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Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space

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

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

Methodology and Theory

Homo Imperii Revisits the “Biographic Turn”

Iaroslav Hrytsak

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

Ronald Grigor Suny

Making Sense of Stalin

History

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

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Moshko the Imperial

Michael Khodarkovsky

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

Scott C. Bailey

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

Pavel Tereshkovich

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

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

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Marc Raeff. 1923–2008

In Memory of Marc Raeff

Richard Wortman

Marc Raeff

In Memory of Marc Raeff

Samuel C. Ramer

Remarks at the Memorial for Marc Raeff

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

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.

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. (Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia). ISBN: 978-029-598-753-8.

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

С. В. Любичанковский. Губернская администрация и проблема кризиса власти в позднеимперской России (на материалах Урала, 1892–1914 гг.). Самара-Оренбург: ИПК ГОУ ОГУ, 2007. 750 с. Приложения. Указатель имен. ISBN: 978-5-7410-0749-5.

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Borderland as Destiny: Identity Metamorphoses in the Borderlands of Eastern Europe

Boris Kornienko

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

In Memory of Marc Raeff

Catherine Raeff

Memorial Speech, February 7, 2009

In Memory of Marc Raeff

Excerpt from Winter Kept Us Warm

In Memory of Marc Raeff

Vitalii Ananiev

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-Gousseff (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001). 428 pp. (= Mondes Russes. Etats, Sociétés, Nations. № 1). Bibliographie, Index des noms. ISBN: 2-271-05884-8.

Galina Iankovskaia

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.

Andrei Makarychev

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.

Nadieszda Kizenko

А. А. Сафонов. Свобода совести и модернизация вероисповедного законодательства Российской империи в начале ХХ в. Тамбов: “Издательство Першина Р. В.”, 2007. 367 с. Указатель имен. Указатель религиозных вероисповеданий и сект. ISBN: 978-5-91253-077-7.

Marianna Mouravieva

Дан Хили. Гомосексуальное влечение в революционной России: Регулирование сексуально-гендерного диссидентства / Подгот. Л. В. Бессмертных. Москва: “Ладомир”, 2008. 714 c., ил. ISBN: 978-5-86218-470-9.

Olga Gershenson

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.

Alexander Lokshin

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).

Albert Kaganovich

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

Alexander Maiorov, Vitalii Ananiev, Nadezhda Miliutenko

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).

Nikita Khrapunov

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).

Kimitaka Matsuzato

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.

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Marina Mogilner · 3/2003 Searching for the Center: Russian Nationalism · 2003

“Encyclopaedia of Russian Nationalist Project:” Foreword to the Publication

SUMMARY: In the present issue, the archival section features a pamphlet by a famous Russian nationalist and anthropologist, I. Sikorskii. The selection of this unusual archival document (it was eventually published in 1915 but became a rarity soon thereafter)...