Methodology and Theory

Editors
    Probing the Limits of Historical Metanarratives: Imperial Boundaries

Alfred Rieber
    Changing Concepts and Constructions of Frontiers: A Comparative Historical Approach

Andreas Kappeler
    The Russian Southern and Eastern Frontiers from the 15th to the 18th Centuries

David Laitin
    What is a Language Community?

History

Claus Scharf
    Pugachev as Emperor between Center and Periphery: Defining the Problematic

Marina Vituhnovskaja
    Karelians at the Edges of Competing National Projects: Socioeconomic Differences between Russian and Finnish Karelias as a Nationality Policy Factor

Pavel Varnavskii
    The Boundaries of the Soviet Buryat Nation: “Cultural Nation-Building” in Buryatia in 1926-29 in Blueprints of National Intelligentsia and National-Bolsheviks

Vladimir Bobrovnikov
    Violence and Power in the Historical Memory of a Muslim Borderland (Toward a New Interpretation of the “Hochbar Tale”)

Ilya Gerasimov
    “We Only Kill Each Other”: Mapping the Inter-Ethnic Criminal Violence in Odessa, 1907-1917

Darius Staliunas
    Borders in a Borderland: The Belarusians and the Ethno-linguistic Policy of the Russian Empire in Western Borderlands (the Era of “Great Reforms”)

Curt Woolhiser
    Constructing National Identities in the Polish-Belarusian Borderlands - 1

Curt Woolhiser
    Constructing National Identities in the Polish-Belarusian Borderlands - 2

Curt Woolhiser
    Constructing National Identities in the Polish-Belarusian Borderlands - 3

Suzanne Wertheim
    Language Ideologies and the “Purification” of Post-Soviet Tatar

Archive

Elena Bezvikonnaia
    Geopolitical Space of the Steppe: The Omsk Region and the Problem of Frontier in the Russian Imperial State Building (1820s-1830s)

Document
    Documents from the State Archive of Omsk Region

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Tatiana Skrynnikova
    Russia in Buryats’ Identity Construction

Kimitaka Matsuzato
    Russian Studies across Borders. Slavic Studies in Japan and Social Sciences in Russia: A Joint Search for Breaking the Isolation

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

    From the Editors

Stefan Troebst
    “We Are Transnistrians!” Post-Soviet Identity Management in the Dniester Valley

Sergiu Musteata
    “We are Rumanians?” History Teaching in the Republic of Moldova over the Last Decade

Andrei Cusco, Viktor Taki
    “Who Are We?” A Historiographic Choice between the Rumanian Nation and Moldavian Statehood

Newest Mythologies

Sergei Abashin
    The Archeology of Central Asian Nationalisms

Historiography

Mark Baker
    One Man Cannot an “Eastern Europe” Make, but he Can Certainly Try: Charles Frederick Henningsen and the Ideological Construction of Eastern Europe

Book Reviews

Igor Martyniuk
    Denis J. B. Shaw, Russia in the Modern World: A New Geography (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999). 314 p., paperback edition. £16.99

Emilian Kavalski
    Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002); xii+2000 p. Index. ISBN: 0-691-09054-8 (cloth).

Paul du Quenoy
    Alexander J. Motyl, Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). 128 p. ISBN: 0-231-12110-5 (cloth).

Maia Lavrinovich
    Claus Scharf. Katharina II, Deutschland und die Deutschen. Mainz: von Zabern, 1996. 570 S. (Abb.; ohne Abbildungen – Mainz, 1995)

Andrei Skorobogatov
    Ë. Ì. Ãàâðèëîâà. Ðóññêàÿ èñòîðè÷åñêàÿ ìûñëü è ìåäàëüåðíîå èñêóññòâî â ýïîõó Åêàòåðèíû II. ÑÏá.: ÐÈÖ ÑÏá. Ãîñ. ãîðíîãî èí-òà èì. Ã. Â. Ïëåõàíîâà, 2000. 256 ñ., èëë.

Tomasz Kamusella
    Koichi Inoue (Ed.), “Dear Father!”: A Collection of B. Pi³sudski’s Letters, et alii, Ser.: Pilsudskiana de Sapporo, no. 1 (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 1999), 155 p., figures, facsimiles.

Wim van Meurs
    Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer (Ed.), Culture Incarnate. Native Anthropology from Russia (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995), xii, 270 pp. (Illustr.)

Sergei Korshunov
    À. Í. Çîðèí. Ãîðîäà è ïîñàäû äîðåâîëþöèîííîãî Ïîâîëæüÿ. Èñòîðèêî-ýòíîãðàôè÷åñêîå èññëåäîâàíèå íàñåëåíèÿ è ïîñåëåí÷åñêîé ñòðóêòóðû ãîðîäîâ ðîññèéñêîé ïðîâèíöèè âòîðîé ïîëîâèíû XVI - íà÷àëà XX ââ. Êàçàíü: Èçä-âî Êàçàíñêîãî óíèâåðñèòåòà, 2001. 704 ñ., 376 èë

Alter Litvin, Alla Salnikova
    Israel Getzler, Nikolai Sukhanov. Chronicler of the Russian Revolution (London: Palgrave. 2002), xix, 226 p. (Illustr.)

Olga Velichko, Margarita Orlova
    È. Ñ. ßæáîðîâñêàÿ, À. Þ. ßáëîêîâ, Â. Ñ. Ïàðñàäàíîâà. Êàòûíñêèé ñèíäðîì â ñîâåòñêî-ïîëüñêèõ è ðîññèéñêî-ïîëüñêèõ îòíîøåíèÿõ. Ìîñêâà. ÐÎÑÑÏÝÍ, 2001. 496 ñ.

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