2/2020 “We the People”: The “Nation” between Tribe and Republic

Forum: Володимир Склокін. Російська імперія і Слобідська Україна у другій половині XVIII ст. Львів: Видавництво Українського католицького університету, 2019.

Anna Vozna

Volodymyr Sklokin on Russian Empire and Sloboda Ukraine during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: Enlightened Absolutism, Imperial Integration, Local Society

Forum: Володимир Склокін. Російська імперія і Слобідська Україна у другій половині XVIII ст. Львів: Видавництво Українського католицького університету, 2019.

Denys Shatalov

The Lost Cossackdom

Forum: Володимир Склокін. Російська імперія і Слобідська Україна у другій половині XVIII ст. Львів: Видавництво Українського католицького університету, 2019.

Book Reviews

Alexander Martin

Lilija Wedel, Lebens-, Mentalitäts- und Kulturwelten des russischen Adels zwischen Tradition und Wandel: Am Beispiel der Gouvernements Moskau, Tver’ und Rjazan’ 1762–1861 (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2018). 339 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-3-8300-9592-7.

Jonas Löffler

Philipp Ammon, Georgien zwischen Eigenstaatlichkeit und russischer Okkupation: Die Wurzeln des Konflikts vom 18. Jh. bis 1924 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2020). 238 pp., ill. Bibliography. ISBN: 978-3-465-04407-9.

Yuriy Latysh

James D. White, Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine (London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2018). 226 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4742-2406-2.

Konstantin Mitroshenkov

Катерина Кларк. Москва, четвертый Рим: сталинизм, космополитизм и эволюция советской культуры (1931–1941). Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2018. 520 с. Указатель. ISBN: 978-5-4448-0757-6.

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Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2020 “We the People”: The “Nation” between Tribe and Republic

Methodology and Theory

Foucault and Trump, “Les mots et les choses” (the Words and the Things) and the Unintended Consequences

Speaking Economic in the Imperial Situation

Trade and Empire: Productivity, Economic Exchange, and Differences in Eurasia

The Imperial Situation and the Market

Economists in the “Field:” The 1924 Kara Expedition and Practices of Creating Economic Knowledge

Forestry, Economy, and Empire

Empire and the Economic

History

Searching for a Relatable Other: Ireland and Finland in the Ukrainian National Narrative at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Beyond the Nation: The Crisis of the Russian Army in 1917 as a Consequence of the Transformation of the Imperial Social Structure

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

The Last Lenin: Soviet Toponymy and the Symbolic Transformation of Arkhangelsk in the 1990s

Newest Mythologies

“We Are Earth:” The Project of Mankind’s Total Convergence and the “Real Science” of Ivan Efremov

Historiography

Lviv and Sloboda Ukraine

Volodymyr Sklokin on Russian Empire and Sloboda Ukraine during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: Enlightened Absolutism, Imperial Integration, Local Society

The Lost Cossackdom

Book Reviews

Lilija Wedel, Lebens-, Mentalitäts- und Kulturwelten des russischen Adels zwischen Tradition und Wandel: Am Beispiel der Gouvernements Moskau, Tver’ und Rjazan’ 1762–1861 (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2018). 339 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-3-8300-9592-7.

Philipp Ammon, Georgien zwischen Eigenstaatlichkeit und russischer Okkupation: Die Wurzeln des Konflikts vom 18. Jh. bis 1924 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2020). 238 pp., ill. Bibliography. ISBN: 978-3-465-04407-9.

James D. White, Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine (London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2018). 226 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4742-2406-2.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Theoretical Complexities: A Few Comments on Local Society, the Enlightenment, and Sloboda Ukraine

Sloboda Ukraine, Imperial Unification, and Enlightened Absolutism: Some Afterthoughts

Violeta Davoliūtė and Tomas Balkelis (Eds.), Narratives of Exile and Identity: Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States (Budapest – New York: Central European University Press, 2018). 230 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-963-386-183-7.

Victoria Donovan, Chronicles in Stone: Preservation, Patriotism, and Identity in Northwest Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019). 231 pp., ill. Select Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-4787-8.

Mary McAuley, Remembering Leningrad: The Story of a Generation (Madison: University of Wisconsin Pres, 2019). 236 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-299-32250-2.

Aksana Ismailbekova, Blood Ties and the Native Son: Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017). 219 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-02539-5.

Niklas Bernsand and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Eds.), Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia (Leiden: Brill, 2019). 262 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-36666-4.

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