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PUBL.- Ab Imperio: Organization of Political Space of Empires and
Nations

Dear Friends,

Ab Imperio editors are pleased to announce the second issue of AI in
2002.
Ab Imperio is a bilingual (English-Russian) journal dedicated to the
study
of nationalism, nationalities and empire in the post-Soviet realm.
Within
the annual theme of 2002 "Russian Empire/USSR and Paradoxes of
Modernization" the second issue of AI is dedicated to the topic of
"Organization of Political Space of Empire and Nation". Please, see the
table of contents below. Note that the language of publication is
indicated
in brackets. For submissions or subscription, please, contact the
editors at
ai@bancorp.ru or glebov@rci.rutgers.edu or see the journal's website
http://aimag.knet.ru


Ab Imperio 2-2002 Organization of Political Space of Empires and Nations

Table of Contents:

METHODOLOGY AND THEORY

Editors
   Toward a New Political History of Empire

Ronald Grigor Suny
   Socialism, Post-Socialism, and the Appropriately Modern: Thinking
About
the History of the USSR (RUS)

Terry Martin
   An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of

Imperialism? (RUS)

HISTORY

   Virtual Roundtable "Political History of Empire - Political History
of
Nation: Towards a Synthetic Method?" (Part I) (RUS-ENG)

   Virtual Roundtable "Political History of Empire - Political History
of
Nation: Towards a Synthetic Method?" (Part II) (RUS-ENG)

Aleksei Miller
   Russifications: Classified and Explained (RUS)

Sergei Skobelev
   Demography as Politics. Indigenous Population of Siberia in the
Russian
Empire and USSR: Demographic Dynamics as a Reflection of the Center's
Politics (RUS)

Dana Sherry
   Kavkaztsy: Images of Caucaus and Politics of Empire in the Memoirs of

the Caucasus Corps' Officers, 1834-1859 (ENG)

Theodor Weeks
   Slavdom, Civilization, Russification: Comments on Russia's
World-Historical Mission, 1861-1878 (ENG)

Charles Steinwedel
   Tribe, Estate, Nationality? Changing Conceptions of Bashkir
Particularity within The Tsar's Empire (ENG)

Nick Baron
   The Regional Construction of Karelian Autonomy (RUS)

Pekka Kauppala
   The Formation and Heyday of the Autonomous Soviet Karelia, 1918-1929:
A
Forgotten Success of the Early Soviet Nationality Policy (RUS)

ARCHIVE

Serguei Glebov, Alexander Semyonov
   From the Editors. Politics, Empire, and Nationalism During the Early
Soviet Period (Foreword to the Publication) (RUS)

Markku Kangaspuro
   Language Struggle in the Republic of Karelia in the Early 1930s (RUS)

Nick Baron
   The Language Question and National Conflict in Soviet Karelia in the
1920's (ENG)

   Document:  April 25, 1931 Meeting of the VTsIK Council of
Nationalities'
Presidium (RUS)

SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Jan Kubik
   Cultural Legacies of State Socialism: History-Making and
Cultural-Political Entrepreneurship in Postcommunist Poland and Russia
(RUS)

Elena Khabenskaya
   "Homeland": Territorial Images in the Tatar Ethnic Identity (RUS)

Neil A. Abrams
   Nationalist Mobilization and Imperial Collapse: Serbian and Russian
Nationalism Compared, 1987-1991 (ENG)

THE ABC OF NATIONALISM

Vera Milchina
   Sentimental Nationalism and Diverse Russification (Roundtable
"Nationalism in Imperial Russia: Ideological Models and Discursive
Practices," Russian State University for the Humanities, June 24, 2002)
(RUS)

THE NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES

Ekaterina Dyogot
   How to Qualify for Postcolonial Discourse (ENG)

Margaret Dikovitskaya
   Does Russia Qualify for Postcolonial Discourse? A Response to
Ekaterina
Dyogot's Article (ENG)

HISTORIOGRAPHY

Marina Mogilner
   From the Editors. "Two Hundred Years Together": One Year Later (RUS)

Boris Mironov
   122 Years Apart. About the Book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Two
Hundred
Years Together, 1795-1995. Part 1". Moscow: Russkii put', 2001(RUS)

John D. Klier
   Polemics with Encyclopedias: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Dvesti let
vmeste" (ENG)

REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kimitaka Matsuzato
   Valentina Shandra. Malorosiis'ke general-gubernatorstvo 1802-1856.
Funktsii, struktura, arkhiv. Kiiv: Derzh. kom. arkhiviv Ukraini, 2001.
(RUS)

Nikolai Bukharin
   W. Marciniak. Rozgrabione imperium. Upadek Zwiezku Sowieckiego i
powstanie Federacji Rosyjskiej. Krakuw. Arkana, 2001. 589 s.(RUS)

Samson Madievskii
   G. V. Kostyrchenko. Tainaia politika Stalina: vlast' i antisemitizm.
Moskva: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 2001. 784 s. (RUS)

Andrzej de Lazari
   Iu. A. Borisenok. Mikhail Bakunin i "pol'skaia intriga": 1840-e gody.

Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2001. 304 str. (RUS)