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4/2010 War and Imperial Society: Dynamics of “Friendship” and “Hostility” | Ab Imperio

Issue 4/2010 War and Imperial Society: Dynamics of “Friendship” and “Hostility”

Methodology and Theory

From the Editors

4/2010

Caroline Humphrey

Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City

4/2010

John-Paul Himka

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army: Unwelcome Elements of an Identity Project

4/2010

John-Paul Himka

The Importance of the Situational Element in East Central European Fascism

4/2010

History

“As One Russian to Another”: Prince Petr Ivanovich Bagration’s Assimilation of Russian Ways

4/2010

The “Armeno-Tatar War” in the South Caucasus, 1905–1906: Multiple Causes, Interpreted Meanings

4/2010

Julia Ouliannikova

Alien Among Aliens, Alien Among Friends: The Russo-Japanese War and the Evacuation of the Sakhalin Penal Colony in the Context of Imperial Policies in the Far East

4/2010

Andriy Zayarnyuk

“The War Is as Usual”: World War I Letters to a Galician Village

Archive

Interview with Levan Berdzenishvili

“…Although Such People Existed, It Was Not They Who Built New National States”

4/2010

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

The Russian Census of 2010: Notes and First Impressions

4/2010

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The Russian Census of 2010

Ekaterina Khodzhaeva

The Census as a Problem: Analysis of the General Russian Press and Tatarstan’s Russian-Language Press, 2002 and 2010

4/2010

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The Russian Census of 2010

Dilyara Suleymanova

The Census as a Topic in the Tatar-Language Press

4/2010

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The Russian Census of 2010

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Sergei Rumiantsev

Nationalism and the Construction of Maps of “Historical Territories”: Teaching National Histories in the Countries of the Southern Caucasus

4/2010

Newest Mythologies

“The Hermitage and My Own Front Door”: Local Identities in St. Petersburg

4/2010

Historiography

Boris Kolonitskii, William G. Rosenberg

In Memory of Leopold Haimson (1927–2010)

4/2010

David M. McDonald

Leopold Haimson: His Historical Vision and Historiographical Legacy

4/2010

Book Reviews

Marina Mogilner

Eugene M. Avrutin, Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010). 216 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4862-1.

4/2010

Alexander Pershái

Stefan Berger (Ed.), Writing the Nation: A Global Perspective (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 243 pp. Selected Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-230-00802-1.

4/2010

Polina Barskova

Л. Я. Гинзбург. Проходящие характеры: Проза военных лет. Записки блокадного человека / Сост., подгот. текста, примеч. и статьи А. Зорина, Э. Ван Баскирк. Москва: “Новое издательство”, 2011. 600 с. ISBN: 978-5-98379-143-5.

4/2010

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Oksana Nagornaya

“The Kaiser’s Guests” and “Political Decoration”: Men and Officers of Multinational Empires in the POW Camps of World War I

4/2010

Marina Vituhnovskaja

“Karelia for Karelians!” Civil War as a Catalyst of National Consciousness

4/2010

Oleg Budnitskii

Russian Jews in Nazi Germany (1933–1941)

4/2010

Remarks of an Outside Observer

4/2010

Forum AI
The Russian Census of 2010

Sergei Sokolovski

The Second Russian Census: Categorizations of Population and Identity Politics

4/2010

Forum AI
The Russian Census of 2010

Ilya Gerasimov

А. В. Портнов. Упражнения с историей по-украински. Москва: ОГИ; Полит.ру; Мемориал, 2010. 224 с., илл. Указатель имен. ISBN: 978-5-94282-604-8.

4/2010

Vladyslav Yatsenko

Brian J. Boeck, Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). 270 pp., ills., maps. Index. ISBN: 978-052- 151-463-7.

4/2010

Svetlana Konstantinova

Alison K. Smith, Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, Illinois, 2008). 259 pp. Selected Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-381-4.

4/2010

Viacheslav Men’kovskii

Paul R. Gregory, Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin. An Archival Study (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009). viii+346 pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-13425-4.

4/2010

О. А. Красняк. Становление иранской регулярной армии в 1879–1921 гг. (По материалам архивов русской военной миссии). Москва: Издательство ЛКИ, 2007. 160 c. ISBN: 978-5-382-00116-6.

4/2010

Hennadii Korolev

Vasyl Kuchabsky, Western Ukraine in Conflict with Poland and Bolshevism, 1918–1923, Transl. from the German by Gus Fagan (Edmonton, Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2009). 361 pp. Bibliography, Maps, Index. ISBN: 978-1-894865-13-5.

4/2010

Alexander Reznik

Charles Kurzman, Democracy Denied, 1905–1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008). 396 pp. Bibliographу, Notes, Index. ISBN: 0-674-030-923.

4/2010

Dmitry Shlapentokh

Alex Danilovich, Russian-Belarusian Integration: Playing Games Behind the Kremlin Walls (Basingstoke: Ashgate, 2006). 234 pp. ISBN: 978-075-464-630-3.

4/2010

Nikita Khrapunov

John F. Haldon (Ed.), Byzantine Warfare (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007). xxvii+582 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7546-2484-4 (hardcover edition).

4/2010

Balázs Trencsényi, Maciej Janowski, Monika Baár, Maria Falina, and Michal Kopeček (Eds.). A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. Vol. 2: Negotiating Modernity in the “Short Twentieth Century” and Beyond, Part 2: 1968–2018 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). 392 pp. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-882960-7.

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