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Book for review in Ab Imperio: Inna Leykin. Caring Like a State: The Politics of Russia’s Demographic Crisis. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2025. 231 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-07350-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
February 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Inna Leykin. Caring Like a State: The Politics of Russia’s Demographic Crisis. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2025. 231 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-07350-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Serguey Ehrlich. Memory, Identity, and Imagination: The Structure of Behaviour from the Perspective of Memory Studies. Chișinău: The Historical Expertise, 2026. 248 pp. Bibliography. Index: 978-3-68959-774-0. Please follow the link in reply:
February 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Serguey Ehrlich. Memory, Identity, and Imagination: The Structure of Behaviour from the Perspective of Memory Studies. Chișinău: The Historical Expertise, 2026. 248 pp. Bibliography. Index: 978-3-68959-774-0. Please follow the link in reply:
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Adam Lenton. Decolonizing Russia? Disentangling Debates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 78 pp. ISBN: 978-1-009-66474-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
February 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Adam Lenton. Decolonizing Russia? Disentangling Debates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 78 pp. ISBN: 978-1-009-66474-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Aram G. Sarkisian. Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era. New York: NYU Press, 2025. 318 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4798-3315-3. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
January 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Aram G. Sarkisian. Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era. New York: NYU Press, 2025. 318 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4798-3315-3. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Tamara Hundorova. Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma / Translated by Tanya Savchynska. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2025. 198 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 979-8-8978-3116-6. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
January 20, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Tamara Hundorova. Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma / Translated by Tanya Savchynska. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2025. 198 pp. Bibliography. ISBN: 979-8-8978-3116-6. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Bryan Karetnyk. Nabokov and the Russian Diaspora: In the Margins of Totalitarianism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 294 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-3-031-90017-4. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Bryan Karetnyk. Nabokov and the Russian Diaspora: In the Margins of Totalitarianism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 294 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-3-031-90017-4. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Alessandro Stanziani. Empires of Labor: Coercion and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 349 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-009-60859-6. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Alessandro Stanziani. Empires of Labor: Coercion and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 349 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-009-60859-6. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Book for review in Ab Imperio: From Eastern to Europe: President Aleksander Kwaśniewski in Conversation with Aleksander Kaczorowski. Kraków: Znak Litera Nova, 2025. 512 pp. Biographical notes. Further reading. ISBN: 978-83-8427-172-8. Please follow the link in reply:
January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: From Eastern to Europe: President Aleksander Kwaśniewski in Conversation with Aleksander Kaczorowski. Kraków: Znak Litera Nova, 2025. 512 pp. Biographical notes. Further reading. ISBN: 978-83-8427-172-8. Please follow the link in reply:
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Kevin M. F. Platt. Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 310 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7370-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Kevin M. F. Platt. Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 310 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7370-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...
Ab Imperio 3/2025 includes insightful reviews of several noteworthy books (Ab Imperio: www.abimperio.net/cgi-bin/aish...; Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56067).
December 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Ab Imperio 3/2025 includes insightful reviews of several noteworthy books (Ab Imperio: www.abimperio.net/cgi-bin/aish...; Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56067).
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Serhiy Choliy. The Mobilization at the Periphery Universal Conscription as a Modernizing Factor of the Habsburg Empire from 1868–1914. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2025. 286 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-7370-1391-8. Please follow sites.google.com/site/abimper...
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Serhiy Choliy. The Mobilization at the Periphery Universal Conscription as a Modernizing Factor of the Habsburg Empire from 1868–1914. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2025. 286 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-7370-1391-8. Please follow sites.google.com/site/abimper...
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...