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1/2017 When Local Becomes Global: Agencies and Subjectivities in Imperial Context | Ab Imperio

Issue 1/2017 When Local Becomes Global: Agencies and Subjectivities in Imperial Context

Methodology and Theory

The Global Condition: When Local Becomes Global

1/2017

Alexander Semyonov

“Global History Is More than the History of Globalization”: Interview with Sebastian Conrad

1/2017

History

Dina Rizk Khoury, Sergey Glebov

Citizenship, Subjecthood, and Difference in the Late Ottoman and Russian Empires: Introduction to the Forum

1/2017

Forum AI
Subjecthood and Belonging to the Polity
in the Russian and Ottoman Empires

Aylin Koçunyan

The Millet System and the Challenge of Other Confessional Models, 1856–1865

1/2017

Forum AI
Subjecthood and Belonging to the Polity
in the Russian and Ottoman Empires

Between Foreigners and Subjects: Imperial Subjecthood, Governance, and the Chinese in the Russian Far East, 1860s–1880s

1/2017

Forum AI
Subjecthood and Belonging to the Polity
in the Russian and Ottoman Empires

Archive

Becoming a Soviet Plebeian Subject: The Story of Mark Miller Narrated by Himself

1/2017

Recollections: Part I

1/2017

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Place, Borderland and Elective Affinities: Contemporary Polish Identity in Post-1945 Lviv, between “Minority” and “Subculture”

1/2017

Newest Mythologies

Aleksei Mikhalev

Beyond the Borders of Two Empires: Russian Mestizos in Outer Mongolia in the Twentieth Century

1/2017

Historiography

A Stage Complete? 1937 in the History of Russia: Retrospective Reflections

1/2017

Elena Vishlenkova

“A Barometer or a Lighthouse”: In Memory of Trude Maurer (1955–2017)

1/2017

Book Reviews

Christoph Mick, Lemberg, Lwów, L’viv, 1914–1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2015), 445 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-55753-671-6.

1/2017

Dimitri Tolkatsch

Stephen Velychenko, Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red: The Ukrainian Marxist Critique of Russian Communist Rule in Ukraine, 1918−1925 (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2015). 277 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4851-7

1/2017

Mykola Soroka, Faces of Displacement: The Writings of Volodymyr Vynnychenko (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012). 248 pp., ills. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4037-8.

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Elizabeth Bospflug

The Muslim “Federalist Debate” in Revolutionary Russia

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Forum AI
Subjecthood and Belonging to the Polity
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Michelle U. Campos

From the “Ottoman Nation” to “Hyphenated Ottomans”: Reflections on the Multicultural Imperial Citizenship at the End of Empire (Afterword to the Forum)

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Catherine Gibson

Suzanne Pourchier-Plasseraud, Arts and the Nation: The Role of Visual Arts and Artists in the Making of the Latvian Identity 1905–1940 (On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. 41) (Leiden: Brill | Rodopi, 20

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Suzanne Pourchier-Plasseraud, Arts and the Nation: The Role of Visual Arts and Artists in the Making of the Latvian Identity 1905–1940 (On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. 41) (Leiden: Brill | Rodopi, 2015). 572 pp., ills. Bibliography and Sources. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-30018-7.

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Sho Konishi, Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (= Harvard East Asian Monographs 336) (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center distributed by Harvard University Press, 2013). 426 p

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Sho Konishi, Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (= Harvard East Asian Monographs 336) (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center distributed by Harvard University Press, 2013). 426 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-674-07331-9.

Jonathan D. Smele, The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). xxiv+425 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-84904-424-0.

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Oxana Ermolaeva

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 16, no. 3 (Summer 2015). Special Issue: The Soviet Gulag: New Research and New Interpretations.

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Ingunn Lunde and Martin Paulsen (Eds.), From Poets to Padonki: Linguistic Authority and Norm Negotiation in Modern Russian Culture (Bergen: University of Bergen, 2009). 335 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-82-90249-35-4.

1/2017

Dimitri Bratkin

Sonja Luehrmann, Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). 256 pp., ills. Bibliography. ISBN: 978-0-19-994362-3.

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Язык вражды против общества: сб. статей / сост.: А. Верховский. Москва: Центр “Сова”, 2007. 259 с., табл. ISBN: 5-98418-008-1.

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Probing the Limits of Historical Metanarratives: Imperial Boundaries

With this issue, Ab Imperio launches its thematic program for 2003, which is devoted to investigating problems of frontiers, boundaries, and zones of liminality that will be discussed in connection with the theory of nationalism, and the history of empire and...