Book for review in Ab Imperio: Matthias Schwartz and Nina Weller (Eds.). Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024. 316 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-3-8376-6077-7. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Michael Jabara Carley. Stalin’s Failed Alliance: The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936–1939. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2024. 591 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-5342-5. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Congratulations to Rainer Matos Franco! -- the winner of the 2024 Ab Imperio Award for the best dissertation in new imperial history and history of diversity in Northern Eurasia, up to the late twentieth century, supported by KRES Poliskola (https://sites.google.com/view/abimperioaward/лауреаты-2024-winners)

The winner of the 2024 Ab Imperio Award for the best article in new imperial history and history of diversity in Northern Eurasia, up to the late twentieth century, supported by KRES Poliskola - КРЕС Полишкола is Mirlan Bektursun for "The Rise of the “Lineage Proletariat”: The Soviet State’s Class Policy and Kyrgyz Lineage Society in the 1920s," Ab Imperio 1/2024, pp. 97–125 -- Congratulations! (https://sites.google.com/view/abimperioaward/лауреаты-2024-winners)

Announcing winners of the 2024 Ab Imperio Award for the best study in new imperial history and history of diversity in Northern Eurasia, up to the late twentieth century, supported by KRES Poliskola ! (https://sites.google.com/view/abimperioaward/лауреаты-2024-winners)
1) This year, the award for the best book is split between two winners:
Masha Kirasirova, The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union’s Anticolonial Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 405 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-768569-3.
and
Ivan Sablin, Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2024). 456 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-032-55686-4.

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Stephan Rindlisbacher. Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. 273 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8053-0. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Klaus Richter, Jasmin Nithammer, and Anca Mândru (Eds.). The Great Depression in Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2025. 356 pp., ill. Index. ISBN 978-963-386-894-2. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Masha Shpolberg and Anastasia Kostina (Eds.). The New Russian Documentary: Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 278 pp., ill. Filmography. Index. ISBN: 979-1-3995-1108-7. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 4/2024:

In Ab Imperio 4/2024, see David Chioni Moore and Taryn M. Valley, "Racial Paradise in Central Asia, or Forced Famine in Soviet Ukraine? Langston Hughes, Alva Christensen, Mary de Give, and Differential Witnessing, 1932"

In Ab Imperio 4/2024, Habib Saçmalı, "Strategic Diplomacy in Eurasia: Ottoman–Russian Rivalry in Iran, 1722–1735"

In Ab Imperio 4/2024, thematic block "Revisiting the Inorodtsy for A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia":
1) Ilya Gerasimov, "An Impossible Notion: Conceptualizing Diversity in the Russian Empire through the Category of Inorodtsy"
2) Sergey Glebov, "The Many Inorodtsy of the Russian Empire"
3) Statute concerning the Administration of the Alien Peoples (inorodtsy) -- full English translation
4) Сергей Глебов, "Проект кодификации статуса “инородцев” на Дальнем Востоке"
5) Положение об инородцах Приамурского Края (1913)

Ab Imperio 4/2024 is now available online, both on Project Muse and the journal’s website. The print edition will be ready for distribution next week. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54381 https://www.abimperio.net/cgi-bin/aishow.pl?idlang=1&state=shown&idnumb=201

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Bernard Hubert. An Exceptional Dialogue, 1925–1948: Nikolai Berdyaev and Jacques Maritain. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2025. 219 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2386-9. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Zamira Abman. Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2024. 221 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-5318-0. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Bradley A. Gorski and Philip Gleissner (Eds.). Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2024. 491 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-4388-4. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Barbara Junisbai. The Pitfalls of Family Rule: Patronage Norms, Family Overreach, and Political Crisis in Kazakhstan and Beyond. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. 203 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7906-0. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell, and Michał Murawski (Eds.). Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West. London: UCL Press, 2025. 355 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-779-8. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review:

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Riccardo Nicolosi. Putins Kriegsrhetorik. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2025. 191 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-3-8353-9184-0. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

The book is out! A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia: From Russian to Global History, vol. 2: 1700–1918. For details including the extended toc follow the link https://sites.google.com/site/aibookseries/a-new-imperial-history-of-northern-eurasia

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Norihiro Naganawa (Ed.). Dreams of Emancipation: A Transnational History of Revolutionary Russia. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024. 280 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-658-9. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Riccardo Nicolosi and Brigitte Obermayr (Eds.). Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024. 249 pp. Index. ISBN: 979-8-88719-631-2. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Masha Kirasirova. The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union’s Anticolonial Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 405 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-768569-3. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Naira. E Sahakyan. Muslim Reformers and the Bolsheviks: The Case of Daghestan. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. 184 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-032-21620-1. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Alexis Peri. Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence of American and Soviet Women. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 290 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-674-98758-6. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Kerstin S. Jobst. A History of Crimea from Antiquity to the Present. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 364 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index: People. Index: Places. ISBN: 978-1-3503-2800-6. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Oleg Beyda. For Russia with Hitler: White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 375 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-14875-5648-8. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Marianne Kamp. Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. 285 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7799-8. https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Anastasia Shesterinina. Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. 243 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-7896-4 (new paperback edition). https://sites.google.com/site/abimperiobooks/books-for-review