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    Politics of Comparison: Inescapable Centrality and Elusive Clarity of Matching Things Up

Andreas Kappeler
    The Center and Peripheral Elites in the Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1700-1918

Michael Werner, Bénédicte Zimmermann
    Beyond Comparison: Histoire croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity

Interview with Matthias Middell
    The Centrality of Comparison

Glennys Young
    Emotions, Contentious Politics, and Empire: Some Thoughts about the Soviet Case - 1

Glennys Young
    Emotions, Contentious Politics, and Empire: Some Thoughts about the Soviet Case - 2

History
Kristin Vitalich
    Dictionary as Empire: Vladimir Dal'’s Interpretive Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language

Steven Seegel
    Metageography Unbound: Late Nineteenth-century European Borderland Cartography and the Geopolitical Construction of Space

Svetlana Gorshenina
    Is the Marginality of Russian Colonial Turkestan Perpetual, or Whether Central Asia Will Be Included One Day into the Sphere of “Post-Studies”

Xavier Le Torrivellec
    Tatars and Bashkirs: A History in the Mirror. Ethnic Composition, Historiographic Debates, and Political Power in the Republic of Bashkortostan

Tassadit Yacine
    At the Origins of an Unusual Ethno-Sociology

Todd Shepard
    Making French and European Coincide: Decolonization and the Politics of Comparative and Transnational Histories

Archive

    The Empire of Archives: Call for Papers

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Irina Morozova
    Elites, Reforms, and Power Institutions in Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia in the 1920-1940s: a Comparative Historical Analysis - 1

Irina Morozova
    Elites, Reforms, and Power Institutions in Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia in the 1920-1940s: a Comparative Historical Analysis - 2

Newest Mythologies
Joseph Crescente
    Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serdiuchka and the Hybridization of Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine

Book Reviews
Amy Nelson
    Boris Gasparov, Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). xxii+268 pp. Musical exs., Notes, Index. ISBN: 0-300-10650-5.

Irina Kotkina
    Amy Nelson, Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004). xvi+330 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 0-271-02369-4 (hardcover edition).

Serhy Yekelchyk
    Kiril Tomoff, Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939 – 1953 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). xiv+321 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-4411-X (hardcover edition).

Darius Staliunas
    А. А. Комзолова. Политика самодержавия в Северо-Западном крае в эпоху Великих реформ. Москва: “Наука”, 2005. 383 с., ил. ISBN: 5-02-010293-8.

Scott C. Bailey
    Азиатская Россия: Люди и структуры империи: сборник научных статей. К 50-летию со дня рождения профессора А. В. Ремнева / Под ред. Н. Г. Суворовой. Омск: Издательство Омского государственного университета, 2005. 603 с. ISBN: 5-7779-0629-Х.

Mikhail Suslov
    Susanna Rabow-Edling, Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Conservatism (Albany, NY: State University of New York Pres, 2006). vii+183 pp. (=SUNY Series in National Identities). Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7914-6693-0 (hardcover edition

Ludmila Novikova
    Frederick C. Corney, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004). xviii+301pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-8931-8 (paperback edition).

Andrew Gentes
    Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). xxiv+402 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 0-520-23550-9.

Alexandra Petoukhova
    David L. Ransel, Bozena Shallcross (Eds.), Polish Encounters, Russian Identity (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005). 232 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-253-21771-7.

Andrew Wilson
    А. В. Богомолов, С. И. Данилов, И. Н. Семиволос, Г. М. Яворская. Исламская идентичность в Украине / Пер. с укр. Изд. 2-е, доп. Киев: Издательский дом “Стилос”, 2006. 200 с. ISBN: 966-8518-45-4.

Ernest Gyidel
    И. В. Нарский. Жизнь в катастрофе: Будни населения Урала в 1917-1922 гг. Москва: “РОССПЭН”, 2001. 632 с. ISBN: 5-8243-0280-4.

Pavel Chechenkov
    О. Е. Кошелева. Люди Санкт-Петербургского острова Петровского времени. Москва: “ОГИ”, 2004 (=Нация и культура / Новые исследования). 486 с., ил. ISBN: 5-94282-262-Х.

Alexander Gronsky
    Антон Адамовiч. Да гiсторыi беларускае лiтаратуры. Менск: Выдавец “Зьмiцер Колас”, 2005. 1464 с. Именной указатель. ISBN: 985-90050-3-6.

Nikita Khrapunov
    Linda Murray, Peter Murray, A Dictionary of Christian Art (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 658 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 0-19-860966-3 (paperback edition).

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