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Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus by
Rebecca Gould (review)
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  Abstract: The works of indigenous writers of the Caucasus have been neglected in studies of literary representations of the region. Rather, scholars have focused on the works of Russian writers and the place of the Caucasus in the Russian literary imagination.1 Rebecca Gould's Writers and Rebels explores the aestheticization of violence across multiple Caucasus literatures of insurgency, and places these literatures in conversation with each other. Drawing on fluency in Arabic, Chechen, Georgian, and Russian, Gould has written the first major comparative study of the literatures of the Caucasus. Similarly impressive, and rare for a Western scholar, Gould draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the North Caucasus. ... Read More
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  Abstract: Galina BABAK, PhD in Slavic Literatures, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania.Roger BARTLETT, Professor Emeritus, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK. roger.bartlett@ucl.ac.ukPolina BARVINSKAYA, Doctor of Sciences in History, Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, Odessa National Mechniсkov University, Odessa, Ukarine. barwinskaja@ukr.netJulie DESCHEPPER, PhD in History, Research Assistant, Art History Institute in Florence, Max Planck Institute, Florence, Italy. Julie.deschepper@khi.fi.itAlexander DMITRIEV, Candidate of Sciences in History, Leading Research Fellow, Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in ... Read More
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  Abstract: Галина БАБАК, PhD in Slavic Literatures, стипендиат, Институт перспективных исследований, Колледж новой Европы, Бухарест, Румыния.Полина БАРВИНСКАЯ, д.и.н., профессор, Факультет истории и философии, Одесский национальный университет им. И. И. Мечникова, Одесса, Украина. barwinskaja@ukr.netРоджер БАРТЛЕТТ, заслуженный профессор, Школа славянских и восточноевропейских исследований, Университетский колледж Лондона, Великобритания. roger.bartlett@ucl.ac.ukЮлия ВАЙНГУРТ, профессор российской и восточноевропейской интеллектуальной истории, Кафедра польских, российских и литовских исследований, Университет Иллинойса в Чикаго, Иллинойс, США. vaingurt@uic.eduАнна ВОЗЬНАЯ, MA, докторантка, Факультет общественных наук ... Read More
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From the Editors: Plans for a Future That Is Universal in Its Diversity
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  Abstract: This issue concludes Ab Imperio's twenty-second volume structured around the annual theme "Historicizing Diversity." Four issues of the journal in 2021 have addressed four main approaches to handling diversity – four ideal types that, arguably, can be discovered in any historical period and in virtually any society. Issue 1/2021 was about perceiving diversity as a matter of fact rather than a distinctive problem. The 2/2021 issue discussed diversity when viewed primarily as an avoidable hindrance. Anomic frustration over the inability to clearly articulate and classify empirically observable diversity was the focus of AI 3/2021. The current issue, 4/2021, is themed "Projects: Designing a Rational Arrangement of ... Read More
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От редакции: Планы на общее в своем
разнообразии будущее
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  Abstract: Этот номер журнала завершает двадцать второй годовой комплект Ab Imperio в рамках программы 2021 г. "Историзация разнообразия". Четыре номера этого года были посвящены четырем основным подходам к управлению разнообразием – четырем идеальным типам, которые, вероятно, можно обнаружить в любой исторический период и практически в любом обществе. В номере 1/2021 речь шла о восприятии разнообразия как данности и обычного состояния – до того, как оно начинает осмысливаться как проблема, требующая специального решения. Номер 2/2021 обсуждал ситуацию, в которой разнообразие рассматривается, в первую очередь, как нежелательное препятствие. Момент социальной аномии, когда не удается четко сформулировать и классифицировать ... Read More
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There Can Be No "Vne"
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  Abstract: As are many of us, I am reacting to Russia's criminal and devastating war against Ukraine with tears, desperation, a sense of guilt, helplessness, disgust, and anger. But I am writing this essay with a cool head, specifically addressing the community of historians, social scientists, and students of literature and culture who are currently united under the ASEEES umbrella. Since at least the time of Mark Bloch's The Historical Craft (1941–42) we have known that questions such as "What is history'" and "What is the role of historians in their societies'" become central to the profession at a time of war. Today this seems more obvious than ever, for Putin's justifications for the war look irrational only if one ... Read More
