Issue 2/2025

Full Archive

Methodology and Theory

Editors

No Longer a “Dark Continent”: Reclaiming Languages and Histories

2/2025

Ilya Gerasimov

Language as a Medium Through the Eyes of a Historian: Between Universalism and Hegemony (Introduction to the Forum)

2/2025
The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories

Matthew W. Turner

“Making the Language Your Own “ An Interview with Mario Saraceni

2/2025
The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories

Alessandro Achilli, Miriam Finkelstein, Nina Friess, Marco Puleri

Exploring and Questioning Russophonia: An Interview with Naomi Caffee

2/2025
The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories

Sumit Guha, Nile Green, Michael Fisher, Farina Mir, Christine Philliou

Discussion: In and out of Persian

2/2025
The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories

Sumit Guha
Nile Green
Michael Fisher
Farina Mir
Christine Philliou

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Victoria Smolkin

Reflections on Teaching Ukraine and Its Histories

2/2025
New Curricula for New Histories of Northern Eurasia

Book Reviews

Kostiantyn Moharychev

Kerstin S. Jobst, A History of Crimea from Antiquity to the Present, translated by John Heath (London: Bloomsbury, 2025). 364 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index of People. Index of Places. ISBN: 978-1-3503-2800-6.

2/2025

Tatiana Kostina

Denis J. B. Shaw, Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613–1825 (London: UCL Press, 2024). 204 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-592-3.

2/2025

Lucien J. Frary

Eleonora Naxidou and Yura Konstantinova (Eds.), Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire: A Transnational History (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2024). 314 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-963-386-775-4.

2/2025

Miscellaneous

Alan Lester

Letter to the Editors

2/2025

List of Contributors

Our Authors

2/2025

Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2025

Methodology and Theory

No Longer a “Dark Continent”: Reclaiming Languages and Histories

Language as a Medium Through the Eyes of a Historian: Between Universalism and Hegemony (Introduction to the Forum)

“Making the Language Your Own “ An Interview with Mario Saraceni

Exploring and Questioning Russophonia: An Interview with Naomi Caffee

Discussion: In and out of Persian

Archive

The Diary of Abraham Rechtman from the An-sky Expedition, 1913–1914

Diary Notebook No. 55 (1913–1914)

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Reflections on Teaching Ukraine and Its Histories

Book Reviews

Kerstin S. Jobst, A History of Crimea from Antiquity to the Present, translated by John Heath (London: Bloomsbury, 2025). 364 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index of People. Index of Places. ISBN: 978-1-3503-2800-6.

Denis J. B. Shaw, Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613–1825 (London: UCL Press, 2024). 204 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-592-3.

Eleonora Naxidou and Yura Konstantinova (Eds.), Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire: A Transnational History (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2024). 314 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-963-386-775-4.

Miscellaneous

Letter to the Editors

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Viktor Taki, Russia’s Turkish Wars: The Tsarist Army and the Balkan Peoples in the Nineteenth Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024). 306 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-14875-0163-1.

Dan Healey, The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin’s Labour Camps (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024). 344 pp., ill. Select Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-18713-7.

Susan C. I. Grunewald, From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024). 241 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7602-1.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024). 341 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-691-23002-3.

Seth Bernstein, Return to the Motherland: Displaced Soviets in World War II and the Cold War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). 292 pp., ills. Notes on Sources. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-6739-5.

Vassily Klimentov, A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024). 298 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7380-8.

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