2/2015 Designing the Future

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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.

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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.

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Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2015 Designing the Future

Methodology and Theory

From the Editors

The History Manifesto. Chapter 2. The Short Past: Or, the Retreat of the Longue Durée

History

The Fate of Imperial Codification Projects: Adat and Sharia in the Kazakh Steppe

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)

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Sovereignty and Justice: Introduction to the Forum

Commemorating the “Living Torch of Freedom”: Searching for a Usable Past in Romas Kalanta’s 1972 Self-Immolation

The Law, the Mafia, and the Production of Sovereignties in the Kyrgyz Penal System

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

Newest Mythologies

Catastrophe, Restoration, and Kunstwollen: Igor Grabar, Cultural Heritage, and Soviet Reuses of the Past

Historiography

Antemurale of Polish Historiography: Oskar Halecki on the Jagiellonian Idea, Federalism, and the Borderlands of the West

On Boris Vasil’evich Anan’ich (1931−2015)

B. V. Anan’ich: In memoriam

In Memory of Boris Vasil’evich Anan’ich

Book Reviews

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.

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.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

“Shining a Light” on Us and Them: Public-Making in Ordinary Russia

Boris Vasil’evich Anan’ich: A Personal Reflection

Irina Paert, Spiritual Elders: Charisma and Tradition in Russian Orthodoxy (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010). 286 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-429-3.

Eric Lohr, Vera Tolz, Alexander Semyonov, and Mark von Hagen (Eds.), The Empire and Nationalism at War (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2014). 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0-89357-425-3.

Philipp Ther, The Dark Side of Nation-States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe (New York: Berghahn Books, 2014). 288 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-78238-302-4.

Nikolay Mitrokhin. Die “Russische Partei”: Die Bewegung der russischen Nationalisten in der UdSSR 1953–1985 / Aus dem Russischenübertragen von einem Übersetzerteam unter der Leitung von Larisa Schippel et al. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2014. 435

Mati Laur, Enn Küng, und Stig Örjan Ohlsson (Hgs.). Die baltischen Länder und der Norden: Festschrift für Helmut Piirimäe zum 75. Geburtstag. Tartu: Akadeemiline Ajalooselts, 2005. 564 S. ISBN: 9949-13-208-8. Forschungen zur balti

А. Шипилов. Изнанка равенства. Воронеж: Воронежский госпедуниверситет, 2011. 416 с. Библиогр. ISBN: 978-5-88519-809-7.

Andrea Meyer, Bénédicte Savoy (Eds.), The Museum is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750–1940 (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2014). viii, 272 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-3-11-029882-6

Christopher (Kit) Kelen, Anthem Quality. National Songs: A Theoretical Survey (Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2014). 204 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-84150-737-8.