Issue 3/2025

Methodology and Theory

Forum: The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories

Mykhailo Minakov

Linguistic Sovereignty and the Ontology of Rights: The State Language Commissioner in Post-Transit Ukraine

Forum: The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories

History

Ivan Sablin, Irina Sodnomova

Buryats and the Transformation of the Russian Empire in 1906–1907: Self-Description, Self-Organization, and Representation

Egor Antonov

Under the Name “Yakut”: Pseudonymous Authorship, Settler Colonialism, and the Political Agency of Sakha Intellectuals in the Late Russian Empire

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Alfred Rieber

Why Russian History?

In memoriam: Alfred J. Rieber (1931–2025)

Ronald Grigor Suny

Alfred Rieber (1931–2025)

In memoriam: Alfred J. Rieber (1931–2025)

Vsevolod Bashkuev

Frontier Encounters: A Story of Al Rieber Guiding My Academic Path

In memoriam: Alfred J. Rieber (1931–2025)

Book Reviews

Diego Benning Wang

Stephan Rindlisbacher, Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025). 273 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8053-0.

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Anahit Kartashyan

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). 340 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5036-3774-0.

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Aleksandr Korobeinikov

Norihiro Naganawa (Ed.), Dreams of Emancipation: A Transnational History of Revolutionary Russia (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024). 280 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-658-9.

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List of Contributors

Our Authors

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Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Methodology and Theory

Acquiring Postcolonial Subjectivity Beyond Righteous Nativism

Will the “Second Native Language” Transform into “Kazakh Russian”?

Linguistic Sovereignty and the Ontology of Rights: The State Language Commissioner in Post-Transit Ukraine

History

Buryats and the Transformation of the Russian Empire in 1906–1907: Self-Description, Self-Organization, and Representation

Under the Name “Yakut”: Pseudonymous Authorship, Settler Colonialism, and the Political Agency of Sakha Intellectuals in the Late Russian Empire

Archive

Habitual or Performative Archaism: Introduction to the Archival Publication

The Russian Guide to Colonization Management, by Titular Councilor Andrei Ivanovich Korotich

Memorandum on the Resettlement Question

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Why Russian History?

Alfred Rieber (1931–2025)

Frontier Encounters: A Story of Al Rieber Guiding My Academic Path

Book Reviews

Stephan Rindlisbacher, Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025). 273 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8053-0.

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024). 340 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5036-3774-0.

Norihiro Naganawa (Ed.), Dreams of Emancipation: A Transnational History of Revolutionary Russia (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024). 280 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-658-9.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Riccardo Nicolosi and Brigitte Obermayr (Eds.), Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024). 249 pp. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-631-2.

María Sierra, The Roma and the Holocaust: The Romani Genocide Under Nazism (London: Bloomsbury, 2024). 213 pp., ill. Annotated Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3503-3309-3.

Claire Knight, Stalin’s Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945–1953 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024). 258 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7617-5.

Mark Lipovetsky, Maria Engström, Tomáš Glanc, Ilja Kukuj, and Klavdia Smola (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 1044 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-019-750-821-3.

Alexis Peri, Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence of American and Soviet Women (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024). 290 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-674-98758-6.

Anna Reich, I Try Not to Think of Afghanistan: Lithuanian Veterans of the Soviet War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024). 131 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7454-6.