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Book for review in Ab Imperio: Eduard Baidaus. An Unsettled Nation: Moldova in the Geopolitics of Russia, Romania, and Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem, 2023. 650 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-3-8382-1582-2. To request a review copy, please follow sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Grégoire Hervouet-Zeiber. War and the Pull of Life: Ex-Combatants in Putin’s Russia. Fordham University Press, 2026. 241 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5315-1528-7. To request a review copy, follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Zachary T. Irwin (Ed.). The Tito-Stalin Split of 1948: Regional Implications and International Consequences. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. 349 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-032-10865-4. To request a review copy, follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Olga Seliazniova. Vagrancy in Modern Russian Law and Culture. Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, 2026. 207 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-50178-994-6. To request a review copy, follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Jan Kubik and Richard C. M. Mole (Eds). The Anatomy of Right-Wing Populism: Dealing with Transformational Fatigue in Central and Eastern Europe. London: UCL Press, 2025. 394 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-679-1. sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Tolga U. Esmer. Economies of Banditry in the Late Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. 321 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-285645-6. Please follow link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: James Pickett. Russian Subject, Muslim Monarch: Sovereignty and Scribal Culture in Colonial Bukhara. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2026. 344 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8891-8. Please follow the link: sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Matteo Piccin. Nazionalismi di frontiera Russi, polacchi e ucraini a Cholm (1830–1918). Florence: Firenze University Press, 2025. 521 pp., ill. Riferimenti bibliografici. ISBN: 979-12-215-0799-7. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Important articles and interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 2/2026 (Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57587 ; Ab Imperio: abimperio.org):

In Ab Imperio 2/2026, the “Historiography” section opens with Gennadij Korolow’s review of the Ukrainian edition of Mark von Hagen’s collected historical essays, followed by the review essays penned by Jane Burbank and Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, who discuss Adam Lenton'a Decolonizing Russia? .

Published in Ab Imperio 2/2026: Michał Patryk Sadłowski, "The Ukrainian Question in the Political Thought of Paul Miliukov During His Emigration (1918–1943)" Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57587 ; Ab Imperio: abimperio.org

Published in Ab Imperio 2/2026: Nikolay Tsyrempilov, "Confessional Loyalty and Buryat Mobilization in the Russian Empire During World War I" (muse.jhu.edu/issue/57587 and journal's website)

Issue 2/2026 features the fifth part of the serialized forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories” – ongoing since issue 2/2025 (Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57587; Ab Imperio: abimperio.org)

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Julien Mailland. Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2026. 194 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-262-05459-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: James M. White and Irina Paert (Eds.). Baltic Orthodoxy: People, Places, Practices. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2025. 480 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-9908-57-005-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Riccardo Mario Cucciolla. The Last Purge: Soviet Uzbekistan During the Cotton Affair, 1975–1991. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2026. 248 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8897-0. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

The Giveaway Picker has chosen the winner for our final Summer Book Club giveaway -- New Histories of Northern Eurasia, 700–1917: A Primary Source Reader (see the book's TOC):

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Ilja Kukuj and Brigitte Obermayr (Eds.). Production. Documentation. Intervention: On Unofficial Art in Late Soviet Russophone Culture from the 1960s to the 1980s. Boston: Academic Studies Press. 350 pp. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia: From Russian to Global History is in paperback! Vol. 2 is on its way to the winner of our Summer Book Club weekly giveaway. See abimperio.org/ru/pages/clu... Today's Q: will you use the new volume of primary sources (today's prize) in your teaching?

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Owen Grey. Romania, the Little Entente and the Struggle for Europe. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 259 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3506-0822-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Welcome to the Summer Book Club, where we give away one book authored by the journal’s editors every week! The first book is on its way to the winner. See details at abimperio.org/ru/pages/clu.... Q: do you use A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 700–1918 in your teaching or studies?

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Jesse Kauffman. The Blood-Dimmed Tide: Central Europe’s Long Great War, 1905–1921. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026. 285 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-674-97235-3. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

We are launching the Summer Book Club by giving away 1 book authored by the journal's editors every week! See link in reply. Q: Is Ab Imperio available in your university library? By participating, you release Bluesky from any liability as it is in no way related to this event.

