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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 7d

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...

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 9d

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...

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 14d

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...

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 16d

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...

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 23d

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...

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 24d

Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55581; Ab Imperio’s website: www.abimperio.net/cgi-bin/aish...; some texts in open access: sites.google.com/view/openabi...

Project MUSE - Ab Imperio-2/2025

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 24d

Interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 2/2025 (see the links in first reply):

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 27d

In Ab Imperio 2/2025: Victoria Smolkin, "Reflections on Teaching Ukraine and Its Histories":

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 28d

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).

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 28d

Ab Imperio 2/2025, the forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories”:

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 29d

Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55581; Ab Imperio’s website: www.abimperio.net/cgi-bin/aish...; some texts in open access: sites.google.com/view/openabi...

Project MUSE - Ab Imperio-2/2025

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Sep 5

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Sep 5

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Heather D. DeHaan, Dan Healey, and Tracy McDonald (Eds.). Other Voices in Soviet History: Collected for a Devil’s Advocate. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2025. 293 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2422-4. Please follow the link in reply:

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Sep 2

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Kirill Chunikhin. Shared Images: A History of American Art in the Soviet Union. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. 220 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Name Index. ISBN: 978-3-11-138812-0. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Aug 29

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Birgit Beumers, Catherine Géry, and Eugénie Zvonkine (Eds.). Sexuality, Nudity and the Body in Soviet Cinema. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. 254 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-032-61532-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Aug 26

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Aug 26

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Melanie Arndt. Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster / Translated by Alastair Matthews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 342 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-009-45776-7. Please follow the link in first reply:

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abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Aug 22

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Jeremy Morris. Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 249 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3505-0932-0. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Aug 19

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Ian Garner and Taras Kuzio (Eds.). Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2025. 350 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8382-2015-4. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Aug 15

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Pietro A. Shakarian. Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev’s Kremlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025. 350 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-07354-9. Please follow sites.google.com/site/abimper...

abimperio.bsky.social @abimperio.bsky.social · Aug 12

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Nina Bogdan. Before We Disappear into Oblivion: San Francisco’s Russian Diaspora from Revolution to Cold War. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2025. 420 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2473-6. Please follow link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

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