4/2005 Discussing Imperial Legacy: Archaisms and Neologisms

Issue 4/2005 Discussing Imperial Legacy: Archaisms and Neologisms

After Empire

Multiple Contexts of Empire and Nation in Debates on Contemporary French Politics

Multiple Contexts of Empire and Nation in Debates on Contemporary French Politics

Forum AI: Imperial Legacies as a Resource for Nation-Building: The Case of Chinggis Khan

Forum AI: Imperial Legacies as a Resource for Nation-Building: The Case of Chinggis Khan

Forum AI: Imperial Legacies as a Resource for Nation-Building: The Case of Chinggis Khan

Constructing a National History in the Language of Soviet Science after the Collapse of the USSR: The Case of Uzbekistan

Constructing a National History in the Language of Soviet Science after the Collapse of the USSR: The Case of Uzbekistan

Constructing a National History in the Language of Soviet Science after the Collapse of the USSR: The Case of Uzbekistan

Issue 4/2005 Discussing Imperial Legacy: Archaisms and Neologisms

Methodology and Theory

A “Post” Situation. After Empire: Back to Ethnicity? Forward to Nation?

In Search of Imperial Legacy: Historians’ Recollections and Historiographic Milestones

After the Melting Pot: in Search of Languages of Description. Dialogues in Letters (“From the Editors’ Correspondence”)

The State of Emergency (1955-2005): From Colonial Algeria to Contemporary France

History

The Mongol Empire and Chinggis Khan in Identity Construction

The Image of Chinggis Khan in Contemporary Buriat Historical and Cultural Discourse

The Image of Chinggis Khan in the Identity Construction of the Mongol Peoples during the Post-Socialist Period

Archive

Managing Ethnocultural Differences “After Empire” (Interviews with Experts on Culture and Enthocultural Politics in the Republic of Tatarstan): Introduction to the Publication

“You Know, Ethnic Cultures, They are Constantly Developing...”

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Vital Forces of the Russian Tragedy: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Ethnology, Nationhood, and Politics in Uzbekistan

Some Thoughts after the Discussion on Nationalism in Uzbekistan

A Structuralist Argument Concerning the Consolidation of Uzbek Identity

Newest Mythologies

Language and Structure: the Problem of Interpretation of Subjectivity in Contemporary Russian Politics

Putin’s Language

Book Reviews

Charles King, The Black Sea: A History (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). 276 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-19-924161-9.

Leonora Neville, Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). xi+210 pp. Appendix, Guide to the Sources, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-83865-7.

Tracey C. German, Russia’s Chechen War (London and New York: Routledge/Curzon, 2003). 246 pp. ISBN: 0-415-29720-6 (hardback edition).

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Chinggis Khan and His Empire in the Contemporary Identity Practices of the Khakass People

The Case of the Disappearing Chinggis Khaan: Dismembering the Remembering

Theories and Politics of Central Asian Identities

Post-Soviet Ethnography, Myth Creation, and Authority

The “Ethnogenesis” of the Uzbeks as an Element of Soviet Scholarship

Educational Partnership of Kazan State University and Rutgers University (USA), “Building Democracies in Multiethnic Societies”

Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson, Anna Rotkirch (Eds.), On Living through Soviet Russia (Routledge Studies in Memory & History, Vol. 13) (London and New York: Routledge, 2004). 336 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-415-30966-2.

Irina Paert, Old Believers, Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760-1850 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003). xii+257 pp. Select Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7190-6322-1 (hardback edition).

Donald Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him (New York: Random House, 2004). xxviii+546 pp. ISBN: 0-3755-0632-2 (paper).

Emilio Gentile, The Struggle for Modernity: Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism (Westport, CT, and London: Praeger Publishers, 2003). xix+201 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-275-97692-0.

Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynár, Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism / Translated by George Shriver, with a Foreword by Archie Brown (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 20

Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Globalization, Geopolitics and Energy Security in Central Eurasia and the Caspian Region (The Hague: Clingendael International Energy Programme, 2003). 254 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 9-05031-085-0.

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Bruce W. Menning (Eds.), Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). ix+361 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-521-81988-1 (har

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