TOC: Ab Imperio 4-2005 �Discussing Imperial Legacy: Ar chaisms and Neologisms�

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Dear colleagues, 

the editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the fourth issue of the journal in 2005. Please, visit the journal website at http://abimperio.net for any additional information. 

With best regards,

Sergey Glebov

2005 annual theme: LANGUAGES OF SELF-DESCRIPTION IN EMPIRE AND MULTINATIONAL STATE

Issue 4/2005 “Discussing Imperial Legacy: Archaisms and Neologisms”

I. METHODOLOGY AND THEORY

 From the Editors A “Post” Situation. After Empire: Back to Ethnicity? 
Forward to Nation? (E)

Interview with L. Carl Brown, Mark von Hagen, and Karen Barkey In Search 
of Imperial Legacy: Historians’ Recollections and Historiographic 
Milestones (E)

Alain Blum, Marina Mogilner After the Melting Pot: in Search of 
Languages of Description. Dialogues in Letters (“From the Editors’ 
Correspondence”) (E)

Sylvie Thenaul The State of Emergency (1955-2005): From Colonial Algeria 
to Contemporary France (R)

II. History

FORUM AI:
IMPERIAL LEGACIES AS A RESOURCE FOR NATION-BUILDING: THE CASE OF 
CHINGGIS KHAN

Darima Amogolonova, Tatiana Skrynnikova The Mongol Empire and Chinggis 
Khan in Identity Construction (R)

Tatiana Skrynnikova The Image of Chinggis Khan in Contemporary Buriat 
Historical and Cultural Discourse (R)

Gaelle Lacaze The Image of Chinggis Khan in the Identity Construction of 
the Mongol Peoples during the Post-Socialist Period (R)

Stanislav Ugdyzhekov Chinggis Khan and His Empire in the Contemporary 
Identity Practices of the Khakass People (R)

Christopher Kaplonski The Case of the Disappearing Chinggis Khaan: 
Dismembering the Remembering (E)

III. Archive

Guzel Makarova, Ekaterina Khodzhaeva Managing Ethnocultural Differences 
“After Empire” (Interviews with Experts on Culture and Enthocultural 
Politics in the Republic of Tatarstan): Introduction to the Publication (R)

“You Know, Ethnic Cultures, They are Constantly Developing...” (R)

IV. SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Serguei Oushakine Vital Forces of the Russian Tragedy: Theorizing 
Post-Soviet Ethnicity (R)

V. ABC: EMPIRE & NATIONALISM STUDIES

CONSTRUCTING A NATIONAL HISTORY IN THE LANGUAGE OF SOVIET SCIENCE AFTER 
THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR: THE CASE OF UZBEKISTAN

Marlene Laruelle Ethnology, Nationhood, and Politics in Uzbekistan (R)

Sergei Abashin Some Thoughts after the Discussion on Nationalism in 
Uzbekistan (R)

Marianne Kamp A Structuralist Argument Concerning the Consolidation of 
Uzbek Identity (E)

Adeeb Khalid Theories and Politics of Central Asian Identities (E)

Alisher Il’khamov Post-Soviet Ethnography, Myth Creation, and Authority (R)

Marlene Laruelle The “Ethnogenesis” of the Uzbeks as an Element of 
Soviet Scholarship (R)

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Educational Partnership of Kazan State University and Rutgers University 
(USA), “Building Democracies in Multiethnic Societies”

VI. NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES

Vyacheslav Morozov Language and Structure: the Problem of Interpretation 
of Subjectivity in Contemporary Russian Politics (R)

Michael Gorham Putin’s Language (E)

VII. Review Essays

Charles King, The Black Sea: A History (New York and Oxford: Oxford 
University Press, 2004). 276 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-19-924161-9.
Nikita Khrapunov (R)

Leonora Neville, Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100 
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). xi+210 pp. Appendix, 
Guide to the Sources, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-83865-7.
Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov (E)

Tracey C. German, Russia’s Chechen War (London and New York: 
Routledge/Curzon, 2003). 246 pp. ISBN: 0-415-29720-6 (hardback edition).
Iaroslav Golovin (R)

