Issue 1/2024

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Methodology and Theory

Editors

Back to the Drawing Board: Revisiting the Great Debates of the Y2K Era

David Chioni Moore

East, West, and South: Complex Asymmetries in Postcolonial / Post-Soviet Debates since 2001

History

Igor Kuziner

What Is Our People’s Guilt? Wanderers, Ritual Murder, and the Boundaries of Russianness in the Late Russian Empire

Mirlan Bektursunov

The Rise of the “Lineage Proletariat”: The Soviet State’s Class Policy and Kyrgyz Lineage Society in the 1920s

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Ismael Biyashev

The People of the Way Revisited: Reflections on Teaching a History of Nomads and Nomadism as a History of Northern Eurasia

New Curricula for New Histories of Northern Eurasia

Ismael Biyashev

HIST 328/6: Eurasian Nomads and Nomadism between Empire and Nation (A History of Managing Diversity)

New Curricula for New Histories of Northern Eurasia

Newest Mythologies

Ilya Gerasimov

The Hypermodernism of “Engineer” Garin and Vladimir Sorokin’s Overcoming of Postmodernity

Book Reviews

Lucien J. Frary

Frank Sysyn, Volodymyr Sklokin, Zenon E. Kohut, and Larysa Bilous (Eds.), Eighteenth-Century Ukraine: New Perspectives on Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History (Montreal, Edmonton: McGill-Queen’s University Press and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2023). 648 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-1699-1.

Arina Novikova

Vera Proskurina, The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great: Governing with the Literary Pen (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023). 220 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 979-88-8719-176-8.

Irina Kogan

Martin Schulze Wessel, Der Fluch des Imperiums: Die Ukraine, Polen und der Irrweg in der russische Geschichte (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2023). 352 pp., ill. Auswahlbibliographie. Personenregister. ISBN: 978-3-406-80049-8.

Nadieszda Kizenko

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.

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Issue 1/2024

Methodology and Theory

Back to the Drawing Board: Revisiting the Great Debates of the Y2K Era

East, West, and South: Complex Asymmetries in Postcolonial / Post-Soviet Debates since 2001

History

What Is Our People’s Guilt? Wanderers, Ritual Murder, and the Boundaries of Russianness in the Late Russian Empire

The Rise of the “Lineage Proletariat”: The Soviet State’s Class Policy and Kyrgyz Lineage Society in the 1920s

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

The People of the Way Revisited: Reflections on Teaching a History of Nomads and Nomadism as a History of Northern Eurasia

HIST 328/6: Eurasian Nomads and Nomadism between Empire and Nation (A History of Managing Diversity)

Newest Mythologies

The Hypermodernism of “Engineer” Garin and Vladimir Sorokin’s Overcoming of Postmodernity

Book Reviews

Vera Proskurina, The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great: Governing with the Literary Pen (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023). 220 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 979-88-8719-176-8.

Martin Schulze Wessel, Der Fluch des Imperiums: Die Ukraine, Polen und der Irrweg in der russische Geschichte (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2023). 352 pp., ill. Auswahlbibliographie. Personenregister. ISBN: 978-3-406-80049-8.

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.

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Our Authors

Boris Ganichev, Integrating Imperial Space: The Russian Customs System in the 19th Century (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023). 279 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-3-525-30208-8.

Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher (Eds.), Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023). 220 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-256-7.

“Молчать теперь невозможно…” Борьба за правду о Кронштадтском восстании 1921 года / Под ред. Д. Иванова, М. Цовмы. Москва: Черный квадрат, 2021. 237 c. ISBN: 978-5-6041337-2-9.

Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, Davide Rodogno, and Mona Bieling (Eds.), Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). 304 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3502-6338-3.

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.

Isaac McKean Scarborough, Moscow’s Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). 274 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7102-6.

Svetlana Gorshenina, Sergei Abashin, Bruno De Cordier, and Tatiana Saburova (Eds.), Photographing Central Asia: From the Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022). 431 pp., ill. Geographic Index. Index Nominum. Index Rerum. ISBN: 978-3-11-075442-1.

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