Editors
Issue 2/2015 Designing the Future
Methodology and Theory
History
Paolo Sartori, Pavel Shablei
The Fate of Imperial Codification Projects: Adat and Sharia in the Kazakh Steppe
Forum Ab Imperio: Customary Innovations and The Future of the Custom: Islam in the Russian Empire
Diliara Usmanova
Muslim Parish Registers in the Russian Empire: Between the Law, the State, and the Community (from the Second Half of the Nineteenth to the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century)
Forum Ab Imperio: Customary Innovations and The Future of the Custom: Islam in the Russian Empire
Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Neringa Klumbytė
Sovereignty and Justice: Introduction to the Forum
Forum Ab Imperio: Sovereign Futures: Politics of Justice and Governance in Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia
Amanda Swain
Commemorating the “Living Torch of Freedom”: Searching for a Usable Past in Romas Kalanta’s 1972 Self-Immolation
Forum Ab Imperio: Sovereign Futures: Politics of Justice and Governance in Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia
Austin Cowley, Caitlin Micaela Ryan, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
The Law, the Mafia, and the Production of Sovereignties in the Kyrgyz Penal System
Forum Ab Imperio: Sovereign Futures: Politics of Justice and Governance in Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia
ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Chapter 8. The Dilemma of Stability and Progress: Empire and Reforms in the Nineteenth Century: Part 1. Modern Empire in Search of Nation
Project Ab Imperio: History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”
Newest Mythologies
Historiography
Hennadii Korolev
Antemurale of Polish Historiography: Oskar Halecki on the Jagiellonian Idea, Federalism, and the Borderlands of the West
Sergei Lebedev, Yuri Petrov
On Boris Vasil’evich Anan’ich (1931−2015)
Boris Vasil’evich Anan’ich (1931−2015)
Ekaterina Pravilova
B. V. Anan’ich: In memoriam
Boris Vasil’evich Anan’ich (1931−2015)
Marina Vituhnovskaja
In Memory of Boris Vasil’evich Anan’ich
Book Reviews
Denis Konkin, Nikita Khrapunov
Крим: шлях крізь віки. Історія у запитаннях і відповідях / Відп. ред. В. А. Смолій. Київ: Інститут історії України НАН України, 2014. 456 с. ISBN: 978-966-02-7228-6. История Крыма. Москва: ОЛМА Медиа Групп, 2015. 464 с. ISBN: 978-5-373-07131-4.
Alfrid K. Bustanov
Roland Cvetkovski and Alexis Hofmeister (Eds.), An Empire of Others: Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR (Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 2014). 407 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-615-5225-76-5.
Artyom Kosmarski
Paolo Sartori (Ed.). Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia (19th – Early 20th Century) (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013). xiv, 334 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-24843-4.
Sebastian Rimestad
