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    Politics of Language and Politics of Meaning

Andrew S. Thompson
    The Language of Imperialism and the Meaning of Empire: Imperial Discourse in British Politics, 1895-1914

Andrew S. Thompson
    Imperial Languages: A Postscript for AI

Bill Ashcroft
    Language

Interview with Vladimir Alpatov
    “Contemporary Russia Does Not Have a Well Defined Language Policy...”

History
Mikhail Dolbilov, Darius Staliunas
    Introduction to the Forum “Alphabet, Language and National Identity in the Russian Empire”

Henryk Głębocki
    Alexander Hilferding and the Slavophile Projects of Alteration of Cultural-National Identity in Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire

Johannes Remy
    The Ukrainian Alphabet as a Political Question in the Russian Empire before 1876

Ricarda Vulpius
    Language Policy in the Russian Empire: A Case of Translation of the Bible into Ukrainian, 1860-1906

Darius Staliunas
    Lithuanian Identity, Language, and Script in Russian Nationality Policy (in the 1860s)

Mikhail Dolbilov
    Vicissitudes of Cyrillization: The Ban on Latin Alphabet and Bureaucratic Russification of the Lithuanians in the Vilno General-Governorship, 1864-1882

Sergei Tokt’
    Latin or Cyrillic Alphabet: The Problem of Alphabet Choice in Byelorussian National Movement in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century

Archive
Ricarda Vulpius
    Ukrainian Language and Schooling in Late Imperial Period

Document
    Struggle for the Language: Publication of Documents

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Olga Filippova, Margrethe B. Søvik
    Images of Languages and the Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine:The Burden of the Past and Contestation in the Present

William Fierman
    Kazakh Language and Prospects for Its Role in Kazakh “Groupness” - 1

William Fierman
    Kazakh Language and Prospects for Its Role in Kazakh “Groupness” - 2

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Lale Yalçýn-Heckmann
    Remembering the Dead and the Living of the “Kolkhoz” and “Sovkhoz”: Past and Present of Gendered Rural Life in Azerbaijan

Sergei Rumiantsev
    Heroic Epic Poetry and a Construction of the Image of the Historical Enemy

Yasemin Kilit Aklar
    The Teaching of History in Azerbaijan and Nationalism

Newest Mythologies
Sergei Digol
    Paradigms and Paradoxes of the Concept of Nation State in Post-Soviet Moldova: Language, Statehood, and National Identity

Book Reviews
Oksana Sarkisova
    Eric Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999). 320 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 0-691-02625-4 (paperback).

Wim van Meurs
    Евгений Глущенко. Герои империи. Портреты российских колониальных деятелей. Москва: “ХХI век-Согласие”, 2001. 464 c. ISBN: 5-293-00038-1.

Elena Vishlenkova
    Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (Ed.), Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 (London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). 208 pp.+120 ill. Index. ISBN: 0-674-0127-8-X.

Oktay Tanrisever
    Петр Эбэрхардт. География населения России / Пер. с польского. Санкт-Петербург: “Невский простор”, 2003. 304 с. Список литературы, список рисунков, список таблиц. ISBN: 5-94716-032-3.

Svetlana Smirnova
    Вячеслав Леонидович Носевич. Традиционная белорусская деревня в европейской перспективе. Минск: “Тэхналогiя”, 2004. 350 с. ISBN: 985-458-096-2.

Pavel Stefanov
    Елена Вишленкова. Заботясь о душах подданных: Религиозная политика в России первой четверти XIX века. Саратов: Издательство Саратовского университета, 2002. 444 с. Библиографический список, указатель имен. ISBN: 5-292-03001-5.

Ernest Gyidel
    Украинская греко-католическая церковь: Преодоление мифа. Материалы семинара 25 ноября 2002 г. Москва: Институт изучения религии в странах СНГ и Балтии; Международное общество “Мемориал”; Фонд Генриха Бёлля, 2002. 148 с.

Michael Rouland
    Stéphane A. Dudoignon (Ed.), Devout Societies vs. Impious States? Transmitting Islamic Learning in Russia, Central Asia, and China, through the Twentieth Century (Proceedings of an International Colloquium Held in the Carré des Sciences, French

Sergei Digol
    Pavel Polian, Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2004). 425 p. Bibliography, Index of Personal Names, Index of Geographical Names. ISBN: 963-9241-73-3.

Irina Morozova
    Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). 296 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-310-5.

Olga Gurova
    Советская власть – народная власть? Очерки истории народного восприятия советской власти в СССР / Под ред. Тимо Вихавайнена. Санкт-Петербург: “Европейский Дом”, 2003. 337 с. ISBN: 5-8015-0159-2.

Alexander Lokshin
    Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Making Jews Modern. The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004). 311 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-253-34304-6.

Alexander Osipian
    Kate Brown, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004). 308 pp. Index. ISBN: 3-631-38327-4.

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