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4/2009 From Homo Imperii to Civitas: Projects of Imagined Imperial Communities | Ab Imperio

Issue 4/2009 From Homo Imperii to Civitas: Projects of Imagined Imperial Communities

Methodology and Theory

Imperial Society as a Community Imagined by Homo Imperii

George Steinmetz

The Imperial Entanglements of Sociology in the United States, Britain, and France Since the Nineteenth Century

Tribe, Ethnos, Nation: Rethinking Evolutionist Social Theory and Representations of Nomadic Inner Asia

Sergei Abashin, Nikolay N. Kradin, Tatyana D. Skrynnikova, Valerie A. Kivelson, Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene, Richard Lim, Adrienne Edgar, Sergei Glebov, Lkhamsuren Munkkh-эrdene

Forum Ab Imperio: Debating the Concepts of Evolutionist Social Theory: Responses to David Sneath

A Response to Critics

History

Marina Vituhnovskaja

Service to the Empire and National Loyalty: Imperial and Finnish Biographies of the Enckells, 1850–1917

Cosmopolitan Wanderer or Zionist Activist? Sir Alfred Zimmern’s Ambivalent Jewishness and the Legacy of British Internationalism

Archive

Playing Moscow off Against Kazan: Azerbaijan Maneuvering to Latinization in the Soviet Union

Protocol of the Meetings of the Communist Party Fraction at the Turkological Congress in Baku

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Federation between State and Empire

Andrei Zakharov

Federation, Sovereignty, and the Principle of Subsidiarity

Newest Mythologies

“Oriental Journeys” in “The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar”

Book Reviews

Е. П. Баринова. Российское дворянство в начале XX века: Экономический статус и социокультурный облик. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2008. 351 с. Указатель имен. ISBN: 978-5-8243-0936-2.

Sergei Liubichankovskii

В. А. Воропанов. Суд и правосудие в Российской империи во второй половине XVIII – первой половине XIX вв. Региональный аспект: Урал и Западная Сибирь (опыт сравнительно-сопоставительного анализа). Челябинск: Издательство Челябинского института (филиала) ФГОУ ВПО “Уральская академия государственной службы”, 2008. 606 c. ISBN: 978-5-8056-0175-1.

Память о войне 60 лет спустя: Россия, Германия, Европа / Cост. и ред. М. Габович. Москва: “Новое литературное обозрение”, 2005. 784 с. (=Библиотека журнала “Неприкосновенный Запас”). ISBN: 5-86793-405-5.

Charles J. Halperin

Ю. В. Селезнев. Элита Золотой Орды: Научно-справочное издание. Казань: Издательство “Фен” Академии Наук Республики Татарстан, 2009. 232 с., ил., таб., карты. ISBN: 978-5-9690-0068-1.

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М. Р. Белоусов. Боярские списки 1645–1667 гг. как исторический источник. Т. 1. Казань, Институт истории АН РТ, 2008. 315 с. ISBN: 978-5-94981-112-2.

Sarah Badcock, Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). xvii+260 pp., ill., maps. ISBN: 978-0-521-87623-0.

Natalia Kovalchuk

Robert Bideleux and Jan Jeffries, A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change (2nd Edition). London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 669 pp., ills. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-415-36627-4.

Peter Kenez, Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944–1948 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). ix+312 pp., ill. Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-521-85766-6 (hardback edition).

Dmitry Shlapentokh

Верхи и низы русского национализма. Сборник статей / Сост. А. Верховский. Москва: Центр “Сова”, 2007. 256 с., табл. ISBN: 5-98418-009-Х; Русский национализм: Идеология и настроение. Сборник статей / Сост. А. Верховский. Москва: Центр “Сова”, 2006. 301 с., табл. ISBN: 5-98418-007-3.

Nikita Khrapunov

Roxanne L. Euben, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006). 313 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-12721-7.

Maria Krisan’

Wiktoria Śliwowscy, René Śliwowscy, Rosja nasza miłość (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo “Iskry”, 2008). 468 s. ISBN: 978-83-244-0055-3.

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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)...