Results of competition for best articles in AI

In recognition of Ab Imperio’s ten-year anniversary, the journal is announcing results of the competition for the best publications in the field of new imperial history.
Eligible were materials published in AI between 2000 and 2009 that were written specifically for AI (i.e. were not translations of published texts or reworked versions of monograph chapters), regardless of the language of publication/submission or disciplinary affiliation of the author. Nominations were received from August 4 till November 15, 2009, in three categories.

We are happy to announce the results:

1. Best research and interpretative article in the field of new imperial history

First place:
Vladimir Bobrovnikov,
Violence and Power in the Historical Memory of a Muslim Borderland (Toward a New Interpretation of the “Hochbar Tale”) (AI 1/2003)

Second place:
Nicholas Breyfogle,
Enduring Imperium: Russia/Soviet Union/Eurasia as
Multiethnic, Multiconfessional Space (AI 1/2008)

Third place:
Charles Steinwedel
Tribe, Estate, Nationality? Changing Conceptions of Bashkir Particularity within The Tsar’s Empire (AI 2/2002)

2. Most significant contribution to new imperial history in the form of a publication that draws attention to previously unknown and important historical sources

First place:
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
The Construction of an Improbable Identity: The Case of Hryts’ko Kernerenko (AI 1/2005)

Second Place:
Alla Zeide
Michael Karpovich and Problems of Russian History and Historiography (AI 1/2007)

Third Place:
Ricarda Vulpius
Ukrainian Language and Schooling in Late Imperial Period (AI 2/2005)

3. Best book review

First place:
Wim van Meurs
Old Wounds and New Battles: The pros and cons of comparative histories of Stalinism and Nazism (AI 1/2006)

Second Place:
Marina Loskutova
Cynthia Simmons, Nina Perlina (Eds.), Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women’s Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002). 288 pp., 14 ill. Index. ISBN: 0-8229-4183-X (hardback edition). (AI 3-2006)

Third place:
Frithjof Benjamin Schenk
Gerald Stourzh (Hg.). Annaherungen an eine europaische Geschichts-schreibung. Wien: Verlag der osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002 (= Archiv fur osterreichische Geschichte. Bd. 137.). 176 S. ISBN: 3-7001-3070-8. (AI 1-2004)

Our congratulations to the prize winners!