Ab Imperio 1 2008 "Imperial Exceptionalisms: mechanisms and discourses"

Wed May 21 15:03:32 UTC 2008

Dear colleagues,

The editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the first issue of the journal this year. Detailed information about the journal, current calls for papers, and subscription details can be found at http://abimperio.net 

Sergey Glebov

TOC Ab Imperio 1-2008

I. Methodology and Theory

>From the Editors

Interview with Zygmunt Bauman In the Court Where Multi-Ethnic Polities are on Trial the Jury is Still Out

Jeremy Adelman An Age of Imperial Revolutions

Nicholas Breyfogle Enduring Imperium: Russia/Soviet Union/Eurasia as Multiethnic, Multiconfessional Space

II. History

Seymour Becker Projects for Political Reform in Russia in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century

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Materials of the Presidential Panel 
of the 39th Annual Convention 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Mark R. Beissinger The Persistence of Empire in Eurasia

Nancy Condee Mediation, Imagination, and Time: Speculative Remarks on Russian Culture

Alexander Semyonov Empire as a Context Setting Category

Ronald Grigor Suny Studying Empires

IV. Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science

Sergei Prozorov Empire in the Age of Its Disrepute: A Comment on Mark Beissingers AAASS Presidential Address

Mark R. Beissinger Comments on Sergei Prozorovs Empire in the Age of Its Disrepute

V. Newest Mythologies

Aleksei Mikhalev The Orthodox Christianity in Contemporary Mongolia: The Rhetoric and Practices of Cultural Expansion   

VI. 1. Historiography

Mikhail Suslov Recent Historical Studies of Russian Conservatism: Students, Critics, and Proponents

VI. 2. Reviews

Vytautas Petronis, Constructing Lithuania: Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914 (Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2007). 309 pp. (=Stockholm Studies in History, 91; Sdertrn Doctoral Dissertations, 21). ISBN: 9-7891-85445-79-0.

Steven Seegel

Marko Buttino. Revolitsiia naoborot: Sredniaia Azia mezdu padeniem tsarskoi imperii i obrazovaniem SSSR / Per. s italianskogo N. Ohotina, posleslovie A. Mazoero. Moskva: Zvenia, 2007. 447 s. ISBN: 978-5-7870-0110-5.

Sergei Abashin

Annegret Bautz, Sozialpolitik statt Wohlttigkeit? Der Konzeptionswandel stdtischer Frsorge in Sankt Petersburg von 1892 bis 1914 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007). 221 S. (=Forschungen zur osteuropischen Geschichte; Bd. 68). ISBN: 9-783-44705-439-3.

Kirsten Boenker

Nicholas B. Dirks, The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006). 389 pp. ISBN 0-674-02166-5.

Svetlana Konstantinova

Alexei Yurchenko, Jens Petter Nielsen (Eds.), In the North my Nest is Made: Studies in the History of the Murman Colonization 1860-1940 (St. Petersburg: European University at St. Petersburg Press, 2005). 266 pp., 32 ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 5-94380-048-4;

Reinhard Nachtigal, Die Murmanbahn 1915 bis 1919. Kriegsnotwendigkeit und Wirtschaftsinteressen, 2nd edition (Remshalden: Greiner, 2007). 222 pp. Bibliography, Index, Appendix, Maps. ISBN: 978-3-935383-96-7.

Liudmila Novikova

Granitsa i liudi. Vospominaniia sovetskikh pereselentsev Priladozhskoi Karelii i Karelskogo peresheika / Nauch. red. E. A. Melioikova. Sost. V. IU. Makarova i dr. Sankt-Peterburg: Izd. Evropeiskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2005. 484 p. (=Studia Ethnologica, . 2). ISBN: 5-94380-041-7;

Mnogolikaiia Finliandiia. Obraz Finliandii i finnov v Rossii / Sb. statei pod nauch. red. A. N. Tsamutali, O. P. Iliukhi i G. M. Kovalenko. Velikii Novgorod: Izd. Novgorodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta imeni Iaroslava Mudrogo, 2004. 404 p., ill. (Nauchnye doklady vyp. 1). ISBN: 5-98769-003-X.

Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov

Kimitaka Matsuzato (Ed.), Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries: Histories Revived or Improvised? (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2005). 415 pp. Index. ISBN: 4-938637-35-9.

Sergei Digol

Larissa Remennick, Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration and Conflict (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007). ix+408 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 9-780-765-803-405.

Elena Nosenko

Daniel Balmuth, The Russian Bulletin, 1863  1917: A Liberal Voice in Tsarist Russia (New York, Vienna, and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000). 462 pp. (=American university studies IX, History; Vol. 194). Bibliographical References, Index. ISBN: 0-8204-4921-0.

Ekaterina Gorbunova

Milan Subotic, Put Rusije: evrazijsko stanoviste (Belgrade: Plato, 2004). 326 pp. (=Biblioteka Koinonia, Vol. 26). ISBN: 86-447-0231-0.

Martin Beisswenger

Evraziiskaia ideia i sovremennost. Sbornik statei / Pod red. N. S. Kirabaeva, A. V. Semushkina, S. A. Nizhnikova. Moskva: Mezhvuzovskii tsentr po izucheniiu filosofii i kultury Vostoka, Izdatelstvo Rossiiskogo universiteta druzhb narodov, 2002. 271 s. ISBN: 5-209-01477-0.

P. Vandych. Tsina svobody: Istoria Tsentralno-Skhidnoi Evropi vid Serednovichcha do sogodennia. Per. S. Grachovoi, pod red. A. Portnova. Kyiv: Krytyka, 2004. 464 s. ISBN 966-7679-54-3                                     

Aleksandr Filiushkin

Peter Kenez, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, 2nd edition (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 352 pp. Chronology, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-86437-2 (hardback edition).

Anatolii Rusnachenko

Osamu Ieda (Ed.), The New Structure of the Rural Economy of post-Communist Countries (Sapporo: Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, 2001). 161 pp. ISBN: 4-938637-24-3.

Najam Abbas

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