4/2006 The Letter of the Law: the Institutionalization of Belonging to Polity

Issue 4/2006 The Letter of the Law: the Institutionalization of Belonging to Polity

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Methodology and Theory

Editors

Subjected to Citizenship: The Problem of Belonging to the State in Empire and Nation

Myron J. Aronoff

Forty Years as a Political Ethnographer

Interview with Peter Sahlins

Subjecthood That Happens to Be Called “Citizenship,” Or Trying to Make Sense of The Old Regime on Its Own Terms

Alexander Kamenskii

Subjecthood, Loyalty, and Patriotism in Imperial Discourses in Eighteenth Century Russia: Outlining the Problem

History

Natalia Iakovenko

Life Space vs. Identity of the Rus’ Gentleman (the Case of Jan/Joachim Erlich)

Alsu Biktasheva

L’état c’est nous? Local Citizenship, Imperial Subjecthood, and the Revision of Government Institutions in Kazan Province, 1819-1820

Olga Maiorova

Searching for a New Language of Collective Self: The Symbolism of Russian National Belonging During and After the Crimean War

Mikhail Dolbilov

The “Tsar’s Faith:” Mass Conversions of Catholics to Orthodoxy in the North-Western Region of the Russian Empire (ca. 1860s)

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Rebecca Chamberlain-Creangã

The “Transnistrian people”? Citizenship and Imaginings of “the State” in an Unrecognized Country

Book Reviews

Elena Trubina

Felix Driver and David Gilbert (Eds.), Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (Manchester and New York: Manchester Univer- sity Press, 2003). 272 pp. (=Studies in Imperialism). Index. ISBN: 0-719- 0 6497-X (paperback edition); Julie A. Buckler, Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005). 320 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-691-11349-1.

R-Forum: Imperial Cities

Sofia Tchouikina

Elena Hellberg-Hirn, Imperial Imprints: Post-Soviet St.-Petersburg (Helsinki: SKS / Finnish Literature Society, 2003). 446 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 951-746-491-6 (hardback edition).

R-Forum: Imperial Cities

Louise McReynolds

Richard Stites, Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). xii+586 pp. ISBN: 0-300-10889-3 (hardback edition).

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Issue 4/2006 The Letter of the Law: the Institutionalization of Belonging to Polity

Methodology and Theory

Subjected to Citizenship: The Problem of Belonging to the State in Empire and Nation

Forty Years as a Political Ethnographer

Subjecthood That Happens to Be Called “Citizenship,” Or Trying to Make Sense of The Old Regime on Its Own Terms

Subjecthood, Loyalty, and Patriotism in Imperial Discourses in Eighteenth Century Russia: Outlining the Problem

History

Life Space vs. Identity of the Rus’ Gentleman (the Case of Jan/Joachim Erlich)

L’état c’est nous? Local Citizenship, Imperial Subjecthood, and the Revision of Government Institutions in Kazan Province, 1819-1820

Searching for a New Language of Collective Self: The Symbolism of Russian National Belonging During and After the Crimean War

The “Tsar’s Faith:” Mass Conversions of Catholics to Orthodoxy in the North-Western Region of the Russian Empire (ca. 1860s)

Archive

On “Ukrainofilia” of George V. Vernadsky, Or Miscellaneous Notes on the Topic of National and State Loyalties

George V. Vernadsky: “I Think of Myself Both as a Ukrainian and a Russian”

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

The “Transnistrian people”? Citizenship and Imaginings of “the State” in an Unrecognized Country

Book Reviews

Elena Hellberg-Hirn, Imperial Imprints: Post-Soviet St.-Petersburg (Helsinki: SKS / Finnish Literature Society, 2003). 446 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 951-746-491-6 (hardback edition).

Richard Stites, Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). xii+586 pp. ISBN: 0-300-10889-3 (hardback edition).

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Mitteleuropa as Middle America? “The Inquiry” and the Mapping of East Central Europe in 1919

Nation, State or Empire: Subjecthood and Citizenship in British and Habsburg Empires at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Aleksandr Nevskij: Heiliger, Fürst, Nationalheld; eine Erinnerungsfigur im russischen kulturellen Gedächtnis (1263–2000) (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2004). 548, [32] S. Ill. (=Beitraege zur Geschichte Osteuropas; Bd

Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003). xv+367 pp. ISBN: 0-300-08480-3.

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Russian Identities: A Historical Survey (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). 278 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-19-516550-1.

Susan P. McCaffray, Michael Melancon (Eds.), Russia in The European Context, 1789–1914: A Member of the Family (New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). 256 pp. Index. ISBN: 1-4039-6855-1.

Richard Kieckhefer, Theology in Stone: Church Architecture From Byzantium to Berkeley (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 372 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 0-19-515466-5.

Яўген Мiрановiч. Найноўшая гiсторыя Беларусi. Санкт-Петербург: “Невский простор”, 2003. 243 с. ISBN: 5-94716-032-3.

Caroline Milow, Die Ukrainische Frage 1917–1923 im Spannungsfeld der europäischen Diplomatie (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002) (=Veroffentlichungen des Osteuropa-Instituts München. Reihe: Geschichte; Bd. 68). 572 S. ISBN: 3-447-04482-9.

Rebecca Kay, Men in Contemporary Russia: The Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet Change? (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006). 246 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7546-4485-5.

Richard Sakwa (Ed.), Chechnya: From Past to Future (London: Anthem Press, 2005). 300 pp. ISBN: 1-84331-165-8.

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