"Ab Imperio" editors are pleased to announce the release of the fourth issue of the journal in 2009. "Ab Imperio" is a bilingual (English and Russian) international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of empire and nationalism in the post soviet space. The fourth issue of the journal is devoted to the exploration of "From Homo Imperii to Civitas: Projects of Imagined Imperial Communities". The language of each publication (Russian and/or English) is indicated by a letter in brackets.
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AI 4/2009: “FROM HOMO IMPERII TO CIVITAS: PROJECTS OF IMAGINED IMPERIAL COMMUNITIES”
METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
Editors Imperial Society as a Community Imagined by Homo Imperii (R&E)
George Steinmetz The Imperial Entanglements of Sociology in the United States, Britain, and France Since the Nineteenth Century (E)
David Sneath Tribe, Ethnos, Nation: Rethinking Evolutionist Social Theory and Representations of Nomadic Inner Asia (E)
Forum AIDebating the Concepts of Evolutionist Social Theory: Responses to David Sneath
Sergei Abashin (R)
Tatiana Skrynnikova, Nikolay Kradin (E)
Valerie A. Kivelson (E)
Richard Lim (E)
Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren (E)
Adrienne Lynn Edgar (E)
Serguei Glebov (E)
David Sneath A Response to Critics (E)
HISTORY
Marina Vituhnovskaja Service to the Empire and National Loyalty: Imperial and Finnish Biographies of the Enckells, 1850–1917 (R)
Noam Pianko Cosmopolitan Wanderer or Zionist Activist? Sir Alfred Zimmern’s Ambivalent Jewishness and the Legacy of British Internationalism (E)
ARCHIVE
Andreas Frings Playing Moscow off Against Kazan: Azerbaijan Maneuvering to Latinization in the Soviet Union (E)
Document Protocol of the Meetings of the Communist Party Fraction at the Turkological Congress in Baku (R)
SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE
Olivier Beaud Federation between State and Empire (R)
Andrei Zakharov Federation, Sovereignty, and the Principle of Subsidiarity (R)
NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES
Anna Aydinyan “Oriental Journeys” in “The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar” (E)
BOOK REVIEWS
Seymour Becker E. P. Barinova. Rossiiskoe dvorianstvo v nachale XX veka: Ekonomicheskii status I sociokulturnyi oblik. Moskva: “ROSSPEN”, 2008. 351 s. Ukazatel imen. ISBN: 978-5-8243-0936-2. (E)
Sergei Liubichankovskii V. A. Voropanov. Sud i pravosudie v Rossiiskoi imperii vo vtoroi polovine XVIII – pervoi polovine XIX vv. Regionalnyi aspekt: Ural i Zapadnaia sibir (opyt sravnitelno-sopostavitelnogo analiza). Cheliabinsk: Izdatelstvo Cheliabinskogo universiteta (filiala) FGOU VPO “Uralskaia akademiia gosudarstvennoi sluzhby”, 2008. 606 s. ISBN: 978-5-8056-0175-12008. - 606 s. (R)
Anika Walke Pamiat o voine 60 let spustia: Rossiia, Germania, Evropa / Sost. I red. M. Gabovich. Moskva: „Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie“, 2005. 784 s. (=Biblioteka zhurnala „Neprikosnovennyi zapas“). ISBN: 5-86793-405-5. (E)
Charles J. Halperin Ju. V. Seleznev. Elita Zolotoj Ordy: Nauchno-spravochnoe izdanie. Kazan: Izdatelstvo „Fen“ Akademii Nauk Respubliki Tatarstan, 2009. 232 s., il., tab., karty. ISBN: 978-5-9690-0068-1. (E)
Matthew Romaniello M. R. Belousov. Boiarskie spiski 1645–1667 gg. kak istoricheskii istochnik. T. 1. Kazan, Institut istorii AN RT, 2008. 315 s. ISBN: 978-5-94981-112-2. (E)
Vladimir Sapon Sarah Badcock, Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). xvii+260 pp., ill., maps. ISBN: 978-0-521-87623-0. (R)
Natalia Kovalchuk Robert Bideleux and Jan Jeffries, A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change (2nd Edition). London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 669 pp., ills. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-415-36627-4. (R)
Wim van Meurs Peter Kenez, Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944–1948 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). ix+312 pp., ill. Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-521-85766-6 (hardback edition). (E)
Dmitry Shlapentokh Verkhi i nizy russkogo nacionalizma. Sbornik statei / Sost. A. Verhovskii. Moskva: Centr “Sova”, 2007. 256 s., tabl. ISBN: 5-98418-009-H; Russkii nacionalizm: Ideologiia i nastroenie. Sbornik statei / Sost. A. Verhovskii. Moskva: Centr “Sova”, 2006. 301 s. ISBN: 5-98418-007-3 (E)
Nikita Khrapunov Roxanne L. Euben, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006). 313 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-12721-7. (R)
Maria Krisan’ Wiktoria Śliwowscy, René Śliwowscy, Rosja nasza miłość (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo “Iskry”, 2008). 468 s. ISBN: 978-83-244-0055-3. (R)
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Our Authors (R&E)