TOC: Ab Imperio 4-2010 War and Imperial Soci ety: Dynamics of “Friendship” and “Hostil ity”

Sat Feb 19 19:42:45 UTC 2011

Dear colleagues,

the editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the fourth
issue of the journal in 2010. The issue is part of our annual program
¡°Friends, Foes and Neighbors: Ascribing Meaning to Imperial Political,
Economic and Social Order.¡± The issues contents and article abstracts are
accessible through the journal¡¯s website at http://abimperio.net 

Sergey Glebov 

Ab Imperio 4/2010 War and Imperial Society: Dynamics of ¡°Friendship¡± and
¡°Hostility¡±

I. Methodology and Theory

>From the Editors (R&E)

Caroline Humphrey Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City (E)

John-Paul Himka The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian
Insurgent Army: Unwelcome Elements of an Identity Project (E)

John-Paul Himka The Importance of the Situational Element in East Central
European Fascism (E)

II. History

Sean Pollock ¡°As One Russian to Another¡±: Prince Petr Ivanovich
Bagration¡¯s Assimilation of Russian Ways (E)

Leslie Sargent The ¡°Armeno-Tatar War¡± in the South Caucasus, 1905¨C1906:
Multiple Causes, Interpreted Meanings (E)

Julia Ulyannikova Alien Among Aliens, Alien Among Friends: The
Russo-Japanese War and the Evacuation of the Sakhalin Penal Colony in the
Context of Imperial Policies in the Far East (R)

Andriy Zayarnyuk ¡°The War Is as Usual¡±: World War I Letters to a Galician
Village (E)

Oksana Nagornaya ¡°The Kaiser¡¯s Guests¡± and ¡°Political Decoration¡±: Men
and Officers of Multinational Empires in the POW Camps of World War I (R)

Marina Vitukhnovskaia-Kauppala ¡°Karelia for Karelians!¡± Civil War as a
Catalyst of National Consciousness (R)

Oleg Budnitskii Russian Jews in Nazi Germany (1933¨C1941) (R)

III. Archive

Interview with Levan Berdzenishvili ¡°¡Although Such People Existed, It Was
Not They Who Built New National States¡± (R)

IV. Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science

Forum AI

The Russian Census of 2010 

Jean Radvanyi The Russian Census of 2010: Notes and First Impressions (E)

Ekaterina Khodzhaeva The Census as a Problem: Analysis of the General
Russian Press and Tatarstan¡¯s Russian-Language Press, 2002 and 2010 (R)

Dilyara Suleymanova The Census as a Topic in the Tatar-Language Press (R)

Ilshat Nasyrov Remarks of an Outside Observer (R)

Sergei Sokolovskiy The Second Russian Census: Categorizations of Population
and Identity Politics (R)

V. ABC: Empire& Nationalism Studies

Sergei Rumiantsev Nationalism and the Construction of Maps of ¡°Historical
Territories¡±: Teaching National Histories in the Countries of the Southern
Caucasus (R)

VI. Newest Mythologies

Catriona Kelly ¡°The Hermitage and My Own Front Door¡±: Local Identities in
St. Petersburg (E)

VII. Book Reviews

1. Historiography

Boris Kolonitskii, William Rosenberg In Memory of Leopold Haimson (1927¨C
2010) (R)

David McDonald Leopold Haimson: His Historical Vision and Historiographical
Legacy (E)

2. Reviews

Eugene M. Avrutin, Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in
Tsarist Russia (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010). 216 pp.
Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4862-1.

Marina Mogilner (R)

Stefan Berger (Ed.), Writing the Nation: A Global Perspective (Houndmills
and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 243 pp. Selected Bibliography,
Index. ISBN: 978-0-230-00802-1. 

Alexander Persh¨¢i (R)

L. Ia. Ginzburg. Prokhodiashchie kharaktery: Proza voennykh let. Zapiski
blokadnogo cheloveka / Sost., podgot. teksta, primech. i sta¡¯i A. Zorina,
E. Van Baskirk. Moskva: ¡°Novoe izdatel¡¯stvo¡±, 2011. 600 s. ISBN:
978-5-98379-143-5. 

Polina Barskova (E)

A. V. Portnov. Uprazhneniia s istoriei po-ukrainski. Moskva: OGI; Polit.ru;
Memorial, 2010. 224 s., ill. Ukazatel¡¯ imen. ISBN: 978-5-94282-604-8. 

Ilya Gerasimov (R)

Brian J. Boeck, Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Communities and Empire-Building
in the Age of Peter the Great (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
270 pp., ills., maps. Index. ISBN: 978-052- 151-463-7. 

Vladyslav Yatsenko (R)

Alison K. Smith, Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars
(DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, Illinois, 2008). 259 pp.
Selected Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-381-4. 

Svetlana Konstantinova (R)

Paul R. Gregory, Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin. An
Archival Study (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009). viii+346 pp. ISBN:
978-0-300-13425-4. 

Viacheslav Men¡¯kovskii (R)

O. A. Krasniak. Stanovlenie iranskoi reguliarnoi armii v 1879¨C1921 gg. (Po
materialam arkhivov russkoi voennoi missii). Moskva: Izdatel¡¯stvo LKI,
2007. 160 s. ISBN: 978-5-382-00116-6. 

Oleg Gokov (R)

Vasyl Kuchabsky, Western Ukraine in Conflict with Poland and Bolshevism,
1918¨C1923, Transl. from the German by Gus Fagan (Edmonton, Toronto:
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2009). 361 pp. Bibliography, Maps,
Index. ISBN: 978-1-894865-13-5. 

Hennadii Korolev (R)

Charles Kurzman, Democracy Denied, 1905¨C1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of
Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008). 396 pp.
Bibliograph§å, Notes, Index. ISBN: 0-674-030-923.

Alexander Reznik (R)

Alex Danilovich, Russian-Belarusian Integration: Playing Games Behind the
Kremlin Walls (Basingstoke: Ashgate, 2006). 234 pp. ISBN: 978-075-464-630-3.

Dmitry Shlapentokh (E)

John F. Haldon (Ed.), Byzantine Warfare (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing,
2007). xxvii+582 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7546-2484-4 (hardcover edition). 

Nikita Khrapunov (R)

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