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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Blank Spots on the Outdated Maps of Groupness

3/2023

Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Marina Mogilner, Alexander Semyonov

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

3/2023

History

Klimenti Fedevitch

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

3/2023

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

3/2023

Archive

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

3/2023

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Stephen Badalyan Riegg

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

3/2023

FORUM AI
NAGORNO-KARABAKH: A MARK ON THE HISTORICAL MAP

Arsène Saparov

Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: What’s Next?

3/2023

FORUM AI
НАГОРНЫЙ КАРАБАХ: ТОЧКА НА ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ КАРТЕ

Sergei Rumiantsev

“Patriotic War” for Karabakh: Prerequisites and Consequences

3/2023

FORUM AI
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

3/2023

Newest Mythologies

Fabrizio Fenghi

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

3/2023

Book Reviews

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.

3/2023

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.

3/2023

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.

3/2023

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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.

3/2023

Vahram Ter-Matevosyan

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.

3/2023

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.

3/2023

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.

3/2023

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.

3/2023

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.

3/2023

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.

3/2023

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.

3/2023

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