Book for review in Ab Imperio: Jeffrey W. Jones. Smoke, Mirrors, and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979–1989. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2025. 251 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-6274-8. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Call for nominations: Ab Imperio 2025 Annual Award! Deadline: December 31, 2025 The award envisions three categories: 1. Best book. 2. Best article or chapter. 3. Best dissertation chapter. The award carries a monetary prize. sites.google.com/view/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Uladzislau Belavusau, Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Maria Mälksoo, and Angelika Nußberger (Eds.). The Politics of Memory Laws: Russia, Ukraine and Beyond. London: Hart Publishing, 2025. Index. ISBN: 978-1-50997-530-3. Follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Batsaikhan Ookhnoi Emgent. Russian Policy Towards Mongolia, 1911–1952: When Mongolia Fought the Red Front. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 315 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-981-96-6185-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Announcing Ab Imperio editors' final cameo in this German soap opera (zeitung.faz.net/data/498/rea...). In case you missed its previous episodes:

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Richard Sakwa. The Culture of the Second Cold War. London: Anthem Press, 2025. Bibliography.182 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-83999-297-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Joseph Kellner. The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse. Cornell University Press, 2025. 242 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8151-3. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Tetyana Dzyadevych (Ed.). Nostalgia, Anxiety, Politics: Media and Performing Arts in Egypt, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2025. 279 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 979-8-8819-0130-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Anna Shadrina. The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia. London: UCL Press, 2025. 175 pp., ill. Filmography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-907-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Zbyněk Vydra (Ed.). Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918–1945. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. 294 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-032-81913-6. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Glenn Cronin. The Enduring Enigma of Lev Tikhomirov. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. 333 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8344-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Mykola Homanyuk and Mischa Gabowitsch. Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine. Budapest; Central European University Press, 2025. 224 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-963-386-822-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Victoria Khiterer. Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2025. 305 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-62671-112-9. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: A. 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. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Hiljar Tammela and Meelis Maripuu (Eds.). The Flight from Estonia to Sweden during World War II. Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2024. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-9949-9687-9-4. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 2/2025 (see the links in first reply):

In Ab Imperio 2/2025: Victoria Smolkin, "Reflections on Teaching Ukraine and Its Histories":

In Ab Imperio 2/2025, Vladimir Levin publishes English translation of part of the field diary of one of the S. A. An-sky expedition’s participants, Abraham Rechtman (1888 or 1890–1972). (Photo: ju.org.ua/ru/media/424..., from left to right: Rechtman, Iudovin, S. An-sky, Sholem Aleichem).

Ab Imperio 2/2025, the forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories”:

Ab Imperio 2/2025 (links in 1 reply) opens with the forum that formulates a truly postcolonial approach to dismantling Russia’s hegemonic structures, at least in the cultural sphere, by disentangling Russian language and culture from ethnic Russianness and Russian state.

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Michael Jabara Carley. Stalin’s Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939–1941. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2025. 457 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4875-66258-8. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Heather D. DeHaan, Dan Healey, and Tracy McDonald (Eds.). Other Voices in Soviet History: Collected for a Devil’s Advocate. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2025. 293 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2422-4. Please follow the link in reply:

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Kirill Chunikhin. Shared Images: A History of American Art in the Soviet Union. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. 220 pp., ill. Selected Bibliography. Name Index. ISBN: 978-3-11-138812-0. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Birgit Beumers, Catherine Géry, and Eugénie Zvonkine (Eds.). Sexuality, Nudity and the Body in Soviet Cinema. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. 254 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-032-61532-5. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Melanie Arndt. Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster / Translated by Alastair Matthews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 342 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-009-45776-7. Please follow the link in first reply:

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Jeremy Morris. Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 249 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3505-0932-0. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Ian Garner and Taras Kuzio (Eds.). Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2025. 350 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8382-2015-4. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Pietro A. 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. Please follow sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Nina Bogdan. Before We Disappear into Oblivion: San Francisco’s Russian Diaspora from Revolution to Cold War. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2025. 420 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2473-6. Please follow link sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Francis Young. Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 376 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-009-58657-3. Please see sites.google.com/site/abimper...

Tis the season! Ab Imperio's Syllabus module will help you find course readings: sites.google.com/view/ai-syll...

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Vladimir Gel’man. Russia’s Gamble: The Domestic Origins of Russia's Attack on Ukraine. Cambridge: Polity, 2025. 220 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5095-5943-5. Please follow the link in first reply:

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Halina Goldberg and Bozena Shallcross. The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture: Between Practice and Phantasm. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025. 225 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-07292-4. Please follow the link in 1st reply:

Book for review in Ab Imperio: George Gasyna. A Time for the Province: Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025. 379 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-02280-2428-6. Please follow the link in 1 reply:

Good news: Vol. 1 of A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia: From Russian to Global History (600-1700) is available in paperback for a more reasonable price!

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Alistair S. Wright. Revolution and Civil War in North Russia: Karelia and the Murmansk Region, 1917–1920. London: Bloomsbury, 2025. 237 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-3504-3401-1. Please follow the link in 1st reply:

Interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 1/2025:

In Ab Imperio 1/2025: Ilya Gerasimov, "Knowledge Without Power: The Gospel of Venedikt Erofeev" (published in Russian). image credit: Kurt Levy, “Ahasver 1933”

In Ab Imperio 1/2025: Matthias Battis and Börries Kuzmany, "Territorial in Principle, Personal in Practice: Early Soviet Non-Territorial National Autonomy Arrangements"

In Ab Imperio 1/2025: Zhanibek Akimbek and Saule Uderbaeva, "The Turkestan Region in the Life of Boris Trizna: Empire, Revolution, and Soviet Power"

Ab Imperio 1/2025 is out (see links in first reply) featuring the forum "Studying Imperial Formations at the Time of Culture Wars"

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Ernest Gyidel. Ukrainian Public Nationalism in the General Government: The Case of Krakivski Visti, 1940–1944. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2024. 578 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-3-8382-1865-6. Please follow the link in 1 reply:

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Josef Mendelevich. The Cantonists: Jewish Boys in the Russian Military, 1827–1856. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2025. 332 pp. ISBN: 979-8-88719-681-7. Please follow the link in first comment:

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Saulius Sužiedėlis. Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2025. 625 pp., ill. Sources and Bibliography. ISBN: 979-8-88719-490-5. Please follow the link in reply:

Book for review in Ab Imperio: Alena Pfoser. Tourism as Memory-Making: Russian Tourism in the Shadow of Empire. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 221 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-3-031-83737-1. Please follow the link in reply:

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. Please follow the link in reply:

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. sites.google.com/site/abimper...

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(see link on the journal's website and in first comment)

The winner of the 2024 Ab Imperio Award 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! (see the link in comment)

Announcing winners of the 2024 Ab Imperio Award for the best book in new imperial history and history of diversity in Northern Eurasia, up to the late twentieth century, supported by KRES Poliskola - Hurrah! sites.google.com/view/abimper...