{"id":1817,"date":"2020-04-08T18:56:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krespoliskola.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2020-04-15T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:33:45","slug":"best-history-studies-of-2019-ab-imperio-and-kres-poliskola-present-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krespoliskola.com\/en\/2020\/04\/best-history-studies-of-2019-ab-imperio-and-kres-poliskola-present-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Best History Studies of 2019: Ab Imperio and KRES Poliskola Present Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"KRES<\/span><\/span> Poliskola<\/span><\/span> is pleased to announce that a good tradition <\/span><\/span>has been established<\/span><\/span>: with our support, despite the <\/span><\/span>COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><\/span>crisis that has gripped the world, the third annual competition of <\/span><\/span>AB <\/span><\/span>Imperio<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/a> magazine for the best history<\/span><\/span> research on the new imperial history of Northern Eurasia, diversity and nationalism in the post-Soviet space<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> was successfully completed<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span><\/span>most interesting works of 2019 were selected by <\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>I<\/span><\/span>nternational<\/span><\/span> Contest C<\/span><\/span>ommittee<\/span><\/span> comprised<\/span><\/span> of<\/span><\/span> the<\/span><\/span> Ab <\/span><\/span>Imperio<\/span><\/span>\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i>editorial board<\/span><\/span><\/a> and<\/span><\/span> editors<\/span><\/span><\/a>. After a thorough study of histor<\/span><\/span>y<\/span><\/span> books<\/span><\/span> and articles <\/span><\/span>published in 2019 in<\/span><\/span> peer reviewed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>journal<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>including <\/span><\/span>Ab <\/span><\/span>Imperio<\/span><\/span><\/i>, <\/span><\/span>two works received the highest <\/span><\/span>grades<\/span><\/span> and were awarded <\/span><\/span>with <\/span><\/span>the <\/span><\/span>monetary <\/span><\/span>prize<\/span><\/span>s;<\/span><\/span> two more publications were\u00a0<\/span><\/span>noted, also worthy of victory.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/span><\/span>he winners<\/span><\/span> are<\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/span><\/span> The best book<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Paolo <\/span><\/span>Sartori<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Pavel <\/span><\/span>Shabley<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>Experiments of the Empire: <\/span><\/span>Adat<\/span><\/span>, Sharia and the Production of Knowledge in the Kazakh Steppe.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The book <\/span><\/span>was published in Russian by th<\/span><\/span>e publishing house “New Literature\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Review”, <\/span><\/span>and <\/span><\/span>may<\/span><\/span> be<\/span><\/span> purchased<\/span><\/span> at<\/span><\/span> major b<\/span><\/span>ookstore<\/span><\/span> chains<\/span><\/span> or<\/span><\/span> found by the following reference<\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Paolo <\/span><\/span>Sartori<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Pavel <\/span><\/span>Shabley<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>Eksperimenty<\/span><\/span> imperii<\/span><\/span>: <\/span><\/span>adat<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>shariat<\/span><\/span> i<\/span><\/span>proizvodstvo<\/span><\/span> znanii<\/span><\/span> v <\/span><\/span>Kazakhskoi<\/span><\/span> stepi\u00a0<\/span><\/span>(<\/span><\/span>Experiments of the Empire: <\/span><\/span>Adat<\/span><\/span>, Sharia and the Production of Knowledge in the Kazakh Steppe<\/span><\/span>). <\/span><\/span>Mos<\/span><\/span>c<\/span><\/span>ow: New Literature Review, 2019. <\/span><\/span>280<\/span><\/span> p. ISBN: 978-5-4448-1145-0 (in Russian).<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"Specialists in the history of Muslim societies Pavel <\/span><\/span>Shabley\u00a0<\/span><\/span>(associate professor of the <\/span><\/span>Kostanay<\/span><\/span> B<\/span><\/span>ranch of Chelyabinsk State University) and Paolo <\/span><\/span>Sartori<\/span><\/span> (senior researcher at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) carried out painstaking work <\/span><\/span>to thoroughly recreate<\/span><\/span>the historical <\/span><\/span>events of the 60s and 70s of the 19th century in the Russian Empire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It was during this period that the process of accession of the Kazakh steppe to the Russian Empire was completed, and the establishment of the procedure for managing this territory became of paramount importance. The authors of the book analyze this process, methods of integrating Sharia law into the general legal system of the Romanov<\/span><\/span>\u2019s<\/span><\/span> empire,<\/span><\/span> consider the specifics and complexity of the events, touching upon similar problems in the regions of Siberia and the North Caucasus. To what extent were the actions of the imperial authorities successful and what impact do those events have on already (in many cases) individual countries<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> 150 years later? <\/span><\/span>Answers <\/span><\/span>are <\/span><\/span>suggested by the authors in this outstanding work<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ab <\/span><\/span>Imperio<\/span><\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> International<\/span><\/span> Contest<\/span><\/span> Committee<\/span><\/span> also <\/b><\/span><\/span>highlighted Dmitry <\/span><\/span>Shumsky\u2019s<\/span><\/span> monograph, \u201cBeyond the Nation-State: The Zionist Political Imagination from <\/span><\/span>Pinsker<\/span><\/span> to Ben-Gurion,<\/span><\/span><\/b>\u201d<\/b> published by Yale University Press <\/span><\/span>(<\/span><\/span>Dmitry <\/span><\/span>Shumsky<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>Beyond the Nation-State: The Zionist Political Imagination from <\/span><\/span>Pinsker<\/span><\/span> to Ben-Gurion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. <\/span><\/span>297<\/span><\/span> pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-23013-0<\/span><\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/span><\/span> The<\/span><\/span> best<\/span><\/span> article<\/span><\/span> in<\/span><\/span> a<\/span><\/span> scholarly<\/span><\/span> journal<\/span><\/span> or<\/span><\/span> an edited collection of essays:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The article \u201cThe Etnos Archipelago Sergei M. Shirokogoroff and the Life History of a Controversial Anthropological Concept\u201d<\/span><\/span> was published by the University of Chicago<\/span><\/span>\u2019s <\/span><\/span>journal<\/span><\/span> Current Anthropology. Its authors – Professor, Chair in The Anthropology of the North at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, Great Britain) David Anderson and Ph.D. in History, researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, (Stockholm, Sweden) Dmitry Arzyutov. The authors explore the concept of understanding the ethnos that developed during the Cold War, <\/span><\/span>through the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>historical studies of the biography of one of its supporters, Russian-Soviet-Chinese anthropologist Sergei Shirokogorov.<\/span><\/span>The concepts underlying modern ethnography, formed under the influence of his travels and correspondence, had a significant impact on the main areas of anthropology.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