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A New Soviet History: An Editor's Observations Thirty Years after the USSR
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  Abstract: Very few historians have experience that combines active research with the full-time editorship of a professional journal, which requires the actual reading of every submission and the peer reviews it receives. Those who have this experience will recognize the strange feeling of expanded vision that includes not only the visible spectrum, so to speak, but also a broad range of what is usually perceived by the naked eye as the dark matter. We all read studies that have been published in their final form, but at least four times more manuscripts fall between the cracks of the selection process. The polemics between the authors of submissions and peer reviewers, and among different peer reviewers remain a private ... Read More
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Invitation to a Discussion: Atlantis – Myth or Reality'
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  Abstract: Ab Imperio's editors invite you to take part in a discussion inspired by the publication of the new book by Galina Babak and Alexander Dmitriev, The Atlantis of Soviet National Modernism: The Formal Method in Ukraine (1920s–Early 1930s) (Moscow: NLO, 2021). We have selected the book's conclusion as the starting point for the discussion – it is published in this forum in English translation. Babak and Dmitriev offer an original theory of national modernism and a version of its history in the pre–World War II Soviet Union, focusing on Ukraine as a paradigmatic case. They define the book's focus broadly, so that it includes the "formal method," "modernism," modern episteme and poetics, and literary scholarship. But ... Read More
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Приглашение к дискуссии: Атлантида –
фантазия или реальность'
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  Abstract: Редакторы Ab Imperio приглашают принять участие в дискуссии, поводом для которой послужил выход книги Галины Бабак и Александра Дмитриева "Атлантида советского нацмодернизма. Формальный метод в Украине (1920-е – начало 1930-х годов)" (Москва: НЛО, 2021). В качестве отправной точки для обсуждения мы предлагаем использовать заключение книги, публикуемое ниже в английском переводе.1 Бабак и Дмитриев предлагают оригинальную концепцию нацмодернизма и версию его истории в довоенном СССР, рассматривая Украину как парадигмальный пример. Определяя объект своего исследования широко ("формальный метод", "модернизм", модерная эпистема или поэтика в целом'), авторы пересматривают русоцентричный и россиецентричный канон ... Read More
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The Postponed Revival, or Maps of Atlantis
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  Abstract: To understand the particulars of formalism in Ukraine, we propose to conceptualize it in terms of "national modernism," understood as a union – observed and comprehended by contemporaries – of artistic modernism and modernizing sociopolitical changes. This synthesis was typical of all the Soviet republics of the 1920s, where the building of new socialist nations overlapped with the task of developmental catching-up. It should be noted that national modernism was not necessarily leftist and "red" in essence. This phenomenon went back to the pre-1914 modernization processes in the social and cultural spheres, as well as the formative experiences of national liberation from the spring to autumn of 1917 and ... Read More
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Нацмодернизм: "хоть имя дико…"
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  Abstract: Книга Галины Бабак и Александра Дмитриева "Атлантида советского нацмодернизма: формальный метод в Украине (1920-е – начало 1930-х)" (в дальнейших отсылках: АСН) несомненно является выдающимся научным событием. Она служит прекрасным продолжением работ недавнего времени, посвященным истории русской критики и литературной теории двадцатого века, – я имею в виду коллективную монографию под редакцией Е. Добренко и Г. Тиханова и антологию советского модернизма под редакцией С. Ушакина.1 В советское время "история критики", в отличие от литературной теории, была несколько захолустной областью: в лучшем случае, чисто фактографической, в худшем – принимающей как данность, "кому быть живым и хвалимым, кто должен быть мертв и ... Read More
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Над картой Атлантиды
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  Abstract: В изданном в 1924 г. "опыте историко-литературной оценки" Лермонтова Борис Эйхенбаум сопроводил анализ байроновского "влияния" на русского поэта такими словами:Входя в чужую литературу, иностранный автор преобразуется и дает ей не то, что у него вообще есть и чем он типичен в своей литературе, а то, чего от него требуют. Один и тот же иностранный автор может служить материалом для совершенно разных литературных направлений – в зависимости от того, что от него требуют. Никакого "влияния" в настоящем смысле слова и не бывает, потому что иностранный автор прививается на чужой почве не по собственному желанию, а по вызову.1Именно эту цитату уже в следующем, 1925 году, привел украинский литературовед Александр/Олександр ... Read More
