Soviet Period

Serguei Glebov, “  “Congresses of Russia Abroad” in the 1920s and the Politics of Émigré Nationalism: A Liberal Survival” Ab Imperio, 3-4/2000, pp. 159–185.  

Wim Coudenys, “Between Them and Us – The Construction of Community Borders by Russian Emigres in Belgium” Ab Imperio, 2/2003, pp. 193–210.  

David Shneer, “Having It Both Ways: Jewish Nation Building and Jewish Assimilation in the Soviet Empire” Ab Imperio, 4/2003, pp. 377–393.  

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “The Construction of an Improbable Identity: The Case of Hryts’ko Kernerenko” Ab Imperio, 1/2005, pp. 191–240.  

Peter A. Blitstein, “Nation and Empire in Soviet History, 1917-1953” Ab Imperio, 1/2006, pp. 197-219.  

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.  

Irina Morozova, “Elites, Reforms, and Power Institutions in Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia in the 1920-1940s: a Comparative Historical Analysis” Ab Imperio, 2/2007, pp. 369-403.  

Patryk Babiracki, “Imperial Heresies: Polish Students in the Soviet Union, 1948-1957” Ab Imperio, 4/2007, pp. 199-236.  

Tuong Vu, “Dreams of Paradise: The Making of a Soviet Outpost in Vietnam” Ab Imperio, 2/2008, pp. 255-285.  

Harriet Murav, “Real Men and Phantom Stories: Violence and Prosthesis in Soviet War Literature” Ab Imperio, 4/2008, pp. 521-537.  

Sergei Zhuk, “Book Consumption and Reading Practices in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk During the Brezhnev Era” Ab Imperio, 3/2009, pp. 207-243.  

Timothy A. Nunan, “Soviet Nationalities Policy, “USSR in Construction”, and Soviet Documentary Photography in Comparative Context, 1931–1937” Ab Imperio, 2/2010, pp. 47-92.  

Serhy Yekelchyk, “A Communal Model of Citizenship in Stalinist Politics: Agitators and Voters in Postwar Electoral Campaigns (Kyiv, 1946–53)” Ab Imperio, 2/2010, pp. 93-120.  

Christine Evans, “A “Panorama of Time”: The Chronotopics of Programma “Vremia”” Ab Imperio, 2/2010, pp. 121-146.  

Sergei Zhuk, “Closing and Opening Soviet Society (Introduction to the Forum "Closed City, Closed Economy, Closed Society: The Utopian Normalization of Autarky")” Ab Imperio, 2/2011, pp. 123-158.  

Kate Brown, “The Closed Nuclear City and Big Brother®: Made in America” Ab Imperio, 2/2011, pp. 159-187.  

Natalya Chernyshova, “Consuming Technology in a Closed Society: Household Appliances in Soviet Urban Homes of the Brezhnev Era” Ab Imperio, 2/2011, pp. 188-220.  

Andrei Kozovoi, “Eye to Eye with the “Main Enemy”: Soviet Youth Travel to the United States” Ab Imperio, 2/2011, pp. 221-237.  

Ekaterina Emeliantseva, “The Privilege of Seclusion: Consumption Strategies in the Closed City of Severodvinsk” Ab Imperio, 2/2011, pp. 238-259.  

Kevin M. F. Platt, Benjamin Nathans, “Socialist in Form, Indeterminate in Content: The Ins and Outs of Late Soviet Culture” Ab Imperio, 2/2011, pp. 301-324.  

Mayhill Fowler, “Yiddish Theater in Soviet Ukraine: Reevaluating Ukrainian–Jewish Relations in the Arts” Ab Imperio, 3/2011, pp. 167-188.  

Alaina Lemon, “Sensations to Superpowers” Ab Imperio, 3/2011, pp. 313-329.  

Masha Kirasirova, ““Sons of Muslims” in Moscow: Soviet Central Asian Mediators to the Foreign East, 1955–1962” Ab Imperio, 4/2011, pp. 106-132.  

