4/2017 When Global Becomes Local: Modern Mobilities and the Reinvention of Locality

Issue 4/2017 When Global Becomes Local: Modern Mobilities and the Reinvention of Locality

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How Five Empires Shaped the World and How This Process Shaped Those Empires: Response to Alexander Semyonov

History

Elena Vishlenkova, Kira Il’ina

The Science of Rulership: Domination through Knowledge and the Administrative Reform of Russian Education in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Alexey Vdovin

“Dmitry Tolstoy’s Classicism” and the Formation of the Russian Literary Canon in the High School Curriculum

Konstantin Zaikov, Tatiana Troshina

Local Society between Empire and Nation-State: The Russian–Norwegian Borderland in the Context of Bilateral International Relations in the Far North, 1855–1905

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Akbota Alisharieva, Zhanar Ibrayeva, Ekaterina Protassova

The Kazakhstani Russian: An Outsider’s Perspective

Historiography

Andriy Portnov, Tetiana Portnova

Soviet Ukrainian Historiography in Brezhnev’s Closed City: Mykola/Nikolai Kovalsky and His “School” at the Dnipropetrovsk University

Book Reviews

Mikhail Krom

Nancy Shields Kollmann, The Russian Empire 1450–1801 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). 497 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-928051-3.

Olga Tsapina

Valerie Ann Kivelson and Ronald Grigor Suny, Russia’s Empires (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). 420 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-992439-4.

Alessandro Achilli

Mirja Lecke, Westland: Polen und die Ukraine in der russischen Literatur von Puškin bis Babel’ (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016). 409 pp. ISBN: 978-3-631-65773-7.

Tatsiana Astrouskaya

Dangiras Mačiulis and Darius Staliūnas, Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883−1940 (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2015). vi, 236 pp., ills. ISBN: 978-3-87969-401-3.

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Issue 4/2017 When Global Becomes Local: Modern Mobilities and the Reinvention of Locality

Methodology and Theory

Context: A Global Condition of Imperial History

How Five Empires Shaped the World and How This Process Shaped Those Empires

How Five Empires Shaped the World and How This Process Shaped Those Empires: Response to Alexander Semyonov

History

The Science of Rulership: Domination through Knowledge and the Administrative Reform of Russian Education in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

“Dmitry Tolstoy’s Classicism” and the Formation of the Russian Literary Canon in the High School Curriculum

Local Society between Empire and Nation-State: The Russian–Norwegian Borderland in the Context of Bilateral International Relations in the Far North, 1855–1905

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Notebooks from the Verkhneuralsk Political Isolator: An Introduction to the Source and Reflections on Its Significance

The Fascist Coup in Germany (The Bolshevik-Leninist no. 2 (12), 1933)

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

The Kazakhstani Russian: An Outsider’s Perspective

Historiography

Soviet Ukrainian Historiography in Brezhnev’s Closed City: Mykola/Nikolai Kovalsky and His “School” at the Dnipropetrovsk University

Book Reviews

Nancy Shields Kollmann, The Russian Empire 1450–1801 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). 497 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-928051-3.

Valerie Ann Kivelson and Ronald Grigor Suny, Russia’s Empires (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). 420 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-992439-4.

Mirja Lecke, Westland: Polen und die Ukraine in der russischen Literatur von Puškin bis Babel’ (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016). 409 pp. ISBN: 978-3-631-65773-7.

Dangiras Mačiulis and Darius Staliūnas, Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883−1940 (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2015). vi, 236 pp., ills. ISBN: 978-3-87969-401-3.

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John J. Kulczycki, Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939–1951 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016). 402 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-674-65978-0.

Paul Robert Magocsi, With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus’ and Carpatho-Rusyns (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2015). 511 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-615-5053-39-9.

Maria Zadencka, Andrejs Plakans, and Andreas Lawaty (Eds.), East and Central European History Writing in Exile 1939−1989 (Leiden: Brill | Rodopi, 2015). 433 pp. Name Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-29962-7.

Botakoz Kassymbekova, Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016). 288 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6419-3.

Kathleen E. Smith, Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017). Index. ISBN: 978-0-674-97200-1.

Martin J. Blackwell, Kyiv as a Regime City: The Return of Soviet Power after Nazi Occupation (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), 256 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-1-58046-558-8.

Mischa Gabowitsch, Protest in Putin’s Russia (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017). 332 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-9625-6.

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