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Issue 2/2026 | Ab Imperio

Issue 2/2026

Methodology and Theory

The Dilemma of Universalism, a Common Language, and Inequality

Yuliya Smirnova

The Norm as Language Commons: Between Linguistic Democracy and Cultural Memory

Forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories: Part V”

Kapitolina Fedorova, Vlada Baranova

Putting Together a Decentered Conversation on “World Russians”

Forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories: Part V”

Vlada Baranova, Kapitolina Fedorova

A Monocentric Language Ideology and the Plurality of Russian Languages

Forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories: Part V”

History

Nikolay Tsyrempilov

Confessional Loyalty and Buryat Mobilization in the Russian Empire During World War I

Michał Patryk Sadłowski

The Ukrainian Question in the Political Thought of Paul Miliukov During His Emigration (1918–1943)

Historiography

Gennady Korolov

Mark von Hagen: Ukraine and the Decentralization of Historical Narrative

Марк фон Гаґен. Історичні есе. Мюнхен: Український Вільний Університет, 2025.

Decolonization in Question: The Russian Case

Adam Lenton et al., Decolonizing Russia? Disentangling Debates. Cambridge, 2025.

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

Disentangling Agency, Theories, and Decolonization

Adam Lenton et al., Decolonizing Russia? Disentangling Debates. Cambridge, 2025.

Book Reviews

Martin Schulze Wessel. Die übersehene Nation: Deutschland und die Ukraine seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. München: C. H. Beck, 2025. 287 S., ill. Ausgewählte Literatur. Personenregister. ISBN: 978-3-406-82174-5.

John W. Steinberg

Gudrun Persson, Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2025). 206 pp. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-64712-638-4.

Igor Kuziner, Social History of the True Orthodox Christians Wandering in Russia: Capitalism, Communism, and Apocalypse, 1900–1930 (New York: Routledge, 2025). 208 pp., ill. List of Sources and Literature. Index. ISBN: 978-1-041-10125-3.

Liudmila Sharaya

Nina Bogdan, Before We Disappear into Oblivion: San Francisco’s Russian Diaspora from Revolution to Cold War (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025). 420 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2473-6.

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Batsaikhan Ookhnoi Emgent, Russian Policy Towards Mongolia, 1911–1952: When Mongolia Fought the Red Front (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). 315 pp., ill. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-981-96-6185-5.

Batsaikhan Ookhnoi Emgent, Russian Policy Towards Mongolia, 1911–1952: When Mongolia Fought the Red Front (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). 315 pp., ill. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-981-96-6185-5.

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Zamira Abman, Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024). 221 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-5318-0.

Pietro A. Shakarian, Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev’s Kremlin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025). 350 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-07354-9.

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A. Austin Garey, Leagues of Laughter: War, Comedy and the Soviet Legacy in Russia and Ukraine (London: UCL Press, 2025). 214 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-879-5.

Jeremy Morris, Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). 249 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3505-0932-0.

Vincenc Kopeček, Martin Lepič, and Libor Jelen (Eds.), Ethnicity and Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Eurasia (New York, NY: Routledge, 2025). 240 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-041-09997-0.

Alexandra Zborovsky

Alex Moshkin, Dual Diaspora: Post-Soviet Culture in Search of Israeli Identity (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025). 204 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2455-2.

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