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Conversation: Andrzej Nowak and Roman Szporluk
    Was Poland an Empire?


    Questions of AI Editors to the Collocutors and Commentators

Andriy Portnov
    Inventing Rzeczpospolita

Roman Szporluk
    “The Polish Question:” An Afterthought and Comment

Andrzej Nowak
    Postscriptum

Alain Blum, France Guérin-Pace
    Polemics and Debates around the Introduction of Ethnic Categories into Statistics in France

History
Andrew D. Evans
    A Liberal Paradigm? Race and Ideology in Late-Nineteenth-Century German Physical Anthropology

Marius Turda
    Race, Politics and Nationalist Darwinism in Hungary, 1880-1918

Christian Marchetti
    Scientists with Guns: On the Ethnographic Exploration of the Balkans by Austrian-Hungarian Scientists before and during World War I

Marina Mogilner
    Russian Physical Anthropology in Search of “Imperial Race”: Liberalism and Modern Scientific Imagination in the Imperial Situation

Andre Gingrich
    Liberalism in Imperial Anthropology: Notes on an Implicit Paradigm in Continental European Anthropology before World War I

Archive
Alla Zeide
    Creating a Space of Freedom: Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpovich and Studies of Russian History in the US - 1

Alla Zeide
    Creating a Space of Freedom: Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpovich and Studies of Russian History in the US - 2

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    Michael Karpovich and Problems of Russian History and Historiography

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Elena Gapova
    Gender and Post-Soviet Nations: The Private as the Political

Mary Hawkesworth
    Gender and the Public Sphere: A Genealogy from the West

Tatiana Zhurzhenko
    Between Clan, Family, and Nation: Post-Soviet Masculinity / Femininity in “Color Revolutions”

Olga Zubkovskaia
    Postcolonial Theory in the Post-Soviet Feminist Analysis: Dilemmas of Applicability

Nona Shakhnazarian
    Gender Scenarios of Ethnic Conflicts: Narratives of the Karabakh War

Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein
    Feminist Foremother for a Nation? Mapping the History of the Women’s Movement in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe

Newest Mythologies
Ilya Gerasimov
    The Burden of Lessons Mugged Up: Egor Gaidar and the Deconstruction of Empire

Historiography
Stephen Velychenko
    Nationalizing and Denationalizing the Past. Ukraine and Russia in Comparative Context

Book Reviews
Marina Loskutova
    Emily Johnson, How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006). xiii+303 pp., ills. Selected Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-271-02872-6 (hardcover edition).

Elena Nosenko
    Этнография Петербурга – Ленинграда. Тридцать лет изучения, 1974 – 2004 / Сост. и отв. редактор Н. В. Юхнёва. Санкт-Петербург: МАЭ РАН, 2004. 402 с. (=KUNSTKAMERA PETROPOLI-TANA). ISBN: 5-88431-109-5.

Marianna Mouravieva
    Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). 392 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-691-11558-3.

Wim van Meurs
    Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus (Cornell University Press, 2005); Michael Kemper, Herrschaft, Recht und Islam in Daghestan. Von den Khanaten und Gemeindebünden zum ðihâd-Staat (W

Stephen Jones
    Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). xvi+240 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Maps, Tables, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-7330-2 (paperb

Andrew Gentes
    Roshanna P. Sylvester, Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and Civility in a City of Thieves (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005). x+244 pp. Notes, Maps, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-346-3.

Olga Gershenson
    М. Еленевская, Л. Фиалкова. Русская улица в еврейской стране: Исследование фольклора эмигрантов 1990-х в Израиле. Москва: Институт этнологии и антропологии РАН, 2005. Ч. 1. 353 с.; Ч. 2. 243 с., илл. Приложения, Библиография. ISBN: 5-201-00887-9.

Alexander Lokshin
    Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein (Eds.), The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006). 576 pp., ill. Map, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8047-4527-7 (hardcover editio

Pavel Krylov
    Steven M. Miner, Stalin’s Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941 – 1945 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003). 432 pp., ill. Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8078-2736-3.

Ilya Kuksin
    Kees Boterbloem, The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896 – 1948 (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004). xxiv+593 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7735-2666-8 (hardcover edition).

Alexander Androshchuk
    Egle Rindzeviciute (Ed.), Contemporary Change in Ukraine (Huddinge: Baltic and East European Graduate School, 2006);Egle Rindzeviciute (Ed.), Contemporary Change in Kaliningrad. A Window to Europe? (Huddinge: Baltic and East European Graduate School, 2006

Emilian Kavalski
    Mark Bassin, Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). xvi+330 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-02674-1 (paperback edition).

Maksim Kirchanov
    Derek Fewster, Visions of Past Glory: Nationalism and the Construction of Early Finnish History (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society / Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006). 555 pp., ill. (=Studia Finnica). ISBN: 951-746-787-7.

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