4/2011 The Second World Between Comparative and Global Histories

Issue 4/2011 The Second World Between Comparative and Global Histories

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Mutual Comparison and History: Some Proposals Suggested by the Russian Case

History

Chia Yin Hsu

Railroad Technocracy, Extraterritoriality, and Imperial Lieux de Mémoire in Russian Émigrés’ Manchuria, 1920–1930s

Masha Kirasirova

“Sons of Muslims” in Moscow: Soviet Central Asian Mediators to the Foreign East, 1955–1962

Timothy A. Nunan

Getting Reacquainted with the “Muslims of the USSR”: Staging Soviet Islam in Turkey and Iran, 1978–1982

Elizabeth Bishop

The Local and the Global: The Iraqi Revolution of 1958 Between Western and Soviet Modernities

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Elena Gapova

National Knowledge and International Recognition: Post-Soviet Academia Fighting for Symbolic Markets

Newest Mythologies

Mikhail Suslov

Beyond Empire: Spatial Configurations of Identities in Russian Literary Utopias of the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Historiography

Hennadii Korolev

The Ukrainian Revolution 1917–1921: Myths by Contemporaries, Imagery and Concepts of Historiography

Patryk Babiracki

Interfacing the Soviet Bloc: Recent Literature and New Paradigms

Book Reviews

Olga Leontieva

Елена Вишленкова. Визуальное народоведение империи, или “Увидеть русского дано не каждому”. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2011. 381 с., илл. Литература, Именной указатель. ISBN: 978-5-86793-862-8.

Olena Leipnik

Визуальная антропология: настройка оптики / Под ред. Е. Р. Ярской-Смирновой, П. В. Романова. (Библиотека Журнала Исследований Социальной Политики). Москва: ООО “Вариант”, ЦСПГИ, 2009. 296 с. ISBN 978-5-903360-20-8; Визуальная антропология: городские карты памяти / Под ред. Е. Р. Ярской-Смирновой, П. В. Романова (Библиотека Журнала исследований социальной политики). Москва: ООО “Вариант”, ЦСПГИ, 2009. 311 с. ISBN: 978-5-903360-23-9; Визуальная антропология: режимы видимости при социализме / Под ред. Е. Р. Ярской-Смирновой, П. В. Романова. (Библиотека Журнала исследований социальной политики). Москва: ООО “Вариант”, ЦСПГИ, 2009. 444 с. ISBN: 978-5-903360-25-3.

Ilya Gerasimov

Людмила Новикова. Провинциальная “контрреволюция”: Белое движение и Гражданская война на русском Севере, 1917−1920. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2011. 377 с., илл. Именной указатель. ISBN: 978-5-86793-897-0.

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Issue 4/2011 The Second World Between Comparative and Global Histories

Methodology and Theory

On the Second World, for the Last Time

We Are All Eurasian

Mutual Comparison and History: Some Proposals Suggested by the Russian Case

History

Railroad Technocracy, Extraterritoriality, and Imperial Lieux de Mémoire in Russian Émigrés’ Manchuria, 1920–1930s

“Sons of Muslims” in Moscow: Soviet Central Asian Mediators to the Foreign East, 1955–1962

Getting Reacquainted with the “Muslims of the USSR”: Staging Soviet Islam in Turkey and Iran, 1978–1982

The Local and the Global: The Iraqi Revolution of 1958 Between Western and Soviet Modernities

Archive

The Muftiat that Was Not

Proposal of the Draft Law on the Establishing of a Special Spiritual Administration (Muftiat) for the Muslims of the Northern Caucasus

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

National Knowledge and International Recognition: Post-Soviet Academia Fighting for Symbolic Markets

Newest Mythologies

Beyond Empire: Spatial Configurations of Identities in Russian Literary Utopias of the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Historiography

The Ukrainian Revolution 1917–1921: Myths by Contemporaries, Imagery and Concepts of Historiography

Interfacing the Soviet Bloc: Recent Literature and New Paradigms

Book Reviews

List of Contributors

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Grown in the Soviet Incubator: Soviet Hegemony and the Socialist System in East Central Europe

DIY: A Few Thoughts About Comfort and Inventiveness of a Soviet Man in the 1960s

E. Thomas Ewing, Separate Schools: Gender, Policy, and Practice in Postwar Soviet Education (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010). 300 pp., 11 Ill. ISBN: 978-0-87580-434-7.

Michael Kemper, Raoul Motika, and Stefan Reichmuth (Eds.), Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States (London and New York: Routledge, 2010). ix + 366 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-415-36815-5.

Balázs Apor, Péter Apor, and E. A. Rees (Eds.), The Sovietization of Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on the Postwar Period (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2008). 349 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-9800814-6-6.

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