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2/2014 Crossroads and Multiple Temporalities: Contact Zones and Middle Grounds | Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2014 Crossroads and Multiple Temporalities: Contact Zones and Middle Grounds

Methodology and Theory

From the Editors

2/2014

Alessandro Stanziani

Introduction to the Forum

2/2014

Forum AI
Freedom, Labor, and Empires:
Reciprocal Comparisons and Entanglements

Martin A. Klein

African Traditions of Servitude and the Evolution of African Society

2/2014

Forum AI
Freedom, Labor, and Empires:
Reciprocal Comparisons and Entanglements

Reciprocal Comparisons and the Domains beyond Imperial Control

2/2014

Forum AI
Freedom, Labor, and Empires:
Reciprocal Comparisons and Entanglements

Alessandro Stanziani

Russian Serfdom: A Reappraisal

2/2014

Forum AI
Freedom, Labor, and Empires:
Reciprocal Comparisons and Entanglements

History

Svetlana Gorshenina

A Theory of “Natural Boundaries” and the Conquest of Kuldja (1870–1871): A Self-portrait of Russian Military and Diplomatic Elites in St. Petersburg and Turkestan

2/2014

Forum AI
In Search of “Natural Boundaries” of Russia’s Central Asia

Alexander Morrison

Russia, Khoqand, and the Search for a “Natural” Frontier, 1863–1865

2/2014

Forum AI
In Search of “Natural Boundaries” of Russia’s Central Asia

Beatrice Penati

Life on the Edge: Border-Making and Agrarian Policies in the Aim District (Eastern Fergana), 1924−1929

2/2014

Forum AI
In Search of “Natural Boundaries” of Russia’s Central Asia

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Madeleine Reeves

Roads of Hope and Dislocation: Infrastructure and the Remaking of Territory at a Central Asian Border

2/2014

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Chapter 3. Consolidation of New Political Systems: State Building in Northern Eurasia, 11–12th Centuries

2/2014

Project AI
History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”

Chapter 4. From Local Political Spaces to Hierarchical Statehood: Interactions and Entanglements of Local Scenarios of Power, 13–14th Centuries

2/2014

Project AI
History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”

Newest Mythologies

Ukraïns’kyi, Rosiis’komovnyi, Rosiis’kyi: Self-Identification in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian

2/2014

Historiography

Alexander Gogun

A Book about a Branch of East-Slavic Totalitarianism

2/2014

Олександр Зайцев. Український інтеґральний націоналізм (1920-ті – 1930-ті роки). Нариси інтелектуальної історії. Київ: Критика, 2013. 488 с. ISBN: 978-966-8978-66-1

Oleksandr Zaitsev

A Book about the Ukrainian Branch of Integral Nationalism (A Response to the Review by Alexander Gogun)

2/2014

Олександр Зайцев. Український інтеґральний націоналізм (1920-ті – 1930-ті роки). Нариси інтелектуальної історії. Київ: Критика, 2013. 488 с. ISBN: 978-966-8978-66-1

Book Reviews

Alice L. Conklin, In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850−1950 (Cornell University Press, 2013). xii + 374 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7878-9.

2/2014

Elizabeth Bishop

Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009). 314 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-696-01577-4.

2/2014

Vitalii Ananiev

Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013). 349 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5146-1.

2/2014

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Karsten Brüggemann and Bradley D. Woodworth (Eds.), Russland an der Ostsee: Imperiale Strategien der Macht und kulturelle Wahrnehmungsmuster (16. bis 20. Jahrhundert) – Russia on the Baltic: Imperial Strategies of Power and Cultural Patterns of Perce

2/2014

Karsten Brüggemann and Bradley D. Woodworth (Eds.), Russland an der Ostsee: Imperiale Strategien der Macht und kulturelle Wahrnehmungsmuster (16. bis 20. Jahrhundert) – Russia on the Baltic: Imperial Strategies of Power and Cultural Patterns of Perception (16th–20th Centuries) (Quellen und Studien zur baltischen Geschichte. No. 22) (Wien, Köln and Weimar: Böhlau, 2012). 423 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-412-20671-0.

Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011). 385 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-35617-8.

2/2014

Anton Sveshnikov

А. В. Антощенко. Русский либерал-англофил Павел Гаврилович Виноградов: Монография. Петрозаводск: Изд-во ПетрГУ, 2010. 344 с. ISBN: 978-5-8021-1018-8.

2/2014

Evgeny Efremkin

Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala, The Search for Socialist Eldorado: Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014). 274 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-88755-764-4.

2/2014

Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala, The Search for Socialist Eldorado: Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014). 274 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-88755-764-4.

Jeremy Smith, Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). xix, 408 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-521-12870-4.

2/2014

Natallia Prystupa

Natalya Chernyshova, Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2013). 262 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-415-68754-6.

2/2014

Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca (Eds.), Everyday Life in Central Asia. Past and Present (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007). 401 pp. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-21904-6.

2/2014

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Marina Mogilner · 3/2003 Searching for the Center: Russian Nationalism · 2003

“Encyclopaedia of Russian Nationalist Project:” Foreword to the Publication

SUMMARY: In the present issue, the archival section features a pamphlet by a famous Russian nationalist and anthropologist, I. Sikorskii. The selection of this unusual archival document (it was eventually published in 1915 but became a rarity soon thereafter)...