3/2008 Vandalizing the Garden: Multiple Forms of Violence in the Imperial Space

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Methodology and Theory

Editors

Gardening Empire as “Civilizing Process”

3/2008

Daniel Chirot

The Retribalization of the Modern World: How the Revival of Ancient Sentiments Leads to Persisting Nationalist and Ethnic Conflicts

3/2008

Simon Werrett

The Panopticon in the Garden: Samuel Bentham’s Inspection House and Noble Theatricality in Eighteenth-Century Russia

3/2008

This essay is a revised version of a paper which first appeared as Simon Werrett. Potemkin and the Panopticon: Samuel Bentham and the Architecture of Absolutism in Eighteenth Century Russia. In the on-line Journal of Bentham Studies. 1999. No. 2 (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/journal/nlwerret.htm). The author would like to thank Simon Schaffer, James Secord, Luke O’Sullivan, Philip Schofield, Daniel Alexandrov, Mikhail Mikeshin, Emily James, and Marina B. Mogilner for their comments, suggestions, and support.

Jörg Baberowski

Trust through Presence. Premodern Practices of Authority in Late Imperial Russia

3/2008

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

History

Galina Zelenina

Sephardic Philosophizers, Phantom Heresy and the Fame of the Spanish King

3/2008

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Olga Minkina

Russian Authorities and the “Jewish Riot” of 1823-1824

3/2008

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Christoph Gumb

Threatening and Punishing: The Russian Army in Warsaw, 1904-1906

3/2008

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Felix Schnell

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Interview with Stephen F. Jones

The Conflict in Georgia and the Self-Defeating Nature of Nationalism

3/2008

In Search of a Paradigm Conceptualizing the August Conflict in the Caucasus

Georgi Derluguian

On the Making of Georgian-Russian Stereotyping

3/2008

In Search of a Paradigm Conceptualizing the August Conflict in the Caucasus

Anna Temkina

Soviet-Style Gender Modernization vs. Traditional Scenarios of Sexual Life

3/2008

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

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

3/2008

Forum AI
Post-Soviet and Western Academic Communities:
Res Publica Litterarum – Imperium Litterarum?

Earlier versions of this paper were presented as «The World of the Post-Soviet Russian Historian» at the University of Georgia Conference on Russian and Soviet History (December, 2003); «By a Different Yardstick: The Reception of Boris Mironov’s Social History of Imperial Russia and the Russian Historical Profession Today,» at the Midwest Russian Historians= Biannual Conference (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, April 2004). Forthcoming also in Thomas Lahusen and Peter H. Solomon (Eds.). What Is Soviet Now: Identities, Legacies, and Memories. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2008.

Ronald Grigor Suny

The Politics of Social History: Boris Mironov’s Social History of Imperial Russia

3/2008

Forum AI
Post-Soviet and Western Academic Communities:
Res Publica Litterarum – Imperium Litterarum?

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Seymour Becker

Newest Mythologies

Ilya Gerasimov

“The Truth of the Russian Body” and the Sweet Violence of the Imagined Community

3/2008

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

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

3/2008

Forum AI

Confession, Language, Ethnicity, and the Many Faces of Russian Empire

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 <a href="javascript:Pick it!ISBN: 978-90-420-2267-6"><img style="border: 0px none ;" src="http://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=FindIt" alt="Pick It!" title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'></a> .

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

Forum AI

Confession, Language, Ethnicity, and the Many Faces of Russian Empire

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.

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

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 указ

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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.

3/2008

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.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

3/2008

Issue 3/2008 Vandalizing the Garden: Multiple Forms of Violence in the Imperial Space

Methodology and Theory

Gardening Empire as “Civilizing Process”

The Retribalization of the Modern World: How the Revival of Ancient Sentiments Leads to Persisting Nationalist and Ethnic Conflicts

The Panopticon in the Garden: Samuel Bentham’s Inspection House and Noble Theatricality in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Trust through Presence. Premodern Practices of Authority in Late Imperial Russia

History

Sephardic Philosophizers, Phantom Heresy and the Fame of the Spanish King

Russian Authorities and the “Jewish Riot” of 1823-1824

Threatening and Punishing: The Russian Army in Warsaw, 1904-1906

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

The Conflict in Georgia and the Self-Defeating Nature of Nationalism

On the Making of Georgian-Russian Stereotyping

Soviet-Style Gender Modernization vs. Traditional Scenarios of Sexual Life

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

“By A Different Yardstick:” Boris Mironov’s A Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917, and Its Reception in Russia

The Politics of Social History: Boris Mironov’s Social History of Imperial Russia

Newest Mythologies

“The Truth of the Russian Body” and the Sweet Violence of the Imagined Community

Historiography

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

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

Book Reviews

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.

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.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

“Tear Them Apart... And Be Done With It!” The Ataman-Leadership of Nestor Makhno as a Culture of Violence

Comment on Ben Eklof’s “By a Different Yardstick”

Several Comments on Ben Eklof’s Article

“The Lost World,” Or on the Decolonization of the Russian Social Sciences

“Yards and Meters” (Some Comments)

Reflections on Ben Eklof’s “By a Different Yardstick”

What Does It Mean to “Give Russia Back the Past?” Some Short Remarks on Ben Eklof’s “By a Different Yardstick,” from a German Point of View

What Domination Are We Talking About? A French View of Russian Studies in France, Russia, and USA

Final Сomments

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

Postscript, Or a Review of Reviews

Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, Les Russes du Kazakhstan: Identités nationales et nouveaux Etats dans l’espace post-soviétique (Paris: “Maissonneuve & Larose,” 2004). 354 pp. Bibliographie, Index. ISBN: 2-7068-1834-4.

Christoph Witzenrath, Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 1598-1725: Manipulation, Rebellion and Expansion into Siberia (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). xii+259 pp. Index, Maps. ISBN: 978-0-415-41621-4.

Пространственные факторы в формировании партийных систем. Диалог американистов и постсоветологов / Под ред. К. Мацузато. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2002. 108 с.

Journal of the Interdisciplinary Crossroads. April 2006. Vol. 3. No. 1 (Thematic Issue: David Kettler and Zvi Ben-Dor (Eds.), The Limits of Exile). 265 pp. ISSN: 0-972-9801.

Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays (Princeton University Press, 1997). xxxii+561 pp., ill. ISBN: 0-69-101-156-7 (hardcover edition).

Еврейский музей. Сборник статей / Составители В. А. Дымшиц, В. Е. Кельнер. Санкт-Петербург: “Симпозиум”, 2004. 268 с., 32 ил. ISBN: 5-89091-280-1.

Giedrius Subačius, Upton Sinclair: The Lithuanian Jungle. Upon the Centenary of “The Jungle” (1905 and 1906) by Upton Sinclair (Amsterdam: “Rodopi”, 2006). 102 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 9-0420-1879-8.