Please join us for a talk with Ilya Gerasimov (executive editor of Ab Imperio) and Marina Mogilner (University of Illinois at Chicago), two of the authors of A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia (Russian edition 2017; English translation forthcoming).
A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia is the first synthetic work produced within the rising field of the new imperial history of post-Soviet space to be formatted as a popular history course for a general audience. The work aims to convey complex methodological ideas and findings from advanced scholarship in plain language and without footnotes. The biggest challenge in its development was to produce a coherent analytical model and a radically new historical narrative that could be accepted by the bitterly polarized national historiographies in post-Soviet countries and various national schools of Russian studies in the West.
Written by the four editors of the field’s flagship journal Ab Imperio over a period of more than ten years, A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia was first serialized in Ab Imperio before appearing as a two-volume book in Russian that was included in the top-10 Russian publications at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair. Now, the authors are revising the book for publication in English. The authors are: Ilya Gerasimov, the executive editor of Ab Imperio; Marina Mogilner, the Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History and an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Sergey Glebov, an Associate Professor of History at Smith College and Amherst College; and Alexander Semyonov, a Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia.
