NEW BOOKS
Journal Title: Tractus aevorum: эволюция социокультурных и политических пространств - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
This section includes short description of new books by Vladimir A. Shapovalov, Landed Gentry in European Part of Russia, 1850s to 1880s (Based on the Central Black Soil Provinces Materials) (Belgorod, 2014), Emily B. Baran, Dissent on the Margins: How Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses Defied Communism and Lived to Preach About It (New York, 2014), and Andrei V. Golovnev, Phenomenon of Colonization (Ekaterinburg, 2015)
A NEW BOOK ON STALINISM BY J. ARCH GETTY
The author reviews the latest monograph by J. Arch Getty, Pro-fessor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles, which offers a new installment in his long running inquiry into the practices of repression...
IMAGINING CHUVASH HISTORICAL TIME: HISTORICAL CONTINUITIES AND INTELLECTUAL FAILURES
The concept of historical time is a focal point in the imagination and invention of national history. Among nations without a tradition of independent statehood, historical time was actualized when these nations became i...
THE NEW AND THE OLD IN THE LIFE OF PROVINCIAL OFFICIALDOM DURING BOURGEOIS MODERNIZATION OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
During Russia`s capitalist modernization in the second half of the nineteenth century, guberniia and uezd officialdom acted as an intermediary between the top echelons of power and the people, bringing the legislature to...
TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS: GENDER AND HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA (Part 2)
In this essay, Choi Chatterjee and Karen Petrone examine how feminist and gender theories traveled between Russia and the West after the fall of the Soviet Union by featuring the careers of two eminent scholars: Na-talia...
1917–2017: LESSONS OF THE CENTURY FOR RUSSIA AND BEYOND
For most Russians, the year 1917 is primarily connected with the centennial of the February Revolution and the subsequent October events. This is quite logical, as 1917 is justly considered a landmark in modern Russian h...