Dear colleagues,
Ab Imperio editors would like to draw your attention to the fourth issue of AI in 2005.
Please, visit AI website at www.abimperio.net for detailed information on the journal, including editorial contacts and the journal's annual program 2006.
With best reagrds,
Ab Imperio editors
2005 annual theme: "LANGUAGES OF SELF-DESCRIPTION IN EMPIRE AND MULTINATIONAL STATE"
Issue 4/2005: "Discussing Imperial Legacy: Archaisms and Neologisms" (The language of publication is indicated in brackets)
I. METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
From the Editors A “Post” Situation. After Empire: Back to Ethnicity? Forward to Nation? (E)
Interview with L. Carl Brown, Mark von Hagen, and Karen Barkey In Search of Imperial Legacy: Historians’ Recollections and Historiographic Milestones (E)
Alain Blum, Marina Mogilner After the Melting Pot: in Search of Languages of Description. Dialogues in Letters (“From the Editors’ Correspondence”) (E)
Sylvie Thénaul The State of Emergency (1955-2005): From Colonial Algeria to Contemporary France (R)
II. History
FORUM AI: IMPERIAL LEGACIES AS A RESOURCE FOR NATION-BUILDING: THE CASE OF CHINGGIS KHAN
Darima Amogolonova, Tatiana Skrynnikova The Mongol Empire and Chinggis Khan in Identity Construction (R)
Tatiana Skrynnikova The Image of Chinggis Khan in Contemporary Buriat Historical and Cultural Discourse (R)
Gaëlle Lacaze The Image of Chinggis Khan in the Identity Construction of the Mongol Peoples during the Post-Socialist Period (R)
Stanislav Ugdyzhekov Chinggis Khan and His Empire in the Contemporary Identity Practices of the Khakass People (R)
Christopher Kaplonski The Case of the Disappearing Chinggis Khaan: Dismembering the Remembering (E)
III. Archive
Guzel Makarova, Ekaterina Khodzhaeva Managing Ethnocultural Differences “After Empire” (Interviews with Experts on Culture and Enthocultural Politics in the Republic of Tatarstan): Introduction to the Publication (R)
“You Know, Ethnic Cultures, They are Constantly Developing...” (R)
IV. SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE
Serguei Oushakine Vital Forces of the Russian Tragedy: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity (R)
V. ABC: EMPIRE & NATIONALISM STUDIES
CONSTRUCTING A NATIONAL HISTORY IN THE LANGUAGE OF SOVIET SCIENCE AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR: THE CASE OF UZBEKISTAN
Marlene Laruelle Ethnology, Nationhood, and Politics in Uzbekistan (R)
Sergei Abashin Some Thoughts after the Discussion on Nationalism in Uzbekistan (R)
Marianne Kamp A Structuralist Argument Concerning the Consolidation of Uzbek Identity (E)
Adeeb Khalid Theories and Politics of Central Asian Identities (E)
Alisher Il’khamov Post-Soviet Ethnography, Myth Creation, and Authority (R)
Marlene Laruelle The “Ethnogenesis” of the Uzbeks as an Element of Soviet Scholarship (R)
Educational Partnership of Kazan State University and Rutgers University (USA), “Building Democracies in Multiethnic Societies”
VI. NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES
Vyacheslav Morozov Language and Structure: the Problem of Interpretation of Subjectivity in Contemporary Russian Politics (R)
Michael Gorham Putin’s Language (E)
VII. Review Essays
Charles King, The Black Sea: A History (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). 276 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-19-924161-9. Nikita Khrapunov (R)
Leonora Neville, Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). xi+210 pp. Appendix, Guide to the Sources, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-83865-7. Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov (E)
Tracey C. German, Russia’s Chechen War (London and New York: Routledge/Curzon, 2003). 246 pp. ISBN: 0-415-29720-6 (hardback edition). Iaroslav Golovin (R)