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Нацмодернизм или нацформализм'
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  Abstract: Книга Галины Бабак и Александра Дмитриева "Атлантида советского нацмодернизма: Формальный метод в Украине (1920-е – начало 1930-х)" имеет два смысловых центра. С одной стороны, она рассказывает о том, как складывается представление об украинском национальном каноне с середины XIX века до начала 1930-х годов (с некоторыми дополнениями, относящимися к более позднему времени). В этой истории основное сюжетное напряжение связано с процессом осмысления украинской традиции как отдельной от русской. Сюда относятся и появление рефлексии по поводу необходимости выбора языка у отдельных авторов (двуязычных и двукультурных), и поиск способов утверждения автономности украинской словесности по отношению к русской (при ... Read More
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What is The Universal Modernist Form'
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  Abstract: In the conclusion to their magisterial tome on Ukrainian formalism as a distinctive version of national modernism, Galina Babak and Alexander Dmitriev offer a pithy summation of the specificity of their object of study: "Ukrainian formalism was universal in form and national in content, or more precisely, national in intention."1 This formulation bears an easily recognizable allusion to another famed synthesis of the universal and the national: Stalin's much-repeated call for the art of Soviet national republics to be "socialist in content, national in form." In "About the National Question and National Culture," Stalin uses this formula to fix what he claims is the common misunderstanding about Lenin's ... Read More
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The Belatedness of David Bergelson and the Soviet Project
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  Abstract: My response to the question of national modernism is grounded in my understanding of the theoretical work of Viktor Shklovsky on the one side, and Yiddish modernism on the other. I begin with Shklovsky, and the relation of art to history and politics. Galina Babak and Alexander Dmitriev write: "National modernism can be understood more generally as a union of cultural modernism and modern sociopolitical changes, recorded and reflected through its contemporary practitioners."1 Something is missing here. The practitioners did not merely reflect and record sociopolitical changes; they participated in modern social and political change in their daily lives and believed their artistic work played a key role in creating ... Read More
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Советский еврейский модернизм: от
утопии будущего к утопии прошлого
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  Abstract: Уже почти полвека проблематика модернизма в еврейской литературе и культуре, в том числе советского периода, находится в центре внимания зарубежных исследователей. Десятки диссертаций, монографий и сборников посвящены таким фигурам, как Давид Бергельсон, Дер Нистер, Моисей Кульбак, Перец Маркиш. Однако в русскоязычной сфере эта тема лишь недавно стала привлекать интерес, пока что редко выходящий за рамки своеобразного "гетто" специальных еврейских изданий и публикаций. Аналогичная ситуация сложилась и с еврейской литературой на идише и иврите, мировым центром которой в конце XIX – начале XX веков была Российская империя. О причинах такого рода исследовательской слепоты можно было бы порассуждать отдельно, пока лишь ... Read More
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Is Soviet National Modernism Possible'
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  Abstract: In his programmatic monograph Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, Peter Gay does not mention a single Ukrainian modernist.1 Not in literature, nor in any other craft. The situation is only slightly better with Central and Eastern European or Russian authors, although they constitute just a tiny percent-age of the voluminous study. These areas, in terms of modernist literature, are terra incognita or, to a lesser extent, terra malecognita for those readers willing to get a grasp of modernist tendencies throughout the world.Therefore, it is equally unsurprising that the literary scholar Harold Bloom, while diligently constructing his Western canon, included some authors from Eastern Europe as well as from Russia, but he ... Read More
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Страсти по Атлантиде
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  Abstract: Книга Галины Бабак и Александра Дмитриева "Атлантида советского нацмодернизма. Формальный метод в Украине (1920-е – начало 1930-х)" посвящена одному из фундаментальных вопросов двадцатого века – вопросу о взаимосвязи национализма и модернизма. В общем смысле авторы понимают модернизм как явление "неслучайного смешения" научного, художественного и социально-идеологического миров. Иными словами, под модернизмом подразумевается не тип сознания и не культурное движение или эстетическое самосознание, а феномен одновременно дискурсивный и конструктивный, результат "совмещения социальной модернизации и модернистской культуры". Авторы говорят о "модернистско-плюралистической культуре", очевидно подразумевая, что модернизм ... Read More
