Ab Imperio 3/2004 Historical Memory and National Paradigm

Methodology and Theory

From the Editors

Hans Kohn
A History of Nationalism in the East: National Memory and Islamic Ummah(RUS)

Yfaat Weiss
Central European Ethnonationalism and Zionist Bi-Nationalism (RUS)

Yael Zerubavel
The Dynamics of Collective Remembering(RUS)

Interview with Clifford Geertz
Islam, Modernity, Nationalism(ENG

History

Vadim Dolgov
Trying 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. Halperin
Omissions of National Memory: Russian Historiography on the Golden Horde as Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (ENG)

Viktor Taki
Historical Memory and the Construction of a Region after the
Annexation by Empire: Bessarabia’s Special Form of Administration, 1812-1828 (RUS)

Andreas Frings
The Alphabet Reform in Tatarstan and Cultural Memory (RUS)

Carmen Scheide
Collective and Individual Models of Memory about the “Great Patriotic War” (1941-1945)(RUS)

Georgii Kasianov
The Open Grave: The 1932-1933 Famine in Ukrainian Historiography, Politics, and Mass Consciousness (RUS)

Archive
Svetlana Malysheva, Elena Vishlenkova, Alla Salnikova
History of the University as a History of the Corporation’s Memory? (RUS)

Document
University: A Site of Memory? Questionnaires of Former Students and Professors of Kazan University(RUS)

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Elena Zdravomyslova, Olga Tkach
Genealogical Research in Contemporary Russia: the Rehabilitation of “History” through the Family “Memory” (RUS)

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies: Forum on Islam and Modernity

Igor Alexeev
In Search for a “Good Islam” (RUS)

Galina Khizrieva
“Islam,” “Muslims,” and “State” in Russian Islamic Studies (RUS)

Adeeb Khalid
Post-Soviet Fortunes of the Central Asian Islam (RUS)

Robert D. Crews
Islamic Law, Imperial Order: Muslims, Jews, and the Russian State(ENG)

Igor Alexeev
Gathering the Split Ummah: Fundamentalism as a Re-Interpretation of Islamic History(ENG)

Narynbek Alymkulov, Guliaiym Ashakeeva
Post-Soviet Central Asia: Political Trends in Islam (RUS)

Sergei Abashin
Gellner, “Descendants of Saints”, and Central Aisa: Between Islam and Nationalism (RUS)

Vladimir Bobrovnikov
Archeology of Constructing Islamic Traditions in a Dagestani Kolkhoz (RUS)

Book Reviews

Akim Elnazarov
Douglas 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 Cwiklinski
Robert 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 Fatkulin
Dmitri 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 Kamusella
Boris Belenkin. Rossiiskie periodicheskie izdaniia o
natsional-ekstremizme, 1992 – 1996: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’. Moskva: Zvenia, 1997. 46 p. ISBN: 5-7870-0006-4.

Najam Abbas
Tsentral’naia Aziia glazami odnogo fransuzskogo erudite XVII veka. Tr. from French by A. Akimova. Tashkent, FIITsA, 2003. 111 p.

Emilian Kavalski
Dmitri 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 Żółkoś
Sander L. Gilman, Freud, Race, and Gender (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993). 277 p. Index. ISBN: 0-691-02586-X

Francis King
A. P. Nenarokov. Posledniaia emigratsiia Pavla Aksel’roda. Moskva, AIRO-XX, 2001. 166 p. ISBN: 5-88735-085-7.