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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

David Armitage, Jo Guldi

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

David Armitage, Jo Guldi

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

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

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

Archive

Julia Bernstein

A Chance to Survive

Three Interviews from the Archive of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

Oleg Budnitskii

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

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

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

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Chapter 9. Empire and Revolution: Revolutionary Movement in the Imperial Society before the Age of Mass Politics

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

Newest Mythologies

Maria Chernysheva

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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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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.

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.

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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Игорь Торбаков · 4/2001 Empire at War · 2001

“Осколки разбитого вдребезги”: историческое поражение имперского проекта

Джордж Элиот однажды предположил, что “счастливейшие женщины, как и счастливейшие нации, не имеют истории”. Похоже, однако, что политики (и интеллектуалы, обслуживающие политические интересы) склонны смотреть на вещи существенно иначе, чем писатели. Вот лишь...