Ab Imperio 2-2010 Political and Economic Unions: Dialectics of Poverty, Wealth, and Political Domination

Wed Aug 11 17:16:01 UTC 2010

Dear colleagues,

The editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the second
issue of the journal in 2010. For information on the journal's annual
program, submission guidelines, and subscription please visit
http://abimperio.net  

Sergey Glebov 

METHODOLOGY AND THEORY 

>From the Editors (R&E) 

Interview with Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper 
The Challenge and Serendipity: Writing World History Through the Prism of
Empire (E) 

HISTORY 

Timothy A. Nunan 
Soviet Nationalities Policy, "USSR in Construction", and Soviet Documentary
Photography in Comparative Context, 1931-1937 (E) 

Serhy Yekelchyk 
A Communal Model of Citizenship in Stalinist Politics: Agitators and Voters
in Postwar Electoral Campaigns (Kyiv, 1946-53) (E) 

Christine Evans 
A "Panorama of Time": The Chronotopics of Programma "Vremia" (E) 

ARCHIVE 

Aleksei Fominykh 
"Pictures at an Exhibition:" Comment Books from the 1959 American Exhibit in
Moscow, a Recovered Source (Introduction to the Archival Publication) (R) 

Mark Lipovetsky 
"Knowing Lemons:" The American Exhibition in Khrushchev's Memoirs (R) 

Document 
The American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959: The Comment Book (R) 

SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE 

Anton Shekhovtsov, Andreas Umland 
Right-Wing Party Politics in Post-Soviet Ukraine and the Riddle of Ukrainian
Nationalists' Electoral Marginality, 1994-2009 (R) 

ABC: EMPIRE & NATIONALISM STUDIES 

Nikolay Koposov 
The "Memorial Law" and Politics of History in Present-Day Russia (R) 

HISTORIOGRAPHY 

Vladimir Bobrovnikov 
The Gift of Empire: A View from the Mountains (R) 
Bruce Grant. The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignity in
Russia and the Caucasus. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009.
XVIII+188 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7541-2; 
Iu. Iu. Karpov. Vzgliad nagorcev. Vgliad s gor: Mirovozzrencheskie aspekty
kultury i socialnyi opyt gorceb Dagestana. Sankt-Peterburg: Peterburgskoe
Vostokovedenie, 2007 (Seriia Ethnographica Petropolitana). 656 S. ISBN:
978-5-85803-331-8 

BOOK REVIEWS 

Svetlana Malysheva 
Malte Rolf. Sovetskie massovye prazdniki / Per. s necemkogo V. T. Altukhova.
Moskva: "POSSPEN"; Fond Pervogo Prezidenta Rossii B. N. Eltsina, 2009. 439
S. ISBN: 978-5-8243-1086-3 (R) 

Mikhail Suslov 
Laura Engelstein, Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path
(Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009). xii+239 pp. Notes,
Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7592-4 (paperback edition) (R) 

Kirsten Bönker 
Franziska Schedewie, Selbstverwaltung und sozialer Wandel in der russischen
Provinz: Bauern und Zemstvo in Voronež, 1864-1914 (Heidelberg:
Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006). 473 S., 1 CD (=Heidelberger Abhandlungen
zur mittleren und neueren Geschichte; Bd. 15). ISBN: 3-8253-5171-8 (R) 

Ilya Gerasimov 
Aaron B. Retish, Russia's Peasants in Revolution and Civil War. Citizenship,
Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922 (Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2008). 294 pp. Works cited; Index. ISBN:
978-0-521-89689-4. Hardback (E) 

Balázs Apor 
Tomasz Kamusella, The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central
Europe (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). 1140 pp.
Selected Bibliography, Index, Index of Dictionaries. ISBN: 978-0-230-55070-4
(E) 

Marianna Mouravieva 
Elena Shulman, Stalinism on the Frontier of Empire: Women and State
Formation in the Soviet Far East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008). xiv+260 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-052-189-667-2 (R) 

Krista Sigler 
G. Ia. Iankovskaia. Iskusstvo, den'gi i politika: Khudozhnik v gody pozdnego
stalinizma. Perm: Permskii gosudartvennyi universitet, 2007. 312 c. ISBN:
5-7944-0855-3 (E) 

Stanislav Alekseev 
Religioznye i etnicheskie tradicii v formirovanii nacional'nykh
identichnostei v Evrope. Srednie veka - Novoe vremia = Religion et ethnicité
dans la formation des identités nationales en Europe. Moyen Âge - Epoque
Moderne / Pod. red. M. V. Dmitrieva. Moskva: "Indrik", 2008. 301 s. ISBN:
978-5-85759-479-7; 
Mezhdu Moskvoi, Varshavoi i Kievom. K 50-leiju prof. M. V. Dmitrieva / Sost.
O. B. Nemenskii. Moskva, 2008. 320 s. ISBN: 978-5-87604-009-1 (R) 

Ekaterina Gorbunova 
Lindsey Hughes, The Romanovs: Ruling Russia, 1613-1917 (London: The
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2008). 308 pp., ills.
Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-18472-5213-5. (R) 

Michael Rouland 
Tsentralnaia Aziia v sostave Rossiiskoi imperii / Pod. red. S. Abashina, D.
Arapova, N. Bekmakhanovoi (=Historia Rossica). Moskva: "Novoe literaturnoe
obozrenie ", 2008. 452 s. ISBN: 978-5-86793-571-9; 
Marco Buttino, La rivoluzione capovolta: L'Asia centrale tra il crollo
dell'impero zarista e la formazione dell'URSS [An Upside Down Revolution:
Central Asia between the Collapse of the Tsarist Empire and the Formation of
the USSR]. Napoli: "L'Ancora del Mediterraneo", 2003. 488 pp. Fonti,
Glossario. ISBN: 88-8325-101-6 (E)

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