"Ab Imperio" editors are pleased to announce the release of the first issue of the journal in 2008. "Ab Imperio" is a bilingual (English Russian) international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of empire and nationalism in the post Soviet space. The second issue of the journal is devoted to the exploration of "Gardening the Imperial Subject: Intimate and Collective in the Imperial Space". The language of each publication (Russian or English) is indicated by a letter in brackets.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
From the Editors (R&E)
Edward GrayThe Other Continental Empire: American Perceptions of the Russian Empire, 1776-1789 (E)
Elizabeth BuettnerThe Postman’s Letters: Long Distance Intimacy and the Family Lives of India’s Colonizers (R)
Roundtable with Adrienne Edgar, Sonja Luehrmann, Sergey Abashin, Elena Gapova“Sub Altera Specie”: A View at Postcolonial Paradigm from Inside Russian/Soviet History (E&R)
Adrienne Lynn EdgarMarriage, Modernity, and the “Friendship of Nations”: Interethnic Intimacy in Postwar Central Asia in Comparative Perspective (R)
HISTORY
Jan KusberIndividual, Subject, and Empire. Toward a Discourse on Upbringing, Education, and Schooling in the Time of Catherine II (E)
Anatoly Remnev, Natalia Suvorova“The Russian Cause” on the Asiatic Borderlands: The “Russianness” Under Threat and “Questionable Kulturträgers” (R)
M. Safa SaraçoğluSome Aspects of Ottoman Governmentality at the Local Level: The Judicio-Administrative Sphere of the Vidin County in the 1860s and 1870s (E)
Tuong VuDreams of Paradise: The Making of a Soviet Outpost in Vietnam (E)
SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE
Victor ShnirelmanHatred of Migrants and “Cultural Racism” (R)
ABC: EMPIRE & NATIONALISM STUDIES
Vladimir BobrovnikovWhy Are We Marginals? Marginalia on the Russian Translation of Orientalism by Edward Said (R)
Serguei GlebovWither Eurasia? History of Ideas in an Imperial Situation (E)
HISTORIOGRAPHY
Alexander Semyonov“Empire as a Moving Target” (E)
BOOK REVIEWS
Jan KusberMaureen Perrie, Dominic Lieven, and Ronald Suny (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Russia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 3 vols. ill. ISBN: 0-521-186-194-2; 978-052-186-194-6 (hardback edition). ₤270.00 (US $475.00), Volume 3: The Twentieth Century (R)
Kirsten BönkerUlrike von Hirschhausen, Die Grenzen der Gemeinsamkeit: Deutsche, Letten, Russen und Juden in Riga 1860-1914 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2006). (=Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft; Bd. 172). 430 S. ISBN: 978-3-525-35153-6; 352-535-153-4 (E)
Elena VishlenkovaStephen M. Norris, A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006). xiii+277 p., ill. ISBN: 978-0-87580-363-0; 0-875-80363-6. (R)
Vadim MenzhulinA. Etkind Non-fiction po-russki pravda: Kniga otzyv. Moskva: “NOvoe literaturnoe obozrenie”, 2007. 336 S. ISBN: 5-86793-518-3. (R)
Igor AlexeevRobert D. Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006). 463 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-674-02164-9. (R)
Sergei Abashin, Shahnoza MadaevaMarianne Kamp, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006). xiii+332 pp., ill. Maps. ISBN: 978-029-5986-449. (R)
Andrew GentesI. R. Sokolovskii. Sluzhilye “inozemcy” v Sibiri XVII veka (Tomsk, Enisejsk, Krasnojarsk). Novosibirsk: “Sova”, 2004. 212 S. Spisok istochnikov, Literatura, Tablicy. ISBN: 5-87550-203-7. (E)
Albina NoskovaPowstanie Warszawskie 1944 w dokumentach z archiwów służb specjalnych. Warszawa – Moskva: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Institut rosskijskoj istorii RAN, 2007. 1428 S. ISBN: 97 (R)
Kerstin Armborst-WeihsAnke Hilbrenner, Diaspora-Nationalismus: Zur Geschichtskonstruktion Simon Dubnows (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2007). 315 S. (= Schriften des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts; Bd. 7). ISBN: 3-525-36985-9. (E)
Wim van MeursStefan Ihrig, Wer sind die Moldawier? Rumänismus versus Moldowanismus in Historiographie und Schulbüchern der Republik Moldova, 1991-2006 (Hannover: ibidem-Verlag, 2008). 344 S. (=Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society; Bd. 76). ISBN: 978-3-89821-466-7; ISSN: 1-614-3515. (E)
Boris PovarnitsynZoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser (Eds.), Ethnic Politics After Communism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005). 296 pp., 18 tables, ill. Index. ISBN: 0-8014-7276-8. (R)
Sergei LiubichankovskiiK. Macuzato, V. F. Abramov, A. A. Yarcev. Zesmkii fenomen: Politologicheskii podkhod. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2001. 200 S. (=Occasional Papers on Regional / Subregional Politics in the Post-Communist Countries; Vol. 6). (R)
Maksim KirchanovUnija. Politika Rimokatolichke Crkve prema pravoslavnim slovenima / Priredop Zoran Miloshevich. Beograd: Institut za politichke studije, 2005. 335 S. ISBN: 86-7419-082-0; (R)
Ilya KuksinRusskaia semja v vodovorote “velikogo pereloma ”: Pisma O. A. Tolstoj-Voeikovoi, 1927-1929 gg. / Izdanie podgotovleno V. Zhober. Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatelstvo Sankt-Peterburgskogo instituta istorii RAN, “Nestor-Istoriia”, 2005. 444 S., il. Imennoi ukazatel. (R)
Nikita KhrapunovKevin Alan Brook, The Jews of Khazaria (Lanham, Toronto and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006). xii+315 pp. 2nd edition. ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4981-4. (R)
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (R&E)