Editors
Issue 3/2008 Vandalizing the Garden: Multiple Forms of Violence in the Imperial Space
Methodology and Theory
Daniel Chirot
The Retribalization of the Modern World: How the Revival of Ancient Sentiments Leads to Persisting Nationalist and Ethnic Conflicts
Simon Werrett
The Panopticon in the Garden: Samuel Bentham’s Inspection House and Noble Theatricality in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Jörg Baberowski
Trust through Presence. Premodern Practices of Authority in Late Imperial Russia
History
Galina Zelenina
Sephardic Philosophizers, Phantom Heresy and the Fame of the Spanish King
Olga Minkina
Russian Authorities and the “Jewish Riot” of 1823-1824
Christoph Gumb
Threatening and Punishing: The Russian Army in Warsaw, 1904-1906
Felix Schnell
“Tear Them Apart... And Be Done With It!” The Ataman-Leadership of Nestor Makhno as a Culture of Violence
Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Interview with Stephen F. Jones
The Conflict in Georgia and the Self-Defeating Nature of Nationalism
In Search of a Paradigm Conceptualizing the August Conflict in the Caucasus
Georgi Derluguian
On the Making of Georgian-Russian Stereotyping
In Search of a Paradigm Conceptualizing the August Conflict in the Caucasus
Anna Temkina
Soviet-Style Gender Modernization vs. Traditional Scenarios of Sexual Life
In Search of a Paradigm Conceptualizing the August Conflict in the Caucasus
ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Ben Eklof
“By A Different Yardstick:” Boris Mironov’s A Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917, and Its Reception in Russia
Forum Ab Imperio: Post-Soviet and Western Academic Communities: Res Publica Litterarum – Imperium Litterarum?
Ronald Grigor Suny
The Politics of Social History: Boris Mironov’s Social History of Imperial Russia
Forum Ab Imperio: Post-Soviet and Western Academic Communities: Res Publica Litterarum – Imperium Litterarum?
Seymour Becker
Comment on Ben Eklof’s “By a Different Yardstick”
Forum Ab Imperio: Post-Soviet and Western Academic Communities: Res Publica Litterarum – Imperium Litterarum?
Newest Mythologies
Historiography
Steven Seegel
Darius Staliūnas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). xiii+465 pp., ills. (=On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, FrEEdom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, Volume 11). Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-90-420-2267-6.
Forum: Confession, Language, Ethnicity, and the Many Faces of Russian Empire
Juliette Cadiot
Darius Staliūnas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). xiii+465 pp., ills. (=On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, FrEEdom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, Volume 11). Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-90-420-2267-6.
Forum: Confession, Language, Ethnicity, and the Many Faces of Russian Empire
James P. Niessen
Darius Staliūnas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). xiii+465 pp., ills. (=On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, FrEEdom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, Volume 11). Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-90-420-2267-6.
Book Reviews
Gleb Albert
СССР и Литва в годы Второй мировой войны: Сборник документов. Том 1: СССР и Литовская республика (март 1939 – август 1940 гг.). / Сост. А. Каспаравичюс, Ч. Лауринавичюс, Н. Лебедева. Вильнюс: Lietuvos istorijos instituto ledykla, 2006. 774 с. Именной указатель. ISBN: 9-986-780-81-0.
Andrew Gentes
Alex Marshall, The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1800-1917 (London and New York: Routledge, 2006). xii+274 pp. Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-415-35561-3.
Mathijs Pelkmans
Catharine Alexander, Victor Buchli, and Caroline Humphrey (Eds.), Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). 212 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-1-84472-115-3.
Michael Rouland
