1/2012 Periphery as the Center

Methodology and Theory

History

Anatoly Remnev

Historiography as Biography: A Self-Portrait Against the Background of Imperial History

In memoriam: Anatoly Remnev

Anatoly Remnev

Sultan Mendali Piraliyev: The History of a Hoax

In memoriam: Anatoly Remnev

Elena Vishlenkova

The Last Paper by Anatoly Remnev: The Unfinished Discussion

In memoriam: Anatoly Remnev

Anatoly Remnev

The University Question in Nineteenth-Century Siberia

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Ksenia Gavrilova

The Festival of National Song in the Village of Baisa of the Kirov Region: A Project by a National Republic and Grassroots Initiatives

Newest Mythologies

Mirja Lecke

Odessa Without Dogma: Jabotinsky’s "The Five"

Historiography

Sofia Grachova

Introduction to the Forum

Forum Ab Imperio: I Володимир В’ятрович. Друга польсько-українська війна 1942–1947. Київ: Видавничий дім “Києво-Могилянська академія”, 2011.

Per Anders Rudling

Warfare or War Criminality?

Forum Ab Imperio: I Володимир В’ятрович. Друга польсько-українська війна 1942–1947. Київ: Видавничий дім “Києво-Могилянська академія”, 2011.

Ihor Iliushyn

The Ill-Forgotten Old: On the New Book of Volodymyr V’iatrovych

Forum Ab Imperio: I Володимир В’ятрович. Друга польсько-українська війна 1942–1947. Київ: Видавничий дім “Києво-Могилянська академія”, 2011.

Grzegorz Motyka

Book Reviews

Jared McBride

Тарас Бульба-Боровець. Документи. Статті. Листи / Ред. Володимир Сергійчук. Київ: П. П. Сергійчук М. I., 2011. 816 c. ISBN: 978-966-2911-36-7.

Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe

Ignacy Chiger, Świat w mroku. Pamiętnik dziewczynki ojca w zielonym sweterku (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2011), 308 p. ISBN: 978-83-01-16776-9.

Iaroslav Hrytsak

Ignacy Chiger, Świat w mroku. Pamiętnik dziewczynki ojca w zielonym sweterku (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2011), 308 p. ISBN: 978-83-01-16776-9.

Yulia Gradskova

Michele Rivkin-Fish and Elena Trubina (Eds.). Dilemas of Diversity after the Cold War: Analyses of “Cultural Difference” by US and Russia-Based Scholars (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010). 243 pp. ISBN: 1-933549-92-0.

Issue 1/2012 Periphery as the Center

Methodology and Theory

The Centrality of Periphery

From the Periphery to the Center. On the Significance of Colonialism for the German Empire

The Marginality of the “Center” in Contemporary National Historical Narratives

History

Historiography as Biography: A Self-Portrait Against the Background of Imperial History

Sultan Mendali Piraliyev: The History of a Hoax

The Last Paper by Anatoly Remnev: The Unfinished Discussion

The University Question in Nineteenth-Century Siberia

Archive

The Arch of Thinking About Nationalism in Challenging Time

The Nature of Nationalism (After the Transcript of the Lecture Delivered on April 10, 1919 in Krasnoyarsk)

History: Its Place in a Liberal Education

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

The Festival of National Song in the Village of Baisa of the Kirov Region: A Project by a National Republic and Grassroots Initiatives

Newest Mythologies

Odessa Without Dogma: Jabotinsky’s "The Five"

Historiography

Introduction to the Forum

Warfare or War Criminality?

The Ill-Forgotten Old: On the New Book of Volodymyr V’iatrovych

Book Reviews

Тарас Бульба-Боровець. Документи. Статті. Листи / Ред. Володимир Сергійчук. Київ: П. П. Сергійчук М. I., 2011. 816 c. ISBN: 978-966-2911-36-7.

Ignacy Chiger, Świat w mroku. Pamiętnik dziewczynki ojca w zielonym sweterku (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2011), 308 p. ISBN: 978-83-01-16776-9.

Ignacy Chiger, Świat w mroku. Pamiętnik dziewczynki ojca w zielonym sweterku (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2011), 308 p. ISBN: 978-83-01-16776-9.

Michele Rivkin-Fish and Elena Trubina (Eds.). Dilemas of Diversity after the Cold War: Analyses of “Cultural Difference” by US and Russia-Based Scholars (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010). 243 pp. ISBN: 1-933549-92-0.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Anatoly Remnev as a Historian of Russia’s Imperial Orient

A Tribute to Anatoly Remnev

Anatoly Remnev

In Memoriam

The Akhun Siraj ad-Din ibn Saifulla al-Kyzyl’iari Among the Kazakhs of the Siberian Administration: An Islamic Biography in the Imperial Context

“Nationalities of the Region, of Which I Am a Representative, Have Been Getting Closer:” The Regional Studies Movement of the 1920s–30s and the Soviet Nationality Policy

The Unconvincing Book

A Mythologized “War”

The Second Polish–Ukrainian War and Discussions around It

Zbyněk Vydra. Život za cara? Krajní pravice v předrevolučním Rusku. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2011. 552 pp. ISBN: 978-80-87378-08-3 (hardback edition).

Д. М. Усманова. Мусульманское “сектантство” в Российской империи: “Ваисовский Божий полк староверов-мусульман” 1862–1916 гг. Казань: Фэн, 2009. 568 с. ISBN: 5-9690-0071-X.

Jonathan Frankel, Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2009). 324 pp. Index. ISBN 978-0-521-51364-71.

Olivier Roy, The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations (London: I. B. Tauris, 2000). xxiii + 222 pp. ISBN: 978-184511-552-4.

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