4/2018 Hybridity as a Politics and History of Globality

Issue 4/2018 Hybridity as a Politics and History of Globality

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Methodology and Theory

Editors

Trans-Russian History, Eurasian Hybridity, and the Global Condition

Choi Chatterjee

The Accidental Transnationalist: An Autobiographical Manifesto

Forum Ab Imperio: Transnationalism as Lived Experience

Chia Yin Hsu

A Reply to Choi Chatterjee’s Manifesto

Forum Ab Imperio: Transnationalism as Lived Experience

Andrew Zimmerman

Transnational History versus the Fort, Capital, and Empire

Forum Ab Imperio: Transnationalism as Lived Experience

Leah Feldman

Hybridity’s Failures: Lessons from the Soviet Empire

Forum Ab Imperio: Transnationalism as Lived Experience

Krishan Kumar

On National and Transnational Belonging

Forum Ab Imperio: Transnationalism as Lived Experience

Alessandro Stanziani

Languages, Sources, and History Writing

Forum Ab Imperio: Transnationalism as Lived Experience

Bruce Grant

What I Know about Globalization

Forum Ab Imperio: Transnationalism as Lived Experience

History

Heather J. Coleman

From Kiev across All Russia: The 900th Anniversary of the Christianization of Rus’ and the Making of a National Saint in the Imperial Borderlands

Moritz Florin, Manfred Zeller

Soviet Transnationalism: Urban Milieus, Deterritorialization, and People’s Friendship in the Late Soviet Union

Forum Ab Imperio: Urban Milieus, People’s Friendship, and the Late Soviet Transnational Experience

Moritz Florin

The Many Ways of Being Soviet: Urban Elites, People’s Friendship, and Ethnic Diversity in Postwar Soviet Frunze

Forum Ab Imperio: Urban Milieus, People’s Friendship, and the Late Soviet Transnational Experience

Stefan Guth

Newest Mythologies

Edward Waysband

Alexander Goldstein’s “Tethys or Mediterranean Mail”: A Russian-Israeli Levantine Literary Idea Reconsidered

Historiography

Yuri Radchenko

Incompetent Journalism and Discussions about Complicity in the Holocaust in Lithuania (Thoughts on the Book by Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff, Our People: Journey with an Enemy)

Book Reviews

Rachel Koroloff

Michael S. Flier, Valerie Kivelson, Erika Monahan, and Daniel Rowland (Eds.), Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics—Institutions—Culture: Essays in Honor of Nancy Shields Kollmann (Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2017). 416 pp. ISBN: 978-089357-481-9.

Tetiana Lytvynova

Елена Марасинова. “Закон” и “гражданин” в России второй половины XVIII века: Очерки истории общественного сознания. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2017. 512 с. ISBN: 978-5-4448-0696-8.

Ekaterina Boltunova

Richard Wortman, The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History: Charismatic Words from the 18th to the 21st Centuries (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018). 241 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-350-04066-3.

Mikhail Pogorelov

Riccardo Nicolosi and Anne Hartmann (Eds.), Born to be Criminal. The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2017). 252 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8376- 4159-2.

Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 4/2018 Hybridity as a Politics and History of Globality

Methodology and Theory

Trans-Russian History, Eurasian Hybridity, and the Global Condition

The Accidental Transnationalist: An Autobiographical Manifesto

A Reply to Choi Chatterjee’s Manifesto

Transnational History versus the Fort, Capital, and Empire

Hybridity’s Failures: Lessons from the Soviet Empire

On National and Transnational Belonging

Languages, Sources, and History Writing

What I Know about Globalization

History

From Kiev across All Russia: The 900th Anniversary of the Christianization of Rus’ and the Making of a National Saint in the Imperial Borderlands

Soviet Transnationalism: Urban Milieus, Deterritorialization, and People’s Friendship in the Late Soviet Union

The Many Ways of Being Soviet: Urban Elites, People’s Friendship, and Ethnic Diversity in Postwar Soviet Frunze

Newest Mythologies

Alexander Goldstein’s “Tethys or Mediterranean Mail”: A Russian-Israeli Levantine Literary Idea Reconsidered

Historiography

Incompetent Journalism and Discussions about Complicity in the Holocaust in Lithuania (Thoughts on the Book by Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff, Our People: Journey with an Enemy)

Book Reviews

Michael S. Flier, Valerie Kivelson, Erika Monahan, and Daniel Rowland (Eds.), Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics—Institutions—Culture: Essays in Honor of Nancy Shields Kollmann (Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2017). 416 pp. ISBN: 978-089357-481-9.

Richard Wortman, The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History: Charismatic Words from the 18th to the 21st Centuries (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018). 241 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-350-04066-3.

Riccardo Nicolosi and Anne Hartmann (Eds.), Born to be Criminal. The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2017). 252 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8376- 4159-2.

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USSR Incorporated versus Affirmative Action Empire? Industrial Development and Interethnic Relations in Kazakhstan’s Mangyshlak Region (1960s–1980s)

The Gorka and Ovrazhki: The Location of Nation in the Places of Inside/Outside-ness

Eric Lee, The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution 1918–1921 (London: Zed Books, 2017). 259 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-1-78699-092-1.

Andrew Sloin, The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017). 329 pp. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-02466-4.

Andrew Sloin, The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017). 329 pp. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-02466-4.

Роберт Киндлер. Сталинские кочевники: власть и голод в Казахстане / Пер. с нем. Л. М. Пантиной. Москва: РОССПЭН, 2017. 382 с. ISBN: 978-5-8243-2189-9.

Дэвид Бранденбергер. Кризис сталинского агитпропа: Пропаганда, политпросвещение и террор в СССР, 1927–1941. Москва: РОССЭН, 2017. 367 с. ISBN 978-5-8243-2119-7.

Roman Krakovský, L’Europe centrale et orientale: De 1918 à la chute du mur du Berlin (Paris: Armand Collin, 2017). 310 pp., ills. Bibliographie. Index. ISBN: 978-2-200-60263.

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