R-FORUM GENDER AND EVERYDAY IMPERIAL PRACTICES
P. P. Shcherbinin. Voennyj faktor v povsednevnoj zhizni russkoj zhenshchiny v XVIII – nachale XX v. Tambov: Izdatel'stvo “Iulis”, 2004. 508 s. Predmetnyj ukazatel', Geograficheskij ukazatel', Imennoj ukazatel'. ISBN: 5-98407-008-1. John Keep (E)
Zhenskaja povsednevnost' v Rossii v XVIII – XX vv.: Materialy mezhdunarodnoj nauchnoj konferencii, 25 sentiabria 2003 g. / Otv. red. P. P. Shcherbinin. Tambov: Izdatel'stvo Tambovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta im. G. R. Derzhavina, 2003. 233 s. ISBN: 5-89016-106-7. Anna Tikhomirova (R)
Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson, Anna Rotkirch (Eds.), On Living through Soviet Russia (Routledge Studies in Memory & History, Vol. 13) (London and New York: Routledge, 2004). 336 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-415-30966-2. Elke Fein (E)
Irina Paert, Old Believers, Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760-1850 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003). xii+257 pp. Select Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7190-6322-1 (hardback edition). Orysya Hachko (E)
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A. V. Popov. Rossijskoe pravoslavnoe zarubezh'e: Istroiia i istochniki. Moskva: Institut politicheskogo i voennogo analiza, 2005. 619 s. (=Materialy k istorii russkoij politicheskoj emigracii. Vyp. 10). ISBN: 5-93349-034-2. Viacheslav Men’kovskii (R)
Donald Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him (New York: Random House, 2004). xxviii+546 pp. ISBN: 0-3755-0632-2 (paper). Ilya Kuksin (R)
Emilio Gentile, The Struggle for Modernity: Nationalism, Futurism, and Fascism (Westport, CT, and London: Praeger Publishers, 2003). xix+201 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-275-97692-0. Igor Martyniuk (R)
Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynár, Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism / Translated by George Shriver, with a Foreword by Archie Brown (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2002). xxv+225 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-2311-1864-3. Andrea Orzoff (E)
Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Globalization, Geopolitics and Energy Security in Central Eurasia and the Caspian Region (The Hague: Clingendael International Energy Programme, 2003). 254 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 9-05031-085-0. Charles C. Kolb (E)
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Bruce W. Menning (Eds.), Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). ix+361 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-521-81988-1 (hardback edition). Ivan Sokolovskii (R)
Adam F. Kola, Slowianofilstwo czeskie i rosyjskie w ujeciu porownawczym (Lodz: Ibidem, 2004). 160 s. ISBN: 83-88679-34-1; Marek Styczynski, Umilowanie przyszlosci albo filozofia spraw ostatecznych. Studia nad filozofia Mikolaja Bierdiajewa (Lodz: Ibidem, 2001). 243 s. ISBN: 83-88679-04-X; Bozena Zejmo, Problemy etyczne we wspolczesnej prozie i publicystyce rosyjskiej (Lata 60-90). (Lodz: Ibidem, 2000). 247 s. ISBN: 83-88679-00-7. Maria Krisan’ (R)
Filosofskij vek. Al'manakh. Vypusk 5: Ideia istorii v rossijskom prosveshchenii / Otv. red. T. V. Artem'eva, M. I. Mikeshin. Sankt-Peterburg: Sankt-Peterburgskij Centr istorii idej, 1998. 350 s. ISBN: 5-7187-0370-1. Natalia Bayer (E)
Filosofskij vek. Al'manakh. Vypusk 16: Evropejskaja identichnost' i rossijskaja mental'nost' / Otv. red. T. V. Artem'eva, M. I. Mikeshin. Sankt-Peterburg: Sankt-Peterburgskij Centr istorii idej, 2001. 305 s. ISBN: 5-7187-0370-1. Nonna Smelova (R)
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