TOC Ab Imperio 1-2/2001- Imperial Mythologies

Fri May 25 04:55:27 UTC 2001

Dear friends,

we are glad to announce the publication of the first two issues of Ab
Imperio Quarterly in 2001. Focused on "Imperial Mythologies", this double
issue as usually features translations and original publications.

Ab Imperio Quarterly is an international journal dedicated to the studies of
Russia as empire, nationalism and nationalities in the post-Soviet realm.
Edited by Russian scholars who simultaneously hold Western degrees, Ab
Imperio is designed as an international forum that will provide ground for
communication between academics both in the region and internationally.

Ab Imperio welcomes articles, essays and book reviews. If you are interested
in submitting an article, please, contact one of the editors.

Information on subscription and contacts can be found on Ab Imperio's web
site at http://aimag.knet.ru
Future thematic issues are also listed at
http://aimag.knet.ru/cgi-bin/aishow.pl?idlang=1&state=news_en

Please, note that access to all issues published in 2000 is now FREE at

http://aimag.knet.ru

Working on the issue devoted to "Imperial Mythologies," we discovered that
it is precisely this problem that attracts much of interest of many Russian
and Western scholars. Nowadays it seems virtually inconceivable to address
the problem of empire without studying the language of empire's
self-perception, the construction of imperial power, relationship between
imperial and regional identity, the mapping of the external frontier of the
empire and internal boundaries within imperial territory, the "imagining" of
the empire's past by the historical profession, conscious about mythmaking
ideologues, writers, poets, and even by children in their childhood memoirs.

Currently, we witness the process of mythologization of not only the
pre-Revolutionary Russian history. The recent Soviet empire is gradually
becoming a myth. In this situation the editors of Ab Imperio legitimately
expected the flow of valued contributions to the issue specifically focused
on "Imperial Mythologies." But our expectations were greatly surpassed by
the number of authors who offered articles for publication. Despite rigorous
criteria of review and selection process, the volume grew rather thick. Its
materials range from the period of Kievan Rus' to the contemporary Russian
history and expose multiple approaches to the topic. The thickness of the
issue certainly reflects the present day research interest in empire as a
self-reflecting polity. Instead of artificially cutting down the volume to
the "normal size" we decided to make a double issue on "Imperial
 Mythologies" to preserve the variety of insightful and deep accounts of
that phenomenon in the Russian case.

Editors of Ab Imperio:
I. Gerasimov
S. Glebov
A. Kaplunovski
M. Mogilner
A. Semeyonov

Contents:

Editorial
Editors
    To the Reader

Methodology and Theory
Ronald Grigor Suny
    The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, "National" Identity, and
Theories of Empire

Zenon Kohut
    Origins of the Unity Paradigm: Ukraine and the Construction of Russian
National History (1620s-1860s)

History
Andrei Korenevskii
    Who and When "Invented" the Theory "Moscow, The Third Rome"?

Judith E. Kalb
    Merezhkovskii's Third Rome: Imperial Visions and Christian Dreams

Fritiof Benjamin Schenk
    Political Myth and Collective Identity: The Alexander Nevskii Myth in
Russian History (1263-1998)

Andrei Skorobogatov
    The Semiotics of Paul I' Authority

Ilya Vinkovetsky
    Circumnavigation, Empire, Modernity, Race: The Impact of Round-The-World
Voyages on Russia's Imperial Consciousness

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
    Ideologies of Empire in Imperial Russia

Mikhail Dolbilov
    The Cultural Idiom of Russia's Revival as a Factor of Imperial Policy in
the Lithuanian-Belorussian Region in 1863-1865

Chris J. Chulos
    In Praise of the Local: Post-Emancipation Authors of the Provincial
Press and Celebrations of the Russian Empire

Svetlana Malysheva
    The Myth of the 1917 Revolution: The First Soviet State Project

Archive
Andrei Skorobogatov
    Archival Collection of Historian D. V. Odinets in the Manuscripts and
Rare Books Devision of the Kazan University's N. I. Lobachevskii Research
Library

>>From the Editors
    Preface to the Publication

Dmitrii Odinets
    The National Question

Sociology and Political Science
Andrei Tuzikov
    Put in a Word for the "Russian Idea" in English

The ABC of Nationalism
Alexander Semeyonov
    Interview with Mark von Hagen and Richard Wortman on the Problem of a
New Curriculum in Russian History

The Newest Mythologies
James Casteel
    The "Eastern Jew" as a Site of Memory in Interwar German-Jewish Travel
Accounts

Alla Sal'nikova
    Grandchildren of the Soviet Empire: Schoolchildren Compositions on the
Topic "I Myself, My Family, and My Country in the 1990s"

Reviews and Bibliography
Igor' Martyniuk
    Behind the Bars of Slavophilism: Nicholas Danilevsky - Shpenglerianist.
Cartesianist.

Ghenadie Mardari
    Igor Casu. Nationality Policy in Soviet Moldova: 1944-1989. Chisinau,
Moldova: Cartdidact, 2000. 214 p. Conclusions in Romanian, English and
Russian. Bibliographical references. Index.

Mariia Novak
    Iiaay Iieuoa. Iauanoaaiii-iieeoe?aneee e eeoa?aoo?iue a?a-iany?iee.
Ecaaaony Iaoeiiaeuiie aeaeeioaeie i?e oeiainiaie iiaaa??ea Ieienoa?noaa
eoeuoo?u e iaoeiiaeuiiai ianeaaey ?anioaeeee Iieuoa. Aa?oaaa, 2000. ?? 2-10.

Serguei Glebov
    Jeremy Smith, The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917-23 (New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), xvii, 281 p. map; Series: Studies in Russia
and Eastern Europe.

Vera Dubina
    A. I. Aaeoaa. Nii?u i noauaao ?innee: I. ?. Aaieeaaneee e aai eieaa
"?inney e Aa?iia". Iineaa: Yaeoi?eae O?NN, 1999.

Nataliia Glebova
    V dvizhenii dobrovol'nom i vynuzhdennom. Postsovetskie migratsii v
Evrazii / Edited by Anatolii Viatkin, Natalia Kosmarskaia, Sergei Panarin.
Moscow: Natalis, 1999. 319 p. List of authors, name index, geographical
index, summaries in English.

Mariia Kazakova
    Enoi?ey ?ineeneie iiia?oee: iiaiey e ioaiee. NIa.: Ianoi?, 2000. 193 n.

Mikhail Leonov
    Ianaeaiea ?innee a OO aaea. Enoi?e?aneea i?a?ee. A 3-o o. Oii 1.
1900-1939. Iineaa: ?INNIYI, 2000. 463 n.

Serguei Glebov
    Natsionalism. Polemika 1909-1917/ Antology edited by M. Kolerov. Moscow:
Dom Intellektual'noi Knigi, 2000. 238 p. Notes.

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