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4/2015 Overcoming the Dualism of Past and Future: Making History | Ab Imperio

Issue 4/2015 Overcoming the Dualism of Past and Future: Making History

Methodology and Theory

“Big Data” and “Small Stories” for the Future

4/2015

David Armitage, Jo Guldi

The History Manifesto. Chapter 4. Big Questions, Big Data

4/2015

David Armitage, Jo Guldi

The History Manifesto. Conclusion. The Public Future of the Past

4/2015

History

Andrei Cusco, Oleg Grom, Flavius Solomon

Discourses of Empire and Nation in Early Twentieth-Century Bessarabia: Russian–Romanian Symbolic Competition and the 1912 Anniversary

4/2015

Safeguarding “Negative Historical Values” for the Future? Appropriating the Past in the UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site Auschwitz-Birkenau

4/2015

Archive

Julia Bernstein

A Chance to Survive

4/2015

Three Interviews from the Archive of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

4/2015

Oleg Budnitskii

Too Much Poles for the Soviets, Too Much Jews for the Poles: Polish Jews in the USSR, 1939−1945

4/2015

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

A Science for a New World: Three Aspects of the Genesis of Regional Political Science in Post-Soviet Ukraine

4/2015

Newest Mythologies

Maria Chernysheva

A New Take on the Phenomenon of Realism: The Photographic Project of the Painter Vereshchagin and General Kaufman

4/2015

Book Reviews

Andreas Kappeler. Die Kosaken: Geschichte und Legenden. München: C. H. Beck, 2013. 127 S., ills. Literaturhinweise; Register. ISBN: 978-3-406-64676-8.

4/2015

Oxana Ermolaeva

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.

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Кристин Руан. Новое платье империи: история российской модной индустрии 1700−1917 / Пер. с английского Кс. Щербино. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2011. 416 с., ил. Именной указатель. ISBN: 978-5-86793-881-9.

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Pavel Shablei

Allen J. Frank, Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and Paradox of Islamic Prestige (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012). vii+215 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-23288-4.

4/2015

Mehmet Volkan Kaşikçi

Alfrid K. Bustanov, Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), xxviii+144 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-138-01922-5.

4/2015

С. Абашин. Советский кишлак: Между колониализмом и модернизацией. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2015. 848 с. ISBN: 978-5-4448-0219-9.

4/2015

Derek Offord, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, Vladislav Rjéoutski, and Gesine Argent (Eds.), French and Russian in Imperial Russia. Vol. 1: Language Use among the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Russian Elite (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 20

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Derek Offord, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, Vladislav Rjéoutski, and Gesine Argent (Eds.), French and Russian in Imperial Russia. Vol. 1: Language Use among the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Russian Elite (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015). 224 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-7486-9551-5; Vol. 2: Language Attitudes and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015). 288 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-7486-9553-9.

А. Ю. Баженова. Историки Императорского Варшавского университета 1869–1915: просвещение, наука, политика. Люблин: Instytut Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 2014. 408 с. ISBN: 978-83-60695-80-7.

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Natalia Kovalchuk

А. Ю. Баженова. Историки Императорского Варшавского университета 1869–1915: просвещение, наука, политика. Люблин: Instytut Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 2014. 408 с. ISBN: 978-83-60695-80-7.

4/2015

Stanislav Alekseev

James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014). 576 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-691-14564-8.

4/2015

Ekaterina Makhotina

Aurimas Švedas, In the Captivity of the Matrix: Soviet Lithuanian Historiography, 1944−1985 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014). 280 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-90-420-3911-7.

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Arūnas Streikus

Л. Смиловицкий. Цензура в БССР: послевоенные годы, 1944–1956 гг. Иерусалим, 2015. 360 c. ISBN: 978-965-92411-0-1.

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Sergei Markedonov · 2/2004 Memory Repressed, Silenced, and Lost · 2004

The Fundamental Question of Cossack Studies: Russian Historiography in Search of the “Ancient”Cossackdom

SUMMARY: One of the key disputed issues in Cossack history revolves around the origins of the Cossacks. Historically, Cossack self-understanding has shifted as the Cossacks’ social, political, and cultural situation changed. Prior to their incorporation into...