1/2016 Subjects of Empire, Objects of Governance: Imperial Agencies and Agents

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“The Orient Is a Subtle Matter”: (Post)imperial Narratives and Practices in a Central Asian Village (Reflections on the Book by Sergei Abashin, Soviet Kishlak: Between Colonialism and Modernity)

Book Reviews

Charles Halperin

Pierre Gonneau, Ivan le Terrible ou le métier de tyran (Paris: Éditions Tallendier, 2014). 557 pp. Maps. Notes. Chronology. Appendices. Bibliography. Index of Personal Names. Index of Place Names. ISBN: 979-10-210-0275-3.

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Mark Soderstrom

Kevin M. F. Platt, Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011). xi+294 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4813-3.

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Andrej Shpirt

Amelia M. Glaser (Ed.), Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015). 294 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9382-7.

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Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 1/2016 Subjects of Empire, Objects of Governance: Imperial Agencies and Agents

Methodology and Theory

The Late Imperial Epistemological Revolution of “Hybridity” vs. Soviet Counterrevolutionary Episteme of “Simple Things”: A Thriller

Hybridity: Marrism and the Problems of Language of the Imperial Situation

Contested Ruins: Nationalism, Emotions, and Archaeology at Armenian Ani, 1892–1918

Nikolai Marr: Reconstructing Ani as the Imperial Ideal

Philologists–Autonomists and Autonomy from Philology in Late Imperial Russia: Nikolai Marr, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, and Ahatanhel Krymskii

Hybridity: A Comment

Archive

“It Seems That Soon Russians Could Be Found Only among the Jews” (From the Correspondence between Vasily Maklakov and Oskar Gruzenberg)

Correspondence between Vasily Maklakov and Oskar Gruzenberg (January 1933 – January 1934)

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

From “Basterds” to “Patriots”: The Rise and Fall of One Internet Subculture in the “Force Field” of the Modern Russian Political Regime

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Chapter 10. The Twentieth Century: Empire in the Era of Mass Society. Part 1. Collapse of the Regime of Russian National Empire

Newest Mythologies

Diary of the Nazi Ideologist and Bureaucrat, Alfred Rosenberg

Historiography

“The Orient Is a Subtle Matter”: (Post)imperial Narratives and Practices in a Central Asian Village (Reflections on the Book by Sergei Abashin, Soviet Kishlak: Between Colonialism and Modernity)

Book Reviews

Pierre Gonneau, Ivan le Terrible ou le métier de tyran (Paris: Éditions Tallendier, 2014). 557 pp. Maps. Notes. Chronology. Appendices. Bibliography. Index of Personal Names. Index of Place Names. ISBN: 979-10-210-0275-3.

Kevin M. F. Platt, Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011). xi+294 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4813-3.

Amelia M. Glaser (Ed.), Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015). 294 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9382-7.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Alison K. Smith, For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia (Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2014). 296 pp. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-997817-5.

Manfred Hildermeier and Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter (Eds.), Church and Society in Modern Russia: Essays in Honor of Gregory L. Freeze (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015). 238 pp. ISBN: 978-3-447-10414-2.

Innes M. Keighren, Charles W. J. Withers, Bill Bell, Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773–1859 (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2015). 392 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-226-42953-3.

Craig Brandist, The Dimensions of Hegemony: Language, Culture and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2015). ix, 300 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-23185-6 (hardback).

Martyn Housden, On Their Own Behalf. Ewald Ammende, Europe’s National Minorities and the Campaign for Cultural Autonomy 1920–1936 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014). 413 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-90-420-3876-9.

Viacheslav Morozov, Russia’s Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). 209 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-137-40929-4.

Markku Kangaspuro, Jouko Nikula and Ivor Stodolsky (Eds.), Perestroika: Process and Consequences (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2010). 382 pp., ills. ISBN: 978-952-222-182-7.