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2/2022 Imagining Leviathan in Myth, Religious Ideas, Literature, and Ideology | Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2022 Imagining Leviathan in Myth, Religious Ideas, Literature, and Ideology

Methodology and Theory

The Russian Leviathan: Does History Matter?

2/2022

How Will Our Scholarship on Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture Change in Response to Russia’s War on Ukraine?

2/2022

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Russia’s War on Ukraine and Nineteenth-Century “Russian Studies”

Susan Smith-Peter

Rethinking “the Russian Archives”

2/2022

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Russia’s War on Ukraine and Nineteenth-Century “Russian Studies

Ukraine in Russian Literature

2/2022

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Russia’s War on Ukraine and Nineteenth-Century “Russian Studies”

Taras Koznarsky

The Ukrainian–Russian Encounter in the Romantic Era

2/2022

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Russia’s War on Ukraine and Nineteenth-Century “Russian Studies”

From Russian Literature to Russian-Language Literature of the Empire

2/2022

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Russia’s War on Ukraine and Nineteenth-Century “Russian Studies”

History

Irina Paert, Catherine Gibson, Liliya Berezhnaya

Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference: Perspectives from Imperial and Postimperial Borderlands

2/2022

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Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference

Imperial Loyalty between Law, Religion, and Nation: Old Believers’ Appeals to the Russian State, 1825–1894

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Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference

Changing Tides of Nation and Confession: Building Orthodoxy and Empire on the Island of Vormsi, 1873–1905

2/2022

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Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Opposing Vlast: The Kasparov–Volkov Debate and New Critical Perspectives on Russia

2/2022

Garry Kasparov and Leonid Volkov

Debate: The War in Ukraine, Sanctions against Russia, and the Russian Opposition, June 26, 2022

2/2022

Book Reviews

Marina Mogilner (Ed.), A Cultural History of Race in the Age of Empire and Nation State (1760–1920) (A Cultural History of Race, vol. 5) (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). 218 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3500-6753-0.

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Mikhail Belousov

Paul Werth, 1837: Russia’s Quiet Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). 213 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-882635-4.

2/2022

Paul Werth, 1837: Russia’s Quiet Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). 213 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-882635-4.

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Darius Staliunas

Church Defenders, Monarchism, and the Social Contract in the Lithuanian Countryside: The Case of the “Kražiai Massacre” (1893)

2/2022

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Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference

James A. Kapaló

Certifiably Orthodox: Reversion to Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Existential Eschatology in 1930s and 1940s Bessarabia

2/2022

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Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference

Iuliana Cindrea-Nagy

The Calendar and the Sense of Community Belonging: The Emergence of the Old Calendarist Church in Romania

2/2022

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Confession, Loyalty, and National Indifference

Valeria Sobol, Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). 198 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-50595.

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Alexandra Medzibrodszky

Glenn Cronin, Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). 261 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6018-1.

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Malte Rolf, Imperial Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland 1864–1918, Trans. Cynthia Klohr (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). 441 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4701-1.

2/2022

Ian W. Campbell

Alexander Morrison, The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 613 pp., ill. Sources and Bibliography. Index. 978-1-107-03030-5.

2/2022

Lucien J. Frary

Darin N. Stephanov, Ruler Visibility and Popular Belonging in the Ottoman Empire, 1808–1908 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). 256 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-47444-141-4.

2/2022

Elizabeth Banks

Theodora Dragostinova, The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). 307 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5329-9.

2/2022

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Igor Logvinenko, Global Finance, Local Control: Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). 228 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5960-4.

2/2022

Yasyn Abdullaev

Scott Radnitz, Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). xiii+264 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19757-353-2.

2/2022

Christian Noack (Ed.), Politics of the Russian Language beyond Russia (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). 264 pp. ISBN: 978-1-47-446379-9.

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Marina Mogilner · 3/2003 Searching for the Center: Russian Nationalism · 2003

“Encyclopaedia of Russian Nationalist Project:” Foreword to the Publication

SUMMARY: In the present issue, the archival section features a pamphlet by a famous Russian nationalist and anthropologist, I. Sikorskii. The selection of this unusual archival document (it was eventually published in 1915 but became a rarity soon thereafter)...