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4/2021 Projects: Designing a Rational Arrangement of Diversity | Ab Imperio

Issue 4/2021 Projects: Designing a Rational Arrangement of Diversity

Methodology and Theory

Plans for a Future That Is Universal in Its Diversity

4/2021

Marina Mogilner

There Can Be No “Vne”

4/2021

* The title is a reference to Alexei Yurchak’s talented and influential book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton, 2006), which, among other things, identified the fundamentally apolitical stance of self-exclusion from authoritative discourse as a position available to many members of the late Soviet generation in the 1970s – 80s.

A New Soviet History: An Editor’s Observations Thirty Years after the USSR

4/2021

Forum AI: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Invitation to a Discussion: Atlantis – Myth or Reality?

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

Galina Babak, Alexander Dmitriev

The Postponed Revival, or Maps of Atlantis

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

National Modernism: “The Word Is Barbaric, Yet...”

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

Oksana Pashko, Andriy Portnov

Over the Map of Atlantis

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

Irina Shevelenko

National Modernism or National Formalism?

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

Nadezhda Gribkova, Julia Vaingurt

What Is the Universal Modernist Form?

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

The Belatedness of David Bergelson and the Soviet Project

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

Mikhail Krutikov

Soviet Jewish Modernism: From the Utopia of the Future to the Utopia of the Past

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

Is Soviet National Modernism Possible?

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

Tamara Hundorova

A Passion for Atlantis

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

Brigid O’Keeffe

An Epistolary Empire: On Esperanto, Russia, and a World of Possibilities

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

Galina Babak, Alexander Dmitriev

Form and Muteness

4/2021
Forum AI
Conceptualizing National Modernism

History

Translation from Swedish to “Finland”: The Political Identity of the Grand Duchy of Finland (1831–1854)

4/2021

Global Tashkent: Transnational Visions of a Soviet City in the Postcolonial World, 1953–1966

4/2021

Book Reviews

Sergey Kondratiev

Maria Salomon Arel, English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era: The Muscovy Company, 1603–1649 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019). 349 pp., ill. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4985-5023-9.

4/2021

Camille Neufville

Gregory Afinogenov, Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020). 367 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-674-24185-5.

4/2021

Alexander Kaplunovsky, Jan Kusber, and Benjamin Conrad (Eds.), The Enigmatic Tsar and His Empire: Russia under Alexander I. 1801–1825 (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019). 378 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-631-73283-0.

4/2021

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Sebastian Rimestad

Вера и личность в меняющемся обществе: Автобиографика и православие в России конца XVII – начала XX века / под редакцией Лори Манчестер и Д. А. Сдвижкова. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2019. 408 с., ил. Библиография. ISBN: 978-54448-1138-2.

4/2021

Dmitry Shevchuk

Paweł Krupa, “Na Zachód” i “Z dala od Moskwy”? Publicystyka Mykoły Chwylowego lat 1925–1926: Historia – idee – konteksty (Kraków: Universitas, 2018). 529 s., ill. Bibliografia. Indeks nazwisk. ISBN: 978-83-242-3453-0.

4/2021

Karina Khasnulina

Stefan J. Link, Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020). 328 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-691-20798-8.

4/2021

Brigid O’Keeffe, Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia (New York; London: Bloomsbury, 2021). 266 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-350-16065-1.

4/2021

Polina Barvinskaya

Еврейские беженцы и эвакуированные в СССР, 1939–1946: Сборник статей, документов и свидетельств / Редактор Зеэв Левин. Иерусалим: Ассоциация Хазит ха-кавод; Союз ученых-репатриантов Израиля, 2020. 328 с. Библиография. Индекс географических названий. ISBN: 978-965-599-326-4.

4/2021

Almira Sharafeeva

Mie Nakachi, Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). 327 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19063-513-8.

4/2021

Julie Deschepper

Alexey Golubev, The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020). 220 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5290-2.

4/2021

Sylvain Dufraisse

И. Б. Орлов, А. Д. Попов. Олимпийский переполох: забытая советская модернизация. Москва: Издательский дом Высшей школы экономики, 2020. 458 с., илл. Использованные источники. ISBN: 978-5-7598-2165-6.

4/2021

Oksana Nagornaia

Yulia Gradskova, The Women’s International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War: Defending the Rights of Women of the “Whole World”? (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021). 212 pp. List of Literature. Index. ISBN: 978-0-367-50476-2.

4/2021

Ian Lanzillotti

Rebecca Gould, Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016). 352 pp., ill. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-20064-5.

4/2021

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