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An Epistolary Empire: On Esperanto, Russia, and a World of Possibilities
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  Abstract: Andrei Platonov's novella Happy Moscow (rejected by Soviet censors in the 1930s) is an eccentric and heartbreaking story of everyday life in the industrializing Soviet capital. What perhaps makes Happy Moscow so memorable (and so ripe for Stalinist censorship), however, are the intimate portraits of characters that Platonov modeled after ordinary Soviet people – schemers and engineers, orphans and shock workers, daydreamers and strivers, the maimed and the castoff, the lovesick and the loveless – in sum, an entire lot of often unhappy and all-too-human Muscovites. Among them stands out Viktor Vasilievich Bozhko – a shock worker and thirty-year-old bachelor who tries to battle his own loneliness by means of devoted ... Read More
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Форма и
немота
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  Abstract: Галина Бабак и Александр Дмитриев. Атлантида советского нацмодернизма: формальный метод в Украине (1920-е – начало 1930-х). Москва: НЛО, 2021.Дописывать этот текст было очень тяжело – стоило вспомнить тот или иной пассаж из текстов украинских коллег, перед глазами вставали картины из подвалов, станций метро и сводок новостей. Российская армия стреляла по украинским городам и военным объектам. Произошло то, чего никогда не могло и не должно было случиться: полномасштабная интервенция, война. События последних дней февраля 2022 года сделали некоторые темы нашей книги не просто предметом научных дискуссий. То, что казалось близостью и созвучием, оказалось окружено немотой и мраком.И этикет теряет свой автоматизм ... Read More
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Перевод со шведского на "финляндский":
политическая идентичность Великого
княжества Финляндского (1831–1854)
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  Abstract: Единый процесс государственного строительства Российской империи, запущенный в XVIII веке, требовал поиска некоего "общего знаменателя", который упорядочил бы управление огромным, этнически и конфессионально неоднородным пространством. Осознание несводимости концептуальных миров локальных сообществ к одному предполагало постоянный взаимный "перевод", который позволял сопоставить – зачастую ошибочно – местные социальные, политические и иные категории в единой динамике управления. Аналогичная работа велась и в обратном направлении: реализация общегосударственных мер в различных регионах предполагала адаптацию к местным условиям. Достижение одного и того же результата требовало различных стратегий и тактик в разных ... Read More
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Global Tashkent: Transnational Visions of a Soviet City in the
Postcolonial World, 1953–1966
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  Abstract: Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India and Third World leader, arrived in Tashkent on June 14, 1955. Accompanying him to cover the occasion was G. K. Reddy, a veteran Delhi reporter and foreign correspondent for the Times of India. The visit was newsworthy – an important leg of Nehru's first state visit to the Soviet Union.1 But for Reddy it also marked the denouement of a remarkable journalistic voyage. Since 1953, Reddy had been occupied in almost continuous travel through the decolonizing countries of Asia and Africa. His reports, an engaging blend of travelogue and hard-nosed geopolitical analysis, had mapped the geographies and tensions of the emerging Third World. His journey had culminated at the ... Read More
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English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era: The Muscovy
Company, 1603–1649 by Maria Salomon Arel (review)
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  Abstract: Новая книга канадской исследовательницы Марии Саломон Арел посвящена деятельности Московской торговой компании (далее: МК) как активному актору формирующейся глобализации раннего нового времени. МК ввозила в Россию сукно, металлы, предметы роскоши, а обратно отправляла корабли, груженные смолой, салом, канатами, пенькой, корабельным лесом, поташом, икрой, юфтью, зерном и прочими товарами – в основном, сырьем. Но плыли они со столь востребо ванными на королевском флоте канатами и пенькой не только в Британию, но и в страны Средиземноморья, прежде всего – в Италию и Левант. Товары из России достигали Индии и Индонезии. Не оставался в стороне и Североамериканский континент: экспортируемые из России товары помогали ... Read More
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Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia's Quest for World
Power by Gregory Afinogenov (review)
