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

3/2023 Rethinking the Politics of Naming and the Logic of Groupness | Ab Imperio

Issue 3/2023 Rethinking the Politics of Naming and the Logic of Groupness

Methodology and Theory

Blank Spots on the Outdated Maps of Groupness

Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Marina Mogilner, Alexander Semyonov

Platform ’24: Restoring a Common Scholarly Field of Postnational and Postimperial Studies

History

Klimenti Fedevitch

The Nationalization of the Russian Army (1914–1917): An Empire of Rusian and Non-Rusian Nationalisms

Nazi Policy toward Karaite Slavs in Crimea (1941–1944)

Archive

Elena S. Semeka’s Story: Yuri N. Roerich, “A Man from Another Planet,” at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, 1957–1960

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Stephen Badalyan Riegg

Neo-Primordialism in the Making of Nations: The Tragedies of Karabakh

Forum Ab Imperio: Nagorno-Karabakh: a Mark on the Historical Map

Arsène Saparov

Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: What’s Next?

Forum Ab Imperio: Nagorno-Karabakh: a Mark on the Historical Map

Sergei Rumiantsev

“Patriotic War” for Karabakh: Prerequisites and Consequences

Forum Ab Imperio: Nagorno-Karabakh: a Mark on the Historical Map

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Catherine Gibson, Susan Grunewald, Siobhán Hearne, Jo Laycock, Hanna Matt, Alun Thomas

Peripheral Histories: Reflections on a Digital History Project in an Evolving Field

Newest Mythologies

Fabrizio Fenghi

The Absolute Elsewhere: Pavel Krusanov and the Countercultural Sources of Russian Imperialism

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Endre Sashalmi, Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462–1725: Assessing the Significance of Peter’s Reign (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022). 520 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-3-64469-417-6.

Christina E. Crawford, Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). 385 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-5919-2.

Ian Lanzillotti

Timothy K. Blauvelt, Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba (Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 2021). 248 pp., ill. Index ISBN: 978-1-032-01000-7.

Sergey Manyshev

Timothy K. Blauvelt, Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba (Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 2021). 248 pp., ill. Index ISBN: 978-1-032-01000-7.

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Claire P. Kaiser, Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). 275 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6679-4.

Gennady Estraikh, The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). 141 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3502-9623-7.

Leonid Smilovitsky

Альберт Каганович. “Ташкентский фронт”: Еврейские беженцы в советском тылу. Москва: Библиотека М. Гринберга; Книжники, 2023. 448 с. Селективная библиография. Именной указатель. Географический указатель. ISBN: 978-965-93014-5-4.

Brigid O’Keeffe

Karl Schlögel, The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023). 906 pp., ill. Selected Reading. Index. ISBN: 978-0-691-18374-9.

Dmitry Gorenburg

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, The Afterlife of the “Soviet Man”: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). 121 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3501-6771-1.

David G. Anderson, Dmitry V. Arzyutov, and Sergei S. Alymov (Eds.), Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2019). 425 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-78374-546-3.

Maria Vyatchina

Iwona Kaliszewska, For Putin and for Sharia: Dagestani Muslims and the Islamic State, translated by Arthur Barys (Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, 2023). 153 pp., ill. Index. ISBN 978-1-5017-6762-3.

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