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1/2022 The Neverending Story of State-Building: Who Was Making the Power Work and How? | Ab Imperio

Issue 1/2022 The Neverending Story of State-Building: Who Was Making the Power Work and How?

Methodology and Theory

War and the State of the Field

Mark Lipovetsky

Trickster and Rashism

Iaroslav Hrytsak

What Do We Write about When We Write about Ukraine?

Forum AI: Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

Invitation to Discussion

Forum Ab Imperio: Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

Russia as an Epistemic Frame

Forum Ab Imperio: Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

The War against Ukraine, the Problem of Communication Strategies, and Its Challenges for European Historiography

Forum Ab Imperio: Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

Martin Schulze Wessel

The Concept of Empire and German Sonderwege in the Historical Debate about Ukraine

Forum Ab Imperio: Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

Vision and Horror: Eastern European History in Germany from the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to Russia’s Attack on Ukraine in 2022

Forum Ab Imperio: Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

Anke Hilbrenner

Eastern European History in Germany as a Discipline, or: Transnational Historiography in Times of War

Forum Ab Imperio: Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

Botakoz Kassymbekova

On Decentering Soviet Studies and Launching New Conversations

Forum Ab Imperio: Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

Unmasking Imperial History: Emotional Empire, Violent Politics of Difference, and Independence Movements in the Name of Autonomy

Forum Ab Imperio: Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

Willard Sunderland

Of Imperialisms Soft, Hard, and Complicated

Forum Ab Imperio: Has History Betrayed Us? Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine

History

Yusuf Ziya Karabıçak

Defending Polish Liberties: A Conceptual and Diplomatic History of the Ottoman Declaration of War on Russia in 1768

American Russia: Fur Seals, Empire, and Conflict in the Northern Pacific after 1867

Natalia Ryzhova

The Failure of the “Soybean Revolution” in the USSR

Elizaveta Khatanzeiskaia

Everyday Life of the Red Army: From the Finnish to the Great Patriotic Wars

Book Reviews

Tetyana Dzyadevych

Alessandro Achilli, Serhy Yekelchyk, and Dmytro Yesypenko (Eds.), Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020). 810 pp. ISBN: 978-1-64469-301-8.

David M. Griffiths, No Collusion! Catherine the Great and American Independence, ed. by George E. Munro (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2020). 717 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-089357-499-6.

Abraham Rechtman, Nathaniel Deutch, and Noah Barrera, The Lost World of Russia’s Jews: Ethnography and Folklore in the Pale of Settlement (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021). 330 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-05693-1.

Antoni Porayski-Pomsta

Wiktor Marzec, Rising Subjects: The 1905 Revolution and the Origins of Modern Polish Politics (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). 294 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4612-0.

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Larry E. Holmes, Revising the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia’s Official History of 1917 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021). 220 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-05482-1.

Niccolò Pianciola

Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin, Mikhail Akulov, and Alexandra Tsay (Eds.), Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory, and Representation, translated by Simon Pawley and Anton Platonov (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021). 202 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-1-7936-4162-5.

Alexander Ivanov

Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk, Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2020). 445 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN 978-0-300-23081-9.

Yulia Gradskova

Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel R. Harisch, and Marcia C. Schenck (Eds.), Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021). 399 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-11-062231-7.

Jie Zhao, Mu Wu

Dittmar Schorkowitz and Chia Ning (Eds.), Managing Frontiers in Qing China: The Lifanyuan and Libu Revisited (Leiden: Brill, 2017). 462 pp., ill. Glossary. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-32995-9.

Viktoria Sukovataia

Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris (Eds.), The Akunin Project: The Mysteries and Histories of Russia’s Bestselling Author (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021). 361 pp. Appendices. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-2576-7.

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Игорь Торбаков · 4/2001 Empire at War · 2001

“Осколки разбитого вдребезги”: историческое поражение имперского проекта

Джордж Элиот однажды предположил, что “счастливейшие женщины, как и счастливейшие нации, не имеют истории”. Похоже, однако, что политики (и интеллектуалы, обслуживающие политические интересы) склонны смотреть на вещи существенно иначе, чем писатели. Вот лишь...