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  Abstract: "I have taken pains for some days past to get authentick information of the situation of the present disputes with China, as the greatest secrecy is observed in relation to everything that passes on that side."1 These words, found in a report penned in 1764 by the English ambassador in St. Petersburg, set the tone of Gregory Afinogenov's book, a stimulating study of Russian intelligence about and against Qing China, from the seventeenth century to the 1860s. The last third of the eighteenth century, he shows, was a pivotal time for Sino-Russian relations. Imperial Russian elites increasingly came to perceive this relationship through a global lens, regarding China less as a rival and more as an arena for imperial ... Read More
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The Enigmatic Tsar and His Empire: Russia under Alexander I. 1801–1825
ed. by Alexander Kaplunovsky, Jan Kusber and Benjamin Conrad (review)
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  Abstract: This volume arises from a 2017 German-Russian conference intended to identify a coherent and valid framing concept for the reign of Tsar Alexander I: "The Russian Empire 1790–1830: In Search for Narratives for the Alexandrine Age" (Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany). The editors opted to approach the Alexandrine empire as a laboratory of sorts, and to focus on the individuals, agents, and technical experts whose ideas and scholarship shaped that laboratory's outcomes. In terms of periodization, Jan Kusber suggests that Alexander's reign was part of a Sattelzeit.The term was coined by the late Reinhard Koselleck to describe the years 1750–1830 in the Germanies as a slow and uneven breakthrough of ... Read More
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Вера и личность в меняющемся обществе:
Автобиографика и православие в России
конца XVII – начала XX века ed. by Лори
Манчестер и Д. А. Сдвижкова (review)
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  Abstract: This book is an outcome of a larger research project at the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Moscow, which focused on religious autobiography. The edited volume comprises fifteen chapters penned by Russian and foreign scholars, covering the entire scope of Russian religious autobiography, at least from a historian's point of view. All the chapters very concisely relate to the volume's topic, making the book a prime introduction to the subject for the Russian-language audience. The value of such an introduction is only enhanced by the fact that different academic cultures – English, German, and Russian – fuse to create a comprehensive picture that incorporates the perspectives from both the inside and the ... Read More
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"Na Zachód" i "Z dala od Moskwy"' Publicystyka Mykoły Chwylowego lat
1925–1926: Historia – idee – konteksty by Paweł Krupa (review)
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  Abstract: Украинский поэт, прозаик и публицист Мыкола Хвылевый (настоящее имя Николай Григорьевич Фитилев) является знаковой личностью для культуры Украины начала ХХ века. Его считают основоположником украинской послереволюционной прозы. Польский литературовед Павел Крупа в своей книге делает попытку переосмыслить место Мыколы Хвылевого на интеллектуальной карте Украины. Он считает, что Мыкола Хвылевый "не присутствует" на этой карте в полной мере: с одной стороны, его тексты издаются в препарированном и канонизированном формате "избранных произведений", а с другой – интерпретации его творчества концентрируются в значительной мере на повторении устоявшихся схем и шаблонных формулировок. Например, часто можно встретить в ... Read More
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Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over
the Industrial Order by Stefan J. Link (review)
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  Abstract: В статье "Новые времена" двадцать лет назад Стивен Коткин писал о том, что межвоенный период создал особую конъюнктуру, в которой массовое производство и массовое потребление стали двумя ключевыми символами современности не только в США, Японии и европейских странах, но и в Советском Союзе.1 Сферой сближения американского, советского и немецкого опыта стал фордизм как наиболее развитая в то время форма массового производства. Эта идея послужила отправной точкой для автора рецензируемой книги, специалиста по экономической и интеллектуальной истории XX века Стефана Линка.2 Книга посвящена истории распространения фордизма в Германии и СССР и написана на основе диссертационного исследования, защищенного автором в ... Read More
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Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia by
Brigid O'Keeffe (review)
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  Abstract: Brigid O'Keeffe's book on the history of Esperanto is a fascinating read. Esperanto is an artificial language created more than a century ago by a Russian Jew, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, who was aiming to overcome his marginalization in the Russian Empire by creating a new language that would allow participation in a more accommodating reality through a new means of talking and writing. By telling this old story, the book addresses questions that are as relevant for sociolinguists today as they were at the dawn of the Soviet Union. Namely, scholars working on language and identity have long been preoccupied with exposing linguistic and cultural hegemony and looking for solutions to transcend it. The history of ... Read More
