3/2007 History on Trial

Methodology and Theory

History

Andriy Portnov

Exercises with History Ukrainian Style (Notes on Public Aspects of History’s Functioning in Post-Soviet Ukraine)

Johan Dietsch

Struggling with a “Nuremberg Historiography” of the Holodomor

Tõnu Tannberg

“Under the Influence of the International Reaction, The Pitiful Remnants of Anti-Soviet Elements in Our Country…” 1956 and Problems of the Baltics in Kremlin

Vladimir Petrovic

Weltgericht Ohne Weltgeschichte. Historians as Expert Witnesses at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yougoslavia

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Vello Pettai

The Construction of State Identity and its Legacies: Legal Restorationism in Estonia

Alexander Astrov

A Liturgy for the Bronze Soldier: Memory and History in the Formation of Crisis

Book Reviews

Serhy Yekelchyk

Ярослав Грицак. Пророк у своїй вітчизні: Франко та його спільнота (1856-1886). Київ: “Критика”, 2006. 631 с., илл. Покажчик имен, Покажчик географичнiх назв, Покажчик продовжуваних видань, альманахiв, установ та органiзацiй. ISBN: 966-7679-96-9.

Kavita Datla

Bernard Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 475 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-19-929959-5.

Vitalii Ananiev

Isabel de Madariaga, Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005). xxii+428 pp. Maps, Select Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-09757-3.

Elke Fein

Gabor T. Rittersporn, Malte Rolf, Jan C. Behrends (Eds.), Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs / Public Spheres in Soviet-Type Societies (Frank- furt-am-Main: Peter Lang Verlag, Europäischer Verlag der Wissen- schaften, 2003). 457 S. (=Compara- tive Studies Series, Vol. 11). ISBN: 3-631-38327-4.

Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 3/2007 History on Trial

Methodology and Theory

History and the Courtroom: Trials and Errors

Interpretation, Intention, and the Law: the Case Against “Original Intent”

History and Justice: Paradigms of the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes

Historian’s Judgement: Reflections by Istvan Deak

History

Exercises with History Ukrainian Style (Notes on Public Aspects of History’s Functioning in Post-Soviet Ukraine)

Struggling with a “Nuremberg Historiography” of the Holodomor

“Under the Influence of the International Reaction, The Pitiful Remnants of Anti-Soviet Elements in Our Country…” 1956 and Problems of the Baltics in Kremlin

Weltgericht Ohne Weltgeschichte. Historians as Expert Witnesses at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yougoslavia

Archive

The Empire of Archives: Forum Initiated by Ab Imperio and Cahiers du monde russe: Russie, Empire russe, Union soviétique et États indépendants

The Pulse of Archives

Records of Empire, Monarchy, or Nation? The Archival Heritage of the Habsburgs in East Central Europe

The Biggest Projects of Russian Colonial Archives: The Utopian Exhaustive “Turkestanica” of General Governor Constantine P. von Kaufman

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

The Construction of State Identity and its Legacies: Legal Restorationism in Estonia

A Liturgy for the Bronze Soldier: Memory and History in the Formation of Crisis

Book Reviews

Bernard Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 475 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-19-929959-5.

Isabel de Madariaga, Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005). xxii+428 pp. Maps, Select Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-09757-3.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

The Archive and the Researcher: The Case of RGIA

Soviet Archives: A Cultural Heritage of the Empire or a Monument to the Revolution? Reflections on the French “Trophy Archives” in the USSR after the Second World War

Wendy Slater, Andrew Wilson (Eds.), The Legacy of the Soviet Union (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, 2004). 275 pp. Index. ISBN: 1-4039-1786-8.

Antonio J. Munoz, Oleg Romanko, Hitler’s White Russians: Collaboration, Extermination and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Byelorussia, 1941-1944 (Bayside, NY: Europa Books, 2003). 512 pp. ISBN: 1-891227-42-4.

Marcela Sălăgean, The Soviet Administration in Northern Tran- sylvania (November 1944 – March 1945). Translated by Robert Mihai Rosca (Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2002). 190 pp. (=East European Monographs, Vol. DX- CVIII). Bibliography, Appendices. ISBN: 0-88033-496-7.

John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk (Eds.), Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2006). 304 pp., ills. ISBN: 0-8020-9148-2 (hardcover edition).

Serhii Plokhy, Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). 102 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-916458-95-4.

Вадим Менжулин. Другой Сикорский: Неудобные страницы истории психиатрии. Киев: “Сфера”, 2004. 490 с. Библиографический указатель, именной указатель. ISBN: 966-7841-72-3.

Eugenia Paulicelli, Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt (Dress, Body, Culture) (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2004). 256 pp. ISBN-10: 1-859-737-730; ISBN-13: 978-1859-737-736.

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