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4/2007 The Future of the Past | Ab Imperio

Issue 4/2007 The Future of the Past

Methodology and Theory

Moving On, Back to the Future

4/2007

Beyond Nationality

4/2007

Forthcoming as a chapter in the book Serhii Plokhy, Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008). University of Toronto Press © 2008, reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper

Imperial Trajectories

4/2007

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

History

Zaal Andronikashvili

The Glory of Feebleness: The Martyrology Paradigm of Georgian Political Theology

4/2007

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Alexander Dmitriev

Ukrainian Science and Its Imperial Contexts, The Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Century

4/2007

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Lilia Berezhnaia

The “Ukrainian Triangle” of Stepan Tomashivs’kyi (1875-1930): On the Peculiarities of the “Imaginary Geography” of the Early Twentieth Century

4/2007

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Patryk Babiracki

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Olga Khristoforova

Making the Future: Mari through the Camera’s Lens

4/2007

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Boris Kolonitskii

Diagnosis: Fame (The Unfinished Story of the European University in St. Petersburg)

4/2007

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Newest Mythologies

Kevin M. F. Platt

Allegories of Stalinist Historiography: Eisenstein’s

4/2007

Parts of the arguments presented in this article have been presented at public lectures at Princeton University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Constance University and the AAASS. I would like to thank the many scholars whose questions on those occasions have helped me to improve my work. Additionally, special thanks are due to David Brandenberger and Joan Neuberger for their comments on versions of the material presented here. I would also thank the anonymous reviewer for Ab Imperio for helpful criticism and suggestions. Research for this article was partially funded by a University Research Foundation Grant from the University of Pennsylvania.

Book Reviews

Vladimir Malakhov

Национализм в мировой истории / Под ред. В. А. Тишкова и В. А. Шнирельмана; Инcтитут этнологии и антропологии им. Н. Н. Миклухо-Маклая, РАН. Москва: “Наука”, 2007. 601 с., ил. ISBN: 5-02-035527-5.

4/2007

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

Serhy Yekelchyk

Валер Булгаков. История белорусского национализма. Вильнюс: Институт белорусистики, 2006. 331 с. ISBN: 80-86961-15-Х.

4/2007

Elena Vishlenkova

А. Б. Каменский. Повседневность русских городских обывателей: Исторические анекдоты из провинциальной жизни XVIII века. Москва: Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, 2006. 403 с. ISBN: 5-7281-0807-5.

4/2007

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

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Imperial Heresies: Polish Students in the Soviet Union, 1948-1957 - 1

4/2007

Research for this article was supported in part by the Fulbright-Hays program of the U.S. Department of Education, as well as with funds provided by the U. S. Department of State through the Title VIII Program and the IREX Scholar Support Fund. None of these organizations is responsible for the views expressed. Subsequent drafts of this article have benefited from intellectual insights and bibliographic assistance of numerous individuals, including: my adviser, Professor Jeffrey Brooks, Professors Igor Lukes and Andrzej Paczkowski, Dr. Mirosław Golon, Karin-Irene Eiermann, Constantine Katsakioris, Mie Nakachi, Séverine Rebourcet, Galina Mikhailovna Tokareva, the participants of the Seventh Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History, the participants of the Warsaw East European Conference (Fourth Annual Session), and two anonymous reviewers at Ab Imperio.

Patryk Babiracki

Imperial Heresies: Polish Students in the Soviet Union, 1948-1957 - 2

4/2007

A “Polish Connection” in American Sovietology, Or the Old Homeland Enmities in the New Host Country Humanities

4/2007

The article was prepared originally for a conference “History Writing in Exile”, convened in Sigtuna (Sweden), October 2004, by History and Slavic Departments of the Stockholm University. I would like to thank Dr. Maria Zadencka, who organized the conference, for her consent to publish this text here. I would also to express my deep gratitude to Professor Richard Pipes for his critical remarks that helped to eliminate at least a few of interpretation mistakes, and to Mary H. Ulam – for her kind answers for my questions concerning Professor Ulam’s biographical data.