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Еврейские беженцы и эвакуированные в
СССР, 1939–1946: Сборник статей, документов
и свидетельств ed. by Зеэв Левин (review)
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  Abstract: Тема Холокоста занимает центральное место в еврейской истории Второй мировой войны, ей посвящено огромное количество исследований. Тем не менее, у этой многогранной проблемы все еще остается множество практически неизученных аспектов. К ним можно отнести и тему еврейских беженцев и эвакуированных в годы войны, которая лишь частично представлена в исследованиях по истории эвакуации, сталинского антисемитизма и межнациональных отношений в СССР.Рецензируемый сборник подготовлен международной группой исследователей под редакцией Зеэва Левина, который в рамках пост-докторского исследовательского проекта работает над этой темой более десяти лет. Выходу книги предшествовали две конференции (в 2014 и 2016 г.) ... Read More
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Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet
Union by Mie Nakachi (review)
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  Abstract: Рецензируемая книга японской исследовательницы Миэ Накачи "Замещая мертвых. Репродуктивная политика в послевоенном Советском Союзе" анализирует дискуссии и сложные взаимоотношения между врачами, юристами и представителями высших эшелонов власти по поводу протанаталистской политики. Автор также реконструирует отношение женщин к этой политике и попытки защитить свои интересы при отсутствии феминистского движения в стране. При этом книга рассказывает не только о прошлом, но и о том, как политические решения 1940-х – 1960-х гг. трансформировали гендерные отношения и повлияли на современную демографическую ситуацию в России.Накачи рассматривает репродуктивную политику в СССР в контексте государств всеобщего ... Read More
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The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia by Alexey Golubev
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  Abstract: In the vibrant field of research on socialist material culture, late socialism has been understudied compared to the early Soviet period. When explored, material everyday life in the 1960s–1980s has mostly been approached through the lens of architecture, mass housing, and consumption. It is only very recently that objects and design of the late Soviet era have aroused the interest of scholars, such as Yulia Karpova and Tom Cubbin, but also that of curators and artists.1 Alexey Golubev's The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia is thus a timely contribution to this emerging trend. Original and exciting, it illuminates the entanglement of materiality, agency, and selfhood. Golubev has already ... Read More
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Олимпийский переполох: забытая
советская модернизация by И. Б. Орлов and А.
Д. Попов (review)
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  Abstract: This book, coauthored by Igor Orlov of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and Aleksey Popov of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, is a valuable and ambitious study of the social, cultural, and political effects that the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games had had on the Soviet society and political regime. Not so long ago, Russian historians began treating "Bolshoi sport" as a research topic in its own right, and the authors of this book follow this trend.1 Their study is based on rich archival sources and engages Russian-language and foreign historiography. A major sports event, the Moscow Olympics was also an important landmark in the history of the Cold War, as well as in the history of the Soviet state and ... Read More
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The Women's International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the
Cold War: Defending the Rights of Women of the "Whole World"' by Yulia
Gradskova (review)
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  Abstract: В последние несколько лет заметной тенденцией в историографии Холодной войны стал отказ от маргинализации роли социалистического опыта в становлении и развитии современного глобального мира.1 Призывы к "провинциализации" Западной Европы и США в пользу признания роли глобальной периферии воплощаются в дискуссиях о множественных модерностях и в исследованиях культурного интернационализма.2 О неправомерности и непродуктивности игнорирования вклада "Второго мира" в развитие концепции прав человека с недавних пор пишут и исследователи истории международного женского движения.3 Именно в этом ключе критического ревизионизма биполярного противостояния в области культуры написана рецензируемая монография Юлии Градсковой ... Read More
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