Empire Speaks Out

Jan Kusber is Professor and Chair of East European History at Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz. Among his publications are Krieg und Revolution in Rußland, 1904-1906 (1997), Eliten- und Volksbildung im Zarenreich während des 18. und in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts (2004). Ilya Gerasimov, Ph.D. (2000) in History, Rutgers University, is Executive Editor of the Ab Imperio quarterly. Among his publications in several languages is Modernism and Public Reform in Late Imperial Russia: Rural Professionals and Self-Organization, 1905-30 (Palgrave, 2009). Alexander Semyonov, Ph.D. (2006) in History, Central European University, is Associate Professor of History, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He has published extensively on the topics of empire and Russian liberal politics.

"die Aufsätze führen besser als jede aufgetürmte Abstraktion vor, auf welchen Gleisen sich eine ertragreiche russländische Imperiumsforschung bewegen kann"Matthias Stadelmann, Institut für Geschichte, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in H-Soz-u-Kult (October 2010)

• Part 1. Defining Empire in a DialogueIlya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Jan Kusber, Marina Mogilner, Alexander SemyonovNew Imperial History and the Challenges of EmpireAnn Laura StolerRefiguring Imperial Terrains: On Comparison and Gradations of SovereigntyPart 2. The Challenge of Unification and ResistanceJan KusberGovernance, Education and the Problems of Empire in the Age of Catherine IIHans-Christian Petersen“Us” and “Them”? Polish Perceptions of the Russian Empire between Homogeneity and Diversity (1815–1863)Sergey GlebovSiberian Middle Ground: Languages of Rule and Accommodation on the Siberian FrontierPart 3. The Challenge of Transformation and RationalizationMarina MogilnerRussian Physical Anthropology of the Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries: Imperial Race, Colonial Other, Degenerate Types, and the Russian Racial BodyAlexander Semyonov“The Real and Live Ethnographic Map of Russia”: The Russian Empire in the Mirror of the State DumaIlya GerasimovRedefining Empire: Social Engineering in Late Imperial RussiaIndex