FTOC: Ab Imperio 1/2013: How Do We Understand Freedom Today? Free Interpretations and Predetermined Models

Fri May 24 16:49:49 UTC 2013

Ab Imperio editors are pleased to announce the release of the first 
issue of the journal in 2013. Ab Imperio current issues are available 
through Project Muse: 
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ab_imperio/toc/imp.2013.1.html

Sergey Glebov

  Ab Imperio 1/2013: How Do We Understand Freedom Today? Free 
Interpretations and Predetermined Models
  I.   Methodology and Theory

>From the Editors The Alien Origins of Freedom

Quentin Skinner So, What Does Freedom Mean to Us? (A Genealogy of 
Liberty) Lecture at the University of New South Wales, August 30, 2012

Q&A Session after the Public Lecture of Quentin Skinner

Postscriptum: An Exchange with the Editors

  II. History

Benjamin W. Sawyer Shedding the White and Blue: American Migration and 
Soviet Dreams in the Era of the New Economic Policy

Martin Beisswenger Was Lev Gumilev a “Eurasianist?” A New Look at His 
Postwar Contacts with Petr Savitskii

Mark Lipovetsky The Poetics of ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and Today

Forum AI: Technologies of Bringing a “True” Freedom to the One-Sixth of 
the World: On Soviet Modernity, Progressivism, and Beyond (Discussing 
Mark Lipovetsky’s “The Poetics of ITR Discourse”)
Vladislav Zubok Humanism of “Zhivago’s Children” versus Progressivism of 
the ITRs

Maxim Waldstein On the “Liberal Mainstream” and Cultural Conservatism

Zinaida Vasilyeva The 1960s and the Development of Mass Culture: Notes 
on the Soviet Variant of Modernity

Benjamin Nathans Coming to Terms with Late Soviet Liberalism

Artemy Magun They Were Genuinely Liberal, Liberals of the Right

Pal Tamas Was the Soviet Engineer so Unique?

Jan Kubik On Variations of Soviet-Type Modernity: Why Poland Did Not 
Have Its Own ITR Progressives

Alaina Lemon Soviet Modernity in a Global Conversation: The Universe of 
Elite Progressors

Mark Lipovetsky Clarifying Positions

  IV.  Sociology, Anthropology, PoliticalScience

  Sevil Huseinova and Sergey Rumiantsev Due to a Change of Residence: 
Collective Interethnic Cooperation in the Situation of the Karabakh 
Conflict

VI.Newest Mythologies

Serguei Alex. Oushakine Remembering in Public: On the Affective 
Management of History

  VII.  1. Historiography

Alexander Pershái Feminist Linguistic Reform as a Resource of Belarusian 
Nationalism: The Case of “Feminization of the Belarusian Language”

2. Reviews

Serhii Plokhy, The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Ages of 
Empires (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). 402 
rp., ills., maps. Index. ISBN: 978-1-107-02210-2. by Aleksandr Osipian

  Johanna Lilndbladh (Ed.), The Poetics of Memory in Post-Totalitarian 
Narration (=CFE Conference Papers Series No. 3) (Lund: The Centre for 
European Studies at Lund University, 2008). 201 pp. ISSN: 1654-2185. By 
Mikhail Nemtsev

  Thomas Sherlock, Historical Narratives in the Soviet Union And 
Post-Soviet Russia: Destroying the Settled Past, Creating an Uncertain 
Future (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 280 pp. 
Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4039-7450-1. By Marina Shabasova

Zenonas Norkus, Nepasiskelbusioji imperija. Lietuvos Didžioji 
Kunigaikštija lyginamosios istorinės imperijų sociologijos požiūriu 
(Vilnius: Aidai, 2009). 476 pp. ISBN: 978-9955-656-73-9. By Lidia 
Korczak

  O. V. Budnitskii. Den'gi russkoi emigratsii: kolchakovskoe zoloto. 
1918−1957. Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2008. 512 s. ISBN: 
978-5-86793-639-6. By Sergei Iarov

Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark (Eds.), The Lost Politburo 
Transcripts. From Collective Rule to Stalin’s Dictatorship (New Haven 
and London: Yale University Press, 2008). vii+ 271 pp. Bibliography. 
Index. [The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War]. 
ISBN: 978-0-300-13424-7. By Elidor Mehilli

  Aftandil S. Erkinov, The Andijan Uprising of 1898 and Its Leader Dukchi 
Ishan Described by Contemporary Poets. Foreword by Bakhtiyar M. 
Babajanov (=Tokyo Islamic Area Studies Central Eurasian Research Series 
No. 3). (Tokyo: Department of Islamic Area Studies, 2009). 118 pp., 
ills., English, Russian, and Turki text. ISBN: 978-4-904039-15-1. By 
Alexander Morrison

Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources. Edited by 
Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 
2009). 316+xvi pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-35385-6. By Nathan Spannaus

  A. Nilov. Tsekhoviki. Rozhdenie tenevoi ekonomiki. Zapiski podpol'nogo 
millionera / Seriia “Sdelano v SSSR”. Sankt-Peterburg: “Vektor”, 2006. 
114 c. ISBN: 5-9684-0549-X;

D. Vasil'ev. Fartsovshchiki. Kak delalis' sostoianiia. Ispoved' liudei 
iz “teni” / Seriia “Sdelano v SSSR”. Sankt-Peterburg: “Vektor”, 2007. 
158 s. ISBN: 5-9684-0610-0. By Tat'iana Basina

  Aleksei Isaev. Vmeste so vremenem: k 65-oi godovshchine Pobedy. 
Bishkek: Altyn Tamga, 2010. 568 s. ISBN: 978-9967-08-168-0; Feliks 
Kulov. Na perevale. Moskva: Vremia, 2008. 248 s., ill. ISBN: 
978-5-9691-0417-4;  Kuluipa / Sostavlenie i literaturnaia zapis' E. S. 
Luzanovoi. Bishkek: Manasartdizain, 2010. 204 s. ISBN: 
978-9967-25-983-6;  Zhumagul Saadanbekov. Moia zhizn'. Bishkek: Altyn 
print, 2010. 639 s., ill.; Tursunbek Chyngyshev. Vospominaniia: 
sobytiia, liudi. Bishkek: Biiiktik, 2008. 294 s. ISBN: 
978-9967-13-441-6. By Pavel Diatlenko

Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest 
Times to the Present (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012). 386 
pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-00097-2. By Danielle 
Morrissette

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