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From: "Alexander M. Semyonov" <semyonov@abimperio.net>

Dear colleagues,

Editors of Ab Imperio would like to announce the release of the third issue
of the journal in 2005. PLease find below a link to the online version and
the table of contents.

http://www.abimperio.net/order/2005/2005_3.html


2005 annual theme:
LANGUAGES OF SELF-DESCRIPTION IN EMPIRE AND MULTINATIONAL STATE

Issue 3/2005 “Empire and the Challenge of Nationalism: Searching for
Modes of Social, Political, and Cultural Self-Description”

METHODOLOGY AND THEORY

Editors
Empire as a “Claim,” Nation as a “Resolution”: Languages for Describing
Unity and Diversity in a Multicultural Setting (E)

Miroslav Hroch
Language as a Tool of Civic Equality (R)

Mark R. Beissinger
Rethinking Empire in the Wake of the Soviet Collapse (R)

Mark R. Beissinger
Situating Empire (E)

HISTORY

Elena Vishlenkova
The Visual Language of “Russianness” from the 18th to the First Quarter
of the 19th Century (R)

Michael Kemper
Adat against Shari?a: Russian Approaches towards Daghestani “Customary
Law” in the 19th Century (E)

Alexander Kaplunovskii
Describing Empire Societally: The “Polyphony” of Prikazchiki in the
Social Register of Russian Empires’ Languages of Self-Description (R)

Simon Rabinovich
Positivism, Populism and Politics: The Intellectual Foundations of
Jewish Ethnography in Late Imperial Russia (E)

Laurie Cohen
Looking In From the Outside. Bertha and Arthur von Suttner in the
Caucasus, 1876-1885 (E)

Willard Sunderland
Baron Ungern, Toxic Cosmopolitan (E)

Serguei Glebov
A Life with Imperial Dreams: Petr Nikolaevich Savitsky, Eurasianism, and
the Invention of “Structuralist” Geography (E)

ARCHIVE

Alla Zeide
The Empireless. Texts and Contexts in the Life of a Russian Jew, Aleksei
Goldenweiser (R)

Document
Aleksei Goldenweiser: Diaries and Correspondence from Different Years (R)

SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Elena Gapova
On the Political Economy of “National Language” in Belarus (R)

ABC: EMPIRE & NATIONALISM STUDIES

The “Imperial Turn” at the ICCEES VII World Congress, Berlin, July 2005

Kimitaka Matsuzato
Russian Imperiology and Area Studies (Impressions on the ICCEES Berlin
Congress) (E)

Jan Kusber
The Russian Empire as a Subject Matter of East European Historic
Research. Some Reflections on Its Prospects at the ICCEES VII World
Congress in Berlin (E)

William G. Rosenberg
The Problems of Empire in Imperial Russia (E)

NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES

Jelena Grigorjeva
On the Morphology of Visual Post-Soviet Post-Folklore (R)

HISTORIOGRAPHY

Oksana Klimkova
GULAG: From Myth-Telling toward Analysis (R)

BOOK REVIEWS

R-Forum I: “Writing Soviet History as Imperial History”

Ilya Gerasimov
Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire. Nations and Nationalism in
the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University
Press, 2001). Xvi + 496 pp., 4 maps, 46 tables. Bibliography, Index.
ISBN: 0-8014-8677-7 (paper).

Marina Mogilner
Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations. Ethnographic Knowledge and the
Making of the Soviet Union (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press,
2005). 367 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8908-3 (paper).

R-Forum II: “Imperial Identities in the Language of Arts and Literature”

Igor Martyniuk
Christopher Ely, This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in
Imperial Russia (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press,
2002), 278 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-303-2.

Adam Fergus
Harsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Madison,
WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). x+307 pp. Bibliography, Index.
ISBN: 0-299-18190-1 (hardback edition).

Maksim Kirchanov
Мирослав Шкандрій. В обіймах імперії. Російська і українська літератури
новітньої доби. Київ: “Факт”, 2004. 496 с. ISBN: 966-8408-45-4.

Helene Perrin-Wagner
Российская империя в сравнительной перспективе: Сборник статей / Под
ред. А. И. Миллера. Москва: “Новое издательство”, 2004. 384 с. ISBN:
5-98379-011-0.

Thomas Sanders
Alter L. Litvin, Writing History in Twentieth-Century Russia: A View
  From Within (Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave, 2001). xi+201 pp. Translated and
Edited by John L. H. Keep. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography. ISBN:
0-333-76487-0.

Marc L. Greenberg
Свой или чужой? Евреи и славяне глазами друг друга / Отв. ред. О. В.
Белова. Москва: “Сефер”, Институт славяноведения РАН, 2003. 504 с. (=
Академическая серия. Вып. 11). ISBN: 5-98370-002-2.

Tomasz Kamusella
Jacob M. Landau and Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Politics of Language in
the Ex-Soviet Muslim States: Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan (London: Hurst and Company,
2001), xiv+260 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 1-85065-442-5

Sebastian Cwiklinski
Новая волна в изучении этнополитической истории Волго-Уральского региона
/ Сборник статей. Под ред. К. Мацузато. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center,
Hokkaido University, 2003. 335 c. ISBN: 4-98637-28-6.

Iurii Labyntsev, Larisa Shchavinskaia
Зенон Когут. Коріння ідентичности. Студії з ранньомодерної та модерної
історії України. Київ: “Критика”, 2004. 352 с. Показчик імен. ISBN:
966-7679-48-9.

Magdalena Zolkos
Jane Leftwich Curry and Joan Barth Urban (Eds.), The Left Transformed in
Post-Communist Societies. The Cases from East-Central Europe, Russia and
Ukraine (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003). 284 pp.
Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7425-2664

Andreas Demuth
Jean-Jacques Subrenat (Ed.), Estonia. Identity and Independence
(Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi B.V., 2004). ix+310 pp. (=On the
Boundary of Two Worlds. Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the
Baltics. Vol. 2). ISBN: 9-0420-0890-3 (paperback).

Olga Khristoforova
Chris J. Chulos, Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant
Russia, 1861-1917 (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press,
2003). 201 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-317-2.

Caleb Wall
James W. Heinzen, Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the
Transformation of Rural Russia (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2004). 312 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8229-4215-1.

Marina Krasilnikova, Alexander Cherniavskii
История и философия культуры: Актуальные проблемы. Сборник научных
трудов. Выпуск 6 / Под ред. С. В. Архипова. Владикавказ: Издательство
Северо-Осетинского государственного университета, 2003. 284 с. ISBN:
5-8336-0316-1.

Aleksei Chesnokov
В. И. Дятлов. Современные торговые меньшинства: фактор стабильности или
конфликта? (Китайцы и кавказцы в Иркутске). Москва: “Наталис”, 2000. 190
с. ISBN: 5-8062-0025-6.

Boris P. Chichlo
А. С. Зуев. Сибирь: Вехи истории (XVI – XIX вв.) / Учебное пособие...
Новосибирск, 1999; А. С. Зуев. Русские и аборигены на крайнем
северо-востоке Сибири во второй половине XVII – первой четверти XVIII
вв. Новосибирск, 2002. 330 с.

Katya Vladimirov
Губернаторы Сахалина / Под ред. A. И. Костанова, A. И. Баялдина, Л. В.
Драгуновой и др. Южно-Сахалинск: Архивный отдел Администрации
Сахалинской области, Государственный архив Сахалинской области, 2000. 392 с.

Dmitriy Rezun
А. Д. Агеев. Сибирь и американский Запад: Движение фронтиров. Иркутск:
Иркутский университет, 2002. 294 с. ISBN: 5-7430-0154-5 (в обл.).