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Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space

1/2023 Dynamics of Imperialism and Nationalism in Eurasia | Ab Imperio

Issue 1/2023 Dynamics of Imperialism and Nationalism in Eurasia

Methodology and Theory

Toward a Postnational History of Eurasia: Deconstructing Empires, Denationalizing Groupness

Invitation to the Forum

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation

Marlène Laruelle

The Tensions of Positionality Reflection

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation
I. Mental Mapping

Satoshi Mizutani

Hybridity and Solidarity: Critical Reﬂections on the Postnational and the Post-Sovereign

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation
I. Mental Mapping

Tamar Shirinian

Toward a Queer Postnational Politics: Imagining the Nation Not Surviving

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation
I. Mental Mapping

Russophonia as an Epistemic Challenge

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation
I. Mental Mapping

Wandering Thoughts on Wandering Histories

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation
II. Case Studies

Riccardo Nicolosi

Imagining Bosnia: Constructions of Bosnian and Bosniak Identity after the War

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation
II. Case Studies

Svetlana Suveica

After the Empire, before the Nation-State: The Case of Bessarabia in Transition (1917–1922)

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation
II. Case Studies

Dnipro: Some Reflections on Attempting to Write a City’s Biography

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation
II. Case Studies

A History of One Defaulted Nation

Forum: Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation
II. Case Studies

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Ekaterina Melnikova

Intelligentsia as an Event: The Valaam Heritage and Its Preservationists in the Late USSR

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Teaching Ukrainian History in Canada

Vladyslava Moskalets

How to Teach about Ukraine during the War: Notes in the Syllabus Margins

Historiography

Mykhaylo Gaukhman

The Entangled History of a City in a Country with an Entangled History

Book Reviews

Anatoly Kononenko

Дарюс Сталюнас. Польша или Русь? Литва в составе Российской империи. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2022. 372 с. Указатель имен. ISBN: 978-5-4448-1826-8.

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Oleg Budnitskii, Michael Hughes, and David MacLaren McDonald (Eds.), Russian International Relations in War and Revolution, 1914–22. Book 2: Revolution and Civil War (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2021). 416 pp. ISBN: 978-089357-437-6.

David Brandenberger

Evgeny Dobrenko and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol, State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). 448 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-884041-1.

Gwendal Piégais

Brandon M. Schechter, The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019). 315 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-3979-8.

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Emily B. Baran, To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022). 234 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-1055-5.

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Meelis Saueauk and Meelis Maripuu (Eds.), Propaganda, Immigration, and Monuments: Perspectives on Methods Used to Entrench Soviet Power in Estonia in the 1950s–1980s (Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2022). 282 pp. ISBN: 978-9949-9687-6-3.

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Ann Komaromi, Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). 297 pp., ill. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-501-76359-5.

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Artyom Tonoyan (Ed.), Black Garden Aflame: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in the Soviet and Russian Press (Minneapolis: East View Press, 2021). 483 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-879944-55-8.

Gil Pasternak (Ed.), The Handbook of Photography Studies (London: Routledge, 2021). 586 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4742-4220-2.

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