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

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.

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Marina Mogilner · 3/2003 Searching for the Center: Russian Nationalism · 2003

“Encyclopaedia of Russian Nationalist Project:” Foreword to the Publication

SUMMARY: In the present issue, the archival section features a pamphlet by a famous Russian nationalist and anthropologist, I. Sikorskii. The selection of this unusual archival document (it was eventually published in 1915 but became a rarity soon thereafter)...