3/2013 Freedom as an Object of Intellectual Import and Export: Lost in Translation, Found in Transla

Issue 3/2013 Freedom as an Object of Intellectual Import and Export: Lost in Translation, Found in Transla

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Methodology and Theory

Editors

The Liberty of Translating Freedom

Nivedita Menon

Escaping Intelligibility: Translation and the Politics of Knowledge

History

Michael D. Gordin

The Table and the Word: Translation, Priority, and the Periodic System of Chemical Elements

Bulat Nazmutdinov

Illegal Eurasia: Reasons for the Unsustainability of Eurasianist Legal Theory

Maria Khotimsky

World Literature, Soviet Style: A Forgotten Episode in the History of the Idea

Susanna Witt

The Shorthand of Empire: Podstrochnik Practices and the Making of Soviet Literature

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Kåre Johan Mjør

A Past of One’s Own: The Post-Soviet Historiography of Russian Philosophy

Mikhail Suslov

“Urania Is Older than Sister Clio”: Discursive Strategies in Contemporary Russian Textbooks on Geopolitics

Andriy Portnov

History Textbook by State Order

Historiography

Alexander Etkind

Triple Nostalgia

Forum: М. М. Карпович. Лекции по интеллектуальной истории России (ХVIII–начало ХХ века). Москва: Русский путь, 2012.

Alla Zeide

Intellectual History without a Context

Forum: М. М. Карпович. Лекции по интеллектуальной истории России (ХVIII–начало ХХ века). Москва: Русский путь, 2012.

Book Reviews

Moritz Deutschmann

А. Н. Бикташева. Антропология власти. Казанские губернаторы первой половины XIХ века. Москва: Новый хронограф, 2012. 480 с., илл. ISBN: 978-5-94881-199-4.

Susan Smith-Peter

David Blackbourn and James Retallack (Eds.), Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860−1930 (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2007). 278 pp. Select Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9318-934; L. V. Koshman. Gorod i gorodskaia zhizn’ v Rossii XIX stoletiia: Sotsial’nye i kul’turnye aspekty. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2008. 448 pp., ills. ISBN: 978-5-8243-0936-2.

Alexey Vdovin

Ingrid A. Kleespies, A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012). 265 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-461-3.

Rebecca Gould

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Issue 3/2013 Freedom as an Object of Intellectual Import and Export: Lost in Translation, Found in Transla

Methodology and Theory

The Liberty of Translating Freedom

Escaping Intelligibility: Translation and the Politics of Knowledge

History

The Table and the Word: Translation, Priority, and the Periodic System of Chemical Elements

Illegal Eurasia: Reasons for the Unsustainability of Eurasianist Legal Theory

World Literature, Soviet Style: A Forgotten Episode in the History of the Idea

The Shorthand of Empire: Podstrochnik Practices and the Making of Soviet Literature

Archive

Sanctioned but Closed Down Meetings of Kiev Progressives before the Elections to the State Duma in 1912

Documents

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

A Past of One’s Own: The Post-Soviet Historiography of Russian Philosophy

“Urania Is Older than Sister Clio”: Discursive Strategies in Contemporary Russian Textbooks on Geopolitics

History Textbook by State Order

Historiography

Triple Nostalgia

Intellectual History without a Context

Book Reviews

А. Н. Бикташева. Антропология власти. Казанские губернаторы первой половины XIХ века. Москва: Новый хронограф, 2012. 480 с., илл. ISBN: 978-5-94881-199-4.

Ingrid A. Kleespies, A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012). 265 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-461-3.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

The Homer of Stalinism: Suleiman Stal’skii and Soviet Multinational Literature

Paul Manning, Strangers in a Strange Land: Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries (Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century) (Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2012). 315 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-936235-76-6.

Alexander Etkind, Internal Colonization. Russia’s Imperial Experience (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011) ix + 289 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-7456-5130-9.

Malte Rolf, Soviet Mass Festivals, 1917–1991, Translated by Cynthia Klohr (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013). 324 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6239-7.

Alena Marková. Sovětská bělorusizace jako cesta k národu: iluze nebo realita? Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2012. 261 s. Bibliografie. Jmenný rejstřík. Věcný rejstřík. ISBN: 978-80-7422-230-6.

Stephen Brain, Song of the Forest. Russian Forestry and Stalinist Environmentalism, 1905−1953 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). 240 pp., ills. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6165-9.

Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009). 453 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-674-03344-3.

Michael Moser, Language Policy and the Discourse on Languages in Ukraine under President Viktor Yanukovych (25 February 2010–28 October 2012) (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2013). 506 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 978-3-8382-0497-0.

Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Borderlands into Bordered Lands. Geopolitics of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2010). 334 pp., ills. ISBN: 978-3-8382-0042-2.

John Hiden and Martyn Housden, Neighbours or Enemies? Germans, the Baltic and Beyond (On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. No. 12) (Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi, 2008). 154 pp. Index. ISSN: 978-90-420-2349-9.

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