4/2021 Projects: Designing a Rational Arrangement of Diversity

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

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Invitation to a Discussion: Atlantis – Myth or Reality?

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Galina Babak, Alexander Dmitriev

The Postponed Revival, or Maps of Atlantis

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Boris Gasparov

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

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Oksana Pashko, Andriy Portnov

Over the Map of Atlantis

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Irina Shevelenko

National Modernism or National Formalism?

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Nadezhda Gribkova, Julia Vaingurt

What Is the Universal Modernist Form?

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Harriet Murav

The Belatedness of David Bergelson and the Soviet Project

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Mikhail Krutikov

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

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Ostap Kin

Is Soviet National Modernism Possible?

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Tamara Hundorova

A Passion for Atlantis

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Brigid O’Keeffe

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

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

Galina Babak, Alexander Dmitriev

Form and Muteness

Forum Ab Imperio: Conceptualizing National Modernism

History

Evgenii Egorov

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

Marek Eby

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

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.

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.

Roger Bartlett

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.

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.

Ab Imperio

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

There Can Be No “Vne”

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

Invitation to a Discussion: Atlantis – Myth or Reality?

The Postponed Revival, or Maps of Atlantis

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

Over the Map of Atlantis

National Modernism or National Formalism?

What Is the Universal Modernist Form?

The Belatedness of David Bergelson and the Soviet Project

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

Is Soviet National Modernism Possible?

A Passion for Atlantis

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

Form and Muteness

History

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

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

Book Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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