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Book for review in Ab Imperio: Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kirchner (Eds.). Sacralization of History in Times of Crises: Modern Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2025. 418 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-90-4857-0171. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kirchner (Eds.). Sacralization of History in Times of Crises: Modern Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2025. 418 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-90-4857-0171. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Ab Imperio 3/2025 pays tribute to Alfred Rieber (1931–2025):
Alfred J. Rieber, "Why Russian History?"
Ronald Grigor Suny, "Alfred Rieber (1931–2025)"
Vsevolod Bashkuev, "Frontier Encounters: A Story of Al Rieber Guiding My Academic Path"
(Al Rieber in the mid-2010s, photo by Marsha Siefert.)
Alfred J. Rieber, "Why Russian History?"
Ronald Grigor Suny, "Alfred Rieber (1931–2025)"
Vsevolod Bashkuev, "Frontier Encounters: A Story of Al Rieber Guiding My Academic Path"
(Al Rieber in the mid-2010s, photo by Marsha Siefert.)
December 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Ab Imperio 3/2025 pays tribute to Alfred Rieber (1931–2025):
Alfred J. Rieber, "Why Russian History?"
Ronald Grigor Suny, "Alfred Rieber (1931–2025)"
Vsevolod Bashkuev, "Frontier Encounters: A Story of Al Rieber Guiding My Academic Path"
(Al Rieber in the mid-2010s, photo by Marsha Siefert.)
Alfred J. Rieber, "Why Russian History?"
Ronald Grigor Suny, "Alfred Rieber (1931–2025)"
Vsevolod Bashkuev, "Frontier Encounters: A Story of Al Rieber Guiding My Academic Path"
(Al Rieber in the mid-2010s, photo by Marsha Siefert.)
In 3/2025 "Archive" section:
Willard Sunderland, "The Russian Guide to Colonization Management, by Titular Councilor Andrei Ivanovich Korotich";
Alexander Semyonov, "Habitual or Performative Archaism: Introduction to the Archival Publication";
Fyodor Umnov, "Memorandum on the Resettlement Question".
Willard Sunderland, "The Russian Guide to Colonization Management, by Titular Councilor Andrei Ivanovich Korotich";
Alexander Semyonov, "Habitual or Performative Archaism: Introduction to the Archival Publication";
Fyodor Umnov, "Memorandum on the Resettlement Question".
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In 3/2025 "Archive" section:
Willard Sunderland, "The Russian Guide to Colonization Management, by Titular Councilor Andrei Ivanovich Korotich";
Alexander Semyonov, "Habitual or Performative Archaism: Introduction to the Archival Publication";
Fyodor Umnov, "Memorandum on the Resettlement Question".
Willard Sunderland, "The Russian Guide to Colonization Management, by Titular Councilor Andrei Ivanovich Korotich";
Alexander Semyonov, "Habitual or Performative Archaism: Introduction to the Archival Publication";
Fyodor Umnov, "Memorandum on the Resettlement Question".
Published in Ab Imperio 3/2025: Ivan Sablin and Irina Sodnomova, "Buryats and the Transformation of the Russian Empire in 1906–1907: Self-Description, Self-Organization, and Representation" (in Russian)
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Published in Ab Imperio 3/2025: Ivan Sablin and Irina Sodnomova, "Buryats and the Transformation of the Russian Empire in 1906–1907: Self-Description, Self-Organization, and Representation" (in Russian)
Ab Imperio 3/2025: Egor Antonov and Aleksandr Korobeinikov, "Under the Name “Yakut”: Pseudonymous Authorship, Settler Colonialism, and the Political Agency of Sakha Intellectuals in the Late Russian Empire"
December 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Ab Imperio 3/2025: Egor Antonov and Aleksandr Korobeinikov, "Under the Name “Yakut”: Pseudonymous Authorship, Settler Colonialism, and the Political Agency of Sakha Intellectuals in the Late Russian Empire"
Ab Imperio 3/2025 (links in 1 reply) opens with the continuing forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories.” It features an interview with Eleonora Suleimenova and Mykhailo Minakov’s article on the office of the state language commissioner.
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Ab Imperio 3/2025 (links in 1 reply) opens with the continuing forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories.” It features an interview with Eleonora Suleimenova and Mykhailo Minakov’s article on the office of the state language commissioner.