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Peter Budrin. Laurence Sterne and His Readers in Early Soviet Russia: The Secret Order of Shandeans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. 276 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-894174-3. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

A quick seasonal reminder: Curate course reader articles easily with Ab Imperio Syllabus module! You can also use intelligent full-text search across all Ab Imperio articles. Please check the link sites.google.com/view/ai-syll...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Nadezhda Mamontova and Dmitriy Oparin (Eds.). Indigenous Heritage in Siberia: The Power of Objects. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 307 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 979-1-3505-0716-6. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Our new volume of translated primary sources is out now in PDF (paperback coming in 4 weeks)! Check the link for the detailed TOC, "A Brief Instructor’s Guide," and ordering: "New Histories of Northern Eurasia, 700–1917: A Primary Source Reader" (Bloomsbury, 2026). sites.google.com/site/aibooks...

Random "Article of the Day" on Ab Imperio's site: Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein, "Feminist Foremother for a Nation? Mapping the History of the Women’s Movement in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe" (1/2007, Forum "Gender and Post-Soviet Nations") abimperio.org/article/1842

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Aleksandra Konarzewska, Una Blagojević, and Natalia Borisova (Eds.). Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956–1968: Ideas in Flux. Leiden: Brill, 2025. 200 pp. Index of Names. Index of Terms. ISBN: 978-90-04-53305-9. sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Random "Article of the Day" on Ab Imperio's site: Anton Shekhovtsov and Andreas Umland "Right-Wing Party Politics in Post-Soviet Ukraine and the Riddle of Ukrainian Nationalists’ Electoral Marginality, 1994–2009" (2/2010): abimperio.org/article/2689

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Tatiana Vagramenko. Indigenous Christianity Missionaries, Modernity, and Marginality in the Siberian Tundra. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2026. 307 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-90-4857-515-2. Follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Random "Article of the Day" on Ab Imperio's site: Juliette Cadiot, “How Diversity was Ordered: Lists and Classifications of Nationalities in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union (1897-1939)" (4/2002) abimperio.org/article/9

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Przemysław Adamczewski. Polish Ethnopolitical Myth and the Caucasus: Looking at the Past. Leiden: Brill, 2025. 250 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-74453-0. Please follow link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Random "Article of the Day" on Ab Imperio's site: Natalia Yakovenko, “Ukraine Between East and West”: Projection of an Idea (2/2003) abimperio.org/article/737

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Anna Mazanik. Sanitizing Moscow: Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, Pittsburgh, 2025. 263 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6772-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Bradley Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė, and Darius Staliūnas (Eds.). Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2026. 408 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-90-4857-045-4. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Maria Fedorova. Seeds of Exchange. Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025. 219 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8279-4. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Halyna Babak, Yuliya Ilchuk and Andrei Ustinov (Eds.). Ukrainian Literary Modernism of the 1910s–mid-1930s: A Critical Reader. Vols. 1–2. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Marisa Karyl Franz. Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2026. 197 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8795-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur. Camera Caucasica: Networks of Photographic Practices in the Transimperial Caucasus. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026. 318 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 979-8-8978-3113-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 1/2026 (Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56859; Ab Imperio: abimperio.org)

In I/2026 the forum “The Power of Soft Matter” discusses Julia Vaingurt’s book Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism (2025), which identifies weakness as a defining aesthetic and ethical strategy in late Soviet nonofficial culture. Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56859

In Ab Imperio 1/2026, Forum: "Formalism: Rusian or Russian?" Galina Babak, "Decentering or Recentering? On the Postimperial History of Russian Formalism" Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56859; Ab Imperio: abimperio.org

In Ab Imperio 1/2026, three thematic forums are published, starting with the serialized forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories.” Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56859; Ab Imperio: abimperio.org

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Luyang Zhou. Revolution in China and Russia: Reorganizing Empires into Nation States. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025. 255 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5261-8275-3. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Małgorzata Łukianow. Memory in Postmigration Communities: Field of Memory. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2026. 140 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-032-68024-8. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Глеб Морев. Иосиф Бродский: годы в СССР: Литературная биография. 2-е изд. Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2026. 413 с. Указатель имен. ISBN: 978-5-4448-2783-3. Follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Кирилл Осповат. Пугачевщина: Политическая семиотика бунта в эпоху Просвещения (Опыт демократической историографии). Москва: ОГИ, 2026. 543 с., ил. Список источников и литературы. Указатель имен. ISBN: 978-5-907879-53-9. Follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...