From: "Serguei Glebov" <[log in to unmask]>
Dear friends,
the editors of Ab Imperio Quarterly are pleased to announce the annual
program of the journal. This program will mark the third year of the
journal's existence and focus on the broad topic of modernization in the
context of Russian/Soviet history.
We cordially welcome submissions in English, German, French, Russian, Polish
or Ukrainian languages.
Please, address the editors with any inquiries. Our contact information can
be found on the journal's website at http://aimag.knet.ru Alternatively, you
can contact the editors at
Ilya Gerasimov [log in to unmask] Executive Editor
Serguei Glebov [log in to unmask] US and Canda
Alexander Kaplunovsky [log in to unmask] Germany and Western Europe
Marina Mogilner [log in to unmask] Russia and NIS
Alexander Semyonov [log in to unmask] Hungary and Central/Eastern Europe
You can also access the annual contents of the journal in 2000, which we
have made available for public free of charge.
If the flyer in your mailbox is unreadable, you can open the attached html
file.
With best regards,
AI editorial group
Ab Imperio
International Quarterly on Theory of Nationalism and History of
Nationalities
in the Post-Soviet Space
2002
THe Russian Empire/USSR and Paradoxes of modernization
Annual Theme
Four Thematic Issues:
¹ 1/2002 “Russia’s “Special Path” and Varieties of Imperial and
National Experiences of Modernization”
Rethinking of the concept of modernity and modernization (economic,
social, political) in application to Russia (the problem of modernity as a
Eurocentric concept) · Modernization and the concept of the nation state ·
History of the Russian discourses of modernization, anti-modernization, and
a “Special Path” · Comparative analysis of the Russian experiences of
empire-building, nation-building, and regulation of interethnic relations
and ethnic minority rights · Debates on Russian totalitarianism,
imperialism, colonialism, Eurocentrism, and orientalism in comparative
perspective · Contemporary debates on “Special paths” in European
historiographies; the concept of “Special path” in contemporary debates in
Russia.·
¹ 2/2002 “Organization of Political Space of Empires and Nations”
Evolution of political institutes, political elites, and mentality in
empires · Rationalization of space and population management · the challenge
of modernization as a factor of international relations · The emergence of
novel disciplinary practices and the persistence of pre-modern political
patterns · Problems of federalism, centralism, and unitary state in empires
and nations · Citizenship and ascribed nationality · Symbolic geography of
historical regions, empires, and nations · Political languages of national
movements.
¹ 3/2002 “Russian Society: Structures and Cultures”
Assimilation, emancipation, social mobility, and segregation · The
problem of adaptation of social structures to the challenge of modernity ·
Dynamics of cultural change and institutional transformation · Institutions
of Civil Society in the process of modernization of empire · Processes of
secularization and democratization in a multiethnic and polyconfessional
polity · History and sociology of the “imagining” of nations · Urban and
rural dimensions of nation-building · Public opinion and mass consciousness:
the formation of mass society · Strategies of social integration,
segregation or marginalization of ethnic minorities
¹ 4/2002 “Economy of Empire, Nation, and Region”
The problem of the economic basis of imperial expansion in the Russian
Empire and the Soviet Union · Family, peasant commune, city, regions as
economic units and ways of their integration into the imperial economic
space · Industrialization and its influence on assimilation of ethnic
minorities or ethnic conflicts · the problem of Russian and Soviet
colonialism · The role of economic factors in the development of ethnic
separatism · problems of economic integration in the post-Soviet political
space · Moral economy · The problem of multi-tiered economy in polyethnic
society.
Permanent Sections: n Theory and Methodology n History n Archive
n Sociology, Economics, Political Science and Ethnology n ABC of
Nationalism
n Newest Mythologies n Historiography and Book Reviews
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