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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...
Ab Imperio Award
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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...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Mykola Homanyuk and Mischa Gabowitsch. Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine. Budapest; Central European University Press, 2025. 224 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-963-386-822-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
September 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Mykola Homanyuk and Mischa Gabowitsch. Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine. Budapest; Central European University Press, 2025. 224 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-963-386-822-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Victoria Khiterer. Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2025. 305 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-62671-112-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
September 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Victoria Khiterer. Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2025. 305 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-62671-112-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: A. Austin Garey. Leagues of Laughter War, Comedy and the Soviet Legacy in Russia and Ukraine. London: UCL Press, 2025. 214 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-879-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
September 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: A. Austin Garey. Leagues of Laughter War, Comedy and the Soviet Legacy in Russia and Ukraine. London: UCL Press, 2025. 214 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-879-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Hiljar Tammela and Meelis Maripuu (Eds.). The Flight from Estonia to Sweden during World War II. Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2024. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-9949-9687-9-4. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
September 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Hiljar Tammela and Meelis Maripuu (Eds.). The Flight from Estonia to Sweden during World War II. Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2024. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-9949-9687-9-4. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 2/2025 (see the links in first reply):
September 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 2/2025 (see the links in first reply):
In Ab Imperio 2/2025: Victoria Smolkin, "Reflections on Teaching Ukraine and Its Histories":
September 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In Ab Imperio 2/2025: Victoria Smolkin, "Reflections on Teaching Ukraine and Its Histories":
In Ab Imperio 2/2025, Vladimir Levin publishes English translation of part of the field diary of one of the S. A. An-sky expedition’s participants, Abraham Rechtman (1888 or 1890–1972). (Photo: ju.org.ua/ru/media/424..., from left to right: Rechtman, Iudovin, S. An-sky, Sholem Aleichem).
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In Ab Imperio 2/2025, Vladimir Levin publishes English translation of part of the field diary of one of the S. A. An-sky expedition’s participants, Abraham Rechtman (1888 or 1890–1972). (Photo: ju.org.ua/ru/media/424..., from left to right: Rechtman, Iudovin, S. An-sky, Sholem Aleichem).