[Bilimsel Haber] PUBL.- Ab Imperio, 1-2006 "Language Difficulties: How and Why We Write the History of Empires and Nations"

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

PUBL.- Ab Imperio, 1-2006 "Language Difficulties/Hist. of Empires and
Nations"

Posted by: Sergey Glebov <sglebov at smith.edu>

Dear colleagues,

The editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the
first issue of AI in 2006 "Language Difficulties: How and Why We Write
the History of Empires and Nations ". This issue opens our annual
research program on Anthropology of Languages of Self-Description in
Empire and Nation. Please, visit Ab Imperio website at
http://abimperio.net for more information on our annual program and
thematic issues, subscription, and other items of interest.

Please, contact the editors with any questions at

office at abimperio.net (Dr. Ilya Gerasimov)
ai_us at abimperio.net (Dr. Sergey Glebov)
semyonov at abimperio.net (Dr. Alexander Semyonov)
kaplunovski at abimperio.net (Dr. Alexander Kaplunovski)

Ab Imerio 1-2006 "Language Difficulties: How and Why We Write the
History of Empires and Nations".

Theory and Methodology

 From the Editors Historians' Reflections on Prospects of Linguistic
and Anthropological Turn in Study of Empire and Nationalism (Eng/Rus)

Interview with Carlo Ginzburg On Rescuing Voices and Self-Description
under Constraints (Eng)

Katherine Verdery Bringing Anthropologists (Back) In (Rus)

Wolfgang Kaschuba Ethnology as Dialogue? (Eng)

Mikhail Krom Comments on the Address by Katherine Verdery (Rus)

David O'Kane Power and Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century:
Comments on Katherine Verdery's "Bringing the Anthropologists (Back) In"
(Eng)

Sergei Abashin Anthropology and "Slavic Studies" (A View from Hereabout)
(Rus)

History

Nikolay N. Kradin, Tatyana D. Skrynnikova Why Do We Call Chinggis
Khan's Polity "An Empire"? (Eng)

Anatoly Remnev, Olesia Sukhikh Kazakh Deputations in the Scenarios of
Power: From Diplomatic Missions toward Imperial Presentations (RUS)

Seymour Becker How Nineteenth-Century Russian Historians Interpreted
the Period of Mongol Rule as a Largely Positive Experience in
Nation-Building(Eng)

Jorg Baberowski. Satalinism and Nation: Soviet Union as a
Multinational State, 1917 - 1953 (Rus)

Peter A. Blitstein Nation and Empire in Soviet History, 1917-1953(Eng)

Nikolai Vukov "Brotherly Help" Representations or "Imperial" Legacy:
Monuments to the Soviet Army in Bulgaria before and after 1989 (Eng)

Archive

Sergei Glebov "Regulierter Polizeistaat" and "Iasak": Heinrich von
Fick's Siberian Memorandum (Eng)

Heinrich Fick. Most Subject Propositions and Report Regarding Iakuts,
Tungus, and Other Remote in Northern Siberia to the Russian Empire
Submitted Iasak Peoples (Rus)

Political Science, Ethnology, Sociology

Emil Pain Empire-in-Itself. On the Mechanisms of Recurring Processes
in Modern Russian Politics (Rus)

Andreas Frings Friendly Fire. A Critical Review of the New Imperial
History of the Post-Soviet Space From a View of Analytical Philosophy (Eng)

Ricarda Vulpius Words and Peoples in Empire: On the Discussion of the
"Greater Russian Nation," Ukraine- and Russophiles, on Dialects and
Peoples (Rus)

Mikhail Dolbilov, Darius Staliunas Words, Peoples and Imperial
Contexts: The Discussion Continues (Eng)

Ekaterina Kratasiuk Russian History in the TV Commercials: To Have or
To Be? (Rus)

Wim van Meurs Old Wounds and New Battles: The pros and cons of
comparative histories of Stalinism and Nazism (Eng)

