Ab Imperio 3 – 2003. SEARCHING FOR THE CENTER: RUSSIAN NATIONALISM

From the Editors How Many Centers Does Russian Nationalism Have?

Methodology and Theory

Aleksandr Presniakov The Place of “Kievan Period” in a General Scheme of

“Russian History”

Raymond Pearson Privileges, Rights, and Russification

Interview with Benedict Anderson “We Study Empires as We Do

Dinosaurs:” Nations, Nationalism, and Empire in a Critical Perspective

History

Virtual Roundtable Borders and Facets of Russian Nationalism

Mikhail Dolbilov (Russia)

Andreas Kappeler (Austria)

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (US)

David G. Rowley (US)

Andreas Umland (Germany)

Vera Tolz (UK)

Paul Bushkovitch Orthodox Church and Russian National Consciousness in the

16th – 17th Centuries

Alexander M. Martin The Invention of “Russianness” in the Late 18th -

Early 19th Century

 Anatoly Remnev To Push Russia into Siberia: Empire and Russian Colonization

in the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Century

 Marina Loskutova Where Does Motherland Begin? Teaching Geography in Russian

Pre-Revolutionary School and Regional Identity in the Late 19th - Early 20th

Century

 Sergei Podbolotov Nicholas II as Russian Nationalist

 Archive

Marina Mogilner “Encyclopaedia of Russian Nationalist Project:” Foreword to

the Publication

 Ivan Sikorskii What is Nation and other Forms of People’s Life?

Sociology, Ethnology,

Political Science

 Andreas Umland The Formation of a Fascist “Neo-Eurasian” Intellectual Movement

in Russia: Alexander Dugin’s Path from a Marginal Extremist to an Ideologue

of the Post-Soviet Academic and Political Elite, 1989-2001

 Emil Pain Activization of the Ethnic Majority in Post-Soviet Russia: the Resources

of Russian Nationalism

ABC: Empire & Nationalism

Studies

From the Editors

 Diliara Usmanova Making a National History: Tatar Historiographic and Political

Debates at the Turn of the Century

 Sebastian Cwiklinski Tatarism vs. Bulgharism: “The First Debate” in the Tatar

Historiography

 Aleksei Miller Russian Empire, Orientalism, and Processes of Nation-Building in

the Volga Region

 Wim van Meurs Tatar Textbooks – The Next Matrioshka

The Newest Mythologies

Ilya Gerasimov “A Binge of Three Princes in a Green Courtyard,” or the Birth of

a “Liberal Empire”

Book Reviews

V. G. Shchukin. Russkoe zapadnichestvo. Genezis – sushchnost’ – istoricheskaia rol’. Lodz. Ibidem, 2001.

Olga Malinova.

Stephen Kotkin and David Wolff (Eds.), Rediscovering Russia in Asia:

Siberia and the Russian Far East (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995),

Igor Martyniuk.

 Etnicheskii natsionalizm i gosudarstvennoe stroitel’stvo. Moskva. Institut Vostokovedenia RAN. Natalis, 2001.

Dovile Budrite

Robert P. Geraci and Michael Khodarkovsky (Eds.), Of Religion and

Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia

(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001).

 Aleksandr Polunov

 A. S. Myl’nikov. Narody Tsentral’noi Evropy: formirovanie natsional’nogo samosoznania, XVII – XIX vv. SPb. Petropolis, 1997.

 Andriy Zayarnyuk

 Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum

of Crisis, 1914 1921 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002)

 Stephen Velychenko

 Gendernye istorii Vostochnoi Evropy / pod red. E. Gapovoi, A. Usmanovoi, A. Peto. Minsk. EGU, 2002.

 Irina Tartakovskaia.

Enn Kung, Helina Tamman (Hrs.). Festschirift für Vello Helk zum 75.

Geburtstag. Beiträge zur Verwaltungs-, Kirchen- und Bildungsgescgichte

des Ostseeraumes. Tartu: Esti Ajalooarhiiv, 1998.

 Petr Krupnikov