4/2014 Spontaneous Bricolage, Masters of Assemblage, and Their Contested Blueprints

Issue 4/2014 Spontaneous Bricolage, Masters of Assemblage, and Their Contested Blueprints

Forum: Commenting on Harsha Ram’s article “The Literary Origins of the Georgian Feast”

Forum: Commenting on Harsha Ram’s article “The Literary Origins of the Georgian Feast”

Forum: Commenting on Harsha Ram’s article “The Literary Origins of the Georgian Feast”

Forum: Commenting on Harsha Ram’s article “The Literary Origins of the Georgian Feast”

Forum: Commenting on Harsha Ram’s article “The Literary Origins of the Georgian Feast”

Forum: Commenting on Harsha Ram’s article “The Literary Origins of the Georgian Feast”

Forum Ab Imperio: Sociobiological Science in the Early Soviet Union

Forum Ab Imperio: Sociobiological Science in the Early Soviet Union

Forum Ab Imperio: Sociobiological Science in the Early Soviet Union

Project Ab Imperio: History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”

Project Ab Imperio: History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”

Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 4/2014 Spontaneous Bricolage, Masters of Assemblage, and Their Contested Blueprints

Issue 4/2014 Spontaneous Bricolage, Masters of Assemblage, and Their Contested Blueprints

Methodology and Theory

Making Sense of an Embarrassment of Riches: Discipline or Celebrate?

The Literary Origins of the Georgian Feast: The Cosmopolitan Poetics of a National Ritual

Domestication of the Wild Supra

A Taste of Mistrust

The Values of the Georgian Supra: Nationalist or Nativist?

On the Transnational Imaginary and the Sovereign Power of a Butterfly Wing

Ram, Chatterjee, and the Georgian Feast: Reading the National against the Grain

A Feast for Thought

History

Humanities and Social Sciences in the Russian Empire and the USSR: An Unwritten History

Soviet Social Hygienists and Sexology after the Revolution: Dynamics of “Capture” at Home and Abroad

The Challenge of Physiology: Soviet Psychiatry in the 1930s

Archive

Happiness in Struggle: Five Letters of Jacques Novicow to Gabriel Tarde

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Chapter 6. The Seventeenth Century: Alternative Scenarios, Troubled Times : Part 1. Transformation of Social Imagination in the Northern Eurasian Societies

Chapter 6. The Seventeenth Century: Alternative Scenarios, Troubled Times : Part 2. The Tsardom of Muscovy in Search for “Assemblage Points”

Newest Mythologies

“Descriptions of Cities that Are Not of Particular Interest to Russian Readers”: Omissions in Translations of Foreign Travel Books about Siberia (Second Half of the Nineteenth Century) as a Theme for the History of Popular Geographical Knowledge

Historiography

On Warped Mourning and Omissions in Post-Soviet Historiography

Mourning, Unwarped?

Book Reviews

Simon Rabinovitch, Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014). 392 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-08047-9249-3.

Andriy Zayarnyuk, Framing the Ukrainian Peasantry in Habsburg Galicia, 1846−1914 (Edmonton and Toronto: CIUS Press, 2013) xxxii + 448 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-894865-30-2.

Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky (Eds.), Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). ix + 363 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-299-29804-3.

James Hevia, The Imperial Security State. British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). 304 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN:978-0-521-89608-5.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Soviet Madness: Nervousness, Mild Schizophrenia, and the Professional Jurisdiction of Psychiatry in the USSR, 1918–1936

Sanna Turoma, Brodsky Abroad: Empire, Tourism, Nostalgia (Madison; London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010). 292 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-299-23634-2.

Aušra Paulauskienė, Lost and Found: The Discovery of Lithuania in American Fiction (Amsterdam and New York: “Rodopi”, 2007). 173 pp. ISBN 978-90-420-2266-9.

Dalia Leinarte, Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945−1970 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010). vi + 234 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-90-420-3062-6.

Larisa Fialkova and Maria Yelenevskaya, In Search of the Self: Reconciling the Past and the Present in Immigrants’ Experience (Tartu: ELM Scholarly Press, 2013). 282 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 978-9949-490-80-6.

А. В. Свешников. Петербургская школа медиевистов начала XX века. Попытка антропологического анализа научного сообщества. Омск, 2010. 408 с. ISBN: 978-5-7779-1197-1.

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