Publication: New Imperial History of the Post-Soviet Space

[glebov at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU]

Dear colleagues,

the editors of Ab Imperio are pleased to announce the release of the
collection of articles New Imperial History of the Post-Soviet Space
(Kazan': Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire, 2004). Hard copy,
655 p., Index, Ill. Ed. by I. Gerasimov, S. Glebov, A. Kaplunovsky, M.
Mogilner, A. Semyonov.


This Russian-language collection of articles aims at taking stock of the
past ten years of research into history of empire, nationalism, and
nationalities in the former Russian empire/Soviet Union by Russian,
Ukrainian, US, Japanese, British, Canadian and German scholars. The
collection attempts to procure  for a new research agenda and
interpretative models of history of empire and nation in Russian history.
All articles writen for this collection represent original and recent
research and are foreworded by the editors' introduction based on 5 years
long experience of editing Ab Imperio. The volume is supplemented by
extensive annotated bibliography covering research in Russian, German,
French and English.
he collection is dedicated to one of the first practitioners of imperial
history, Professor Seymour Becker.

Full table of contents including article titles as well as ordering
information can be found at http://abimperio.net/nih

Table of Contents (Participants):

Editors. In Search of New Imperial History

I. HISTORIANS AND HISTORY OF EMPIRE

Abraham Asher

Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Marina Mogilner

Auhors: History as biography: twenty autoportraits against the background
of imperial history

II. HISTORIOGRAPHIC COORDINATES

AND ANALYTICAL CATEGORIES

(NATION, EMPIRE, CONTINENT)

Seymour Becker

Georgii Kas'ianov

Diliara Usmanova

Mark von Hagen

Ronald Suny

III. IN SEARCH FOR EMPIRE:

HETEROLOGIES OF IMPERIAL UNIVERSE

(NATIONALITIES, REGIONS, BORDERLANDS)

Alexander Filiuhskin

Richard Wortman

Kimitaka Matsuzato

Willard Sunderland

Charles Steinwedel

Ilya Gerasimov

John Klier

Mark Bassin

IV. IN SEARCH FOR EMPIRE: A UNIVERSE

OF IMPERIAL FACETS

(STATE, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE)

Alfred Rieber

Anatolii Remnev

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Robert Geraci

Joerg Baberowski

Jeremy Smith

V. APPENDIX:

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Russian

German

French

English

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