TOC: Ab Imperio 3-2007: History on Trial

Sun Jan 27 20:58:56 UTC 2008

Dear colleagues,

The editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the third issue of the journal in 2007. All information on the journal’s annual program, article abstracts, and subscription can be found at http://abimperio.net 

Sergey Glebov

History on Trial

I.                 Methodology and Theory

>From the Editors  History and the Courtroom: Trials and Errors

Terence Ball Interpretation, Intention, and the Law: the Case Against “Original Intent”

Erich Haberer History and Justice: Paradigms of the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes

Historian’s Judgement: Reflections by Istvan Deak

II.              History

Andriy Portnov  Exercises with History Ukrainian Style (Notes on Public Aspects of History’s Functioning in Post-Soviet Ukraine)

Johan Dietsch Struggling with a “Nuremberg Historiography” of the Holodomor

Tхnu Tannberg “Under the Influence of the International Reaction, The Pitiful Remnants of Anti-Soviet Elements in Our Country…” 1956 and Problems of the Baltics in Kremlin

Vladimir Petrovic Historians as Expert Witnesses at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yougoslavia

III.            Archive

Forum AI

Empire of Archives

>From the Editors The Empire of Archives: Forum Initiated by Ab Imperio and Cahiers du monde russe: Russie, Empire russe, Union soviétique et États indépendants

Ann Stoler The Pulse of Archives

James P. Niessen Records of Empire, Monarchy, or Nation? The Archival Heritage of the Habsburgs in East Central Europe

Svetlana Gorshenina The Biggest Projects of Russian Colonial Archives: The Utopian Exhaustive “Turkestanica” of General Governor Constantine P. von Kaufman 

Igor’ Lukoianov The Archive and the Researcher: The Case of RGIA 

Sophie Cœuré Soviet Archives: A Cultural Heritage of the Empire or a Monument to the Revolution? Reflections on the French “Trophy Archives” in the USSR after the Second World War

IV.             Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science

Vello Pettai The Construction of State Identity and its Legacies: Legal Restorationism in Estonia

Александр Астров Литургия по Бронзовому солдату: память и история в формировании кризиса

VII.           Book Reviews

Yaroslav Hrytsak. Prorok u svoii vіtchyznі: Franko ta iogo spіl’nota (1856-1886). Kiyv: “Krytyka”, 2006. 631 s., ill. Pokazhchyk imen, Pokazhchyk geografichnykh nazv, Pokazhchyk prodovzhuvanykh vydan’, al’manakhiv, ustanov ta organizatsii. ISBN: 966-7679-96-9.

Serhy Yekelchyk

Bernard Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 475 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-19-929959-5. 

Kavita Datla 

Isabel de Madariaga, Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005). xxii+428 pp. Maps, Select Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-09757-3. 

Vitaly Anan’ev 

Gabor T. Rittersporn, Malte Rolf, Jan C. Behrends (Eds.), Sphdren von Cffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs / Public Spheres in Soviet-Type Societies (Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang Verlag, Europdischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2003). 457 S. (=Comparative Studies Series, Vol. 11). ISBN: 3-631-38327-4.

Elke Fein 

Wendy Slater, Andrew Wilson (Eds.), The Legacy of the Soviet Union (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, 2004). 275 pp. Index. ISBN: 1-4039-1786-8.

Boris Povarnitsyn

Antonio J. Munoz, Oleg Romanko, Hitler’s White Russians: Collaboration, Extermination and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Byelorussia, 1941-1944 (Bayside, NY: Europa Books, 2003). 512 pp. ISBN: 1-891227-42-4.

Ivan Dereiko

Bernard K’jary. Shtodzionnashch za lіnіiai frontu: Akupatsyia, kalabaratsyja і supratsіu u Belarusі (1941–1944 g.) / Per. s niam. L. Barshchieiskaga; nav. ried. G. Saganovich. Minsk, 2005. 390 s. Ukazatel'. ISBN: 978-5272-20-6.

Andrej Kotljarchuk

Marcela Sălăgean, The Soviet Administration in Northern Transylvania (November 1944 – March 1945). Translated by Robert Mihai Rosca (Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2002). 190 pp. (=East European Monographs, Vol. DXCVIII). Bibliography, Appendices. ISBN: 0-88033-496-7.

Wim van Meurs

John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk (Eds.), Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2006). 304 pp., ills. ISBN: 0-8020-9148-2 (hardcover edition).

Ol’ga Khristoforova

Serhii Plokhy, Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). 102 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-916458-95-4.

Aleksandr Lavrov

Vadim Menzhulin. Drugoi Sikorskii: Neudobnye stranitsy istorii psikhiatrii. Kiev: “Sfera”, 2004. 490 s. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’, imennoi ukazatel’. ISBN: 966-7841-72-3.

Aleksandr Etkind

Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova and Anna Loutfi (Eds.), A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, the 19th and 20th Centuries (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2006). 678 pp., ill. ISBN: 9-637326-391 (hardcover edition).           

Yulia Gradskova

Zapiski kniazia Dmitriia Aleksandrovicha Obolenskogo, 1855-1879 / Otv. red., avt. vstup. st., komment. V. G. Chernukha. Sankt-Petersburg: “Nestor-Istoriia”, 2005. 503 s., ill. Ukazatel’ imen. ISBN: 5-98187-072-9.

Vera Dubina 

Eugenia Paulicelli, Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt (Dress, Body, Culture) (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2004). 256 pp. ISBN-10: 1-859-737-730; ISBN-13: 978-1859-737-736.

Ol’ga Gurova 

List of Contributors

Ab Imperio – 2008

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