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Methodology and Theory

Positionality between Analysis and Claims of Moral Superiority

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Alexander Morrison

Partisanship and Parochialism in the History of the British Empire

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Forum AI:
Studying Imperial Formations at the Time of Culture Wars

Reclaiming Empire: Debating the British Empire

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Forum AI:
Studying Imperial Formations at the Time of Culture Wars

The Afterlife of the Imperial and the National in Habsburg Central Europe

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Forum AI:
Studying Imperial Formations at the Time of Culture Wars

A Genealogy and Check-in on American “Empire-Talk”

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Forum AI:
Studying Imperial Formations at the Time of Culture Wars

Caterina Scalvedi

Unpredictable Empire: Reflections from a Historian of Fascist Italy

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Forum AI:
Studying Imperial Formations at the Time of Culture Wars

History

Zhanibek Akimbek, Saule Uderbaeva

The Turkestan Region in the Life of Boris Trizna: Empire, Revolution, and Soviet Power

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Matthias Battis, Börries Kuzmany

Territorial in Principle, Personal in Practice: Early Soviet Non-Territorial National Autonomy Arrangements

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Newest Mythologies

Knowledge Without Power: The Gospel of Venedikt Erofeev

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Eugene Smelyansky

Nancy S. Kollmann, Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). 323 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-009-41868-3.

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Aleksandr Turbin

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.

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Vladyslava Moskalets

Ewa Herbst (Ed.), Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024). 233 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-254-3.

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Kostiantyn Moharychev

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Harriet L. Murav, Gennady Estraikh, and Myroslav Shkandrij (Eds.), Building Modern Jewish Culture: The Yiddish Kultur-Lige (Oxford: Legenda, 2023). 254 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-83954-159-9.

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David Brandenberger (Ed.), Stalin’s Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937 “Short History of the USSR” (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). 445 pp., ill. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Index. ISBN: 978-1-503-63786-3.

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Alexander Fokin

Ksenia Tatarchenko, Soviet SCI_BERIA: The Politics of Expertise and the Novosibirsk Scientific Center (London: Bloomsbury, 2024). 333 pp. Select Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index. ISBN: 978-1-3501-6583-0.

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Polina Gundarina

Oksana Nagornaia, Beate Fieseler (Hg.). Der Zerfall der Sowjetunion und das Ende der DDR als historische Zäsuren / Распад Советского Союза и конец ГДР как исторические цезуры. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. 170 s., ill. ISBN: 978-3-447-12226-9.

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