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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

Alexander Semyonov

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

History

Dina Rizk Khoury, Sergey Glebov

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

Forum Ab Imperio: 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

Forum Ab Imperio: 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

Archive

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

Recollections: Part I

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

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

Newest Mythologies

Aleksei Mikhalev

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

Historiography

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

Elena Vishlenkova

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

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.

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.

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.

Sergey Grigorishin

Андрiй Портнов. Історії для домашнього вжитку. Есеї про польсько-російсько-український трикутник пам’яті. Київ: Критика, 2013. 344 с. Покажчик iмен. ISBN: 978-966-8978-65-4.

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

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.

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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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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...