TOC: Ab Imperio 1-2003

Thu May 8 15:23:02 UTC 2003

Dear Colleagues,

Editors of Ab Imperio are pleased to announce the release of the first issue
of the journal in 2003. Please find the table of contents below. Ab Imperio'
thematic program in 2003 is devoted to exploration of varieties of borders,
boundaries, and frontiers and their role in constituting political, social,
and cultural experience. In the first issue you will find articles that
tackle the problem of boundary as an analytical concept in various academic
fields and as a human reality. Contributions from linguists, historians, and
sociologists further explore how this concept can expand and enrich our
understanding of empire and nationbuilding. The journal's continuous project
"The State of Art in History Writing on Empire and Nation" features a forum
on dilemmas of history writing in Moldova, the development of national
history in this borderland region, and present day interconnections between
identity politics and historical memory.
Ab Imperio is an international quarterly devoted to theory of nationalism
and history of empire and nationalities in the post soviet space. It is
published in English and Russian in hard and web copy (www.abimperio.net).
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

Please note that the language of publication is indicated in brackets.

I. METHODOLOGY AND THEORY

>From the Editors. Probing the Limits of Historical Metanarratives: Imperial
Boundaries (RUS/ENG)

Alfred Rieber. Changing Concepts and Constructions of Frontiers: A
Comparative Historical Approach (ENG)

Andreas Kappeler. The Russian Southern and Eastern Frontiers from the 15th
to the 18th Centuries (RUS)

David Laitin. What is a Language Community? (RUS)

II. HISTORY

Claus Scharf. Pugachev as Emperor between Center and Periphery: Defining the
Problematic (RUS)

Marina Vituhnovskaia. Karelians at the Edges of Competing National Projects:
Socioeconomic Differences between Russian and Finnish Karelias as a
Nationality Policy Factor (RUS)

Pavel Varnavskii. The Boundaries of the Soviet Buryat Nation: “Cultural
Nation-Building” in Buryatia in 1926-29 in Blueprints of National
Intelligentsia and National-Bolsheviks (RUS)

Vladimir Bobrovnikov. Violence and Power in the Historical Memory of a
Muslim Borderland (Toward a New Interpretation of the “Hochbar Tale”) (RUS)

Ilya Gerasimov. “We Only Kill Each Other”: Mapping the Inter-Ethnic Criminal
Violence in Odessa, 1907-1917 (RUS)

Darius Staliunas. Borders in a Borderland: The Belarusians and the
Ethno-linguistic Policy of the Russian Empire in Western Borderlands (the
Era of “Great Reforms”) (RUS)

Curt Woolhiser. Constructing National Identities in the Polish-
Belarusian Borderlands (ENG)

Suzanne Wertheim. Language Ideologies and the “Purification” of Post-Soviet
Tatar (ENG)

III. ARCHIVE

Elena Bezvikonnaia. Geopolitical Space of the Steppe: The Omsk Region and
the Problem of Frontier in the Russian Imperial State Building
(1820s-1830s) (RUS)

Documents from the State Archive of Omsk Region (RUS)

IV. SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Tatiana Skrynnikova. Russia in Buryats’ Identity Construction (RUS)

Kimitaka Matsuzato. Russian Studies across Borders. Slavic Studies in Japan
and Social Sciences in Russia: A Joint Search for Breaking the Isolation
(RUS)

V. ABC: EMPIRE & NATIONALISM STUDIES

>From the Editors
Stefan Troebst. “We Are Transnistrians!” Post-Soviet Identity Management in
the Dniester Valley (ENG)

Sergiu Musteata.“We are Rumanians?” History Teaching in the Republic of
Moldova over the Last Decade (RUS)

Andrei Cusco, Viktor Taki.“Who Are We?” A Historiographic Choice between the
Rumanian Nation and Moldavian Statehood (RUS)

VI. NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES

Sergei Abashin.The Archeology of Central Asian Nationalisms (RUS)

VII. HISTORIOGRAPHY

Mark Baker One Man Cannot an “Eastern Europe” Make, but he Can Certainly
Try: Charles Frederick Henningsen and the Ideological Construction of
Eastern Europe (ENG)

VIII. REVIEWS

I. Martyniuk on Denis J. B. Shaw, Russia in the Modern World: A New
Geography (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999). 314 p., paperback edition.
Ј16.99

Emilian Kavalski on Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations: The Medieval
Origins of Europe (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press,
2002); xii+2000 p. Index. ISBN: 0-691-09054-8 (cloth).

Paul du Quenoy on Alexander J. Motyl, Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse,
and Revival of Empires (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). 128 p.
ISBN: 0-231-12110-5 (cloth).

Maya Lavrinovich on Claus Scharf. Katharina II, Deutschland und die
Deutschen. Mainz: von Zabern, 1996. 570 S. (Abb.; ohne Abbildungen – Mainz,
1995)

Andrei Skorobogatov on Л. М. Гаврилова. Русская историческая мысль и
медальерное искусство в эпоху Екатерины II. СПб.: РИЦ СПб. Гос. горного
ин-та им.  Г. В. Плеханова, 2000. 256 с., илл.

Tomasz Kamusella on Koichi Inoue (Ed.), “Dear Father!”: A Collection of B.
Pilsudski’s Letters, et alii, Ser.: Pilsudskiana de Sapporo, no. 1 (Sapporo:
Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 1999), 155 p., figures,
facsimiles.

Wim van Meurs  on Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer (Ed.), Culture Incarnate.
Native Anthropology from Russia (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995), xii, 270
pp. (Illustr.)

Sergei Korshunov on А. Н. Зорин. Города и посады дореволюционного Поволжья.
Историко-этнографическое исследование населения и поселенческой структуры
городов российской провинции второй половины XVI - начала XX вв. Казань:
Изд-во Казанского университета, 2001.
704 с., 376 ил.

Alter Litvin and Alla Sal’nikova on Israel Getzler, Nikolai Sukhanov.
Chronicler of the Russian Revolution (London: Palgrave. 2002), xix, 226 p.
(Illustr.)

Olga Velychko and Margarita Orlova on И. С. Яжборовская, А. Ю. Яблоков, В.
С. Парсаданова. Катынский синдром в советско-польских и российско-польских
отношениях. Москва. РОССПЭН, 2001. 496 с.

List of Contributors
Ab Imperio – 2002
Miscellaneous
Books for Reviews

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