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4/2023 Bringing Agencies Back: Ecosystems of Humanism and Posthumanism | Ab Imperio

Issue 4/2023 Bringing Agencies Back: Ecosystems of Humanism and Posthumanism

Methodology and Theory

Fun Facts vs. Dreary Concepts: Making Sense of Diversity and the Burden of Agency

4/2023

Forum AI: Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

LOL at Loss: Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Soviet History as Black Comedy

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

“History Is Not a Novel”

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Mark Lipovetsky

Inverted Binoculars

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Evgeny Dobrenko

The Great Imitator: Russian History from Potemkin Villages to Kuban Cossacks

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Kafka’s Smile

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Embracing Laughter

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Laughing about Dictatorships – and Ourselves

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Laughter in the Dark

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Ronald Grigor Suny

Sheila Fitzpatrick’s Black Comedy

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Benjamin Nathans

The Longue Durée of Dark Humor

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

Have You Heard a Chukchi Joke? In Search of Other Soviet Comedies

4/2023

Forum AI:
Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

History

Timothy Blauvelt, Anton Vacharadze

Autonomy or Unitary Sovereignty: The Democratic Republic of Georgia and Abkhazia, 1918–1921

4/2023

Making Basic Law in a Postimperial State: Diffusion, Adjustment, and Legal Cunning in the Constitutional Debate on Ethnocultural Diversity in Poland, 1919–1922

4/2023

Historiography

“This... Was My Secret ‘Complex’”: Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky and the Jews

4/2023

Іван Лисяк-Рудницький. Щоденники. Дух і Літера, 2019. 696 с. Именний покажчик. Географiчний покажчик. ISBN: 978-966-378-708-4.

Book Reviews

Diego Repenning

Kati Parppei and Bulat Rakhimzianov (Eds.), Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547–1917 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023). 498 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-146-1.

4/2023

Mykhaylo Gaukhman

Fabian Baumann, Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). 329 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7092-0.

4/2023

Andrii Portnov, Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022). 374 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-102-7.

4/2023

Miscellaneous

Myroslav Shkandrij

Author’s Response to Per Rudling’s Review of In the Maelstrom in Ab Imperio 2/2023

4/2023

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Karsten Brüggemann

Tomas Balkelis and Andrea Griffante (Eds.), The Shaken Lands: Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914–1923 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023). 258 pp. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-173-7.

4/2023

Aleksandr Korobeinikov

Svetlana Suveica, Post-imperial Encounters: Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere, 1917–1922 (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023). 509 pp., ill. Index of Names. Index of Subjects and Places. ISBN: 978-3-11-116633-9.

4/2023

Xenia A. Cherkaev, Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). 189 pp., ill. References. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7023-4.

4/2023

Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond. Edited by Ostap Kin. Translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin. Introduction by Ostap Kin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023). 269 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index of Titles and First Lines. ISBN: 978-0-674-27169-2.

4/2023

Walter Sperling

Nicole Eaton, German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). 315 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6736-4.

4/2023

Antony Kalashnikov, Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). 202 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6863-7.

4/2023

Piotr Kuligowski

Natasha Grigorian, Visions of the Future: Malthusian Thought Experiments in Russian Literature (1840–1960) (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023). 125 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-055-6.

4/2023

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Editors · 1/2003 Russian Empire: Boundaries and Frontiers · 2003

Probing the Limits of Historical Metanarratives: Imperial Boundaries

With this issue, Ab Imperio launches its thematic program for 2003, which is devoted to investigating problems of frontiers, boundaries, and zones of liminality that will be discussed in connection with the theory of nationalism, and the history of empire and...