Book for review in Ab Imperio: David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, Victoria I. Zhuravleva. Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies A History of American-Russian Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 622 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-521-11105-8. See the link in reply:
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, Victoria I. Zhuravleva. Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies A History of American-Russian Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 622 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-521-11105-8. See the link in reply:
It's December -- 2nd call for Ab Imperio Annual Award nominations! sites.google.com/view/abimper...
The award envisions three categories:
1. Best book.
2. Best article in a peer-reviewed academic journal or chapter in a scholarly collection.
3. Best dissertation chapter.
The award envisions three categories:
1. Best book.
2. Best article in a peer-reviewed academic journal or chapter in a scholarly collection.
3. Best dissertation chapter.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It's December -- 2nd call for Ab Imperio Annual Award nominations! sites.google.com/view/abimper...
The award envisions three categories:
1. Best book.
2. Best article in a peer-reviewed academic journal or chapter in a scholarly collection.
3. Best dissertation chapter.
The award envisions three categories:
1. Best book.
2. Best article in a peer-reviewed academic journal or chapter in a scholarly collection.
3. Best dissertation chapter.
Books for review
Igor Kuziner. Social History of the True Orthodox Christians Wandering in Russia: Capitalism, Communism, and Apocalypse, 1900–1930. Routledge, 2025.
Игорь Кузинер. Вечный побег: старообрядцы-странники между капитализмом, коммунизмом и апокалипсисом. НЛО, 2025. See link in reply:
Igor Kuziner. Social History of the True Orthodox Christians Wandering in Russia: Capitalism, Communism, and Apocalypse, 1900–1930. Routledge, 2025.
Игорь Кузинер. Вечный побег: старообрядцы-странники между капитализмом, коммунизмом и апокалипсисом. НЛО, 2025. See link in reply:
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Books for review
Igor Kuziner. Social History of the True Orthodox Christians Wandering in Russia: Capitalism, Communism, and Apocalypse, 1900–1930. Routledge, 2025.
Игорь Кузинер. Вечный побег: старообрядцы-странники между капитализмом, коммунизмом и апокалипсисом. НЛО, 2025. See link in reply:
Igor Kuziner. Social History of the True Orthodox Christians Wandering in Russia: Capitalism, Communism, and Apocalypse, 1900–1930. Routledge, 2025.
Игорь Кузинер. Вечный побег: старообрядцы-странники между капитализмом, коммунизмом и апокалипсисом. НЛО, 2025. See link in reply:
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Martin Schulze Wessel. Die übersehene Nation: Deutschland und die Ukraine seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. München: C.H. Beck, 2025. 287 S., ill. Ausgewählte Literatur. Personenregister. ISBN: 978-3-406-82174-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Martin Schulze Wessel. Die übersehene Nation: Deutschland und die Ukraine seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. München: C.H. Beck, 2025. 287 S., ill. Ausgewählte Literatur. Personenregister. ISBN: 978-3-406-82174-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Hanna Filipova. Male Same-Sex Relations and the Court of Peter I: Turning Muscovite. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 134 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-031-95480-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Hanna Filipova. Male Same-Sex Relations and the Court of Peter I: Turning Muscovite. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 134 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-031-95480-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Светлана Горшенина. Фотографии Туркестанского края XIX – начала ХХ века: “Войны памяти” между ориентализмами, национализмами, пост и деколониальными дискурсами на страницах Facebook (2017–2019). Бостон: Academic Studies Press, 2025. Please follow link in 1st reply:
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Светлана Горшенина. Фотографии Туркестанского края XIX – начала ХХ века: “Войны памяти” между ориентализмами, национализмами, пост и деколониальными дискурсами на страницах Facebook (2017–2019). Бостон: Academic Studies Press, 2025. Please follow link in 1st reply:
Yesterday, Ivan Sablin of Heidelberg University delivered his Ab Imperio Lecture at UIC on "Making Sense of Soviet Parliaments: Functions and Failed Transformations, 1935–1991." www.youtube.com/watch?v=VClF...
