Methodology and Theory

Editors
    Gardening Empire as “Civilizing Process”

Daniel Chirot
    The Retribalization of the Modern World: How the Revival of Ancient Sentiments Leads to Persisting Nationalist and Ethnic Conflicts

Simon Werrett
    The Panopticon in the Garden: Samuel Bentham’s Inspection House and Noble Theatricality in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Jörg Baberowski
    Trust through Presence. Premodern Practices of Authority in Late Imperial Russia

History

Galina Zelenina
    Sephardic Philosophizers, Phantom Heresy and the Fame of the Spanish King

Olga Minkina
    Russian Authorities and the “Jewish Riot” of 1823-1824

Christoph Gumb
    Threatening and Punishing: The Russian Army in Warsaw, 1904-1906

Felix Schnell
    “Tear Them Apart... And Be Done With It!” The Ataman-Leadership of Nestor Makhno as a Culture of Violence

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Interview with Stephen F. Jones
    The Conflict in Georgia and the Self-Defeating Nature of Nationalism

Georgi Derluguian
    On the Making of Georgian-Russian Stereotyping

Anna Temkina
    Soviet-Style Gender Modernization vs. Traditional Scenarios of Sexual Life

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Ben Eklof
    “By A Different Yardstick:” Boris Mironov’s A Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917, and Its Reception in Russia

Ronald Grigor Suny
    The Politics of Social History: Boris Mironov’s Social History of Imperial Russia

Seymour Becker
    Comment on Ben Eklof’s “By a Different Yardstick”

Alexander Kamenskii
    Several Comments on Ben Eklof’s Article

Aleksei Penzin
    “The Lost World,” Or on the Decolonization of the Russian Social Sciences

William G. Rosenberg
    “Yards and Meters” (Some Comments)

Mark von Hagen
    Reflections on Ben Eklof’s “By a Different Yardstick”

Jan Kusber
    What Does It Mean to “Give Russia Back the Past?” Some Short Remarks on Ben Eklof’s “By a Different Yardstick,” from a German Point of View

Alain Blum
    What Domination Are We Talking About? A French View of Russian Studies in France, Russia, and USA

Ben Eklof
    Final Ñomments

Newest Mythologies

Ilya Gerasimov
    “The Truth of the Russian Body” and the Sweet Violence of the Imagined Community

Historiography

Steven Seegel
    Darius Staliūnas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). xiii+465 pp., ills. (=On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the

Juliette Cadiot
    Darius Staliūnas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). xiii+465 pp., ills. (=On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the

James P. Niessen
    Darius Staliūnas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). xiii+465 pp., ills. (=On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the

Darius Staliunas
    Postscript, Or a Review of Reviews

Book Reviews

Gleb Albert
    ÑÑÑÐ è Ëèòâà â ãîäû Âòîðîé ìèðîâîé âîéíû: Ñáîðíèê äîêóìåíòîâ. Òîì 1: ÑÑÑÐ è Ëèòîâñêàÿ ðåñïóáëèêà (ìàðò 1939 – àâãóñò 1940 ãã.). / Ñîñò. À. Êàñïàðàâè÷þñ, ×. Ëàóðèíàâè÷þñ, Í. Ëåáåäåâà. Âèëüíþñ: Lietuvos istorijos instituto ledykla, 2006. 774 ñ. Èìåííîé óêàç

Andrew Gentes
    Alex Marshall, The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1800-1917 (London and New York: Routledge, 2006). xii+274 pp. Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-415-35561-3.

Mathijs Pelkmans
    Catharine Alexander, Victor Buchli, and Caroline Humphrey (Eds.), Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). 212 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-1-84472-115-3.

Michael Rouland
    Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, Les Russes du Kazakhstan: Identités nationales et nouveaux Etats dans l’espace post-soviétique (Paris: “Maissonneuve & Larose,” 2004). 354 pp. Bibliographie, Index. ISBN: 2-7068-1834-4.

Vitalii Ananiev
    Christoph Witzenrath, Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 1598-1725: Manipulation, Rebellion and Expansion into Siberia (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). xii+259 pp. Index, Maps. ISBN: 978-0-415-41621-4.

