TOC: Ab Imperio 3-2002

Tue Feb 4 09:41:48 UTC 2003

Dear friends and colleagues,

Ab Imperio editors are pleased to announce the release of the third issue of AI in 2002. Ab Imperio is a bilingual (English-Russian) journal dedicated to the study of nationalism, nationalities and empire in the post-Soviet realm. Materials of this issue written from different disciplinary perspectives (theory, history, sociology, political science, anthropology) address the theme of "RUSSIAN SOCIETY: STRUCTURES AND CULTURES" (see below the Table of Contents). The issue features a roundtable on the most dynamic trend in scholarship on Soviet history – the linguistic and cultural turn in studies of Soviet subjectivity. It also continues the long term project of Ab Imperio “The State of Art in History Writing on Empire and Nation” dedicated to review of national historiographies and the role of history in identity formation of the post soviet societies.

Following a major restructuring, AI is published with a new publisher and features a new website, accessible at http://abimperio.net . We expect to accomplish our thematic program for 2002 shortly and have already started work on the issues of 2003.

For submissions or subscription, please, contact the editors at ai at bancorp.ru  hphsem95 at phd.ceu.hu   glebov at rci.rutgers.edu  or akapluno at yahoo.de  

Editors. Russian Society: Structures and Cultures

Methodology and Theory

Max Weber Estates and Classes (RUS)

Max Weber Relations of Ethnic Community (RUS)

Pierre Bourdieu     Identity and Representation: Elements of Critical Reflection of the Idea of “Region” (RUS)

Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper   Beyond “Identity” (RUS)

History

Maia Lavrinovich Building the Social Foundations of Empire in the 18th Century: Practices of Legislation toward the Townspeople and their Western European Roots  (RUS)

Vitalii Voropanov 
    The Practice of Local Justice: Crown Courts for the Countryside Dwellers in the Orenburg Province during the Last Quarter of the 18th Century and the Beginning of the 19th Century  (RUS)

Lutz Haefner  Civil Society, B?rgertum, and “Local Society”: In Search for Analytical Categories for Studies of Public and Social Modernization in Late Imperial Russia  (RUS)

FORUM: The analysis of subjectivization practices...

Editors.  Thinking Theoretically About the Cultural and Linguistic Turn in Soviet Studies

Interview with Igal Halfin and Jochen Hellbeck (RUS)

Alexander Kustarev   On the Agents of Soviet Chronotop (RUS)

David L. Hoffmann   Power, Discourse, and Subjectivity in Soviet History (ENG)

Jeremy Smith   The Soviet State and the Individual (ENG)

Svetlana Boym  How is the Soviet Subjectivity made? (ENG)

Ilya Gerasimov  Before the Dark. (Re)Forging of the New Soviet Man in the 1920’s: Testimonies of the Participants (RUS)

Alla Salnikova  “The Gehenna of Fire”: The Children Perceptions of the Early Soviet period (RUS)

Dietrich Beyrau The Bolshevik Project as a Plan and Social Practice (RUS)

Yasuhiro Matsui  Soviet Diary as a Medium of Communality and Intersubjectivity: A Study of a Collective Diary (ENG)

Jochen Hellbeck  “Soviet Subjectivity” – a Cliché? (RUS)

Igal Halfin  The Syntax of the Bolshevik Subject (RUS)

    Summary: The Analysis of Subjectivization Practices...

Archive

Alter Litvin  A Historian’s Diary: Foreword to the Publication (RUS)

Document From the Diary of S. A. Piontkovskii (RUS)

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Vitali Silitski  The Deadlock of Brotherhood: Politics of Russia-Belarus Integration (ENG)

 ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Alexander Semyonov   From the Editors. The State of Art in History Writing on Nation and Empire (RUS)

Roundtable  The Problem of Empire in History and Historiography Curricular of Secondary and Higher Education (RUS)

F. M. Eliisa Vaha    Producing Patriots. Heroic Stories and Individual Heroes as the Makers of the Soviet and Russian Identity in History Textbooks, 1950-1995 (ENG)

Newest Mythologies

Benjamin Rifkin The Evolution of “Us” and “Them” in Russian Film from Perestroika to Putin (ENG)

Historiography

Ilya Gerasimov  The Con. Swindlers and the Forging of a New Soviet Man in the Articles by US Historians (RUS)

Oksana Sarkisova    Degrees of Unfreedom: In Search of a Lost Subjectivity (Review Essay: Jeffrey Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture From Revolution to Cold War) (RUS)

Book Reviews

Christian Noack
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Igor Martyniuk
    Anna Geifman (Ed.), Russia under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894 – 1917 (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1999); 310 pp.; ISBN 1-55786-995-2.

Nataliia Andreeva
    Andreas Renner. Russischer Nationalismus und ?ffentlichkeit im Zarenreich 1855-1875. K?ln, Weimar, Wien, 2000. (Beitr?ge zur Geschichte Osteuropas / Hrsg. v. D. Beyrau, B. Bonwetsch, D. Geyer, M. Hildermeier. Bd. 31). 447 S.

Sergei Podbolotov
    ?. ?. ???????????. ??????? ??????????? ? ?????? ?? ????????: ???????? ? ?????? ????????? ?????????????? ????????????? ?????. ??????: ???????, 2001. 528 ?., ??.

Emilian Kavalski
    Rajan Menon, Yuri E. Fedorov, Ghia Nodia (Eds.), Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia: The Twenty-first Century Predicament (Armonk, NY: M. E.Sharpe, 1999); xvi+272 p. Index. ISBN: 0-7656-0433-7 (cloth)

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