Ekaterina Boltunova

Франсина-Доминик Лиштенан. Россия входит в Европу: Императрица Елизавета Петровна и война за Австрийское наследство, 1740-1750 / Под ред. Е. В. Пермякова. Пер. с фр. В. А. Мильчиной. Москва: “ОГИ”, 2000. 408 с. (=Материалы и исследования по истории русско

4/2007

Франсина-Доминик Лиштенан. Россия входит в Европу: Императрица Елизавета Петровна и война за Австрийское наследство, 1740-1750 / Под ред. Е. В. Пермякова. Пер. с фр. В. А. Мильчиной. Москва: “ОГИ”, 2000. 408 с. (=Материалы и исследования по истории русской культуры. Вып. 5.) ISBN: 5-900241-28-9.

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

Н. П. Космарская. “Дети империи” в постсоветской Центральной Азии: Адаптивные практики и ментальные сдвиги (русские в Киргизии, 1992-2002). Москва: “Наталис”, 2006. 596 с. Приложения. Именной указатель. ISBN: 5-8062-0212-7.

4/2007

Архив еврейской истории / Главный редактор О. В. Будницкий. Т. 1. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2004. 456 с. Именной указатель. ISBN: 5-8243-0599-4; Т. 2. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2005. 464 с. Именной указатель. ISBN: 5-8243-0741-5; Т. 3. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2006. 408 с.,

4/2007

Архив еврейской истории / Главный редактор О. В. Будницкий. Т. 1. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2004. 456 с. Именной указатель. ISBN: 5-8243-0599-4; Т. 2. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2005. 464 с. Именной указатель. ISBN: 5-8243-0741-5; Т. 3. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2006. 408 с., ил. Именной указатель. ISBN: 5-8243-0753-9; Т. 4. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2007. 375 c. Именной указатель. ISBN: 978-5-8243-0899-0.

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

Myroslav Shkandrij

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

4/2007

Ab Imperio continues publication of responses to Yaroslav Htytsak’s recent important contribution to the historiography of Ukrainian nationalism. For the beginning of the discussion of his book, see the review by Serhy Yekelchyk in: Ab Imperio. 2007. No. 3. Рр. 449-452.

Л. Ф. Писарькова. Государственное управление России с конца XVII до конца XVIII века: Эволюция бюрократической системы. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2007. 743 с. Именной указатель. ISBN: 5-8243-0787-3.

4/2007

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

William C. Fuller, Jr., The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006). xiii+286 pp. Maps, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4426-5 (hardcover edition).

4/2007

Alexander Antoschenko

А. В. Малинов. Павел Гаврилович Виноградов: Социально-историческая и методологическая концепция. Санкт-Петербург: “Нестор”, 2005. (=История в Политехническом университете. Выпуск 3). 213 с. ISBN: 5-303-002-18-7.

4/2007

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

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 182 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-82463-7 (hardcover edition).

4/2007

Marina Shabasova

David White, The Russian Democratic Party Yabloko: Opposition in a Managed Democracy (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006). 276 pp. Tables, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7546-4675-0.

4/2007

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

Anatoly Podolsky

Jules Schelvis, Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp. A Foreword by Bob Moore (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007), xvi+278 pp., ill. Notes, Index. ISBN: 9-781-8452-0419-8.

4/2007

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

Maksim Kirchanov

Milan Subotić, Na Drugi Pogled: Prilog Studijama Nacionalizma (Beograd: Institut za filosofiju i društvenu teoriju: “I. P. Filip Višnijć,” 2007). 239 S. Bibliografija. ISBN: 978-86-82417-16-3.

4/2007

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

Marlies Bilz-Leonhardt

Tатарская нация в XXI веке: проблемы развития. Казань: Институт истории им. Ш. Марджани АН РТ, 2006. 456 с. ISBN: 5-94990-009-X.

4/2007

Nikita Khrapunov

Christopher J. Tuplin (Ed.), Pontus and the Outside World: Studies in Black Sea History, Historiography, and Archaeology (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004). 300 pp. (=Colloquia pontica; Vol. 9). ISBN: 90-04-12154-4 (hardcover edition).

4/2007

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

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