Ab Imperio 3-2005 Empire and the Challenge of Nationalism: Searching for Modes of Social, Political, and Cultural Self-Description

Mon Nov 28 21:44:11 UTC 2005

 Dear colleagues,

the editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the third issue of the journal in 2005. Please, visit the journal website at http://abimperio.net for any additional information. 

Issue 3/2005 “Empire and the Challenge of Nationalism: Searching for Modes of Social, Political, and Cultural Self-Description”  

Methodology and Theory

Editors
    Empire as a “Claim,” Nation as a “Resolution”: Languages for Describing Unity and Diversity in a Multicultural Setting (R/E)

Miroslav Hroch
    Language as a Tool of Civic Equality (R)

Mark R. Beissinger
    Rethinking Empire in the Wake of the Soviet Collapse (E)

Mark R. Beissinger
    Situating Empire (R)

History

Elena Vishlenkova 
    The Visual Language of “Russianness” from the 18th to the First Quarter of the 19th Century(R)

Michael Kemper
    Adat against Shari?a: Russian Approaches towards Daghestani “Customary Law” in the 19th Century (E)

Alexander Kaplunovskii
    Describing Empire Societally: The “Polyphony” of Prikazchiki in the Social Register of Russian Empires’ Languages of Self-Description (R)

Simon Rabinovich
    Positivism, Populism and Politics: The Intellectual Foundations of Jewish Ethnography in Late Imperial Russia (E)

Laurie Cohen
    Looking In From the Outside. Bertha and Arthur von Suttner in the Caucasus, 1876-1885 (E)

Willard Sunderland
    Baron Ungern, Toxic Cosmopolitan (E)

Serguei Glebov
    A Life with Imperial Dreams: Petr Nikolaevich Savitsky, Eurasianism, and the Invention of “Structuralist” Geography (E)

Archive

Alla Zeide
    The Empireless. Texts and Contexts in the Life of a Russian Jew, Aleksei Goldenweiser (R)

Document
    Aleksei Goldenweiser: Diaries and Correspondence from Different Years (R)

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Elena Gapova
    On the Political Economy of “National Language” in Belarus (R)

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

The “Imperial Turn” at the ICCEES VII World Congress, 
Berlin, July 2005
Kimitaka Matsuzato
    Russian Imperiology and Area Studies (Impressions on the ICCEES Berlin Congress) (E)

Jan Kusber
    The Russian Empire as a Subject Matter of East European Historic Research. Some Reflections on Its Prospects at the ICCEES VII World Congress in Berlin (E)    

William G. Rosenberg
    The Problems of Empire in Imperial Russia (E)

 Newest Mythologies

Jelena Grigorjeva
    On the Morphology of Visual Post-Soviet Post-Folklore (R)

 Historiography

Oksana Klimkova
    GULAG: From Myth-Telling toward Analysis (R)

Book Reviews

R-Forum I:
“Writing Soviet History as Imperial History”

Ilya Gerasimov
    Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire. Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001). Xvi + 496 pp., 4 maps, 46 tables. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8677-7 (paper).

Marina Mogilner
    Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations. Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005). 367 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8908-3 (paper).

R-Forum II:
“Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature”

Igor Martyniuk
    Christopher Ely, This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002), 278 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-303-2.

Adam Fergus
    Harsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). x+307 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-299-18190-1 (hardback edition).

Maksim Kirchanov
    Мирослав Шкандрій. В обіймах імперії. Російська і українська літератури новітньої доби. Київ: “Факт”, 2004. 496 с. ISBN: 966-8408-45-4.

Helene Perrin-Wagner
    Российская империя в сравнительной перспективе: Сборник статей / Под ред. А. И. Миллера. Москва: “Новое издательство”, 2004. 384 с. ISBN: 5-98379-011-0.

Thomas Sanders
    Alter L. Litvin, Writing History in Twentieth-Century Russia: A View From Within (Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave, 2001). xi+201 pp. Translated and Edited by John L. H. Keep. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography. ISBN: 0-333-76487-0.

Marc L. Greenberg
    Свой или чужой? Евреи и славяне глазами друг друга / Отв. ред. О. В. Белова. Москва: “Сефер”, Институт славяноведения РАН, 2003. 504 с. (= Академическая серия. Вып. 11). ISBN: 5-98370-002-2.

Tomasz Kamusella
    Jacob M. Landau and Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States: Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan (London: Hurst and Company, 2001), xiv+260 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 1-85065-442-5

Sebastian Cwiklinski
    Новая волна в изучении этнополитической истории Волго-Уральского региона / Сборник статей. Под ред. К. Мацузато. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2003. 335 c. ISBN: 4-98637-28-6.

Iurii Labyntsev, Larisa Shchavinskaia
    Зенон Когут. Коріння ідентичности. Студії з ранньомодерної та модерної історії України. Київ: “Критика”, 2004. 352 с. Показчик імен. ISBN: 966-7679-48-9.

Magdalena Zolkos
    Jane Leftwich Curry and Joan Barth Urban (Eds.), The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies. The Cases from East-Central Europe, Russia and Ukraine (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003). 284 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7425-2664

Andreas Demuth
    Jean-Jacques Subrenat (Ed.), Estonia. Identity and Independence (Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi B.V., 2004). ix+310 pp. (=On the Boundary of Two Worlds. Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. Vol. 2). ISBN: 9-0420-0890-3 (paperback).

Olga Khristoforova
    Chris J. Chulos, Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861-1917 (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). 201 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-317-2.

Caleb Wall
    James W. Heinzen, Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). 312 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8229-4215-1.

Marina Krasilnikova, Alexander Cherniavskii
    История и философия культуры: Актуальные проблемы. Сборник научных трудов. Выпуск 6 / Под ред. С. В. Архипова. Владикавказ: Издательство Северо-Осетинского государственного университета, 2003. 284 с. ISBN: 5-8336-0316-1.

Aleksei Chesnokov
    В. И. Дятлов. Современные торговые меньшинства: фактор стабильности или конфликта? (Китайцы и кавказцы в Иркутске). Москва: “Наталис”, 2000. 190 с. ISBN: 5-8062-0025-6.

Boris P. Chichlo
    А. С. Зуев. Сибирь: Вехи истории (XVI – XIX вв.) / Учебное пособие... Новосибирск, 1999; А. С. Зуев. Русские и аборигены на крайнем северо-востоке Сибири во второй половине XVII – первой четверти XVIII вв. Новосибирск, 2002. 330 с.

Katya Vladimirov
    Губернаторы Сахалина / Под ред. A. И. Костанова, A. И. Баялдина, Л. В. Драгуновой и др. Южно-Сахалинск: Архивный отдел Администрации Сахалинской области, Государственный архив Сахалинской области, 2000. 392 с.

Dmitriy Rezun
    А. Д. Агеев. Сибирь и американский Запад: Движение фронтиров. Иркутск: Иркутский университет, 2002. 294 с. ISBN: 5-7430-0154-5 (в обл.).

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