Ivan Sablin, "Making Sense of Soviet Parliaments: Functions and Failed Transformations, 1935–1991"
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November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Yesterday, Ivan Sablin of Heidelberg University delivered his Ab Imperio Lecture at UIC on "Making Sense of Soviet Parliaments: Functions and Failed Transformations, 1935–1991." www.youtube.com/watch?v=VClF...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Alex Moshkin. Dual Diaspora: Post-Soviet Culture in Search of Israeli Identity. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2025. 204 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2455-2. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Alex Moshkin. Dual Diaspora: Post-Soviet Culture in Search of Israeli Identity. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2025. 204 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2455-2. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Jeffrey W. Jones. Smoke, Mirrors, and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979–1989. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2025. 251 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-6274-8. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Jeffrey W. Jones. Smoke, Mirrors, and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979–1989. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2025. 251 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-6274-8. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Call for nominations: Ab Imperio 2025 Annual Award!
Deadline: December 31, 2025
The award envisions three categories:
1. Best book.
2. Best article or chapter.
3. Best dissertation chapter.
The award carries a monetary prize.
sites.google.com/view/abimper...
Deadline: December 31, 2025
The award envisions three categories:
1. Best book.
2. Best article or chapter.
3. Best dissertation chapter.
The award carries a monetary prize.
sites.google.com/view/abimper...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Call for nominations: Ab Imperio 2025 Annual Award!
Deadline: December 31, 2025
The award envisions three categories:
1. Best book.
2. Best article or chapter.
3. Best dissertation chapter.
The award carries a monetary prize.
sites.google.com/view/abimper...
Deadline: December 31, 2025
The award envisions three categories:
1. Best book.
2. Best article or chapter.
3. Best dissertation chapter.
The award carries a monetary prize.
sites.google.com/view/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Uladzislau Belavusau, Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Maria Mälksoo, and Angelika Nußberger (Eds.). The Politics of Memory Laws: Russia, Ukraine and Beyond. London: Hart Publishing, 2025. Index. ISBN: 978-1-50997-530-3. Follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Uladzislau Belavusau, Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Maria Mälksoo, and Angelika Nußberger (Eds.). The Politics of Memory Laws: Russia, Ukraine and Beyond. London: Hart Publishing, 2025. Index. ISBN: 978-1-50997-530-3. Follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Batsaikhan Ookhnoi Emgent. Russian Policy Towards Mongolia, 1911–1952: When Mongolia Fought the Red Front. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 315 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-981-96-6185-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
October 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Batsaikhan Ookhnoi Emgent. Russian Policy Towards Mongolia, 1911–1952: When Mongolia Fought the Red Front. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 315 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-981-96-6185-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Announcing Ab Imperio editors' final cameo in this German soap opera (zeitung.faz.net/data/498/rea...). In case you missed its previous episodes:
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Announcing Ab Imperio editors' final cameo in this German soap opera (zeitung.faz.net/data/498/rea...). In case you missed its previous episodes:
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Richard Sakwa. The Culture of the Second Cold War. London: Anthem Press, 2025. Bibliography.182 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-83999-297-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
October 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Richard Sakwa. The Culture of the Second Cold War. London: Anthem Press, 2025. Bibliography.182 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-83999-297-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Joseph Kellner. The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse. Cornell University Press, 2025. 242 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8151-3. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Joseph Kellner. The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse. Cornell University Press, 2025. 242 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8151-3. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Tetyana Dzyadevych (Ed.). Nostalgia, Anxiety, Politics: Media and Performing Arts in Egypt, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2025. 279 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 979-8-8819-0130-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Tetyana Dzyadevych (Ed.). Nostalgia, Anxiety, Politics: Media and Performing Arts in Egypt, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2025. 279 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 979-8-8819-0130-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Anna Shadrina. The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia. London: UCL Press, 2025. 175 pp., ill. Filmography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-907-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
October 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Anna Shadrina. The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia. London: UCL Press, 2025. 175 pp., ill. Filmography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-907-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Zbyněk Vydra (Ed.). Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918–1945. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. 294 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-032-81913-6. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
October 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Zbyněk Vydra (Ed.). Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918–1945. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. 294 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-032-81913-6. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Glenn Cronin. The Enduring Enigma of Lev Tikhomirov. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. 333 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8344-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Glenn Cronin. The Enduring Enigma of Lev Tikhomirov. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. 333 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8344-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...