Timothy A. Nunan, “Getting Reacquainted with the “Muslims of the USSR”: Staging Soviet Islam in Turkey and Iran, 1978–1982” Ab Imperio, 4/2011, pp. 133-171.  

Elizabeth Bishop, “The Local and the Global: The Iraqi Revolution of 1958 Between Western and Soviet Modernities” Ab Imperio, 4/2011, pp. 172-202.  

Patryk Babiracki, “Interfacing the Soviet Bloc: Recent Literature and New Paradigms” Ab Imperio, 4/2011, pp. 376-407.  

Maxim Matusevich, “Expanding the Boundaries of the Black Atlantic: African Students as Soviet Moderns” Ab Imperio, 2/2012, pp. 325-350.  

Timothy K. Blauvelt, “Resistance and Accommodation in the Stalinist Periphery: A Peasant Uprising in Abkhazia” Ab Imperio, 3/2012, pp. 78-108.  

Brandon Schechter, ““The People’s Instructions”: Indigenizing the Great Patriotic War Among “Non-Russians”” Ab Imperio, 3/2012, pp. 109-133.  

Maike Lehmann, “A Different Kind of Brothers: Exclusion and Partial Integration After Repatriation to a Soviet “Homeland”” Ab Imperio, 3/2012, pp. 171-211.  

Claire Le Foll, “The Institute for Belarusian Culture: The Constitution of Belarusian and Jewish Studies in the BSSR Between Soviet and non-Soviet Science (1922−1928)” Ab Imperio, 4/2012, pp. 245-274.  

Benjamin W. Sawyer, “Shedding the White and Blue: American Migration and Soviet Dreams in the Era of the New Economic Policy” Ab Imperio, 1/2013, pp. 65-84.  

Mark Lipovetsky, “The Poetics of ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and Today” Ab Imperio, 1/2013, pp. 109-139.  

Artemy M. Kalinovsky, “Not Some British Colony in Africa: The Politics of Decolonization and Modernization in Soviet Central Asia, 1955–1964” Ab Imperio, 2/2013, pp. 191-222.  

Natalia Chernyaeva, ““Upbringing à la Dr. Spock:” Child-Care Manuals and Constructing Normative Motherhood in the Soviet Union, 1954–1970” Ab Imperio, 2/2013, pp. 223-251.  

Maria Khotimsky, “World Literature, Soviet Style: A Forgotten Episode in the History of the Idea” Ab Imperio, 3/2013, pp. 119-154.  

Susanna Witt, “The Shorthand of Empire: Podstrochnik Practices and the Making of Soviet Literature” Ab Imperio, 3/2013, pp. 155-190.  

Etienne Forestier-Peyrat, “Red Passage to Iran: the Baku Trade Fair and the Unmaking of the Azerbaijani Borderland, 1922−1930” Ab Imperio, 4/2013, pp. 79-112.  

Violeta Davoliūtė, “Postwar Reconstruction and the Imperial Sublime in Vilnius during Late Stalinism” Ab Imperio, 1/2014, pp. 176-203.  

Saulius Grybkauskas, “Imperializing the Soviet Federation? The Institution of the Second Secretary in the Soviet Republics” Ab Imperio, 3/2014, pp. 267-292.  

Elena Astafieva, Wladimir Berelowitch, “Humanities and Social Sciences in the Russian Empire and the USSR: An Unwritten History” Ab Imperio, 4/2014, pp. 93-106.  

Susan Gross Solomon, “Soviet Social Hygienists and Sexology after the Revolution: Dynamics of “Capture” at Home and Abroad” Ab Imperio, 4/2014, pp. 107-135.  

Benjamin Zajicek, “Soviet Madness: Nervousness, Mild Schizophrenia, and the Professional Jurisdiction of Psychiatry in the USSR, 1918–1936” Ab Imperio, 4/2014, pp. 167-194.  

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.  

