1/2006 Language Difficulties: How and Why We Write the History of Empires and Nations

1/2006

This review essay was written in the framework of the project “Fascism and Communism as Subversive Political Movements in the Interwar Period,” part of the Volkswagen Foundation-funded research program “Captive States, Divided Societies. Political Institutions of Southeastern Europe in Historical Comparative Perspective,” Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich (2005-2007).

Book Reviews

Igor Martyniuk

Alter L. Litvin, John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium (London: Routledge, 2005). 248 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-41535-109-X.

1/2006

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

Sergei Kudriashov

Alter L. Litvin, John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium (London: Routledge, 2005). 248 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-41535-109-X.

1/2006

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

Ilya Kuksin

Yoram Gorlizki, Oleg Khlevniuk, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). viii+248 pp. Bibliographical References, Index. ISBN: 0-19-516581-0 (hardback edition).

1/2006

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

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Issue 1/2006 Language Difficulties: How and Why We Write the History of Empires and Nations

Methodology and Theory

Historians’ Reflections on the Prospects of a Linguistic and Anthropological Turn in the Study of Empire and Nationalism

On Rescuing Voices and Self-Description under Constraints

Bringing Anthropologists (Back) In

Ethnology as Dialogue?

Comments on the Address by Katherine Verdery

Power and Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century: Comments on Katherine Verdery’s “Bringing the Anthropologists (Back) In”

Anthropology and “Slavic Studies” (A View from “Over Here”)

History

Why Do We Call Chinggis Khan’s Polity “An Empire”? - 1

Why Do We Call Chinggis Khan’s Polity “An Empire”? - 2

Kazakh Deputations in the Scenarios of Power: From Diplomatic Missions toward Imperial Presentations

Archive

“Regulierter Polizeistaat” and “Iasak”: Heinrich von Fick’s Siberian Memorandum

Most Subject Propositions and Report Regarding Iakuts, Tungus, and Other Remote in Northern Siberia to the Russian Empire Submitted Iasak Peoples

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

“Brotherly Help” Representations or “Imperial” Legacy: Monuments to the Soviet Army in Bulgaria before and after 1989

Empire-in-Itself. On the Mechanisms of Recurring Processes in Modern Russian Politics

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Friendly Fire. A Critical Review of the New Imperial History of the Post-Soviet Space From The View of Analytical Philosophy

Words and Peoples in Empire: On the Discussion of the “Greater Russian Nation,” Ukraine- and Russophiles, on Dialects and Peoples

Words, Peoples and Imperial Contexts: The Discussion Continues

Newest Mythologies

Russian History in TV Commercials: To Have or To Be?

Historiography

Old Wounds and New Battles: The pros and cons of comparative histories of Stalinism and Nazism

Book Reviews

Alter L. Litvin, John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium (London: Routledge, 2005). 248 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-41535-109-X.

Alter L. Litvin, John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium (London: Routledge, 2005). 248 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-41535-109-X.

Yoram Gorlizki, Oleg Khlevniuk, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). viii+248 pp. Bibliographical References, Index. ISBN: 0-19-516581-0 (hardback edition).

List of Contributors

Our Authors

How Nineteenth-Century Russian Historians Interpreted the Period of Mongol Rule as a Largely Positive Experience in Nation-Building

Stalinism and Nation: The Soviet Union as a Multinational State, 1917-1953

Nation and Empire in Soviet History, 1917-1953

Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin’s Empire of Memory. Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2004). 230 pp. ISBN: 0-8020-8808-2.

Nils Roll-Hansen, The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2005); Alexei B. Kojevnikov, Stalin’s Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists (London: Imperial College Press, 2004).

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-century Russia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). 332 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 0-691-12245-8.

Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier (Eds.), The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005). xii+256 pp. ISBN: 0-8014-8961-X.

Sergej Bogatyrev (Ed.), Russia Takes Shape: Patterns of Integration from the Middle Ages to the Present (Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2005) (= Annales Acade-miae Scientiarum Fennicae. T. 335). 290 pp. ISBN: 951-41-0957-0.

Joel S. Migdal, State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). xi+291 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-79706-3.

Shireen T. Hunter, Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004). 592 pp. Tables, Figures, Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7656-1283-6.

Marek Przeniosło, Chłopi Królestwa Polskiego w latach 1914–1918 (Kielce: Wydawnictwo Akademii Świętokrzyskiej, 2003). 468 s. ISBN: 83-7133-219-X.

Clio Moderna. Зарубежная история и историография: Сборник научных статей. Вып. 1-4. Казань: “Мастер-Лайн”, 1999-2003.

Православный собеседник: Альманах Казанской Духовной Семинарии. Вып. 1 (6). Казань: Издательский отдел КГЭУ, 2004. 254 с. ISBN: 5-89873-118-0.