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

3/2006 The Chorus of Nations: Constructing and Describing Group Unity | Ab Imperio

Issue 3/2006 The Chorus of Nations: Constructing and Describing Group Unity

Methodology and Theory

Searching for a Mode of Description of the Community of Solidarity of Civic Action and Collective Loyalty

Serhy Yekelchyk

The Body and National Myth: Motifs from the Ukrainian National Revival in the Nineteenth Century

Serhy Yekelchyk

On Transcontinental Travel and Postcolonial Imagination: A Look Back from 2006 on “The Body and National Myth”

Peter van der Veer

Language, Blood, and History: The Visceral and the Secular in India and China

History

“Two or Twenty Million?” The Languages of Official Statistics and Religious Dissent in Imperial Russia

Cordi nobis est religio, non natio

The Head of Church, A Subject of the Emperor: The Armenian Catholicos at the Junction of the Internal and Foreign Politics of Empire, 1828-1914

Cordi nobis est religio, non natio

“A Separate Nation” of “Those Who Imitate Germans”: Ukrainian Evangelical Peasants and Problems of Cultural Identification in the Ukrainian Provinces of Late Imperial Russia

Cordi nobis est religio, non natio

Constantine Bolenko

Archive

Diliara Usmanova

“Vaisov God’s Regiment of Muslim Old Believers”: Languages of Confessional, Estate, Political, and National Resistance in Russian Empire

Documents

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Mikhail Sokolov

The New Right Intellectuals in Russia: Strategies of Legitimization

Ekaterina Panova

Students “Our” and “Alien”: The Views of St. Petersburg Teachers on Ethnic Diversity and the Limits of Russianness

Oksana Morgunova

Europeans, not Westerners: How the Dilemma “Russia vs. the West” is Represented in Russian Language Open Access Migrants’ Forums (United Kingdom)

Raisa Akif’eva, Anna Tolkacheva

National and Regional Identity in the Discourse of St. Petersburg Official Press

Newest Mythologies

Olga Khristoforova

“Children of Nature”, or the Ethnic Projects of Regional Television Stations

Book Reviews

Alexei Miller, Alfred J. Rieber (Eds.), Imperial Rule (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2004). 212 pp. Index. ISBN: 963-9241-98-9.

R-Forum: Old Questions and New Directions in Studies of Empire

John P. LeDonne, The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650–1831 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 261 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-19-516100-9.

R-Forum: Old Questions and New Directions in Studies of Empire

Alexander Cooley, Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005). 208 pp. Notes, Figures, Tables, Index. Index. ISBN: 0-8014-4386-5.

R-Forum: Old Questions and New Directions in Studies of Empire

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“Russian Grandee, European Grand Seigneur, and Tatar Prince” N. B. Iusupov: On the Question of Self-Orientalization of Russian Nobility in the Last Third of the Eighteenth – First Third of the Nineteenth Century

A Tale of Two Railroads: “Yellow Labor,” Agrarian Colonization, and the Making of Russianness at the Far Eastern Frontier, 1890s–1910s

Maria Krisan’

Andrzej Nowak (Red.), Rosja i Europa Wschodnia: “imperiologia” stosowana / Russia and Eastern Europe: Applied “Imperiology” (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Arcana, Instytut Historii PAN w Warszawie, 2006). 528 s. ISBN: 83-89243-58-X.

R-Forum: Old Questions and New Directions in Studies of Empire

Marina Loskutova

Cynthia Simmons, Nina Perlina (Eds.), Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women’s Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002). 288 pp., 14 ill. Index. ISBN: 0-8229-4183-X (hardback edition).

R-Forum: Narrating the Siege of Leningrad

Marianna Mouravieva

НЕСТОР: Ежеквартальный журнал истории и культуры Рос- сии и Восточной Европы. № 8: О блокаде Ленинграда в России и за рубежом. Источники, исследова- ния, историография / Главный ред. И. В. Лукоянов, ред. номера А. Р. Дзенискевич. Санкт-Петербург: Нестор-История, 2005. 218 с. ISSN: 1726-7870.

R-Forum: Narrating the Siege of Leningrad

Michael Kellogg, The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). хiii+327 pp. (=New Studies in European History). Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521- 84512-2 (hardback edition).

Daniele Conversi (Ed.), Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World: Walker Connor and the Study of Nationalism (London: Routledge, 2004). 302 pp. ISBN: 0-415-26373-7 (paperback edition).

Ricarda Vulpius, Nationalisierung der Religion. Russifizierungspolitik und ukrainische Nationsbildung, 1860–1920 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005). 475 pp. (=Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte, Bd. 64). Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 3-447-05275-9.

Frank Grelka, Die Ukrainische Nationalbewegung unter deutscher Besatzungsherrschaft 1918 und 1941/42 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005). 506 S., 15 Abb. (=Studien der Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa an der Universität Dortmund, Band 38). ISBN: 3-447-05259-7; Wendy Lower, Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005). 328 pp., 23 ill., 5 maps. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8078-2960-9.

Nadieszda Kizenko

Николай Митрохин. Русская Православная Церковь: Современное состояние и актуальные проблемы. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2004 (= Библиотека журнала “Неприкосновенный Запас”). 647 с. Библиография, Именной указатель. ISBN: 5-86793-324-5.

Serhy Yekelchyk

Evgeny Dobrenko and Eric Naiman (Eds.), The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art of Ideology of Soviet Space (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2003). xviii+315 pp., ill. Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-295-98333-7 (hardback edition).

А. В. Макушин, П. А. Трибунский. Павел Николаевич Милюков: Труды и дни (1859 – 1904) / Вступ. ст. С. М. Ляндерс, Д. Вульф; Предисл. Т. Эммонс. Рязань, 2001. (=Серия “Новейшая российская история: исследования и документы”. Т. 1). 439 с. ISBN: 5-94473-001-3

Alexander Filiushkin

Giovanna Siedina (Ed.), Mazepa e il suo tempo: Storia, cultura, società / Mazepa and His Time: History, Culture, Society (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso). 2004. 594 pp. (=Slavica. Vol. 6). ISBN: 88-7694-806-6.

Jamie Bisher, White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian (London: Routledge, 2005). 452 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7146-5690-9.

Ludmila Novikova

Гражданская война на востоке России: Проблемы истории: Бахрушинские чтения 2001 г. Межвузовский сборник научных трудов / Ред. В. И. Шишкин. Новосибирск: Новосибирский государственный университет, 2001. 178 с. ISBN: 5-94356-037-8.

Maksim Kirchanov

Leonidas Donskis, Loyalty, Dissent and Betrayal: Modern Lithuania and East-Central European Imagination (Amsterdam: “Rodopi,” 2005). 164 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 90-420-1727-9.

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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)...