Ilya Gerasimov, Serguei Glebov, Marina Mogilner, “Hybridity: Marrism and the Problems of Language of the Imperial Situation” Ab Imperio, 1/2016, pp. 27-68.  

Andy Byford, “Imperial Normativities and Sciences of the Child: The Politics of Development in the USSR, 1920s–1930s” Ab Imperio, 2/2016, pp. 71-124.  

Adeeb Khalid, “National Consolidation as Soviet Work: The Origins of Uzbekistan” Ab Imperio, 4/2016, pp. 185-194.  

Document: “Theses: Fundamental Propositions on the Question of the Formation of Uzbekistan (1924)” Ab Imperio, 4/2016, pp. 195-200.

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.  

Ilya Gerasimov, “Becoming a Soviet Plebeian Subject: The Story of Mark Miller Narrated by Himself” Ab Imperio, 1/2017, pp. 183-210.  

Document: 

“Recollections of a Soviet Jew. Part I: NEP and Industrialization” Ab Imperio, 1/2017, pp. 211-261.

“Recollections of a Soviet Jew. Part 2: High Stalinism, Soviet-Finnish and Soviet-German Wars” Ab Imperio, 2/2017, pp. 177-223.

Robert Pyrah, “Place, Borderland and Elective Affinities: Contemporary Polish Identity in Post-1945 Lviv, between “Minority” and “Subculture”” Ab Imperio, 1/2017, pp. 263-292.  

Korine Amacher, “Mikhail N. Pokrovsky and Ukraine: A Normative Marxist between History and Politics” Ab Imperio, 1/2018, pp. 101-132.  

Nari Shelekpayev, “Astana as Imperial Project? Kazakhstan and Its Wandering Capital City in the Twentieth Century” Ab Imperio, 1/2018, pp. 157-189.  

Benjamin Beresford, “Leonid Utesov: The Unlikely Socialist Celebrity for a Soviet Public” Ab Imperio, 1/2018, pp. 133-156.  

Olha Ostriitchouk, “Huta Pieniacka: Interpretations of a Major Site of Wartime Massacre in Ukraine” Ab Imperio, 1/2018, pp. 255-283.  

Flora Roberts, “A Controversial Dam in Stalinist Central Asia: Rivalry and “Fraternal Cooperation” on the Syr Darya” Ab Imperio, 2/2018, pp. 117-143. 

Svetlana Malysheva, “Soviet Death and Hybrid Soviet Subjectivity: Urban Cemetery as a Metatext” Ab Imperio, 3/2018, pp. 351-384. 

Moritz Florin, Manfred Zeller, “Soviet Transnationalism: Urban Milieus, Deterritorialization, and People’s Friendship in the Late Soviet Union” Ab Imperio, 4/2018, pp. 131-146. 

Moritz Florin, “The Many Ways of Being Soviet: Urban Elites, People’s Friendship, and Ethnic Diversity in Postwar Soviet Frunze” Ab Imperio, 4/2018, pp. 147-170. 

Stefan Guth, “USSR Incorporated versus Affirmative Action Empire? Industrial Development and Interethnic Relations in Kazakhstan’s Mangyshlak Region (1960s–1980s)” Ab Imperio, 4/2018, pp. 171-206. 

Melanie Arndt, Laurent Coumel, “A Green End to the Red Empire? Ecological Mobilizations in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States, 1950–2000: A Decentralized Approach” Ab Imperio, 1/2019, pp. 105-124. 

Katja Doose, “Green Nationalism? The Transformation of Environmentalism in Soviet Armenia, 1969–1991” Ab Imperio, 1/2019, pp. 181-205. 

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. 

Zukhra Kasimova, “The Improbable Museum: Igor Savitsky’s Art Museum in Nukus as an Artifact of Postwar Soviet Reality” Ab Imperio, 3/2019, pp. 119-143. 

Serguei Glebov, Marina Mogilner, “The Transatlantic “Imperial Situation” Ab Imperio, 1/2020, pp. 27-38. 