REVIEWS

R-Forum

Writing About Stalinism after 2000

Alter L. Litvin, John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at
the Turn of the Millennium (London: Routledge, 2005). 248 pp.
Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-41535-109-X.
Igor' Martyniuk

Alter L. Litvin, John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at
the Turn of the Millennium (London: Routledge, 2005). 248 pp.
Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-41535-109-X.
Sergei Kudriashov

Yoram Gorlizki, Oleg Khlevniuk, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet
Ruling Circle, 1945-1953 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004). viii+248 pp. Bibliographical References, Index. ISBN:
0-19-516581-0 (hardback edition).
Ilya Kuksin

Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin's Empire of Memory. Russian-Ukrainian
Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (Toronto, Buffalo and
London: University of Toronto Press, 2004). 230 pp. ISBN: 0-8020-8808-2.
Maksim Kirchanov

Nils Roll-Hansen, The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science
(Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2005). 335 pp. Index. ISBN: 1-59102-262-2.
Alexei B. Kojevnikov, Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures
of Soviet Physicists (London: Imperial College Press, 2004). 360 pp.
Bibliography, Name Index, Subject Index. ISBN: 1-86094-420-5.
Caleb Wall

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in
Twentieth-century Russia (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2005). 332 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 0-691-12245-8.
Viacheslav Men'kovskii

Sergej Bogatyrev (Ed.), Russia Takes Shape: Patterns of Integration
from the Middle Ages to the Present (Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum
Fennica, 2005) (=3D Annales Acade-miae Scientiarum Fennicae. T. 335).
290 pp. ISBN: 951-41-0957-0.
Aleksandr Filiushkin

Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier (Eds.), The Europeanization of
Central and Eastern Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
2005). xii+256 pp. ISBN: 0-8014-8961-X.
Emilian Kavalski

Joel S. Migdal, State in Society: Studying How States and Societies
Transform and Constitute One Another (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2001). xi+291 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-521-79706-3.
Bram Mikhail Caplan

Ivan Groznyi i iezuity: Missiia Anotnio Possevino v Moskve: Sbornik /
Sost. i predisl. I Kurukina; per. s nem. S. P. Gizhdeu; per. s lat. L.
N. Godovikovoi. Moskva: ""Agraf", 2005. 256 s. ISBN: 5-7784-0301-1.
Vitalii Anan'ev

Shireen T. Hunter, Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and
Security (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004). 592 pp. Tables, Figures,
Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7656-1283-6.
Igor' Alekseev

F. N. Shakurov. Razvitie istoricheskikh znanii u tatar do fevralia
1917 goda. Kazan: Izd-vo KazGU, 2002. 127 s. Spisok literatury. ISBN:
5-7464-0756-9.
Grigorii Zaplotinskii

Marek Przenioslo, Chlopi Krolestwa Polskiego w latach 1914-1918
(Kielce: Wydawnictwo Akademii Swietokrzyskiej, 2003). 468 s. ISBN:
83-7133-219-X.
Mariia Krisan'

Clio Moderna. Zarubezhnaia istoriia i istoriografiia: Sbornik
nauchnykh statei. Vyp. 1-4. Kazan': ""Master-Lain", 1999-2003.
Marianna Murav'eva

Ye. E. Nosenko. Byt' ili chuvstvovat'? Osnovnye aspekty formirovania
evreiskoi samoidentifikatsii u potomkov smeshannykh brakov v
sovremennoi Rossii. Moskva: IV RAN, "Kraft+", 2004. 400s. ISBN:
5-93675-085-X.
Irina Popova-Bondarenko

Pravoslavnyi sobesednik: Al'manakh Kazanskoi Dukhovnoi Seminarii. Vyp
1(6). Kazan': Izdatel'skii otdel KGEU, 2004. 254 s ISBN: 5-89873-118-0.
Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov

Contributors
AI-2005
Annual program 2006



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