Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio was founded in 2000 as an international bilingual professional periodical. Affiliated with the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), AI adheres to the principle of external double-blind peer review of the materials submitted for publication. Playing an instrumental role in the creation and development of the multidisciplinary field of new imperial history and nationalism studies of the post-Soviet space, AI functions as an international think-tank. Since 2000, we at AI have been fortunate to have worked with over 1,000 of the most dynamic and original scholars (historians, social scientists, anthropologists) from several dozen countries (about 30 percent of all our authors reside and work in the Russian Federation). The new research paradigm advanced by AI represents the first original contribution of Russian humanities to international scholarship since Iurii Lotman and his Tartu school of semiotics, and thus promises to overcome the parochialism and isolationism of Russian scholarship vis-à-vis American and European traditions of studying the region, and even more – of the provincialism of “Russian studies” in general, in comparison to “European history” or “American history.”With subscribers all over the world (in addition to those reading the journal through popular databases such as Project Muse or EBSCO’s Historical Abstracts with Full Text), Ab Imperio has had a distribution network in Russia and other post-Soviet countries that is unrivaled by any other professional periodical: some 120 libraries receive the hardcopy version of the journal, and many more access the journal online. AI is indexed in Scopus, Historical Abstracts, American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies, and The European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), where AI received the highest rank INT1 (“international publications with high visibility and influence among researchers in the various research domains in different countries, regularly cited all over the world”). ERIH is the only reference index created and developed by European researchers.

Issues of Ab Imperio are published in May (#1), August (#2), November (#3), and February (#4).