ily” becomes “Vassily” (P. 70) and there is “v period perestroika” in the citation of one of the book titles (P.213n6). Despite these ambiguities, we can appreciate Chatterjee’s candidness and self-reflexivity as she does not shy away from discussing her own positionality as a historian who came of age in postcolonial India and has been researching and teaching Russian history for decades in the United States.3 In fact, she turns her personal experience into a strength and a unique perspective on imperial and postimperial histories and does not pretend to write “objective” histories. In this sense, Russia in World History is an inspiring and refreshing read for scholars in the fields of Russian and Soviet studies, comparative histories of imperialism, as well as transnational and global history. Kimberly St. JULIAN VARNON
{"title":"Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin by Eugene M. Avrutin (review)","authors":"Kimberly St. Julian Varnon","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0082","url":null,"abstract":"ily” becomes “Vassily” (P. 70) and there is “v period perestroika” in the citation of one of the book titles (P.213n6). Despite these ambiguities, we can appreciate Chatterjee’s candidness and self-reflexivity as she does not shy away from discussing her own positionality as a historian who came of age in postcolonial India and has been researching and teaching Russian history for decades in the United States.3 In fact, she turns her personal experience into a strength and a unique perspective on imperial and postimperial histories and does not pretend to write “objective” histories. In this sense, Russia in World History is an inspiring and refreshing read for scholars in the fields of Russian and Soviet studies, comparative histories of imperialism, as well as transnational and global history. Kimberly St. JULIAN VARNON","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80388688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SUMMARY:This is a contribution to a review forum dedicated to Mark Gamsa's book Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Along with other forum participants, Sergey Glebov comments on various aspects of this double biography of the city and one of its inhabitants: Roger von Budberg, a Russian medical doctor of Baltic German descent, who embraced much of Chinese culture or at least the Chinese way of life.Резюме:Это эссе является частью рецензионного форума, посвященногокниге Марка Гамзы "Харбин: кросс-культурная биография" (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Наряду с другими участниками форума, Сергей Глебов комментирует различные аспекты этой книги, представляющейсобою двойную биографию: города и его обитателя, Роджера фон Будберга (Roger von Budberg) – российского врача, балтийского немца, который перенял китайскую культуру или, по крайней мере, образ жизни.
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1 Катерина Кларк. Москва, четвертый Рим: Сталинизм, космополитизм и эволюция советской культуры (1931–1941) / пер. О. Гавриковой, А. Фоменко. Москва, 2018. С. 33. 2 Паскаль Казанова. Мировая республика литературы / пер. М. Кожевниковой и М. Летаровой-Гистел. Москва, 2003. вклад и судьбы этих европейских и азиатских посредников, которые выступали в роли ‘переводчиков’ между культурами и были призваны способствовать сближению [между ними]”. (P. 8) Как и в предыдущей книге, в Eurasia without Borders Кларк обращается к понятию “мировой литературы”, обсуждая циркуляцию текстов и идей в рамках Евразии. Исследовательница отталкивается от концепции “мировой литературы”, предложенной Паскаль Казанова. В книге “Мировая республика литературы” (1999) Казанова говорит об организованном вокруг Парижа “межнациональном литературном пространстве”, в котором действует “интеллектуальный интернационал”.2 Как утверждает Кларк, в период между двумя мировыми войнами в Евразии развивалось альтернативное культурное пространство с центром в Москве, бросавшее вызов “европоцентричным литературным ‘мирам’, описанным Казанова и другими исследователями” (P. 9). Этот культурный проект был инициирован Москвой, стремившейся расширить свое влияние в странах Ближнего Востока, а также Центральной, Восточной и Константин МИТРОШЕНКОВ
{"title":"Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943 by Katerina Clark (review)","authors":"Константин Митрошенков","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0075","url":null,"abstract":"1 Катерина Кларк. Москва, четвертый Рим: Сталинизм, космополитизм и эволюция советской культуры (1931–1941) / пер. О. Гавриковой, А. Фоменко. Москва, 2018. С. 33. 2 Паскаль Казанова. Мировая республика литературы / пер. М. Кожевниковой и М. Летаровой-Гистел. Москва, 2003. вклад и судьбы этих европейских и азиатских посредников, которые выступали в роли ‘переводчиков’ между культурами и были призваны способствовать сближению [между ними]”. (P. 8) Как и в предыдущей книге, в Eurasia without Borders Кларк обращается к понятию “мировой литературы”, обсуждая циркуляцию текстов и идей в рамках Евразии. Исследовательница отталкивается от концепции “мировой литературы”, предложенной Паскаль Казанова. В книге “Мировая республика литературы” (1999) Казанова говорит об организованном вокруг Парижа “межнациональном литературном пространстве”, в котором действует “интеллектуальный интернационал”.2 Как утверждает Кларк, в период между двумя мировыми войнами в Евразии развивалось альтернативное культурное пространство с центром в Москве, бросавшее вызов “европоцентричным литературным ‘мирам’, описанным Казанова и другими исследователями” (P. 9). Этот культурный проект был инициирован Москвой, стремившейся расширить свое влияние в странах Ближнего Востока, а также Центральной, Восточной и Константин МИТРОШЕНКОВ","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80684364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border by Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey (review)","authors":"P. Werth","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79287790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition by Georg Wilhelm Steller (review)","authors":"Erika Monahan","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78621415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After the collapse of the Soviet Empire, it seemed to many in the West that history had reached its end and liberal democracy and capitalism were the future of mankind. Some even romantically toyed with the idea of “a world without Russia.”1 However, the recent tragedy in Ukraine has reminded everyone that the euphoric announcement of the death of the Soviet Empire in 1991 was a premature move. As Choi Chatterjee beautifully puts it, “Collapsing empires are dangerous places that leave treacherous eddies and shoals in their wake” (P. 145). Chatterjee’s book appears to be a timely read for anyone who seeks to understand Russia’s continuing relevance in the world. Yet this is not a book about Russia’s intellectual and cultural achievements throughout centuries, its civilizational contribution to