Dear colleagues,
Ab Imperio editors would like to draw your attention to the third issue of Ab Imperio in 2004. This publication explores the relationship between historical memory and the national paradigm. Ab Imperio website can be accessed at http://abimperio.net
Please, contact the editors with any questions you may have.
Ilya Gerasimov office@abimperio.netSergey Glebov ai_us@abimperio.netAlexander Kaplunovski akaplunovski@abimperio.netMarina Mogilner office@abimperio.netAlexander Semyonov semyonov@abimperio.net
Ab Imperio 3/2004 Historical Memory and National Paradigm
Methodology and Theory
From the Editors
Hans KohnA History of Nationalism in the East: National Memory and Islamic Ummah(RUS)
Yfaat WeissCentral European Ethnonationalism and Zionist Bi-Nationalism (RUS)
Yael ZerubavelThe Dynamics of Collective Remembering(RUS)
Interview with Clifford GeertzIslam, Modernity, Nationalism(ENG
History
Vadim DolgovTrying On the “Imperial Clothes” for the First Time: the Byzantine Ideological System and The Problem of Princes’ Crowns in Ancient Rus’, 10th-13th Centuries (RUS)
Charles J. HalperinOmissions of National Memory: Russian Historiography on the Golden Horde as Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (ENG)
Viktor TakiHistorical Memory and the Construction of a Region after theAnnexation by Empire: Bessarabia’s Special Form of Administration, 1812-1828 (RUS)
Andreas FringsThe Alphabet Reform in Tatarstan and Cultural Memory (RUS)
Carmen ScheideCollective and Individual Models of Memory about the “Great Patriotic War” (1941-1945)(RUS)
Georgii KasianovThe Open Grave: The 1932-1933 Famine in Ukrainian Historiography, Politics, and Mass Consciousness (RUS)
ArchiveSvetlana Malysheva, Elena Vishlenkova, Alla SalnikovaHistory of the University as a History of the Corporation’s Memory? (RUS)
DocumentUniversity: A Site of Memory? Questionnaires of Former Students and Professors of Kazan University(RUS)
Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Elena Zdravomyslova, Olga TkachGenealogical Research in Contemporary Russia: the Rehabilitation of “History” through the Family “Memory” (RUS)
ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies: Forum on Islam and Modernity
Igor AlexeevIn Search for a “Good Islam” (RUS)
Galina Khizrieva“Islam,” “Muslims,” and “State” in Russian Islamic Studies (RUS)
Adeeb KhalidPost-Soviet Fortunes of the Central Asian Islam (RUS)
Robert D. CrewsIslamic Law, Imperial Order: Muslims, Jews, and the Russian State(ENG)
Igor AlexeevGathering the Split Ummah: Fundamentalism as a Re-Interpretation of Islamic History(ENG)
Narynbek Alymkulov, Guliaiym AshakeevaPost-Soviet Central Asia: Political Trends in Islam (RUS)
Sergei AbashinGellner, “Descendants of Saints”, and Central Aisa: Between Islam and Nationalism (RUS)
Vladimir BobrovnikovArcheology of Constructing Islamic Traditions in a Dagestani Kolkhoz (RUS)
Book Reviews
Akim ElnazarovDouglas Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004). 416 p. 5 tables, 5 maps, 37 halftones. Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8891-5.
Sebastian CwiklinskiRobert P. Geraci, Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001). 389 p. Maps, Ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0-8014-3422-X.
Bulat FatkulinDmitri Trenin, The End of Eurasia: Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization (Washington, DC, and Moscow: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002). 354 p. Index. ISBN: 0-87003-190-2.
Tomasz KamusellaBoris Belenkin. Rossiiskie periodicheskie izdaniia onatsional-ekstremizme, 1992 – 1996: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’. Moskva: Zvenia, 1997. 46 p. ISBN: 5-7870-0006-4.
Najam AbbasTsentral’naia Aziia glazami odnogo fransuzskogo erudite XVII veka. Tr. from French by A. Akimova. Tashkent, FIITsA, 2003. 111 p.
Emilian KavalskiDmitri M. Bondarenko and Andrey V. Korotayev (Eds.), Civilisational Models of Politogenesis (Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000). 318 p. ISBN: 5-201-05100-6.
Magdalena ŻółkośSander L. Gilman, Freud, Race, and Gender (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993). 277 p. Index. ISBN: 0-691-02586-X
Francis KingA. P. Nenarokov. Posledniaia emigratsiia Pavla Aksel’roda. Moskva, AIRO-XX, 2001. 166 p. ISBN: 5-88735-085-7.