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

Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Marina Mogilner

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

Forum Ab Imperio: “Marred” Hybridity: Archaeology of the Language of Diversity

Ekaterina Pravilova

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

Forum Ab Imperio: “Marred” Hybridity: Archaeology of the Language of Diversity

Louise McReynolds

Nikolai Marr: Reconstructing Ani as the Imperial Ideal

Forum Ab Imperio: “Marred” Hybridity: Archaeology of the Language of Diversity

Alexander Dmitriev

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

Forum Ab Imperio: “Marred” Hybridity: Archaeology of the Language of Diversity

Michael Kunichika

Hybridity: A Comment

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Archive

Oleg Budnitskii

“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

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

Newest Mythologies

Diary of the Nazi Ideologist and Bureaucrat, Alfred Rosenberg

Historiography

Vladimir Bobrovnikov

“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.

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.

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.

Maia Lavrinovich

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.

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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.

Vitalii Ananiev

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).

Natalia Dokuchaeva

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.

Vsevolod Samokhvalov

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.

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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...