4/2022 The Role of the State in Projects of Social Improvement

Issue 4/2022 The Role of the State in Projects of Social Improvement

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Issue 4/2022 The Role of the State in Projects of Social Improvement

Methodology and Theory

Disentangling the State, the Empire, and the Nation

The Russian Imperial Situation: Before and after the Nation-State

History

“From the Seeds Sown in the Soil”: The Boxer Rebellion and the Awakening of Russian Missionary Activity in China (1900–1917)

Border Control and Early Soviet Statehood: The Case of the Soviet-Finnish Frontier in the 1920s

Stalin’s Hidden Eugenic Agenda: Debating and Practicing Eugenic Abortion in the Soviet Union, 1920–1951

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Newest Mythologies

Boris Akunin’s Political Novel: Russian Musketeers on a Path to the Promised Land

Book Reviews

Alena Marková, Hienadź Sahanovič, Zachar Šybieka. Dějiny Běloruska. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2021. 304 s. ISBN: 978-80-7422-667-0.

Viktor Taki, Russia on the Danube: Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812–1834 (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021). 376 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-963-386-382-4.

Winfried Baumgart, The Crimean War: 1853–1856, 2nd ed. (New York; London: Bloomsbury, 2020). 297 pp., ill. Bibliography. General Index. ISBN: 978-1-350-08343-1.

Lee A. Farrow, The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations (London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). 216 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3501-0718-2.

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