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4/2016 Imperial Alternatives: Imagery of the Post-Imperial Order | Ab Imperio

Issue 4/2016 Imperial Alternatives: Imagery of the Post-Imperial Order

Methodology and Theory

Forms and Practices of Envisaging a Postimperial Order: Hybridity as a New Subjectivity

4/2016

Toward Nationalism’s End: Hans Kohn in Postimperial Russia (1915–1919). Author’s Introductory Comments for Ab Imperio

4/2016

Captivity and Growth

4/2016

History

Svetlana Gorshenina, Vera Tolz

Constructing Heritage in Early Soviet Central Asia: The Politics of Memory in a Revolutionary Context

4/2016

Boris Chukhovich

Sub Rosa: From Microhistory to Uzbekistan’s “National Art”

4/2016

Matthias Battis

The Aryan Myth and Tajikistan: From a Myth of Empire to One National Identity

4/2016

Archive

National Consolidation as Soviet Work: The Origins of Uzbekistan

4/2016

Theses: Fundamental Propositions on the Question of the Formation of Uzbekistan

4/2016

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Alima Bissenova, Kulshat Medeuova

The Pressure of Metropoles and the Quiet Nationalism of Academic Practices

4/2016

Book Reviews

Adeeb Khalid, Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015). 415 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5409-7.

4/2016

Eugene M. Avrutin

Franziska Davies, Martin Schulze Wessel, and Michael Brenner (Eds.), Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015). 168 pp., ills. ISBN: 978-3-525-31028-1.

4/2016

Per Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906–1931 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). 436 pp., ills. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6308-0.

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G. N. Trubetskoi, Notes of a Plenipotentiary: Russian Diplomacy and War in the Balkans, 1914–1917, translated by Elizabeth Saika-Voivod (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2015). 248 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-726-3.

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Nikolay Mikhalev, Natalia Surzhikova

Joshua A. Sanborn, Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). 287 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-964205-2.

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Michael Kunichika, “Our Native Antiquity:” Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2015). 344 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-61811-441-9.

4/2016

Историческая культура императорской России: формирование представлений о прошлом. В честь проф. И. М. Савельевой / Отв. ред. А. Н. Дмитриев. Москва: Изд. дом Высшей школы экономики, 2012. 551 с. ISBN: 978-5-7598-0914-2.

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Timo Vihavainen and Elena Bogdanova (Eds.), Communism and Consumerism: The Soviet Alternative to the Affluent Society (Leiden: Brill, 2015). 172 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-30396-6.

4/2016

Denis Dokuchaev

Dobrota Pucherová and Róbert Gáfrik (Eds.), Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2015). 405 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-30384-3.

4/2016

Natallia Prystupa

Osamu Ieda (Ed.), Transboundary Symbiosis over the Danube: EU Integration between Slovakia and Hungary from a Local Border Perspective (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2014). 133 pp., ills., maps. ISBN 978-4-938637-80-4.

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“Encyclopaedia of Russian Nationalist Project:” Foreword to the Publication

SUMMARY: In the present issue, the archival section features a pamphlet by a famous Russian nationalist and anthropologist, I. Sikorskii. The selection of this unusual archival document (it was eventually published in 1915 but became a rarity soon thereafter)...