Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space最新文献

{"title":"The Tensions of Positionality Reflection","authors":"M. Laruelle","doi":"10.1353/imp.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:This is a contribution to the discussion forum \"Conceptualizing Society after the Modern Territorial State and Nation.\" Marlene Laruelle agrees with the need for the decolonization of \"Eurasia\" as a political space and a research field, along with the deconstruction of Russia's \"imperialness.\" By outlining the main tropes of the ongoing discussion, she points to the ambiguity of the key categories that frame it and hence to the tensions among the various meanings of those unclarified categories. She identifies the main tension between the proclaimed emancipatory goals, both political and epistemological, of the decolonization debate and the fundamental nation-centrism of the prevailing mode of social critique.Резюме:Это эссе является частью дискуссионного форума \"Концептуализация общества после модерного территориального государства и нации\". Соглашаясь с необходимостью деколонизации \"Евразии\" как политического пространства и исследовательского поля, а также деконструкции российской \"имперскости\", Марлен Ларюэль обращает внимание на двусмысленность ключевых категорий идущей сейчас дискуссии о деколонизации и на конфликты интерпретаций этих непроясненных категорий. Главный конфликт она видит между провозглашаемыми эмансипаторскими целями дебатов о деколонизации – как в политическом, так и в эпистемологическом смысле – и фундаментальным нациецентризмом предлагаемой социальной критики.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"4 1","pages":"35 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79884214","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":"Интеллигенция как событие: валаамское наследие и его хранители в позднем СССР","authors":"Екатерина Александровна Мельникова","doi":"10.1353/imp.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:The articles argues that during the last Soviet decades, preservationist activism focused on sites of historical heritage mobilized public interest and produced cohesion of the Soviet intelligentsia as a collective social actor and thus a distinctive social group. This approach deconstructs the notion of \"intelligentsia\" as an elusive self-referential entity – a stable community of formal status. Instead, \"intelligentsia\" is interpreted as a situational product of a social process that demonstrated groupness only inasmuch as its participants shared common scenarios of activism. The article specifically studies the case of the Valaam archipelago in Lake Ladoga, the site of a fourteenth-century Orthodox monastery, as a venue for developing in the 1960s–1980s the cohesiveness of the intelligentsia as an emotional community and a collective social agent. Since the mid-1960s, Valaam has been a popular tourist destination that attracts Soviet citizens seeking to \"perform cultureness\" by experiencing exquisite \"cultural consumption.\" With old monastery buildings neglected or occupied by retirement homes for war veterans, Valaam emblematized cultural ruins. As a powerful symbol of historical discontinuity and loss, it was an ideal object for the rhetoric of salvation developed by Soviet preservationists. People who shared this rhetoric and concern coalesced into a group that has typically been identified as \"intelligentsia.\" Some of the activists moved to live on Valaam more or less permanently, forming the local cultural elite who considered it a place for communal work and spirituality. Through the late 1980s, the community of Valaam preservationists mobilized and politicized by escalating the rhetoric of loss and identifying the Russian Orthodox Church as a force capable of restoring Valaam to its alleged former glory. Such rhetoric and the practical scenario brought together various groups of preservationists into a single community of social action. However, when the Russian Orthodox Church eventually fully legalized and firmly established itself in the political sphere, the result was disappointing to the intelligentsia activists. The return of the former monastery to the church, an event wholeheartedly propagated by the old Valaam keepers, made the intelligentsia redundant and even discredited them as members of the Soviet establishment. No longer having a common mission and single object of devotion, they lost their former discursive unity and group cohesiveness, and thus experienced bitter disillusionment with their goal and mission.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"328 1","pages":"181 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78427887","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":"Russia on the Danube: Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812–1834 by Viktor Taki (review)","authors":"P. Werth","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0095","url":null,"abstract":"Historians of the British Empire like to cite Salman Rushdie’s line in the Satanic Verses that the British don’t know their own history because so much of it happened overseas.1 Some of Russia’s history unfolded elsewhere, too. Victor Taki’s book on Russia’s Danubian protectorates provides an intriguing example. Using sources in French, Romanian, and Russian, Taki explores the politics of reform in the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia across several decades, paying close attention to diverse political interests within those polities and to the tsarist authorities who became arbiters of political developments there for decades. At the core of the book is a period encompassing the aftermaths of two Russo-Ottoman wars (1806–1812 and 1828–1829), over the course of which “Russian provincial authorities” in the region скому контексту и различным этническим группам, населяющим беларуские земли, в первую очередь евреям и татарам. В книге последовательно прослеживается история чешско-беларуских связей – с учетом интересов целевой аудитории. Чешскоязычный читатель получил современное обобщающее исследование, дающее полноценное представление об истории Беларуси.