Politics of History

Charles J. Halperin, “Omissions of National Memory: Russian Historiography on the Golden Horde as Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion” Ab Imperio, 3/2004, pp. 131–144.  

Sener Akturk, “Counter-Hegemonic Visions and Reconciliation Through the Past: The Case of Turkish Eurasianism” Ab Imperio, 4/2004, pp. 207–238.  

Yasemin Kilit Aklar, “The Teaching of History in Azerbaijan and Nationalism” Ab Imperio, 2/2005, pp. 469–497.  

Lale Yalçýn-Heckmann, “Remembering the Dead and the Living of the “Kolkhoz” and “Sovkhoz”: Past and Present of Gendered Rural Life in Azerbaijan” Ab Imperio, 2/2005, pp. 425–440.  

Nikolai Vukov, ““Brotherly Help” Representations or “Imperial” Legacy: Monuments to the Soviet Army in Bulgaria before and after 1989” Ab Imperio, 1/2006, pp. 267-292.  

Vladimir Petrovic, “Historians as Expert Witnesses at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia” Ab Imperio, 3/2007, pp.195-217.  

Vello Pettai, “The Construction of State Identity and its Legacies: Legal Restorationism in Estonia” Ab Imperio, 3/2007, pp. 403-426.  

Serguei Oushakine, “Remembering in Public: On the Affective Management of History” Ab Imperio, 1/2013, pp. 269-302.  

Kåre Johan Mjør, “A Past of One’s Own: The Post-Soviet Historiography of Russian Philosophy” Ab Imperio, 3/2013, pp. 315-350.  

Mikhail Suslov, “ “Urania Is Older than Sister Clio”: Discursive Strategies in Contemporary Russian Textbooks on Geopolitics” Ab Imperio, 3/2013, pp. 351-387.  

Andriy Zayarnyuk, “A Revolution’s History, A Historians’ War” Ab Imperio, 1/2015, pp. 449-479.  

Amanda Swain, “Commemorating the “Living Torch of Freedom”: Searching for a Usable Past in Romas Kalanta’s 1972 Self-Immolation” Ab Imperio, 2/2015, pp. 162-182.  

Irina Sandomirskaia, “Catastrophe, Restoration, and Kunstwollen: Igor Grabar, Cultural Heritage, and Soviet Reuses of the Past” Ab Imperio, 2/2015, pp. 339-362.  

Christopher Gilley, ““Otamanshchyna”? The Self-Formation of Ukrainian and Russian Warlords at the Beginning of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” Ab Imperio, 3/2015, pp. 73-95.  

Andrei Cusco, Oleg Grom, Flavius Solomon, “Discourses of Empire and Nation in Early Twentieth-Century Bessarabia: Russian–Romanian Symbolic Competition and the 1912 Anniversary” Ab Imperio, 4/2015, pp. 91-129.  

Julia Röttjer, “Safeguarding “Negative Historical Values” for the Future? Appropriating the Past in the UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site Auschwitz-Birkenau” Ab Imperio, 4/2015, pp. 130-165.  

Svetlana Gorshenina, Vera Tolz, “Constructing Heritage in Early Soviet Central Asia: The Politics of Memory in a Revolutionary Context” Ab Imperio, 4/2016, pp. 77-115.  

Matthias Battis, “The Aryan Myth and Tajikistan: From a Myth of Empire to One National Identity” Ab Imperio, 4/2016, pp. 155-183.  

Ekaterina Boltunova, “The President Has Entered the Building! The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center and Memorial Tradition in Contemporary Russia” Ab Imperio, 3/2017, pp. 165-193.  

Oksana Myshlovska, “Establishing the "Irrefutable Facts" about the OUN and UPA: The Role of the Working Group of Historians on OUN-UPA Activities in Mediating Memory-based Conflict in Ukraine” Ab Imperio, 1/2018, pp. 223-254.  

Jonathan Brunstedt, “Elder Brother, Loyal Friend, and the Stalinist Myth of War: Recasting Soviet Ethnic Hierarchy, 1945–1953” Ab Imperio, 3/2019, pp. 88-116. 

Seymour Becker, “Chapter Four: Projects for Political Reform in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century” Ab Imperio, 3/2020, pp. 203-227. 

Seymour Becker, “Chapter Five: Nationalism and the Borderlands in the Reign of Nicholas I” Ab Imperio, 3/2020, pp. 228-257. 

Seymour Becker, “Chapter Six: The Era of the Great Reforms (I): Centralization and the Nation as the Basis of the State” Ab Imperio, 4/2020, pp. 193-253. 

Ilya Gerasimov, “Narrating Russian History after the Imperial Turn” Ab Imperio, 4/2020, pp. 21-61.  

Andriy Portnov, Tetiana Portnova, Serhii Savchenko, Viktoriia Serhiienko, “Whose Language Do We Speak? Some Reflections on the Master Narrative of Ukrainian History Writing” Ab Imperio, 4/2020, pp. 88-129.  

Ismael Biyashev, “Between Modernism and Archaism: “The Dead City of Khara Khoto” and Nomadism as an Archaeological Problem in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia” Ab Imperio, 4/2020, pp. 131-160.  

 Marina Mogilner, “There Can Be No 'Vne'” Ab Imperio, 4/2021, pp. 24-26. 

Yaroslav Hrytsak, “What Do We Write about When We Write about Ukraine?” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 51-64. 

Forum AI “Debating Historical Narratives through the Prism of Russia’s War against Ukraine” 

Editors, “Invitation to a Discussion” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 65-68. 

Andy Byford, “Russia as an Epistemic Frame” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 73-84.  

Jörg Requate, “The War against Ukraine, the Problem of Communication Strategies, and Its Challenges for European Historiography” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 85-90.  

Martin Schulze Wessel, “The Concept of Empire and German Sonderwege in the Historical Debate about Ukraine” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 91-100. 

Martin Aust, “Vision and Horror: Eastern European History in Germany from the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to Russia’s Attack on Ukraine in 2022” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 101-106. 

Anke Hilbrenner, “Eastern European History In Germany As A Discipline, Or: Transnational Historiography in Times of War” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 107-114. 

Botakoz Kassymbekova, “On Decentering Soviet Studies and Launching New Conversations” Ab I


Elena Baraban, “Boris Akunin's Political Novel: Russian Musketeers on a Path to the Promised Land” Ab Imperio, 4/2022, pp. 243-270.


mperio, 1/2022, pp. 115-120. 

Tomohiko Uyama, “Unmasking imperial history: Emotional Empire, Violent Politics of Difference, and Independence Movements in the Name of Autonomy” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 121-126.

Willard Sunderland, “Of Imperialisms Soft, Hard, and Complicated” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 127-131. 

Elena Baraban, “Boris Akunin's Political Novel: Russian Musketeers on a Path to the Promised Land” Ab Imperio, 4/2022, pp. 243-270.

Oksana Dudko, “Teaching Ukrainian History in Canada” Ab Imperio, 1/2023, pp. 223-233.

Vladyslava Moskalets, “How to Teach about Ukraine during the War: Notes in the Syllabus Margins” Ab Imperio, 1/2023, pp. 234-242.