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Methodology and Theory
Editors
    Historians’ Reflections on the Prospects of a Linguistic and Anthropological Turn in the Study of Empire and Nationalism

Interview with Carlo Ginzburg
    On Rescuing Voices and Self-Description under Constraints

Katherine Verdery
    Bringing Anthropologists (Back) In

Wolfgang Kaschuba
    Ethnology as Dialogue?

Mikhail Krom
    Comments on the Address by Katherine Verdery

David O’Kane
    Power and Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century: Comments on Katherine Verdery’s “Bringing the Anthropologists (Back) In”

Sergei Abashin
    Anthropology and “Slavic Studies” (A View from “Over Here”)

History
Nikolay Kradin, Tatiana Skrynnikova
    Why Do We Call Chinggis Khan’s Polity “An Empire”? - 1

Nikolay Kradin, Tatiana Skrynnikova
    Why Do We Call Chinggis Khan’s Polity “An Empire”? - 2

Anatoly Remnev, Olesia Sukhikh
    Kazakh Deputations in the Scenarios of Power: From Diplomatic Missions toward Imperial Presentations

Seymour Becker
    How Nineteenth-Century Russian Historians Interpreted the Period of Mongol Rule as a Largely Positive Experience in Nation-Building

Jörg Baberowski
    Stalinism and Nation: The Soviet Union as a Multinational State, 1917-1953

Peter A. Blitstein
    Nation and Empire in Soviet History, 1917-1953

Archive
Serguei Glebov
    “Regulierter Polizeistaat” and “Iasak”: Heinrich von Fick’s Siberian Memorandum

Document
    Most Subject Propositions and Report Regarding Iakuts, Tungus, and Other Remote in Northern Siberia to the Russian Empire Submitted Iasak Peoples

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Nikolai Vukov
    “Brotherly Help” Representations or “Imperial” Legacy: Monuments to the Soviet Army in Bulgaria before and after 1989

Emil Pain
    Empire-in-Itself. On the Mechanisms of Recurring Processes in Modern Russian Politics

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Andreas Frings
    Friendly Fire. A Critical Review of the New Imperial History of the Post-Soviet Space From The View of Analytical Philosophy

Ricarda Vulpius
    Words and Peoples in Empire: On the Discussion of the “Greater Russian Nation,” Ukraine- and Russophiles, on Dialects and Peoples

Mikhail Dolbilov, Darius Staliunas
    Words, Peoples and Imperial Contexts: The Discussion Continues

Newest Mythologies
Ekaterina Kratasiuk
    Russian History in TV Commercials: To Have or To Be?

Historiography
Wim van Meurs
    Old Wounds and New Battles: The pros and cons of comparative histories of Stalinism and Nazism

Book Reviews
Igor Martyniuk
    Alter L. Litvin, John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium (London: Routledge, 2005). 248 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-41535-109-X.

Sergei Kudriashov
    Alter L. Litvin, John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium (London: Routledge, 2005). 248 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-41535-109-X.

Ilya Kuksin
    Yoram Gorlizki, Oleg Khlevniuk, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). viii+248 pp. Bibliographical References, Index. ISBN: 0-19-516581-0 (hardback edition).

Maksim Kirchanov
    Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin’s Empire of Memory. Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2004). 230 pp. ISBN: 0-8020-8808-2.

Caleb Wall
    Nils Roll-Hansen, The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2005); Alexei B. Kojevnikov, Stalin’s Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists (London: Imperial College Press, 2004).

Viacheslav Men’kovskii
    Sheila Fitzpatrick, Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-century Russia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). 332 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 0-691-12245-8.

Alexander Filiushkin
    Sergej Bogatyrev (Ed.), Russia Takes Shape: Patterns of Integration from the Middle Ages to the Present (Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2005) (= Annales Acade-miae Scientiarum Fennicae. T. 335). 290 pp. ISBN: 951-41-0957-0.

Emilian Kavalski
    Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier (Eds.), The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005). xii+256 pp. ISBN: 0-8014-8961-X.

Bram Mikhail Caplan
    Joel S. Migdal, State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). xi+291 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-79706-3.

Vitalii Ananiev
    Иван Грозный и иезуиты: Миссия Антонио Поссевино в Москве: Сборник / Сост. и предисл. И. В. Курукина; пер. с нем. С. П. Гиждеу; пер. с лат. Л. Н. Годовиковой. Москва: “Аграф”, 2005. 256 с. ISBN: 5-7784-0301-1.

Igor Alexeev
    Shireen T. Hunter, Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004). 592 pp. Tables, Figures, Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7656-1283-6.

Grigorii Zaplotinskii
    Ф. Н. Шакуров. Развитие исторических знаний у татар до февраля 1917 года. Казань: Издательство Казанского государственного университета, 2002. 127 с. Список литературы. ISBN: 5-7464-0756-9.

Maria Krisan’
    Marek Przeniosło, Chłopi Królestwa Polskiego w latach 1914–1918 (Kielce: Wydawnictwo Akademii Świętokrzyskiej, 2003). 468 s. ISBN: 83-7133-219-X.

Marianna Mouravieva
    Clio Moderna. Зарубежная история и историография: Сборник научных статей. Вып. 1-4. Казань: “Мастер-Лайн”, 1999-2003.

Irina Popova-Bondarenko
    Е. Э. Носенко. Быть или чувствовать? Основные аспекты формирования еврейской самоидентификации у потомков смешанных браков в современной России. Москва: ИВ РАН, “Крафт+”, 2004. 400 с. ISBN: 5-93675-085-X.

Pavel Stefanov
    Православный собеседник: Альманах Казанской Духовной Семинарии. Вып. 1 (6). Казань: Издательский отдел КГЭУ, 2004. 254 с. ISBN: 5-89873-118-0.

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