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"24 1","pages":"278 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78215412","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":"Dějiny Běloruska by Alena Marková, Hienadź Sahanovič, and Zachar Šybieka (review)","authors":"Андрей Тихомиров","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"44 1","pages":"271 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74968183","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":"\"From the Seeds Sown in the Soil\": The Boxer Rebellion and the Awakening of Russian Missionary Activity in China (1900–1917)","authors":"A. Akulich","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0088","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:The decades following the antiforeign Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) in China saw the culmination of the Russian Orthodox mission to the Chinese, as the Chinese Orthodox community expanded both geographically and numerically. This article attributes this rapid development to changes in the approaches to proselytizing. The Chinese Orthodox clergy played a central role in this process. Using the case study of celebrating All Saint Martyrs Day, commemorating the Orthodox victims of the Boxer Rebellion, the article emphasizes the importance of religious rituals in attracting new members to the Orthodox Church.Резюме:Деятельность Русской духовной миссии в Пекине достигла наибольшего своего масштаба и эффективности в десятилетия после подавления боксерского восстания против иностранцев (1899–1901 гг.). Статья связывает быстрый рост китайской православной общины с изменениями в подходах к миссионерской деятельности, когда центральную роль в этом процессе стало играть китайское православное духовенство. На примере празднования Дня всех святых мучеников в честь православных жертв боксерского восстания, в статье подчеркивается значение религиозных обрядов в привлечении новых членов в Православную Церковь.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"160 1","pages":"61 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76487309","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 Qїrghїz Baatïr and the Russian Empire: A Portrait of a Local Intermediary in Russian Central Asia by Tetsu Akiyama (review)","authors":"Fengfeng Zhang","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0098","url":null,"abstract":"to reveal that Otto von Bismarck conspired to install Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on the Bulgarian throne and lied to Alexander III about it. Farrow’s account of the episode does not include the implications of Tsion’s involvement. After Catacazy’s death, Tsion carried on his campaign against the Russian political establishment, inadvertently producing a text that would become the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.18 The above criticisms and additions are not intended to detract from the book’s value. Farrow has made a significant and much-needed contribution to a long-neglected field that has lately acquired special importance and urgency. Given the fact that the resurrected spirit of Constantin Catacazy has made recent appearances in Russian popular culture and media, this learned, wellresearched, and well-written book is not to be missed.19","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"25 1","pages":"302 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75879724","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":"Border Control and Early Soviet Statehood: The Case of the Soviet-Finnish Frontier in the 1920s","authors":"Oksana Ermolaeva","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0089","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:Oksana Ermolaeva's article discusses the creation of the Soviet-Finnish border during the first postrevolutionary decade as well as sociopolitical processes in the Soviet borderland. All forms of social interaction in the zone adjacent to the Soviet-Finnish border – population mobility, economic transactions, cross-cultural influences – are regarded as markers of domestic processes of early Soviet state-building. In the article, the concept of the border is used simultaneously as a mirror reflecting the emerging Soviet state and as a magnifying glass helping to better discern some aspects of this process. Until the late 1920s, the borderline remained not simply \"porous\" or \"traversable,\" but \"situational.