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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:
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...
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).
Ab Imperio 2/2025, the forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories”:
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ab Imperio 2/2025, the forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories”:
Ab Imperio 2/2025 (links in 1 reply) opens with the forum that formulates a truly postcolonial approach to dismantling Russia’s hegemonic structures, at least in the cultural sphere, by disentangling Russian language and culture from ethnic Russianness and Russian state.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ab Imperio 2/2025 (links in 1 reply) opens with the forum that formulates a truly postcolonial approach to dismantling Russia’s hegemonic structures, at least in the cultural sphere, by disentangling Russian language and culture from ethnic Russianness and Russian state.
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Michael Jabara Carley. Stalin’s Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939–1941. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2025. 457 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-66258-8. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Michael Jabara Carley. Stalin’s Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939–1941. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2025. 457 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-66258-8. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...