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2/2023 Citizenship and Participation in Imperial and National Polities | Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2023 Citizenship and Participation in Imperial and National Polities

Methodology and Theory

Citizenship as a Subjectivity: Beyond the Historical Symbiosis of Republicanism and Nationalism

2/2023

Alexander Semyonov

Affective Subjecthood, Citizenship, and Decolonization in the British Context: Interview with Stuart Ward

2/2023

History

Stephanie Ziehaus

The Manchurian Wedge: Settler Colonialism, Subjecthood, and Land Use in the Russian Imperial Far East

2/2023

Vitalij Fastovskij

“Like Sneaky Thieves, They Broke into Royal Tombs”: Mobility, Egyptian Antiquities, and the Limits of Anti-Colonial Critique

2/2023

Stephan Rindlisbacher, Alun Thomas

Paths Not Taken: How Did Nomadism Affect Border-Making during National Delimitation in Central Asia?

2/2023

Archive

Beyond Triumph: The Russian Art Exhibition of 1924–1926 in the United States and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

2/2023

The Russian Art Exhibition of 1924–1926: Archival Documents

2/2023

Book Reviews

Alina Mezenova, Alexander Belousov

Нэнси Коллманн. Россия и ее империя 1450–1801. Санкт-Петербург: Библиороссика, 2023. 783 с. Предметно-именной указатель. ISBN: 978-5-907532-45-8.

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Roger Bartlett, The Bentham Brothers and Russia: The Imperial Russian Constitution and the St. Petersburg Panopticon (London: UCL Press, 2022). 302 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-238-0.

2/2023

Nikolay Tsyrempilov, Under the Shadow of White Tara: Buriat Buddhists in Imperial Russia (Leiden and Paderborn: Brill | Ferdinand Schöningh, 2021). Bibliography. Index. 238 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-3-506-76048-7.

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Vladimir Nalivkin and Maria Nalivkina, Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia, edited by Marianne Kamp, translated by Mariana Markova and Marianne Kamp (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016). 242 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-02138-0.

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Camille Neufville

Oksana Sarkisova, Screening Soviet Nationalities: Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia (London: I. B. Tauris, 2017). 299 pp., ill. Filmography. Bibliography. ISBN: 978-1-7845-3573-5.

2/2023

Alessandro Achilli

Alena Marková, The Path to a Soviet Nation: The Policy of Belarusization (Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2021). 295 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-3-506-79181-8.

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Myroslav Shkandrij, In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division and Its Legacy (Montreal&Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023). 424 pp., ill. References. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-1653-3.

2/2023

Matteo Annecchiarico

Віктор Петров: мапування творчости письменника / ред. К. Ґлінянович, П. Крупа, Й. Маєвська. Краків: TAiWPN Universitas, 2020. Алфавітний покажчик прізвищ. ISBN: 978-83-242-3712-8.

2/2023

Neringa Klumbytė, Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). 287 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6668-8.

2/2023

Lilia Berezhnaia

Guido Hausmann and Iryna Sklokina (Eds.). The Political Cult of the Dead in Ukraine: Traditions and Dimensions from the First World War to Today (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021). 302 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-3-8471-1383-6.

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Yelena Severina

Molly Thomasy Blasing, Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). 221 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5370-1.

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