

3/2005

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Michael Kemper

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

3/2005

I would like to thank Vladimir Bobrovnikov for valuable comments on issues raised in this article.

Alexander Kaplunovskii

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

3/2005

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Elena Gapova

On the Political Economy of “National Language” in Belarus

3/2005

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Kimitaka Matsuzato

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

3/2005

THE “IMPERIAL TURN” AT THE ICCEES VII WORLD CONGRESS,
BERLIN, JULY 2005

Jan Kusber

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

3/2005

THE “IMPERIAL TURN” AT THE ICCEES VII WORLD CONGRESS,
BERLIN, JULY 2005

William G. Rosenberg

The Problems of Empire in Imperial Russia

3/2005

Remarks prepared as commentary to papers presented by Ilya Gerasimov, Charles Steinwedel, and Alexander Kaplunovski at the VII World Congress of the ICCEES, Berlin, July 2005. The texts of these papers can be found at <a href="http://abimperio.net/scgi-bin/aishow.pl?state=portal/outreach/w2005&idlang=1"> Ab Imperio’s website </a>
(menu Outreach Projects – Conferences – July 2005).

Newest Mythologies

Jelena Grigorjeva

On the Morphology of Visual Post-Soviet Post-Folklore

3/2005

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Historiography

Oksana Klimkova

GULAG: From Myth-Telling toward Analysis

3/2005

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Book Reviews

Ilya Gerasimov

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).

3/2005

Affirmative Writing: Empire
(On New Standards in Russian Imperial Studies)

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).

3/2005

This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Igor Martyniuk

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.

3/2005

This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

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

Rethinking Empire in the Wake of the Soviet Collapse

Situating Empire

History

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

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

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

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

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 Problems of Empire in Imperial Russia

Newest Mythologies

On the Morphology of Visual Post-Soviet Post-Folklore

Historiography

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).

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).

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.

Miscellaneous

Erratum

List of Contributors

Our Authors

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

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

Baron Ungern, Toxic Cosmopolitan

A Life with Imperial Dreams: Petr Nikolaevich Savitsky, Eurasianism, and the Invention of “Structuralist” Geography - 1

A Life with Imperial Dreams: Petr Nikolaevich Savitsky, Eurasianism, and the Invention of “Structuralist” Geography - 2

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).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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