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Book for review in Ab Imperio: Grégoire Hervouet-Zeiber. War and the Pull of Life: Ex-Combatants in Putin’s Russia. Fordham University Press, 2026. 241 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5315-1528-7. To request a review copy, follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimpe…
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Zachary T. Irwin (Ed.). The Tito-Stalin Split of 1948: Regional Implications and International Consequences. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. 349 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-032-10865-4. To request a review copy, follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimpe…
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Olga Seliazniova. Vagrancy in Modern Russian Law and Culture. Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, 2026. 207 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-50178-994-6. To request a review copy, follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimpe…
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Jan Kubik and Richard C. M. Mole (Eds). The Anatomy of Right-Wing Populism: Dealing with Transformational Fatigue in Central and Eastern Europe. London: UCL Press, 2025. 394 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-1-80008-679-1. sites.google.com/site/abimpe…
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Tolga U. Esmer. Economies of Banditry in the Late Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. 321 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-285645-6. Please follow link sites.google.com/site/abimpe…
Book for review in Ab Imperio: James Pickett. Russian Subject, Muslim Monarch: Sovereignty and Scribal Culture in Colonial Bukhara. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2026. 344 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8891-8. Please follow sites.google.com/site/abimpe…
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Matteo Piccin. Nazionalismi di frontiera Russi, polacchi e ucraini a Cholm (1830–1918). Florence: Firenze University Press, 2025. 521 pp., ill. ISBN: 979-12-215-0799-7. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimpe…
Important articles and interesting reviews of some fine books have been published in Ab Imperio 2/2026 (Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57587 ; Ab Imperio: abimperio.org/):
Historiography section in issue 2/2026 opens with Gennadii Korolov’s review of the Ukrainian edition of Mark von Hagen’s historical essays, followed by the review essays penned by Jane Burbank and Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, who discuss Adam Lenton's Decolonizing Russia?
Published in Ab Imperio 2/2026: Michał Patryk Sadłowski, "The Ukrainian Question in the Political Thought of Paul Miliukov During His Emigration (1918–1943)" (muse.jhu.edu/issue/57587 and abimperio.org/)
Published in Ab Imperio 2/2026: Nikolay Tsyrempilov, "Confessional Loyalty and Buryat Mobilization in the Russian Empire During World War I" (muse.jhu.edu/issue/57587 and journal's website)
Issue 2/2026 features the fifth part of the erialized forum “The Prospect of Studying World Russian Languages, Literatures, and Histories” – ongoing since issue 2/2025 (see the links in reply).
Book for review in Ab Imperio: Julien Mailland. Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2026. 194 pp., ill. Index. ISBN: 978-0-262-05459-1. Please follow the link sites.google.com/site/abimpe…







































