Ab Imperio (2008), 1

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Ab Imperio (2008), 1
Other title information 
Imperial exceptionalism: mechanism and discourses

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Kazan', Russland 2008: Selbstverlag des Herausgebers
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vierteljährlich
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Ab Imperio. Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space
Country
Russian Federation
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Postanschrift: P.O. Box 157, Kazan' 420015. Tel./Fax: 7-8432-644-018
By
Alexander Kaplunovskiy

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Dear friends and colleagues,

"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 first issue of the journal is devoted to the exploration of "Imperial Exceptionalisms: Mechanisms and Discourses" The language of each publication (Russian or English) is indicated by a letter in brackets.
Please find below the table of contents and visit the website for more information: www.abimperio.net

For submissions, subscription or other inquiries please contact the editors at: office@abimperio.net
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Table of contents

IMPERIAL EXCEPTIONALISMS: MECHANISMS AND DISCOURSES

I. METHODOLOGY AND THEORY

From the Editors (R&E)

Interview with Zygmunt Bauman: In the Court Where Multi-Ethnic Polities are on Trial the Jury is Still Out (E)

Jeremy Adelman: An Age of Imperial Revolutions (R)

Nicholas Breyfogle: Enduring Imperium: Russia/Soviet Union/Eurasia as Multiethnic, Multiconfessional Space (E)

II. HISTORY

Seymour Becker: Projects for Political Reform in Russia in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century (E)

MATERIALS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PANEL
OF THE 39TH ANNUAL CONVENTION
OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES

Mark R. Beissinger: The Persistence of Empire in Eurasia (R)

Nancy Condee: Mediation, Imagination, and Time: Speculative Remarks on Russian Culture (E)

Alexander Semyonov: Empire as a Context Setting Category (E)

Ronald Grigor Suny: Studying Empires (E)

IV. SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Sergei Prozorov: Empire in the Age of Its Disrepute: A Comment on Mark Beissinger’s AAASS Presidential Address (E)

Mark R. Beissinger: Comments on Sergei Prozorov’s “Empire in the Age of Its Disrepute” (E)

V. NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES

Aleksei Mikhalev: The Orthodox Christianity in Contemporary Mongolia: The Rhetoric and Practices of Cultural Expansion (R)

VI. 1. HISTORIOGRAPHY

Mikhail Suslov: Recent Historical Studies of Russian Conservatism: Students, Critics, and Proponents (R)

VI. 2. REVIEWS

Vytautas Petronis, Constructing Lithuania: Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914 (Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2007). 309 pp. (=Stockholm Studies in History, 91; Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations, 21). ISBN: 9-7891-85445-79-0.
Steven Seegel (E)

Marko Buttino. Revoljucija naoborot: Srednjaja Asija mezhdu padeniem carskoj imperii i orazovaniem SSSR / Per. S italjanskogo N. Okhotina, posleslovie A. Mazoero. Moskva: “Zvenja”, 2007. 447 S. ISBN: 978-5-7870-0110-5.
Sergei Abashin (R)

Annegret Bautz, Sozialpolitik statt Wohltätigkeit? Der Konzeptionswandel städtischer Fürsorge in Sankt Petersburg von 1892 bis 1914 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007). 221 S. (=Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte; Bd. 68). ISBN: 9-783-44705-439-3.
Kirsten Bönker (R)

Nicholas B. Dirks, The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006). 389 pp. ISBN 0-674-02166-5.
Svetlana Konstantinova (R)

Alexei Yurchenko, Jens Petter Nielsen (Eds.), In the North my Nest is Made: Studies in the History of the Murman Colonization 1860-1940 (St. Petersburg: European University at St. Petersburg Press, 2005). 266 pp., 32 ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 5-94380-048-4;
Reinhard Nachtigal, Die Murmanbahn 1915 bis 1919. Kriegsnotwendigkeit und Wirtschaftsinteressen, 2nd edition (Remshalden: Greiner, 2007). 222 pp. Bibliography, Index, Appendix, Maps. ISBN: 978-3-935383-96-7.
Ludmila Novikova (R)

Granica i ljudi. Vospominanija sovetskikh pereselencev Priladozhskoj Kareliii Karelskogo pereshejka / Nauch. Red.. E. A. Melnikova. Sost. V. Ju. Makarova i dr. Sankt-Peterburg: Izd. Evropejskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2005. 484 S. (=Studia Ethnologica, vyp. 2). ISBN: 5-94380-041-7;
Mnogolikaja Finlandija. Obraz Finlandii i finnov v Rossii / Sb. Statej por nauch. Red. A. N. Camutali, O. P. Iljukhi i G. M. Kovalenko. Velikij Novgorod: Izd. Novgorodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta imeni Jaroslava Mudrogo, 2004. 404 S., ill. (Nauchnye doklady, vyp. 1). ISBN: 5-98769-003-X.
Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov (E)

Kimitaka Matsuzato (Ed.), Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries: Histories Revived or Improvised? (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2005). 415 pp. Index. ISBN: 4-938637-35-9.
Sergei Digol (R)

Larissa Remennick, Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration and Conflict (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007). ix+408 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 9-780-765-803-405.
Elena Nosenko (R)

Daniel Balmuth, The Russian Bulletin, 1863 – 1917: A Liberal Voice in Tsarist Russia (New York, Vienna, and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000). 462 pp. (=American university studies IX, History; Vol. 194). Bibliographical References, Index. ISBN: 0-8204-4921-0.
Ekaterina Gorbunova (R)

Milan Suboti´c, Put Rusije: evrazijsko stanovište (Belgrade: “Plato,” 2004). 326 pp. (=Biblioteka “Koinonia,” Vol. 26). ISBN: 86-447-0231-0.
Martin Beisswenger (E)

Evrazijskaja ideja i sovremennost. Sbornik statej / Pod red. N. S. Kirabaeva, A. V. Semushkina, S. A. Nizhnikova. Moskva: Mezhvuzovskij centr po izucheniju filosofii kultury Vostoka, Izdatelstvo Rossijskogo universiteta druzhby narodov, 2002. 271 S. ISBN: 5-209-01477-0.
Vladimir Bystryukov (R)

P. Vandich. Cina svobodi: Istorija Centralno-Skhidnoj Evropi vid Serednovichchja do sogodennja / Per. S. Grachovoj, pod. red. A. Portnova. Kiiv: “Kritika”, 2004. 464 S. ISBN 966-7679-54-3
Alexander Filiushkin (R)

Peter Kenez, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, 2nd edition (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 352 pp. Chronology, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-86437-2 (hardback edition).
Anatoly Rusnachenko (R)

Osamu Ieda (Ed.), The New Structure of the Rural Economy of post-Communist Countries (Sapporo: Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, 2001). 161 pp. ISBN: 4-938637-24-3.
Najam Abbas (E)

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01.06.2008