mankind and the modern world, or its “struggle for survival” in the world arena of Great Powers.2 Rather, it is a comparative history of British and Russian imperialisms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as the afterlives of these two hegemonic empires. In this sense, the title of the book does not fully capture the comparative dimension of the book’s structure. The highlight of the book is its comparative biographical approach coupled with structural analysis. Each of the seven chapters, arranged chronologically, juxtaposes a pair of characters from either the center or the periphery of the British and the Russian/Soviet Empires and situates the protagonists’ lives and their ideas in the broader historical context. Chatterjee has followed three principles in her selection of the cast of characters. First, the characters have to “exemplify an important historical event or process that distinguished the empire of their origin” and “provide important insight into the era” (P. 9). Second, the characters’ biographies should demonstrate complexity, even contradictions and moral ambiguity in their thinking over time. Third, the characters would represent vi-
{"title":"Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach by Choi Chatterjee (review)","authors":"Alessandro Stanziani","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0081","url":null,"abstract":"After the collapse of the Soviet Empire, it seemed to many in the West that history had reached its end and liberal democracy and capitalism were the future of mankind. Some even romantically toyed with the idea of “a world without Russia.”1 However, the recent tragedy in Ukraine has reminded everyone that the euphoric announcement of the death of the Soviet Empire in 1991 was a premature move. As Choi Chatterjee beautifully puts it, “Collapsing empires are dangerous places that leave treacherous eddies and shoals in their wake” (P. 145). Chatterjee’s book appears to be a timely read for anyone who seeks to understand Russia’s continuing relevance in the world. Yet this is not a book about Russia’s intellectual and cultural achievements throughout centuries, its civilizational contribution to mankind and the modern world, or its “struggle for survival” in the world arena of Great Powers.2 Rather, it is a comparative history of British and Russian imperialisms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as the afterlives of these two hegemonic empires. In this sense, the title of the book does not fully capture the comparative dimension of the book’s structure. The highlight of the book is its comparative biographical approach coupled with structural analysis. Each of the seven chapters, arranged chronologically, juxtaposes a pair of characters from either the center or the periphery of the British and the Russian/Soviet Empires and situates the protagonists’ lives and their ideas in the broader historical context. Chatterjee has followed three principles in her selection of the cast of characters. First, the characters have to “exemplify an important historical event or process that distinguished the empire of their origin” and “provide important insight into the era” (P. 9). Second, the characters’ biographies should demonstrate complexity, even contradictions and moral ambiguity in their thinking over time. Third, the characters would represent vi-","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87869134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SUMMARY:This archival publication presents extracts from journals kept by the Russian navy officer Evgeny Ivanovich Alekseev (1843–1917). After several decades of active sea service, Vice Admiral Alekseev was appointed viceroy of the Russian Far East, and in this capacity he bears his share of responsibility for provoking the infamous Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. The publication covers the period 1881–1897, when Alekseev commanded ships and whole squadrons, primarily in the Pacific, and traveled across the United States. Despite the laconic and businesslike character of the journals, they register the process of "nationalizing" the imperial subject and the country, as well as the role of the navy in this process.
{"title":"Дневник капитан-лейтенанта Е. И. Алексеева, веденный во время плавания отряда адмирала А. Б. Асланбегова по Тихому океану в 1881 г","authors":"Д. Ю. Алексеева","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:This archival publication presents extracts from journals kept by the Russian navy officer Evgeny Ivanovich Alekseev (1843–1917). After several decades of active sea service, Vice Admiral Alekseev was appointed viceroy of the Russian Far East, and in this capacity he bears his share of responsibility for provoking the infamous Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. The publication covers the period 1881–1897, when Alekseev commanded ships and whole squadrons, primarily in the Pacific, and traveled across the United States. Despite the laconic and businesslike character of the journals, they register the process of \"nationalizing\" the imperial subject and the country, as well as the role of the navy in this process.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88263323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene by Theodora Dragostinova (review)","authors":"Elizabeth L. Banks","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79028549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SUMMARY:This is the introduction to the forum "Russia's War on Ukraine and Nineteenth-Century 'Russian Studies,'" which tackles the problem of recovering Ukrainian literature in the Russian classical literary canon of the nineteenth century.Резюме:Это эссе является введением в форум "Война России против Украины и исследования 'русистики' XIX века", обсуждающим проблему восстановления статуса украинской литературы в классическом русском литературном каноне XIX века.
{"title":"Introduction to the Forum: How Will Our Scholarship On Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture Change In Response To Russia's War On Ukraine?","authors":"A. Lounsbery","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0031","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:This is the introduction to the forum \"Russia's War on Ukraine and Nineteenth-Century 'Russian Studies,'\" which tackles the problem of recovering Ukrainian literature in the Russian classical literary canon of the nineteenth century.Резюме:Это эссе является введением в форум \"Война России против Украины и исследования 'русистики' XIX века\", обсуждающим проблему восстановления статуса украинской литературы в классическом русском литературном каноне XIX века.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74953036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution by Paul Werth (review)","authors":"Михаил Владимирович Белоусов","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81228060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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