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Methodology and Theory
Editors
    History and the Courtroom: Trials and Errors

Terence Ball
    Interpretation, Intention, and the Law: the Case Against “Original Intent”

Erich Haberer
    History and Justice: Paradigms of the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes


    Historian’s Judgement: Reflections by Istvan Deak

History
Andriy Portnov
    Exercises with History Ukrainian Style (Notes on Public Aspects of History’s Functioning in Post-Soviet Ukraine)

Johan Dietsch
     Struggling with a “Nuremberg Historiography” of the Holodomor

Tõnu Tannberg
    “Under the Influence of the International Reaction, The Pitiful Remnants of Anti-Soviet Elements in Our Country…” 1956 and Problems of the Baltics in Kremlin

Vladimir Petrovic
    Historians as Expert Witnesses at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yougoslavia

Archive
Editors
    The Empire of Archives: Forum Initiated by Ab Imperio and Cahiers du monde russe: Russie, Empire russe, Union soviétique et États indépendants

Ann Laura Stoler
    The Pulse of Archives - 1

Ann Laura Stoler
    The Pulse of Archives - 2

James P. Niessen
    Records of Empire, Monarchy, or Nation? The Archival Heritage of the Habsburgs in East Central Europe

Svetlana Gorshenina
    The Biggest Projects of Russian Colonial Archives: The Utopian Exhaustive “Turkestanica” of General Governor Constantine P. von Kaufman

Igor’ Lukoianov
    The Archive and the Researcher: The Case of RGIA

Sophie Cœuré
    Soviet Archives: A Cultural Heritage of the Empire or a Monument to the Revolution? Reflections on the French “Trophy Archives” in the USSR after the Second World War

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Vello Pettai
    The Construction of State Identity and its Legacies: Legal Restorationism in Estonia

Alexander Astrov
    A Liturgy for the Bronze Soldier: Memory and History in the Formation of Crisis

Book Reviews
Serhy Yekelchyk
    Ярослав Грицак. Пророк у своїй вітчизні: Франко та його спільнота (1856-1886). Київ: “Критика”, 2006. 631 с., илл. Покажчик имен, Покажчик географичнiх назв, Покажчик продовжуваних видань, альманахiв, установ та органiзацiй. ISBN: 966-7679-96-9.

Kavita Datla
    Bernard Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 475 pp., ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-19-929959-5.

Vitalii Ananiev
    Isabel de Madariaga, Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005). xxii+428 pp. Maps, Select Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-09757-3.

Elke Fein
    Gabor T. Rittersporn, Malte Rolf, Jan C. Behrends (Eds.), Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs / Public Spheres in Soviet-Type Societies (Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang Verlag, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften

Boris Povarnitsyn
    Wendy Slater, Andrew Wilson (Eds.), The Legacy of the Soviet Union (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, 2004). 275 pp. Index. ISBN: 1-4039-1786-8.

Ivan Dereiko
    Antonio J. Munoz, Oleg Romanko, Hitler’s White Russians: Collaboration, Extermination and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Byelorussia, 1941-1944 (Bayside, NY: Europa Books, 2003). 512 pp. ISBN: 1-891227-42-4.

Andrej Kotljarchuk
    Бернард К’яры. Штодзённасць за лініяй фронту: Акупацыя, калабарацыя і супраціў у Беларусі (1941–1944 г.) / Пер. с ням. Л. Баршчэўскага; нав. рэд. Г. Саганович. Мiнск, 2005. 390 с. Указатель. ISBN: 978-5272-20-6.

Wim van Meurs
    Marcela Sãlãgean, The Soviet Administration in Northern Transylvania (November 1944 – March 1945). Translated by Robert Mihai Rosca (Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2002). 190 pp. (=East European Monographs, Vol. DXCVIII). Bibliography, A

Olga Khristoforova
    John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk (Eds.), Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2006). 304 pp., ills. ISBN: 0-8020-9148-2 (hardcover edition).

Aleksandr Lavrov
    Serhii Plokhy, Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). 102 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-916458-95-4.

Alexander Etkind
    Вадим Менжулин. Другой Сикорский: Неудобные страницы истории психиатрии. Киев: “Сфера”, 2004. 490 с. Библиографический указатель, именной указатель. ISBN: 966-7841-72-3.

Yulia Gradskova
    Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova and Anna Loutfi (Eds.), A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, the 19th and 20th Centuries (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press,

Vera Dubina
    Записки князя Дмитрия Александровича Оболенского, 1855-1879 / Отв. ред., авт. вступ. ст., коммент. В. Г. Чернуха. Санкт-Петербург: “Нестор-История”, 2005. 503 с., илл. Указатель имен. ISBN: 5-98187-072-9.

Olga Gurova
    Eugenia Paulicelli, Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt (Dress, Body, Culture) (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2004). 256 pp. ISBN-10: 1-859-737-730; ISBN-13: 978-1859-737-736.

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