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Methodology and Theory
Editors
    Russian Society: Structures and Cultures

Max Weber
    Estates and Classes

Max Weber
    Relations of Ethnic Community

Pierre Bourdieu
    Identity and Representation: Elements of Critical Reflection of the Idea of “Region”

Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper
    Beyond “Identity”

History
Maia Lavrinovich
    Building the Social Foundations of Empire in the 18th Century: Practices of Legislation toward the Townspeople and their Western European Roots

Vitalii Voropanov
    The Practice of Local Justice: Crown Courts for the Countryside Dwellers in the Orenburg Province during the Last Quarter of the 18th Century and the Beginning of the 19th Century

Lutz Haefner
    Civil Society, Bürgertum, and “Local Society”: In Search for Analytical Categories for Studies of Public and Social Modernization in Late Imperial Russia

_______________FORUM:_______________ The analysis of subjectivization practices...
Editors
    Thinking Theoretically About the Cultural and Linguistic Turn in Soviet Studies


    Interview with Igal Halfin and Jochen Hellbeck

Alexander Kustarev
    On the Agents of Soviet Chronotop

David L. Hoffmann
    Power, Discourse, and Subjectivity in Soviet History

Jeremy Smith
    The Soviet State and the Individual

Svetlana Boym
    How is the Soviet Subjectivity made?

Ilya Gerasimov
    Before the Dark. (Re)Forging of the New Soviet Man in the 1920’s: Testimonies of the Participants

Alla Salnikova
    “The Gehenna of Fire”: The Children Perceptions of the Early Soviet period

Dietrich Beyrau
    The Bolshevik Project as a Plan and Social Practice

Yasuhiro Matsui
    Soviet Diary as a Medium of Communality and Intersubjectivity: A Study of a Collective Diary

Jochen Hellbeck
    “Soviet Subjectivity” – a Cliché?

Igal Halfin
    The Syntax of the Bolshevik Subject


    Summary: The Analysis of Subjectivization Practices...

Archive
Alter Litvin
    A Historian’s Diary: Foreword to the Publication

Document
    From the Diary of S. A. Piontkovskii

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Vitali Silitski
    The Deadlock of Brotherhood: Politics of Russia-Belarus Integration - 1

Vitali Silitski
    The Deadlock of Brotherhood: Politics of Russia-Belarus Integration - 2

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Alexander Semyonov
    From the Editors. The State of Art in History Writing on Nation and Empire

Roundtable
     The Problem of Empire in History and Historiography Curricular of Secondary and Higher Education

F. M. Eliisa Vaha
    Producing Patriots. Heroic Stories and Individual Heroes as the Makers of the Soviet and Russian Identity in History Textbooks, 1950-1995

Newest Mythologies
Benjamin Rifkin
    The Evolution of “Us” and “Them” in Russian Film from Perestroika to Putin

Historiography
Ilya Gerasimov
    The Con. Swindlers and the Forging of a New Soviet Man in the Articles by US Historians

Oksana Sarkisova
     Degrees of Unfreedom: In Search of a Lost Subjectivity (Review Essay: Jeffrey Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture From Revolution to Cold War)

Book Reviews
Christian Noack
    Íàöèîíàëüíûå èñòîðèè â ñîâåòñêîì è ïîñòñîâåòñêèõ ãîñóäàðñòâàõ / Ïîä ðåä. Ê. Àéìåðìàõåðà è Ã. Áîðäþãîâà. Ìîñêâà: ÀÈÐÎ-XX, 1999. 445 ñ., èëë. ISBN 5-88735-060-1

Igor Martyniuk
    Anna Geifman (Ed.), Russia under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894 – 1917 (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1999); 310 pp.; ISBN 1-55786-995-2.

Nataliia Andreeva
    Andreas Renner. Russischer Nationalismus und Öffentlichkeit im Zarenreich 1855-1875. Köln, Weimar, Wien, 2000. (Beiträge zur Geschichte Osteuropas / Hrsg. v. D. Beyrau, B. Bonwetsch, D. Geyer, M. Hildermeier. Bd. 31). 447 S.

Sergei Podbolotov
    Ä. À. Êîöþáèíñêèé. Ðóññêèé íàöèîíàëèçì â íà÷àëå ÕÕ ñòîëåòèÿ: Ðîæäåíèå è ãèáåëü èäåîëîãèè Âñåðîññèéñêîãî íàöèîíàëüíîãî ñîþçà. Ìîñêâà: ÐÎÑÑÏÝÍ, 2001. 528 ñ., èë.

Emilian Kavalski
    Rajan Menon, Yuri E. Fedorov, Ghia Nodia (Eds.), Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia: The Twenty-first Century Predicament (Armonk, NY: M. E.Sharpe, 1999); xvi+272 p. Index. ISBN: 0-7656-0433-7 (cloth)

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