\" Illegal cross-border traffic was caused by the new state border cutting through established economic ties and even more so by the flight of numerous borderland residents to Finland in the wake of the Civil War. Some of the refugees returned to the USSR under the terms of an amnesty that threatened to confiscate the land and property of those who stayed abroad. Families split up, delegating some of their members to return to the Soviet side to claim the family property. The separated families and whole borderland communities could sustain communication only through illegal transborder contacts. As locals, they knew how and where to cross the border while managing to avoid the border guards. Professional contrabandists, political activists, and spies relied on this local knowledge, and thus contributed to illegal transborder traffic.Резюме:В статье Оксаны Ермолаевой рассматривается создание советскофинляндской границы в первое послереволюционное десятилетие и социально-политические процессы в приграничном обществе. Все формы социального взаимодействия в зоне, прилегающей к советско-финляндской границе, – мобильность населения, экономическая деятельность, межкультурные контакты – рассматриваются в статье как маркеры внутренних процессов раннесоветского государственного строительства. Граница рассматривается одновременно и как зеркало, отражающее формирующееся советское государство, и как увеличительное стекло, помогающее лучше разглядеть некоторые аспекты этого процесса. До конца 1920-х годов граница оставалась не просто \"пористой\" или \"проницаемой\", а \"ситуационной\". Нелегальный трансграничный трафик возник из-за того, что новая государственная граница разорвала сложившиеся издавна экономические связи, а также потому, что после Гражданской войны многие жители приграничья бежали в Финляндию. Часть беженцев вернулась в СССР по условиям амнистии, которая одновременно грозила конфискацией земли и имущества оставшимся за границей. Семьи разделились, отправляя некоторых своих членов на советскую сторону ради сохранения семейного имущества. Разделенные семьи и целые приграничные общины могли поддерживать связь только посредством нелегальных трансграничных контактов. Местные жители знали, где и как пересечь границу, минуя пограничников. Профессио","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"3 1","pages":"121 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73064421","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":"Советское здравоохранение на международной арене в 1920‒1940-х гг.: между \"мягкой силой\" и пропагандой (Западная Европа и США) by П. Э. Ратманов, and; Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada by Essyllt W. Jones (review)","authors":"Алексей Голубев","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0102","url":null,"abstract":"ям. Одно было идеологическим, связанным с пропагандой достижений советского здравоохранения, а другое – практическим, ориентированным на получение информации о современных научных исследованиях “буржуазной” медицины. Работа опирается на большое количество новых источников, часто впервые вводимых в научный оборот. В первую очередь, это документы Государственного архива Российской Федерации, Российского государственного архива социально-политической истории, Российского государственного архива научно-технической документации и Архива Национального НИИ общественного здоровья им. Н. А. Семашко. Обширна и историографическая база исследования. Столь насыщенное фактами и именами повествование выиграло бы от кратких биографических справок в примечаниях, представляющих упоминаемых персонажей читателям. В целом же рецензируемая монография предлагает новый подход к истории раннесоветского здравоохранения, использующий концептуальную рамку, обычно применяемую к истории послевоенного СССР.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"21 1","pages":"319 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76505670","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":"Дневник пограничника","authors":"Климентий Федевич","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0091","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:This is the introduction to the publication of a diary started by a young Muscovite in October 1940 as he was drafted into the Red Army to serve in the border-guard force in southern Georgia, on the border with Turkey. Since this armed force was subordinated to the infamous Soviet security service – the NKVD – when the Soviet-German war started in 1941, he continued service in the NKVD troops, seeing combat for the last time in May 1944 in fighting Ukrainian resistance. Klimentii Fedevich purchased this document two decades ago by chance at an estate sale; it is published without revealing the author's identity due to the sensitivity of its content. The text contains two intertwined narratives: one is sustained by a detailed record of actions and events, and the other by verbose discourses about personal relations and political ideals. Combining ethnographic details and fiction, the diary opens a window on the worldview of a young Soviet man from a privileged family.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"335 2","pages":"158 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72423516","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":"Новому человеку – новая смерть? Похоронная культура раннего СССР by Анна Соколова (review)","authors":"Светлана Юрьевна Малышева","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":"76 1","pages":"308 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90503759","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}