Ab Imperio Award: finalists

Dear friends,

As you know, at the end of January we announced that KRES Poliskola is sponsoring Ab Imperio Award for the best academic research in 2017 on the new imperial history of Northern Eurasia, diversity and nationalism in the post-Soviet states (details).

We thank all those who showed interest in the award and are pleased to inform you that an international jury, consisting of members of the editorial board and editors of Ab Imperio has selected a number of finalists, including:

Monographs (books):

Elena Marasinova. “Law” and “citizen”
in Russia in the second half of the 18th century:
Essays on the history of public
consciousness. Moscow: New literary review, 2017. 512 pp. ISBN:
978-5-4448-0696-8.

Milevsky O.A., Panchenko A.B.
“Restless Clementz”: Experience
intellectual biography. Moscow:
ROSSPEN, 2017. 695 p. Alphabetical
pointer. Geographical
pointer. ISBN: 978-5-8243-2124-1.

Krishan Kumar. Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes
Shaped the World. Princeton: Princeton Univrsity Press, 2017. 600
pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-691-15363-6.

Alexander Fokin. “Communism is not far off.”
The images of the future in power and
of the USSR population at the turn of the 1950s-1960s
years / Alexander Fokin. – Moscow:
Political Encyclopedia, 2017. – 223 pp.

Articles:

Alexey Tikhomirov, “The State as a Family: Speaking Kinship,
Being Soviet, and Reinventing Tradition in the USSR,” Journal of
Modern European History 15, no. 3 (2017): 395–417.

Choi Chatterjee, «Imperial Subjects in the Soviet Union:
Rabindranath Tagore, M. N. Roy, and Re-Thinking Freedom and
Authoritarianism,» Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 52,
Issue 4 (October 2017): 913–934.

Elena Gapova, “‘The Land under the White Wings’: The
Romantic Landscaping of Socialist Belarus,” Rethinking Marxism,
Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society 29,
no. 1 (2017): 173–198.

The winners will be announced in May.

Good luck to the finalists!