3/2009 Maison des sciences de l’Homme: Human Sciences in the Empire

Issue 3/2009 Maison des sciences de l’Homme: Human Sciences in the Empire

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Methodology and Theory

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From the Editors

3/2009

Alice L. Conklin

The Making of a Colonial Science: Ethnologie and Empire in Interwar France

3/2009

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

History

Ingrid Schierle

Patriotism and Emotions: Love of the Fatherland in Сatherinian Russia

3/2009

For their helpful comments, I would like to thank Jan Plamper (Berlin), Andreas Renner (Köln), and Claus Scharf (Mainz). I am deeply grateful to the anonymous referees for their suggestions for improvement. The article was expertly translated by Andrea Hacker (Tübingen), whom I also wish to thank.

Anna Kuxhausen

The Modern Miracles of Mother’s Milk: The New Science of Maternity in Enlightenment Russia

3/2009

The author wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, which funded the research for this article, and to thank Bill Rosenberg, Christine Ruane, David Ransel, Adele Lindenmeyr, Rebecca Friedman, Andreas Renner, Dena Goodman, and Greg Vitarbo for their useful suggestions. She also expresses her gratitude to the anonymous reviewers at Ab Imperio and to her colleagues at St. Olaf College.

Marina Loskutova

District Scholars: Self-Organization of the Academic Community in Provincial Russia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and First Decades of the Twentieth Centuries

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Editors

“Sovereign Democracy” and the End of History

3/2009

Forum AI:
Human Sciences in the Empire: History and Falsification

Isabelle de Keghel

On the Path toward a “Predictable” Past? Comments on the Establishment of the Presidential Commission to Counter Attempts to Harm Russia’s Interests by Falsifying History

3/2009

Forum AI:
Human Sciences in the Empire: History and Falsification

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Pavel Polian

For Whom the Tsar-Bell Has Tolled?

3/2009

Forum AI:
Human Sciences in the Empire: History and Falsification

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Newest Mythologies

Elena Baraban

Family Circle: The Interpretation of Kinship, Jews, and Prisoners of War in the Stalin-Era War Movies

3/2009

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Book Reviews

Wim van Meurs

Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea, Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006). 439 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-069-112-834-4 (hardcover edition).

3/2009

Andrew Gentes

Alexander Bitis, Russia and the Eastern Question: Army, Government and Society, 1815–1833 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). xxiii+541 pp. Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-019-726-327-3.

3/2009

Ludmila Novikova

Nick Baron, Soviet Karelia: Politics, Planning, and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1920–1939 (New York: Routledge, 2007). xx+331 pp. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. (=BASEES / Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies; Vol. 43). ISBN: 0-415-3121

3/2009

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

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Our Authors

3/2009

Issue 3/2009 Maison des sciences de l’Homme: Human Sciences in the Empire

Methodology and Theory

From the Editors

The Making of a Colonial Science: Ethnologie and Empire in Interwar France

History

Patriotism and Emotions: Love of the Fatherland in Сatherinian Russia

The Modern Miracles of Mother’s Milk: The New Science of Maternity in Enlightenment Russia

District Scholars: Self-Organization of the Academic Community in Provincial Russia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and First Decades of the Twentieth Centuries

Archive

Human Diversity in Local Perspective: “Grand Theories” and Empirical Knowledge (Kazan, First Half of the Nineteenth Century)

Documents

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

“Sovereign Democracy” and the End of History

On the Path toward a “Predictable” Past? Comments on the Establishment of the Presidential Commission to Counter Attempts to Harm Russia’s Interests by Falsifying History

For Whom the Tsar-Bell Has Tolled?

Newest Mythologies

Family Circle: The Interpretation of Kinship, Jews, and Prisoners of War in the Stalin-Era War Movies

Book Reviews

Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea, Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006). 439 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-069-112-834-4 (hardcover edition).

Alexander Bitis, Russia and the Eastern Question: Army, Government and Society, 1815–1833 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). xxiii+541 pp. Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-019-726-327-3.

Nick Baron, Soviet Karelia: Politics, Planning, and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1920–1939 (New York: Routledge, 2007). xx+331 pp. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. (=BASEES / Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies; Vol. 43). ISBN: 0-415-3121

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Empire and Nation in the Imagination of Russian Modernism

Book Consumption and Reading Practices in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk During the Brezhnev Era - 1

Book Consumption and Reading Practices in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk During the Brezhnev Era - 2

History as Crime (The Reflections of a Criminal)

No Comment. With Commentaries

On Tendencies of the Politics of Remembrance in Contemporary Lithuania

Unhealed Wounds: The Struggle over the Memory of World War II

Україна Модерна. 2008. № 2 (13): “Війна переможців і переможених” / Відп. ред. А. Портнов. Ред. Я. Грицак, І. Гирич, В. Маслійчук. Київ: “Критика”, 2008. 385 с.

Karel C. Berkhoff, Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004). xiii+463 pp., ill. Maps, Bibliography. ISBN: 0-674-0131-31.

Stephen F. Jones, Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005). 384 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01902-4.

Peter W. Rodgers, Nation, Region, and History in Post-Communist Transitions: Identity Politics in Ukraine, 1991–2006 (Stuttgart: “Ibidem” Verlag, 2008). 205 pp. (=Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Series; Vol. 80). ISBN: 978-3-89821-903-7.

Thomas Lahusen, Peter H. Solomon (Eds.), What Is Soviet Now?: Identities, Legacies, Memories (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2008). 336 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8258-0640-8.

Dan Ungurianu, Plotting History: The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007). 424 pp., ills., charts, tables. ISBN: 978-029-922-500-1 (hardback edition).

Alfons Brüning, Unio non est unitas: Polen-Litauens Weg im konfessionellen Zeitalter (1569–1648) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008). ix+411 S. Bibliographie. ISBN: 978-3-447-05684-7.

А. В. Репников. Консервативные концепции переустройства России. Москва: “Academia”, Федеральное Архивное Агентство РГАСПИ, 2007. 652 c. ISBN: 978-587-444-352-2.

Paul Stephenson, Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900–1204 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 352 pp., ill. ISBN-13: 0-521-77017-3; ISBN-10: 0-521-02756-X (paperback edition).