TOC Ab Imperio 2-2002 Organization of Political Space of Empires and Nations

METHODOLOGY AND THEORY

Editors
Toward a New Political History of Empire

Ronald Grigor Suny
Socialism, Post-Socialism, and the Appropriately Modern: Thinking About the History of the USSR (RUS)

Terry Martin
An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism? (RUS)

HISTORY

Virtual Roundtable "Political History of Empire – Political History of Nation: Towards a Synthetic Method?" (Part I) (RUS-ENG)

Virtual Roundtable "Political History of Empire – Political History of Nation: Towards a Synthetic Method?" (Part II) (RUS-ENG)

Aleksei Miller
Russifications: Classified and Explained (RUS)

Sergei Skobelev
Demography as Politics. Indigenous Population of Siberia in the Russian Empire and USSR: Demographic Dynamics as a Reflection of the Center’s Politics (RUS)

Dana Sherry
Kavkaztsy: Images of Caucaus and Politics of Empire in the Memoirs of the Caucasus Corps’ Officers, 1834-1859 (ENG)

Theodor Weeks
Slavdom, Civilization, Russification: Comments on Russia’s World-Historical Mission, 1861-1878 (ENG)

Charles Steinwedel
Tribe, Estate, Nationality? Changing Conceptions of Bashkir Particularity within The Tsar’s Empire (ENG)

Nick Baron
The Regional Construction of Karelian Autonomy (RUS)

Pekka Kauppala
The Formation and Heyday of the Autonomous Soviet Karelia, 1918-1929: A Forgotten Success of the Early Soviet Nationality Policy (RUS)

ARCHIVE

Serguei Glebov, Alexander Semyonov
From the Editors. Politics, Empire, and Nationalism During the Early Soviet Period (Foreword to the Publication) (RUS)

Markku Kangaspuro
Language Struggle in the Republic of Karelia in the Early 1930s (RUS)

Nick Baron
The Language Question and National Conflict in Soviet Karelia in the 1920’s (ENG)

Document: April 25, 1931 Meeting of the VTsIK Council of Nationalities’ Presidium (RUS)

SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Jan Kubik
Cultural Legacies of State Socialism: History-Making and Cultural-Political Entrepreneurship in Postcommunist Poland and Russia (RUS)

Elena Khabenskaya
“Homeland”: Territorial Images in the Tatar Ethnic Identity (RUS)

Neil A. Abrams
Nationalist Mobilization and Imperial Collapse: Serbian and Russian Nationalism Compared, 1987-1991 (ENG)

THE ABC OF NATIONALISM

Vera Milchina
Sentimental Nationalism and Diverse Russification (Roundtable “Nationalism in Imperial Russia: Ideological Models and Discursive Practices,” Russian State University for the Humanities, June 24, 2002) (RUS)

THE NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES

Ekaterina Dyogot
How to Qualify for Postcolonial Discourse (ENG)

Margaret Dikovitskaya
Does Russia Qualify for Postcolonial Discourse? A Response to Ekaterina Dyogot’s Article (ENG)

HISTORIOGRAPHY

Marina Mogilner
From the Editors. “Two Hundred Years Together”: One Year Later (RUS)

Boris Mironov
122 Years Apart. About the Book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn “Two Hundred Years Together, 1795-1995. Part 1”. Moscow: Russkii put’, 2001(RUS)

John D. Klier
Polemics with Encyclopedias: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Dvesti let vmeste” (ENG)

REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kimitaka Matsuzato
Âàëåíòèíà Øàíäðà. Ìàëîðîñ³éñüêå ãåíåðàë-ãóáåðíàòîðñòâî 1802-1856. Ôóíêö³¿, ñòðóêòóðà, àðõ³â. Êè¿â: Äåðæ. êîì. àðõ³â³â Óêðà¿íè, 2001. (RUS)

Nikolai Bukharin
W. Marciniak. Rozgrabione imperium. Upadek Zwi¹zku Sowieckiego i powstanie Federacji Rosyjskiej. Kraków. Arkana, 2001. 589 s.(RUS)

Samson Madievskii
Ã. Â. Êîñòûð÷åíêî. Òàéíàÿ ïîëèòèêà Ñòàëèíà: âëàñòü è àíòèñåìèòèçì. Ìîñêâà: Ìåæäóíàðîäíûå îòíîøåíèÿ, 2001. 784 ñ. (RUS)

Andrzej de Lazari
Þ. À. Áîðèñ¸íîê. Ìèõàèë Áàêóíèí è “ïîëüñêàÿ èíòðèãà”: 1840-å ãîäû. Ìîñêâà: ÐÎÑÑÏÝÍ, 2001. 304 ñòð. (RUS)