Ab Imperio 4-2005 �Discussing Imperial Legacy: Archais ms 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 Thénaul 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)

Gaëlle 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

P. P. Shcherbinin. Voennyi faktor v povsednevnoi zhizni russkoi zhenshchiny 
v XVIII - nachale XX-go v. Tambov: Izd-vo "Iulis," 2004. 508 p.
Name, subject and geographical index. ISBN: 5-98407-008-1.
John Keep (E)

Zhenskaia povsednevnost' v Rossii XVIII - XXvv.: Materialy mezhdunarodnoi 
nauchnoi konferentsii, 25 sentiabria 2003 g. Pod red. P. P. Shcherbinina. 
Tambov: Izd-vo TambovGU, 2003. 233 p. 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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A. V. Popov. Rossiiskoe pravoslavnoe zarubezh'e: istoriia i istochniki. 
Moskva: Institut politicheskogo i voennogo analiza, 2005. 619 p.
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 Mlynár, 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 porównawczym
(Lódz: Ibidem, 2004). 160 s. ISBN: 83-88679-34-1;
Marek Styczynski, Umilowanie przyszlosci albo filozofia spraw
ostatecznych. Studia nad filozofia Mikolaja Bierdiajewa (Lódz: Ibidem,
2001). 243 s. ISBN: 83-88679-04-X;
Bozena Zejmo, Problemy etyczne we wspólczesnej prozie i publicystyce
rosyjskiej (Lata 60-90). (Lódz: Ibidem, 2000). 247 s. ISBN: 83-88679-00-7.
Maria Krisan’ (R)

Filosofskii vek. Al'manakh. Vypusk 5: Ideia istorii v rossiiskom 
prosveshchenii / Otv. red. T. V. Artem'eva, M. I. Mikeshin. St. Peterburg. 
SPb Tsentr istorii idei, 1998. 350 p. ISBN: 5-7187-0370-1.
Natalia Bayer (E)

Filosofskii vek. Al'manakh. Vypusk 16: Evropeiskaia identichnost' i 
rossiiskaia mental'nost' / Otv. red. T. V. Artem'eva, M. I. Mikeshin. St. 
Peterburg. SPb Tsentr istorii idei, 2001. 305 p.
ISBN: 5-7187-0370-1.
Nonna Smelova (R)

List of Contributors
Miscellaneous
Ab Imperio – 2006: Call for Papers
Books for Review 

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