Ab Imperio 2-2007 The Politics of Comparison

Sun Oct 7 15:49:51 UTC 2007

Dear colleagues,

The editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the second issue of the journal in 2007. Please, note that all information on the journal, including submission guidelines, annual program and issue foci, subscription details is accessible through the journal website at http://abimperio.net 

Sergey Glebov

The Politics of Comparison

Methodology and Theory

>From the Editors  Politics of Comparison: Inescapable Centrality and Elusive Clarity of Matching Things Up (Eng/Rus)

Andreas Kappeler The Center and Peripheral Elites in the Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1700-1918 (Rus)

Michael Werner and Benedicte Zimmermann Beyond Comparison: Histoire croisee and the Challenge of Reflexivity (Rus)

Interview with Matthias Middell The Centrality of Comparison (Eng)

Glennys Young Emotions, Contentious Politics, and Empire: Some Thoughts about the Soviet Case  (Eng)

History

Kristin Vitalich Dictionary as Empire: Vladimir Dals Interpretive Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language (Eng)

Steven Seegel Metageography Unbound: Late Nineteenth-century European Borderland Cartography and the Geopolitical Construction of Space (Eng)

Svetlana Gorshenina Is the Marginality of Russian Colonial Turkestan Perpetual, or Whether Central Asia Will Be Included One Day into the Sphere of Post-Studies (RUS)

Xavier Le Torrivellec Tatars and Bashkirs: A History in the Mirror. Ethnic Composition, Historiographic Debates, and Political Power in the Republic of Bashkortostan (RUS)

Tassadit Yacine At the Origins of an Unusual Ethno-Sociology (RUS)

Todd Shepard Making French and European Coincide: Decolonization and the Politics of Comparative and Transnational Histories (Eng)

archive

The Empire of Archives: Call for Papers(Eng/Rus)

Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science

Irina Morozova Elites, Reforms, and Power Institutions in Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia in the 1920-1940s: a Comparative Historical Analysis(Eng)

Newest Mythologies

Joseph Crescente Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serdiuchka and the Hybridization of Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine (Eng)

Reviews

R-Forum

Russian Music, Modernism, and Power

Boris Gasparov, Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). xxii+268 pp. Musical exs., Notes, Index. ISBN: 0-300-10650-5.

Amy Nelson

Amy Nelson, Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004). xvi+330 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 0-271-02369-4 (hardcover edition).

Irina Kotkina

Kiril Tomoff, Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939  1953 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). xiv+321 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-4411-X (hardcover edition).

Serhy Yekelchyk

A. A. Komzolova. Politika samoderzhaviia v Severo-Zapadnom krae v epokhu Velikikh reform. Moscow: Nauka, 2005. 383 p., ill. ISBN: 5-02-010293-8.

Darius Staliunas

Aziatskaia Rossiia: Liudi I struktury imperii: sbornik nauchnykh statei. K 50-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia professor A. V. Remneva / Pod red. N. G. Suvorovoi. Omsk: Izdatelstvo Omskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. 2005. 603 p. ISBN: 5-7779-0629-.

Scott C. Bailey

Susanna Rabow-Edling, Slavo-phile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Conservatism (Albany, NY: State University of New York Pres, 2006). vii+183 pp. (=SUNY Series in National Identities). Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7914-6693-0 (hardcover edition).

Mikhail Suslov

Frederick C. Corney, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004). xviii+301pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8931-8 (paperback edition).

Liudmila Novikova

Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). xxiv+402 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 0-520-23550-9.

Andrew Gentes

David L. Ransel, Bozena Shallcross (Eds.), Polish Encounters, Russian Identity (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005). 232 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-253-21771-7.

Aleksandra Petukhova

A. V. Bogomolov, S. I. Danilov, I. N. Semivolos, G. M. Iavorskaia. Islamskaia identichnost; v Ukraine / Tr, from Ukrainian. 2nd Edition. Kyiv: Stilos, 2006. 200 p. ISBN: 966-8518-45-4.

Andrew Wilson

I. V. Narskii. Zhizn v katastrrofe: Budni naseleniia Urala v 1917-1922 gg. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2001. 632 p. ISBN: 5-8243-0280-4.

Ernest Gyidel

O. E. Kosheleva. Liudi Sankt-Peterburgskogo ostrova Petrovskogo vremeni.Moscow: OGI, 2004 486 p., ill. ISBN: 5-94282-262-.        

Pavel Chechenkov

Anton Adamovich Da gistoryi belaruskae literatury. Mensk, Zmitser Kolas, 2005. 1464 p. Name index. ISBN: 985-90050-3-6.

Aleksandr Gronskii. 

Linda Murray, Peter Murray, A Dictionary of Christian Art (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 658 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 0-19-860966-3 (paperback edition).

Nikita Khrapunov

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