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Свен Беккерт. Империя хлопка: Всемирная история / Пер. А. Шоломицкой. Москва: Издательство Института Гайдара, 2018. 736 с. ISBN: 978-5-93255-528-6.
Julia Obertreis, Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860–1991 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017). 536 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-3-8471-0786-6.

Denis Dokuchaev

Фритьоф Беньямин Шенк. Поезд в современность: Мобильность и социальное пространство России в век железных дорог / авторизованный пер. с нем. и науч. ред. перевода М. Лавринович. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2016. 584 с., ил. ISBN: 978-5-444

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Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2019 Civil Wars in Empires and Nations

Methodology and Theory

Rethinking Civil War and Peace

Introduction: Genocide among Neighbors

Conclusion of the book Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda

“Ordinary” Italians: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy, 1943–45

The Holocaust in the Netherlands: National Differences in a Western European Context

Massive Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania: Place and Time

A Local History of Genocide in Galicia

History as a Story without an End

When Neighbors Begin to Hate

Response to Ab Imperio Forum

History

Introduction to the Forum: Civil Wars, Visions of Statehood, and Quasi-State Actors in the Northwest of the Former Russian Empire

“To Beat the Bourgeoisie on the Head”: Paramilitary Violence in Shlisselburg, 1917–1919

Popular Songs as Vehicles for Political Imagination: The Russian Revolutions and the Finnish Civil War in Finnish Song Pamphlets, 1917–1918

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A Tribute to Sonja Luehrmann

Book Reviews

Tomohiko Uyama (Ed.), Comparing Modern Empires: Imperial Rule and Decolonization in the Changing World Order (Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2018). 234 pp. ISBN: 978-4-938637-93-4.

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“Go to Your Native Mother Karelia”: An Attempt at Karelian Statehood, 1919–1920

The Fight for the Russian Empire: Finland and White Russian Combat Organizations, 1917–1939

Immersion. In memory of Sonja Luehrmann

Alexandre Andreyev, Mikhail Baskhanov, and Tatiana Yusupova, The Quest for Forbidden Lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and His Followers on Inner Asian Tracks (Leiden: Brill, 2017). 392 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-37626-7 (e-book).

Darius Staliūnas (Ed.), Spatial Concepts of Lithuania in the Long Nineteenth Century (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016). 478 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-1-61811-532-4.

Alfonsas Eidintas, Antanas Smetona and His Lithuania: From the National Liberation Movement to an Authoritarian Regime (1893−1940) (Leiden: Brill | Rodopi, 2015). 505 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-30203-7.

Tomas Balkelis and Violeta Davoliūtė (Eds.), Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century (Leiden: Brill | Rodopi, 2016). xiii, 263 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-31409-2.

Семен Гольдин. Принять исключительные меры … Русская армия и евреи. 1914–1917 / Ред. В. Нехотин. Москва: Мосты культуры, 2018. 448 с. Библиография. Приложения. ISBN: 978-5-93273-499-5.

Simon Geissbühler, Blutiger Juli: Rumäniens Vernichtungskrieg und der vergessene Massenmord an den Juden 1941 (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2013). 229 s., ill. Personenregister. Ortsregister. ISBN: 978-3-506-77675-4.

Zuzanna Bogumił, Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia’s Repressive Past (New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018). 238 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-78533-927-1.

Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke (Eds.), Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956–1991 (New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018). 383 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-78533-776-5.

Zbigniew Wojnowski, The Near Abroad: Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1956–1985 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017). 317 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4426-3107-6.