Benjamin Balthaser, “From Lapwai to Leningrad: Archie Phinney, Marxism, and the Making of Indigenous Modernity” Ab Imperio, 1/2020, pp. 39-58.   

Igor Kuznetsov, “Archie Phinney, a Soviet Ethnographer” Ab Imperio, 1/2020, pp. 59-74.   

Dmitry V. Arzyutov, “'American Dreams' of Early Soviet Ethnography: Some Reflections on Bogoras’s Legacy” Ab Imperio, 1/2020, pp. 75-89. 

Timothy K. Blauvelt, “Language Education and Ethnic Resentment in Soviet Abkhazia, 1939–53” Ab Imperio, 1/2020, pp. 197-219. 

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

Mark Lipovetsky, “The Trickster and Soviet Subjectivity: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Soviet Modernity” Ab Imperio, 4/2020, pp. 62-87.  

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.  

Kathryn David, “Ancestors and Martyrs: Religious Ceremonies of Occupation and Liberation in Ukraine” Ab Imperio, 4/2020, pp. 161-191.  

Iaroslav Kovalchuk, “At Home among Strangers: Carpatho-Rusyn Russophiles in the Soviet Intelligentsia” Ab Imperio, 2/2021, pp. 103-137. 

Niccolò Pianciola, “Opium Regimes of Imperial Collapse: The Russian Far East during the Civil War (1917–1922)” Ab Imperio, 3/2021, pp. 111-135. 

Rainer Matos Franco, “Socialist Internationalism and National Classifications at the Comintern Schools (1922–1943)” Ab Imperio, 3/2021, pp. 136-165. 

Ilya Vinitsky, “"The Wicked Bullet": The Georgian Origins of Osip Mandelstam's Insult to Joseph Stalin” Ab Imperio, 3/2021, pp. 181-209

Ilya Gerasimov, “A New Soviet History: An Editor's Observations Thirty Years after the USSR” Ab Imperio, 4/2021, pp. 27-54. 

Galina Babak, Alexander Dmitriev, “The Postponed Revival, or Maps of Atlantis” Ab Imperio, 4/2021, pp. 63-83 (Ukrainian national modernism). 

Harriet Murav, “The Belatedness of David Bergelson and the Soviet Project” Ab Imperio, 4/2021, pp. 136-146.

Brigid O'Keeffe, “An Epistolary Empire: On Esperanto, Russia, and a World of Possibilities” Ab Imperio, 4/2021, pp. 179-191. 

Marek Eby, “Global Tashkent: Transnational Visions of a Soviet City in the Postcolonial World, 1953–1966” Ab Imperio, 4/2021, pp. 238-264. 

Natalia Ryzhova, “The Failure of the “Soybean Revolution” in the USSR” Ab Imperio, 1/2022, pp. 191-222. 

Oksana Ermolaeva, “Border Control and Early Soviet Statehood: The Case of the Soviet-Finnish Frontier in the 1920s” Ab Imperio, 4/2022, pp. 89-121. 

Björn M. Felder, “Stalin's Hidden Eugenic Agenda: Debating and Practicing Eugenic Abortion in the Soviet Union, 1920–1951” Ab Imperio, 4/2022, pp. 123-156. 

Stephan Rindlisbacher, Alun Thomas, “Paths Not Taken: How Did Nomadism Affect Border-Making during National Delimitation in Central Asia?” Ab Imperio, 2/2023, pp. 117-141. 

Pavel Golubev, “Beyond Triumph: The Russian Art Exhibition of 1924–1926 in the United States and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy” Ab Imperio, 2/2023, pp.  143-170. 

Sergei Kan, “Elena S. Semeka's Story: Yuri N. Roerich, 'A Man from Another Planet,' at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, 1957–1960” Ab Imperio, 3/2023, pp.  127-168. 

Arsène Saparov, “Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: What's Next?” Ab Imperio, 3/2023, pp. 184-198.