TOC: Ab Imperio I-2002 "Russia's Special Path" or...Varieties of Imperial and National Experiences of Modernization

From: Serguei Glebov [mailto:[email protected]]

Dear friends,

 Ab Imperio editors are pleased to announce the publication of the first
issue of the journal in 2002. The issue opens the annual program of AI,
dedicated to the exploration of paradoxes of modernity and modernization in
the former Russian Empire/USSR.

Ab Imperio welcomes submissions in the framework of this annual theme.
Description of the program as well as details on subscription can be found
at the journal's website at http://aimag.knet.ru



Please, contact the editors at [email protected] or [email protected] if
you have any questions.


Ab Imperio 1/2002

"Russia's Special Path" or.
Varieties of Imperial and National Experiences of Modernization





Methodology and Theory





>From the Editors To the Reader



Interview with Carl E. Schorske Between Modernity and Modernism: The Scene
is Laden with Paradox. ENG



Hans van der Loo, Willem van Reijen Modernization as a Concept RUS



Gunilla-Friederike Budde, Jп╜rgen Kocka The "German Sonderweg" as an
Interpretative Instrument: History, Impulses, Limitations RUS



Manfred Hildermeier Russian "Long 19th Century": A "Special Path" of
European Modernization? RUS



History



>From the Editors Translatio imperii



Alexander Iurchenko Empire and Universe. An Interpretation of a Medieval
Description of the Empire of Dzengiz-khan RUS



Andrei Korenevskii Officium Stratoris and "Coming, Sitting on an Ass's
Colt": The Question of Compatibility of West-European and Russian Medieval
Religios-Political Doctrines RUS



Virtual Roundtable From the Golden Horde to Russia RUS, ENG (Alexander
Amel'kin, David Goldfrank, Alexander Nikitin, Donald Ostrowski, Pavel Rykin,
Mirkasym Usmanov, Alexander Filiushkin)



>From the Editors Modernization of Russian Empire and Paradoxes of
Orientalism RUS



David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye A Subtle Matter - Orientalism RUS



Alexander Etkind The Shaved Man's Burden, or the Inner Colonization of
Russia RUS



Nathaniel Knight Was Russia its own Orient?  Reflections on the
Contributions of Etkind and Schimmelpenninck to the Debate on Orientalism
ENG



Elena Campbell On the Question of Orientalism in Russia (in the Second Half
of the 19th - Early 20th Centuries) RUS



Stephen Velychenko The Issue of Russian Colonialism in Ukrainian Thought.
Dependency Identity and Development ENG



Archive



>From the Editors RUS



Alexander Antoschenko Foreword to the Publication RUS



Publication: Writing Non-Eurocentric History: Russian Scholars' Reactions to
G. Vernadsky's Eurasianist History RUS



Tanya Chebotarev On the 50th Anniversary of the Bakhmeteff Archive RUS



Sociology, Ethnology,
Political Science



Eduard Ponarin New Russian Nationalism as a Reaction to Globalization:
Sources, Mechanisms of Spreading, and Scenarios of Development RUS



ABC of Nationalism





Seymour Becker Russia Between East and West: the Intelligentsia, Russian
National Identity and the Asian Borderlands RUS



Seymour Becker Russian Historiography Between East and West: Some
Afterthoughts in 2002 ENG



Book Reviews



Forum AI:



Andrei Zorin. Kormia dvuglavogo orla.Literatura I gosudarstvennaia ideologia
v Rossii  v poslednei treti XVIII-go - pervoi treti XIX veka. Moscow, Novoe
literaturnoe obozrenie, 2001 g. 414 p. Name Index.

Participants:



Elena Vishlenkova

Mikhail Dolbilov

Andrei Zorin

Guzel' Ibneeva

Aleksandr Kamenskii

Gennadii Obatnin

Aleksandr Filiushkin

Ol'ga Tsapina

Aleksandr Etkind

Michael Schippan

Richard Stites

Cynthia H. Whittaker

Richard Wortman