3/2022 The State of the Nation and Empire: Was there a Difference?

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Forum AI
Mark Gamsa, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021). 383 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0628-5.

Laurie Manchester

On the Encounter between Chinese, Russians, and Rossiiane in Harbin before and after 1920

3/2022

Forum AI
Mark Gamsa, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021). 383 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0628-5.

Kristin Stapleton

Child Brides, Queues, Oriental Wisdom, and Cross-Cultural Eccentricity

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Forum AI
Mark Gamsa, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021). 383 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0628-5.

Book Reviews

Alexander Filiushkin

Charles J. Halperin, Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory since 1991 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021). 308 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-64-469053-6.

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Erika L. Monahan

Georg Wilhelm Steller, Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition, translated and annotated by Margritt A. Engel and Karen E. Willmore (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020). 220 pp., ill. Appendixes. Glossaries. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-04778-6.

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Natalia Kovalchuk

Susan Layton, Contested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021). 484 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-64-469420-6.

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Issue 3/2022 The State of the Nation and Empire: Was there a Difference?

Methodology and Theory

In the Eye of the Beholder: “Seeing Like a Nation-State” as Identity Politics

In Search of a New History: Early Twenty-First Century Historiographical Discussions regarding the Metanarrative of Ukraine’s History

History

“I Have Seen and Heard What Pertains to the Kirghiz-Kaisak and Other Foreign Circumstances”: The Russian Empire’s Informants in the Kazakh Steppe (Second Half of the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s)

Prehistorical Archaeology, Race Science, and Blackness in Imperial Russia

Occupation, Categorization of the Population, and the Selectivity of Genocide: The Case of the Kharkiv Karaites (1941–1943)

Archive

Colonialism and Imperial Nationalism of Russian Naval Elites in the Pacific Region: Publication of the Journal Kept by Vice Admiral and Viceroy in the Far East, Evgeny Ivanovich Alekseev

E. I. Alekseev’s Journals

Newest Mythologies

Paranoia, Resentment, and Reenactment: The Russian Political Discourse on the War in Ukraine

Historiography

Hybrid History for a Hybrid City

On the Encounter between Chinese, Russians, and Rossiiane in Harbin before and after 1920

Child Brides, Queues, Oriental Wisdom, and Cross-Cultural Eccentricity

Book Reviews

Charles J. Halperin, Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory since 1991 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021). 308 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-64-469053-6.

Georg Wilhelm Steller, Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition, translated and annotated by Margritt A. Engel and Karen E. Willmore (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020). 220 pp., ill. Appendixes. Glossaries. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-04778-6.

Susan Layton, Contested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021). 484 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-64-469420-6.

List of Contributors

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Response

Rouben. Le défi de l’indépendance: Arménie (1919–1920) / traduit de l’arménien par Waïk Ter Minassian. Préface de Taline Ter Minassian. Postface de Robert Ilbert. Marseille: Thaddée, 2021. 217 pp., ill. Glossaire. Index. ISBN: 978-2919-13147-1.

Katerina Clark, Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943 (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021). Index. ISBN: 978-0-674-26110-5.

John-Paul Himka, Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA’s Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941–1944 (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2021). 505 pp. Bibliography. Place and Name Index. ISBN: 978-3-8382-1548-8.

Theodora K. Dragostinova, The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). 302 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5329-9.

Pey-Yi Chu, The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020). 288 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-1424-2.

Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021). 376 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978–0-674-97948-2.

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversions and Political Apostasy in Appalachia (New York: Fordham University Press, 2022). 286 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-0-8232-9950-8.

Choi Chatterjee, Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). 226 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3500-2641-4.

Eugene M. Avrutin, Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). 140 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-350-09728-5.

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