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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

Caroline Humphrey

Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City

John-Paul Himka

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

John-Paul Himka

The Importance of the Situational Element in East Central European Fascism

History

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

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

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

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”

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

The Russian Census of 2010: Notes and First Impressions

Forum Ab Imperio: 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

Forum Ab Imperio: The Russian Census of 2010

Dilyara Suleymanova

The Census as a Topic in the Tatar-Language Press

Forum Ab Imperio: The Russian Census of 2010

Remarks of an Outside Observer

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

Newest Mythologies

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

Historiography

Boris Kolonitskii, William G. Rosenberg

In Memory of Leopold Haimson (1927–2010)

David M. McDonald

Leopold Haimson: His Historical Vision and Historiographical Legacy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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

Marina Vituhnovskaja

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

Oleg Budnitskii

Russian Jews in Nazi Germany (1933–1941)

Forum Ab Imperio: The Russian Census of 2010

Sergei Sokolovski

The Second Russian Census: Categorizations of Population and Identity Politics

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dmitry Shlapentokh

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

Nikita Khrapunov

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

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Editors · 1/2003 Russian Empire: Boundaries and Frontiers · 2003

Probing the Limits of Historical Metanarratives: Imperial Boundaries

With this issue, Ab Imperio launches its thematic program for 2003, which is devoted to investigating problems of frontiers, boundaries, and zones of liminality that will be discussed in connection with the theory of nationalism, and the history of empire and...