Marina Shabasova
    Ïðîñòðàíñòâåííûå ôàêòîðû â ôîðìèðîâàíèè ïàðòèéíûõ ñèñòåì. Äèàëîã àìåðèêàíèñòîâ è ïîñòñîâåòîëîãîâ / Ïîä ðåä. Ê. Ìàöóçàòî. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2002. 108 ñ.

Krista Sigler
    Å. À. Âèøëåíêîâà, Ñ. Þ. Ìàëûøåâà, À. À. Ñàëüíèêîâà. Terra Universitatis: Äâà âåêà óíèâåðñèòåòñêîé êóëüòóðû â Êàçàíè. Êàçàíü: Èçäàòåëüñòâî Êàçàíñêîãî ãîñóäàðñòâåííîãî óíèâåðñèòåòà, 2005. 498 ñ., èëë. ISBN: 5-98180-197-2.

Anke Hilbrenner
    Journal of the Interdisciplinary Crossroads. April 2006. Vol. 3. No. 1 (Thematic Issue: David Kettler and Zvi Ben-Dor (Eds.), The Limits of Exile). 265 pp. ISSN: 0-972-9801.

Anastasia Meylakhs
    Äýíèýë Ðàíêóð-Ëàôåðüåð. Òðàäèöèÿ ïî÷èòàíèÿ èêîí Áîãîìàòåðè â Ðîññèè ãëàçàìè àìåðèêàíñêîãî ïñèõîàíàëèòèêà / Ïåð. ñ àíãëèéñêîãî À. Ãåîðãèåâà. Ìîñêâà: “ÂÐÑ”, 2005. 350 ñ. ISBN: 5-94451-039-0.

Ekaterina Kluchnikova
    Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays (Princeton University Press, 1997). xxxii+561 pp., ill. ISBN: 0-69-101-156-7 (hardcover edition).

Darius Staliunas
    À. Ê. Òèõîíîâ. Êàòîëèêè, ìóñóëüìàíå è èóäåè Ðîññèéñêîé èìïåðèè â ïîñëåäíåé ÷åòâåðòè XVIII – XX ââ. Ñàíêò-Ïåòeðáóðã: Èçäàòåëüñòâî Ñàíêò-Ïåòåðáóðãñêîãî óíèâåðñèòåòà, 2007. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-5-288-04293-5.

Irena Vladimirsky
    Åâðåéñêèé ìóçåé. Ñáîðíèê ñòàòåé / Ñîñòàâèòåëè Â. À. Äûìøèö, Â. Å. Êåëüíåð. Ñàíêò-Ïåòåðáóðã: “Ñèìïîçèóì”, 2004. 268 ñ., 32 èë. ISBN: 5-89091-280-1.

Nikita Khrapunov
    Åäìóíä Õîåöüêèé. Ñïîãàäè ç ïîäîðîæi ïî Êðèìó / Ïåð. ç ïîëüñêîï Î. Î. Òèùåíêî-Ìîíàñòèðñüêà, êîì. Â. I. Áàðàíîâ, Î. Î. Òèùåíêî-Ìîíàñòèðñüêà. Ñiìôåðîïîëü: ÂÀÒ “Ñiìôåðîïîëüñêà ìiñüêà äðóêàðíÿ”, 2008. 384 ñ. ISBN: 978-966-2913-55-2.

Stanislav Alekseev
    Èñòîðèÿ è ôèëîëîãèÿ: Ïðîáëåìû íàó÷íîé è îáðàçîâàòåëüíîé èíòåãðàöèè íà ðóáåæå òûñÿ÷åëåòèé: Ìàòåðèàëû ìåæäóíàðîäíîé êîíôåðåíöèè (2-5 ôåâðàëÿ 2000 ãîäà) / Îòâ. ðåä. È. Î. Åðìà÷åíêî. Ïåòðîçàâîäñê: Èçäàòåëüñòâî Ïåòðîçàâîäñêîãî ãîñóäàðñòâåííîãî óíèâåðñèòåòà, 20

Maksim Kirchanov
    Giedrius Subačius, Upton Sinclair: The Lithuanian Jungle. Upon the Centenary of “The Jungle” (1905 and 1906) by Upton Sinclair (Amsterdam: “Rodopi”, 2006). 102 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 9-0420-1879-8.

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