R-FORUM
GENDER AND EVERYDAY IMPERIAL PRACTICES

П. П. Щербинин. Военный фактор в повседневной жизни русской женщины в 
XVIII – начале XX в. Тамбов: Издательство “Юлис”, 2004. 508 с. 
Предметный указатель, Географический указатель, Именной указатель. ISBN: 
5-98407-008-1.
John Keep (E)

Женская повседневность в России в XVIII – XX вв.: Материалы 
международной научной конференции, 25 сентября 2003 г. / Отв. ред. П. П. 
Щербинин. Тамбов: Издательство Тамбовского государственного университета 
им. Г. Р. Державина, 2003. 233 с. ISBN: 5-89016-106-7.
Anna Tikhomirova (R)

Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson, Anna Rotkirch (Eds.), On Living through 
Soviet Russia (Routledge Studies in Memory & History, Vol. 13) (London 
and New York: Routledge, 2004). 336 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 
0-415-30966-2.
Elke Fein (E)

Irina Paert, Old Believers, Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 
1760-1850 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003). 
xii+257 pp. Select Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7190-6322-1 (hardback 
edition).
Orysya Hachko (E)

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А. В. Попов. Российское православное зарубежье: История и источники. 
Москва: Институт политического и военного анализа, 2005. 619 с. 
(=Материалы к истории русской политической эмиграции. Вып. 10). ISBN: 
5-93349-034-2.
Viacheslav Men’kovskii (R)

Donald Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed 
for Him (New York: Random House, 2004). xxviii+546 pp. ISBN: 
0-3755-0632-2 (paper).
Ilya Kuksin (R)

Emilio Gentile, The Struggle for Modernity: Nationalism, Futurism, and 
Fascism (Westport, CT, and London: Praeger Publishers, 2003). xix+201 
pp. Index. ISBN: 0-275-97692-0.
Igor Martyniuk (R)

Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar, Conversations with Gorbachev: On 
Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism / 
Translated by George Shriver, with a Foreword by Archie Brown (New York 
and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2002). xxv+225 pp. Index. 
ISBN: 0-2311-1864-3.
Andrea Orzoff (E)

Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Globalization, Geopolitics and Energy Security in 
Central Eurasia and the Caspian Region (The Hague: Clingendael 
International Energy Programme, 2003). 254 pp. Bibliography, Index. 
ISBN: 9-05031-085-0.
Charles C. Kolb (E)

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Bruce W. Menning (Eds.), Reforming 
the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the 
Great to the Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). 
ix+361 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-521-81988-1 (hardback edition).
Ivan Sokolovskii (R)

Adam F. Kola, Slowianofilstwo czeskie i rosyjskie w ujeciu porownawczym 
(Lodz: Ibidem, 2004). 160 s. ISBN: 83-88679-34-1;
Marek Styczynski, Umilowanie przyszlosci albo filozofia spraw 
ostatecznych. Studia nad filozofia Mikolaja Bierdiajewa (Lodz: Ibidem, 
2001). 243 s. ISBN: 83-88679-04-X;
Bozena Zejmo, Problemy etyczne we wspolczesnej prozie i publicystyce 
rosyjskiej (Lata 60-90). (Lodz: Ibidem, 2000). 247 s. ISBN: 83-88679-00-7.
Maria Krisan’ (R)

Философский век. Альманах. Выпуск 5: Идея истории в российском 
просвещении / Отв. ред. Т. В. Артемьева, М. И. Микешин. Санкт-Петербург: 
Санкт-Петербургский Центр истории идей, 1998. 350 c. ISBN: 5-7187-0370-1.
Natalia Bayer (E)

Философский век. Альманах. Выпуск 16: Европейская идентичность и 
российская ментальность / Отв. ред. Т. В. Артемьева, М. И. Микешин. 
Санкт-Петербург: Санкт-Петербургский Центр истории идей, 2001. 305 с. 
ISBN: 5-7187-0370-1.
Nonna Smelova (R)

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Ab Imperio – 2006: Call for Papers
Books for Review

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