1/2009 Narrating the Multiple Self: New Biographies for the Empire

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I am grateful to one of the anonymous reviewers whose expert comments and suggestions were very helpful. The comments of another anonymous reviewer might have been more helpful, had they been less impertinent.

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Victor Shnirelman

Presidents and Archeology, or What Do Politicians Seek in Ancient Times: Distant Past and Its Political Role in the USSR and during the Post-Soviet Period

1/2009

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Editors

Marc Raeff. 1923–2008

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In Memory of Marc Raeff

Richard Wortman

Marc Raeff

1/2009

In Memory of Marc Raeff

Samuel C. Ramer

Remarks at the Memorial for Marc Raeff

1/2009

In Memory of Marc Raeff

Wladimir Berelowitch

Marc Raeff: Russia in European Historical Studies

Newest Mythologies

Polina Barskova

The Corpse, the Corpulent, and the Other: A Study in the Tropology of Siege Body Representation

1/2009

I would like to acknowledge the anonymous reviewers of Ab Imperio for their perceptive suggestions. My gratitude also goes to Alexis Peri, Luba Golburt, Serguei Oushakine for their inspirational support of my Siege culture research, and to Avram Brown, my thoughtful editor.

Book Reviews

Andriy Portnov

Наследие империй и будущее России / Под ред. А. И. Миллера. Москва: Фонд “Либеральная миссия”; “Новое литературное обозрение”, 2008. 528 с. ISBN: 978-5-86793-631-0.

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

Serhy Yekelchyk

Mark von Hagen, War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914–1918 (Seattle: The Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, University of Washington, 2007). xii+122 pp. (D

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Mark von Hagen, War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914–1918 (Seattle: The Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, University of Washington, 2007). xii+122 pp. (Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia). ISBN: 978-029-598-753-8.

Malte Rolf

Jörg Gebhard, Lublin: Eine polnische Stadt im Hinterhof der Moderne (1815–1914) (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2006). 394 S. ISBN: 978-341-207-606-1.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

1/2009

Issue 1/2009 Narrating the Multiple Self: New Biographies for the Empire

Methodology and Theory

Homo Imperii Revisits the “Biographic Turn”

Nationalizing a Multiethnic Space: The Case(s) of Ivan Franko and Galicia

Making Sense of Stalin

History

Jews in the “Greater Political Space.” Jewish Deputies in the Late 18th–early 19th c. Russian Empire

Moshko the Imperial

The Return of Lieutenant Atarshchikov: Empire and Identity in Asiatic Russia

Archive

An Evolutionist-Ethnologist Confronts Post-Revolutionary Russia: Lev Shternberg’s “Anthropological Suggestions and Perspectives during the Revolutionary Years in Russia”

Anthropological Suggestions and Perspectives during the Revolutionary Years in Russia

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Presidents and Archeology, or What Do Politicians Seek in Ancient Times: Distant Past and Its Political Role in the USSR and during the Post-Soviet Period

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Marc Raeff. 1923–2008

Marc Raeff

Remarks at the Memorial for Marc Raeff

Marc Raeff: Russia in European Historical Studies

Newest Mythologies

The Corpse, the Corpulent, and the Other: A Study in the Tropology of Siege Body Representation

Book Reviews

Наследие империй и будущее России / Под ред. А. И. Миллера. Москва: Фонд “Либеральная миссия”; “Новое литературное обозрение”, 2008. 528 с. ISBN: 978-5-86793-631-0.

Mark von Hagen, War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914–1918 (Seattle: The Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, University of Washington, 2007). xii+122 pp. (D

Jörg Gebhard, Lublin: Eine polnische Stadt im Hinterhof der Moderne (1815–1914) (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2006). 394 S. ISBN: 978-341-207-606-1.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

A Biography in Motion: Chokan Valikhanov and His Travels in Central Eurasia

Borderland as Destiny: Identity Metamorphoses in the Borderlands

Ataman F. F. Taube: An Icon of Cossack Nationalism

Memorial Speech, February 7, 2009

Excerpt from Winter Kept Us Warm

Robert Romanchuk, Byzantine Hermeneutics and Pedagogy in the Russian North. Monks and Masters at the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery, 1397–1501 (Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007). xv+452 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9063-8.

Elena V. Aniskina, Galina A. Kouznetsova, Oganes V. Marinine, Vsevolode Gousseff (Dir.), Retours d’URSS: Les prisonniers de guerre et les internés français dans les archives soviétiquęs 1945–1951 / Coordonné par Catherine Klein-Go

Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger (Eds.), Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). xv+284 pp., ill., maps. ISBN: 978-0300-119-619.

Valerie A. Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). xiv+263 pp., ill., maps. ISBN: 978-080-144-409-8.

Marlies Bilz, Tatarstan in der Transformation: Nationaler Diskurs und Politische Praxis 1988-1994 (Stuttgart: “Ibidem-Verlag”, 2005). 456 S. Index. ISBN: 978-3-89821-722-4.

Charles King, The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). xviii + 320 pp., ills. ISBN: 978-019-517-775-6.

Anna Shternshis, Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006). xxi+252 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-025-334-726-8.

Yael Chaver, What Must Be Forgotten. The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004). xxiv+238 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-815-630-50-6 (hardcover edition).

Леонид Смиловицкий. Евреи в Турове: История местечка Мозырского Полесья. Иерусалим: “Цурот”, 2008. 846 c., ил. ISBN: 978-965-555-352-9.

Andrzej Poppe, Christian Russia in the Making (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2007). xiv+362 pp. (=Variorum Collected Studies Series). ISBN: 978-075-465-911-2 (hardcover edition).

Henryk Jankowski, A Historical-Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Russian Habitation Names of the Crimea (Leiden; Boston: “Brill,” 2006). vi+1298 pp., 60 ills. ISBN-13: 978-90-04-15433-9. ISBN-10: 90-04-15433-7).

Научные тетради Института Восточной Европы. Вып. I. Непризнанные государства / Под ред. А. Л. Подгорельского. Москва: “Территория будущего”, 2006. 192 с., ил. ISBN: 5-91129-017-0.