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Edward Gray
    The Other Continental Empire: American Perceptions of the Russian Empire, 1776-1789

Elizabeth Buettner
    The Postman’s Letters: Long Distance Intimacy and the Family Lives of India’s Colonizers

Roundtable
    “Sub Altera Specie”: A View at Postcolonial Paradigm from Inside Russian/Soviet History

Adrienne Lynn Edgar
    Marriage, Modernity, and the “Friendship of Nations”: Interethnic Intimacy in Postwar Central Asia in Comparative Perspective

History
Jan Kusber
    Individual, Subject, and Empire. Toward a Discourse on Upbringing, Education, and Schooling in the Time of Catherine II

Anatoly Remnev, Natalia Suvorova
    “The Russian Cause” on the Asiatic Borderlands: The “Russianness” Under Threat and “Questionable Kulturträgers”

M. Safa Saraçoğlu
    Some Aspects of Ottoman Governmentality at the Local Level: The Judicio-Administrative Sphere of the Vidin County in the 1860s and 1870s

Tuong Vu
    Dreams of Paradise: The Making of a Soviet Outpost in Vietnam

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Victor Shnirelman
    Hatred of Migrants and “Cultural Racism”

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Vladimir Bobrovnikov
    Why Are We Marginals? Marginalia on the Russian Translation of Orientalism by Edward Said

Serguei Glebov
    Wither Eurasia? History of Ideas in an Imperial Situation

Historiography
Alexander Semyonov
    “Empire as a Moving Target”

Book Reviews
Jan Kusber
    Maureen Perrie, Dominic Lieven, and Ronald Suny (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Russia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 3 vols. ill. ISBN: 0-521-186-194-2; 978-052-186-194-6 (hardback edition). ₤270.00 (US $475.00). Volum

Kirsten Bönker
    Ulrike von Hirschhausen, Die Grenzen der Gemeinsamkeit: Deutsche, Letten, Russen und Juden in Riga 1860-1914 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2006). (=Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft; Bd. 172). 430 S. ISBN: 978-3-525-35153-6; 3

Elena Vishlenkova
    Stephen M. Norris, A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006). xiii+277 p., ill. ISBN: 978-0-87580-363-0; 0-875-80363-6.

Vadim Menzhulin
    А. Эткинд. Non-fiction по-русски правда: Книга отзывов. Москва: “Новое литературное обозрение”, 2007. 336 с. ISBN: 5-86793-518-3.

Igor Alexeev
    Robert D. Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006). 463 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-674-02164-9.

Sergei Abashin, Shahnoza Madaeva
    Marianne Kamp, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006). xiii+332 pp., ill. Maps. ISBN: 978-029-5986-449.

Andrew Gentes
    И. Р. Соколовский. Служилые “иноземцы” в Сибири XVII века (Томск, Енисейск, Красноярск). Новосибирск: “Coва”, 2004. 212 с. Список источников, Литература, Таблицы. ISBN: 5-87550-203-7.

Albina Noskova
    Powstanie Warszawskie 1944 w dokumentach z archiwów służb specjalnych / Варшавское восстание 1944 в документах из архивов спецслужб. Warszawa – Москва: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Институт российской истории РАН, 2007. 1428 c. ISBN: 97

Kerstin Armborst-Weihs
    Anke Hilbrenner, Diaspora-Nationalismus: Zur Geschichtskonstruktion Simon Dubnows (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2007). 315 S. (= Schriften des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts; Bd. 7). ISBN: 3-525-36985-9.

Wim van Meurs
    Stefan Ihrig, Wer sind die Moldawier? Rumänismus versus Moldowanismus in Historiographie und Schulbüchern der Republik Moldova, 1991-2006 (Hannover: ibidem-Verlag, 2008). 344 S. (=Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society; Bd. 76). ISBN: 978-3

Boris Povarnitsyn
    Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser (Eds.), Ethnic Politics After Communism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005). 296 pp., 18 tables, ill. Index. ISBN: 0-8014-7276-8.

Sergei Liubichankovskii
    К. Мацузато, В. Ф. Абрамов, А. А. Ярцев. Земский феномен: Политологический подход. Саппоро: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2001. 200с. (=Occasional Papers on Regional / Subregional Politics in the Post-Communist Countries; Vol. 6).

Maksim Kirchanov
    Униjа. Политика Римокатоличке Цркве према православним словенима / Приредио Зоран Милошевиħ. Београд: Институт за политичке студиjе, 2005. 335 с. ISBN: 86-7419-082-0;

Ilya Kuksin
    Русская семья в водовороте “великого перелома”: Письма О. А. Толстой-Воейковой, 1927-1929 гг. / Издание подготовлено В. Жобер. Санкт-Петербург: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского института истории РАН, “Нестор-История”, 2005. 444 с., ил. Именной указатель.

Nikita Khrapunov
    Kevin Alan Brook, The Jews of Khazaria (Lanham, Toronto and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006). xii+315 pp. 2nd edition. ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4981-4.

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