D<\/span><\/span>ecent work, rightfully chosen as<\/span><\/span> the winner <\/span><\/span>by<\/span><\/span> the <\/span><\/span>Ab <\/span><\/span>Imperio<\/span><\/span><\/i> international committee.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ab <\/span><\/span>Imperio<\/span><\/span>\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/i> editorial board<\/span><\/span> and<\/span><\/span> editors<\/span><\/span> specially noted<\/b> <\/span><\/span>article <\/span><\/span>Heather Coleman, \u201cFrom Kiev across All Russia: The 900th Anniversary of the Christianization of <\/span><\/span>Rus\u2019<\/span><\/span> and the Making of a National Saint in the Imperial Borderlands,” <\/span><\/span>Ab <\/span><\/span>Imperio<\/span><\/span><\/i>, Volume 19, Issue 4 (2018): 95\u2013129 (March 2019)<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

We<\/span> congratulate<\/span> the<\/span> winners<\/span> and<\/span> wish<\/span> them<\/span> continued success!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

This<\/span><\/span> concludes the 2019<\/span><\/span> contest. The<\/span><\/span> 20<\/span><\/span>20<\/span><\/span> publications contest will open in the fall. <\/span><\/span>Do not miss<\/span><\/span> it<\/span><\/span>!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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David G. Anderson and Dmitry <\/span><\/span>Arzyutov<\/span><\/span>, \u201cThe <\/span><\/span>Etnos<\/span><\/span>Archipelago Sergei M. <\/span><\/span>Shirokogoroff<\/span><\/span> and the Life History of a Controversial Anthropological Concept,” Current Anthropology, Volume 60, <\/span><\/span>Issue<\/span><\/span> 6 (2019): 741\u2013773<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n