1/2008 Imperial Exceptionalisms: Mechanisms and Discourses

Issue 1/2008 Imperial Exceptionalisms: Mechanisms and Discourses

Full Archive

Enduring Imperium: Russia/Soviet Union/Eurasia as Multiethnic, Multiconfessional Space

History

Seymour Becker

Projects for Political Reform in Russia in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century

Mark R. Beissinger

The Persistence of Empire in Eurasia

Materials of the Presidential Panel of the 39th Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Nancy Condee

Mediation, Imagination, and Time: Speculative Remarks on Russian Culture

Materials of the Presidential Panel of the 39th Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Alexander Semyonov

Empire as a Context Setting Category

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Sergei Prozorov

Empire in the Age of Its Disrepute: A Comment on Mark Beissinger’s AAASS Presidential Address

Mark R. Beissinger

Comments on Sergei Prozorov’s “Empire in the Age of Its Disrepute”

Newest Mythologies

Aleksei Mikhalev

The Orthodox Christianity in Contemporary Mongolia: The Rhetoric and Practices of Cultural Expansion

Historiography

Mikhail Suslov

Recent Historical Studies of Russian Conservatism: Students, Critics, and Proponents

Book Reviews

Steven Seegel

Vytautas Petronis, Constructing Lithuania: Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914 (Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2007). 309 pp. (=Stockholm Studies in History, 91; Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations, 21). ISBN: 9-7891-85445-79-0.

Sergei Abashin

Марко Буттино. Революция наоборот: Средняя Азия между падением царской империи и образованием СССР / Пер. с итальянского Н. Охотина, послесловие А. Мазоэро. Москва: “Звенья”, 2007. 447 с. ISBN: 978-5-7870-0110-5.

Kirsten Bönker

Annegret Bautz, Sozialpolitik statt Wohltätigkeit? Der Konzeptionswandel städtischer Fürsorge in Sankt Petersburg von 1892 bis 1914 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007). 221 S. (=Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte; Bd. 68). ISBN: 9-783-44705-439-3.

Svetlana Konstantinova

Nicholas B. Dirks, The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006). 389 pp. ISBN 0-674-02166-5.

Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 1/2008 Imperial Exceptionalisms: Mechanisms and Discourses

Methodology and Theory

From the Editors

In the Court Where Multi-Ethnic Polities are on Trial the Jury is Still Out

An Age of Imperial Revolutions

Enduring Imperium: Russia/Soviet Union/Eurasia as Multiethnic, Multiconfessional Space

History

Projects for Political Reform in Russia in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century

The Persistence of Empire in Eurasia

Mediation, Imagination, and Time: Speculative Remarks on Russian Culture

Empire as a Context Setting Category

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Empire in the Age of Its Disrepute: A Comment on Mark Beissinger’s AAASS Presidential Address

Comments on Sergei Prozorov’s “Empire in the Age of Its Disrepute”

Newest Mythologies

The Orthodox Christianity in Contemporary Mongolia: The Rhetoric and Practices of Cultural Expansion

Historiography

Recent Historical Studies of Russian Conservatism: Students, Critics, and Proponents

Book Reviews

Vytautas Petronis, Constructing Lithuania: Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914 (Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2007). 309 pp. (=Stockholm Studies in History, 91; Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations, 21). ISBN: 9-7891-85445-79-0.

Annegret Bautz, Sozialpolitik statt Wohltätigkeit? Der Konzeptionswandel städtischer Fürsorge in Sankt Petersburg von 1892 bis 1914 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007). 221 S. (=Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte; Bd. 68). ISBN: 9-783-44705-439-3.

Nicholas B. Dirks, The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006). 389 pp. ISBN 0-674-02166-5.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Studying Empires

Kimitaka Matsuzato (Ed.), Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries: Histories Revived or Improvised? (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2005). 415 pp. Index. ISBN: 4-938637-35-9.

Larissa Remennick, Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration and Conflict (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007). ix+408 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 9-780-765-803-405.

Daniel Balmuth, The Russian Bulletin, 1863 – 1917: A Liberal Voice in Tsarist Russia (New York, Vienna, and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000). 462 pp. (=American university studies IX, History; Vol. 194). Bibliographical References, Index. ISBN: 0-8204-4921-0.

Milan Subotić, Put Rusije: evrazijsko stanovište (Belgrade: “Plato,” 2004). 326 pp. (=Biblioteka “Koinonia,” Vol. 26). ISBN: 86-447-0231-0.

П. Вандич. Цiна свободи: Iсторiя Центрально-Схiдної Европи вiд Середньовiччя до сьогодення / Пер. С. Грачовой, под ред. А. Портнова. Київ: “Критика”, 2004. 464 с. ISBN 966-7679-54-3.

Peter Kenez, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, 2nd edition (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 352 pp. Chronology, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-86437-2 (hardback edition).

Osamu Ieda (Ed.), The New Structure of the Rural Economy of post-Communist Countries (Sapporo: Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, 2001). 161 pp. ISBN: 4-938637-24-3.

Article of the day