TOC: Ab Imperio 2000/3-4

Sun Jan 7 17:34:58 UTC 2001

We are pleased to announce that third and fourth issues of Ab Imperio
are
out. The double issue focuses on liberalism and nationalism. Please, note
that not all articles or reviews are in English. For subscribtion or
submission information, please, contact the editors (contact info and call
for papers are at the end of the message).

Contents:

Methodology and Theory

Aileen Kelly A Revolutionary without Fanaticism

Isaiah Berlin Introduction to Alexander Herzen’s “From the Other Shore”

History

Aileen Kelly Interpreting the Russian Silence: A New Look at an Old
Debate

Maciej Janowski Wavering Friendship: Liberal and National Ideas in
Nineteenth Century East-Central Europe

Lutz Haefner “The Constitutional-Democratic Party Adheres no Less
Firmly
to the Principle of Unity and Indivisibility of Russia”: Liberalism and
Nationalism in Russian Province, 1905-1914

Diliara Usmanova A History of a Failed Alliance: On the Problem of
Interrelationship between the Muslims and Russian Liberals during the
Constitutional Period

Serguei Glebov “Congresses of Russia Abroad” in the 1920s and the
Politics
of Йmigrй Nationalism: A Liberal Survival

Archive

Alexander Semyonov On the Authorship of One Document: An Early
Evidence of
S. Iu. Witte’s Political Activity?

[Sergei Witte] A Memorandum to the Heir to the Throne Alexander
Aleksandrovich (November 16, 1880)

Serguei Glebov Iu. F. Semenov’s Report to the First Congress of Russian
National Union in 1921

Iu. F. Semenov The Borderland Question

Sociology, Economics,
 Political Science

Will Kymlicka Federalism and Secession: East and West

Nail’ Mukhariamov Once Again on Nationalism and Liberalism

ABC of Nationalism

The First Workshop “Ab Imperio” (November 24-26, 2000)
 Empire and Nation
in Russian and Soviet History: New Research Approaches and
Methodological
Teaching Problems

Marina Mogilner Chronicle of the Workshop

Papers

Seymour Becker Russia and the Concept of Empire

Anatoly Remnev Regional Dimension of the Imperial “Geography of
Power” (A
Case of Siberia and Far East)

Iskander Giliazov On the Experience of Teaching National History:
Teaching
the History of the Tatar Nation in Kazan University – Yesterday and
Today

Alexander Kaplunovskii Brief Notes of an Ordinary Participant (In Place
of
Conclusion)

Newest Mythologies

Ilya Gerasimov Farewell to America, or the End of our Shtatnichestvo

Janet Helin The Unintended Siberian Myth

Julia Ouliannikova Adventurer, Official, Devotee: Toward a Problem of
Formation the Regional Self-Consciousness of Sakhalin

Book Reviews

Historiography

Lutz Haefner “In Russia there are no social classes, and there never have
been any”: Two Monographs on Russian Social History by Elise Wirt
schafter
and Boris Mironov

Alfred Rieber on: B. N. Mironov. Sotsial'naia Istoria Rossii Perioda
Imperii (18 - nachalo 20 vv.) Genezis lichnosti, demokraticheskoi sem'i,
grazhdanskogo obshchestva i pravovogo gosudarstva. V dvukh tomakh.
SPb,
Dmitrii Bulanin, 1999. 548 i 566 str.

Marina Mogilner on: O.V. Budnitskii, Terrorizm v rossiiskom
osvoboditel'nom dvizhenii: ideologia, etika, psikhologia (2-ia polovina 19
- nachalo 20 vv.) ROSSPEN, 2000. 399str.

Lilia Berezhnova on: Andrzej Nowak. Jak Rozbic Rosyjskie Imperium?
Idee
Polskiej Polityki Wschodniej (1733-1921). Wyd. 2-e, poprawione i
rozszerzone. Krakow: Wydawnictwo ARCANA, 1999.

Dmitrii Bondarenko on: Ia. Iu. Tinchenko. Persha ukrain'sko-
bil'shovits'ka viina (hruden' 1917 - berezen' 1918). Kyiv; Lviv; 1996

Ilya Gerasimov on: Martin Malia, Russia under Western Eyes: >From the
Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University
Press, 1999), 514 p. Index.

Olga Shevchenko on: E. B. Shestopal. Psikhologicheskii profil' rossiiskoi
politiki 1990-kh. Teoreticheskie i prikladnye problemy politicheskoi
psikhologii. Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2000. 431 str.

Andrei Skorobogatov on: S.O. Schmidt. U istokov rossiiskogo
absoliutizma:
issledovania sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii vremeni Ivana Groznogo.
Moskva: Progress-Kul'tura, 1996. 496 str., ill.

Vera Dubina on: Amerikanskaia rusistika: vekhi istoriografii poslednikh
let. Imperatorskii period: antologia/ Sost. M. David- Fox. Samara: Izd-vo
"Samarskii Universitet", 2000.

Ab Imperio welcomes submissions of articles and book reviews for the
following issues:

March: Imperial Mythologies;
June: Ethnicity and Nation;
September: Crime and Ethnicity;
December: Empire at War.

Ab Imperio is dedicated to academic debate on history and theory of
nationalities and nationalism in the former Russian Empire/Soviet
Union/Russian Federation.
Information about AI can be found on our web site at
http://aimag.knet.ru (including the table of contents of the second
issue and the full electronic version of the first issue).
AI is a joint venture of young professionals holding
simultaneously Russian and Western degrees, who are trying to
establish a
new field of studies in the post-USSR humanities and bring together
regional and foreign scholars.

All materials are published in English or Russian.
Manuscripts are accepted in English, German, Polish, Russian, and
Ukrainian.

Editors

In Russia/NIS
Ilya Gerasimov ai at bancorp.ru
Marina Mogilner ai at bancorp.ru

In USA

Serguei Glebov glebov at eden.rutgers.edu

In Germany

Alexander Kaplunovsky akapluno at yahoo.de

In Hungary

Alexander Semenov hphsem95 at phd.ceu.hu

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