2/2016 Experiencing the Imperial Situation: Understanding Diversity

Forum: Tarik Cyril Amar, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015).

Andriy Zayarnyuk

Paradox Illusions

Forum: Tarik Cyril Amar, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015).

Book Reviews

Lucien J. Frary

Paul W. Werth, The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2014). xvi + 288 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-959177-0.

Diliara Usmanova

И. А. Гилязов, Л. Р. Гатауллина. Российские солдаты-мусульмане в германском плену в годы Первой мировой войны (1914–1920). Казань: Татарское книжное издательство, 2014. 303 с., илл. ISBN: 978-5-298-02788-5.

Ian W. Campbell

Mark Bassin, Sergey Glebov, and Marlene Laruelle (Eds.). Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). 267 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6366-0.

Lyudmila Klimovich

Катрин Гусефф. Русская эмиграция во Франции: социальная история (1920–1939 годы) / Пер. с франц. Э. Кустовой; науч. ред. М. Байссвенгер. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. 328 с., илл. Именной указатель. ISBN: 978-5-4448-0176-5.

Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2016 Experiencing the Imperial Situation: Understanding Diversity

Methodology and Theory

Experiencing the Imperial Situation without Empire

History

The Discovery of Sexuality: Social Transgression in Mid-Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg Based on the Materials of the Kalinkin Commission

Imperial Normativities and Sciences of the Child: The Politics of Development in the USSR, 1920s–1930s

Ludwik Hirszfeld, the Great War, and Seroanthropology: Expectations and Unfulfilled Promises

Applied Modern Science and the Self-Politicization of Racial Anthropology in Interwar Poland

Archive

“Why Are We Such People?” Early Soviet Homosexuals Speaking in the First Person: New Sources on the History of Homosexual Identities in Russia

Letters of Soviet Homosexuals from the Second Half of the 1920s

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Reception of Imperial and Tsarist Spheres of Authority in Russia, 1990s–2010s

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Chapter 10. The Twentieth Century: Empire in the Era of Mass Society. Part 2. Self-organization of a “Progressive Empire”

Newest Mythologies

The Second or the Fourth World: Critique of Communism and Colonialism in Contemporary North Asian Literature

Historiography

The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv and Soviet Lviv

Paradox Illusions

Book Reviews

Paul W. Werth, The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2014). xvi + 288 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-959177-0.

Mark Bassin, Sergey Glebov, and Marlene Laruelle (Eds.). Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). 267 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6366-0.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Han F. Vermeulen, Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015). 746 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8032-5542-5.

Nikolay Zakharov, Race and Racism in Russia (Houndsmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). 233 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-137-48119-1.

Vladimir Gel’man, Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). 224 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6368-4.

David R. Marples, Frederick V. Mills (Eds.), Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Analyses of Civil Revolution (Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2015). 292 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-8382-0660-8.

Samuel A. Greene, Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014). 276 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8047-9214-1.

Lars Elenius (Ed.), The Barents Region: A Transnational History of Subarctic Northern Europe (Oslo: Pax, 2015). 518 pp., ills. ISBN: 978-82-530-3651-9.

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