19/09/2026
Important articles and interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 2/2026 (see the links in first reply):
Martin Schulze Wessel. Die übersehene Nation: Deutschland und die Ukraine seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. München: C. H. Beck, 2025. 287 S., ill. Ausgewählte Literatur. Personenregister. ISBN: 978-3-406-82174-5.
by Ferenc Laczo
Gudrun Persson, Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2025). 206 pp. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-64712-638-4.
by John W. Steinberg
Igor Kuziner, Social History of the True Orthodox Christians Wandering in Russia: Capitalism, Communism, and Apocalypse, 1900–1930 (New York: Routledge, 2025). 208 pp., ill. List of Sources and Literature. Index. ISBN: 978-1-041-10125-3.
by Dominic Martin
Nina Bogdan, Before We Disappear into Oblivion: San Francisco’s Russian Diaspora from Revolution to Cold War (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025). 420 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2473-6.
Ludmila Sharaya
Batsaikhan Ookhnoi Emgent, Russian Policy Towards Mongolia, 1911–1952: When Mongolia Fought the Red Front (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). 315 pp., ill. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-981-96-6185-5.
Rustam Sabirov
Batsaikhan Ookhnoi Emgent, Russian Policy Towards Mongolia, 1911–1952: When Mongolia Fought the Red Front (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). 315 pp., ill. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-981-96-6185-5.
Alex Marshall
Zamira Abman, Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024). 221 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-5318-0.
Diego Benning Wang
Pietro Shakarian, Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev’s Kremlin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025). 350 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-07354-9.
Naïra E. Sahakyan
Amy Austin Garey, Leagues of Laughter: War, Comedy and the Soviet Legacy in Russia and Ukraine (London: UCL Press, 2025). 214 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-879-5.
Dmitry Bezouglov
Jeremy Morris, Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). 249 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3505-0932-0.
Luke March
Vincenc Kopeček, Martin Lepič, and Libor Jelen (Eds.), Ethnicity and Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Eurasia (New York, NY: Routledge, 2025). 240 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-041-09997-0.
Liru Zhang
Alex Moshkin, Dual Diaspora: Post-Soviet Culture in Search of Israeli Identity (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025). 204 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2455-2.
Alexandra Zborovsky