The two faces of contemporary Eurasianism: an imperial version of Russian nationalism

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Hall Gardner, Surviving the Millennium: American global strategy, the collapse of the Soviet empire, and the question of peace. Westport, Conneticut, London: Praeger, 1994, xiv, 263 pp.

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George Nekrasov, North of Gallipoli: the Black Sea fleet at war 1914–1917. East European Monographs, No. CCCXLIII; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1992, vi, 167 pp. + appendices, 12 plates and 45 photographs.

Frederick Starr (ed.), The Legacy of History in Russia and the New States of Eurasia. The International Politics of Eurasia. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1994, xiii, 313 pp.

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Donald D. Barry (ed.), Toward the “Rule of Law” in Russia? Political and Legal Reform in the Transition Period. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1992, 402 pp.

Deborah Anne Palmieri (ed.), Russia and the NIS in the World Economy: East‐West investment, financing, and trade. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1994, 180 pp. + chronology, selected bibliograph, and index.

Joseph Held, Dictionary of East European History Since 1945. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995, 497 pp. + index.

Janusz Bugajski, Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: a guide to nationality policies, organizations, and parties. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1994, xxvi, 493 pp. + map.

Jaroslav Pelikan, Confessor Between East and West: a portrait of Ukrainian Cardinal Josyf Slipyj. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, 1990, xiv, 249 pp. + illus.

Rudolf A. Mark, Galizien unter österreichischer Herrschaft. Verwaltung‐Kirche‐Bevölkerung. Marburg: Historische und landeskundliche Ostmitteleuropa‐Studien, Bd. 13, 1994, 132 Seiten, 7 Karten.

Barbara Dotts Paul, The Polish‐German Borderlands: an annotated bibliography. Westwood, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994, vi, 201 pp. [Bibliographies and Indices in World History, Number 35].

Bela Borsi‐Kalman, Hungarian Exiles and the Romanian National Movement, 1849–1867. Trans. by Eva Palmai. Highland Lakes, New Jersey: Atlantic Research and Publications, 1991.

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Spira, Thomas, The German‐Hungarian‐Swabian Triangle: the road to discord. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, No. CCLXXXV. East European Quarterly, Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1990, iii, 275 pp. + bibliography and index.

Hugh Poulton, The Balkans: minorities and states in conflict. London: Minority Rights Group, 1993, x, 262 pp. + illus. and maps.

Georg Von Rauch, The Baltic States: the years of independence, 1917–1940. New York: St Martin's Press, 1994, xvii, 241 pp. + bibliography, appendices and index.

Mart Laar, War in the Woods, Estonia's Struggle for Survival. Translated from the Estonian by Tiina Ets, Washington, DC: The Compass Press, 1992, 272 pp. + illust.

Joan Serafin (ed.), East‐Central Europe in the 1990s, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994, x, 256 pp.

Yuri Rost, Armenian Tragedy: an eye‐witness account of human conflict and natural disaster in Armenia and Azerbaijan, Foreword by Andrei Sakharov, translated by Elizabeth Roberts, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990, xii, 193 pp.

Shafiqul Islam and Michael Mandelbaum (eds), Making Markets, New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993, ix, 238 pp. + illust.

Beatrice Manz (ed.), Central Asia in Historical Perspective, Boulder, Colorado: West‐view Press, 1994, 219 pp. + appendix, index.

H. B. Paksoy (ed.) Central Asia Reader: the rediscovery of history, Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1994, ix, 200 pp. + index.

Ahmed Rashid, The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or nationalism?, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Zed Books, 1994, v‐x., 252 pp. + appendix, bibliography, index.     

Islam and power legitimation: instrumentalisation of religion in Central Asian States

How can Islam play multiple and contradictory roles as a source of violence and peace, and a marker of identity differences and national unity? This study argues that religion, as a system of beliefs, manifests itself through discourses, which not only render intelligibility to religious practices and beliefs but also serve as the instruments of social control and regulation. An infinite variety of organizational and ideological differences within Islam presents the possibility for instrumentalisation of religion by stakeholders interested in accomplishing distinctive political aims connected to political legitimation. The study offers an empirical analysis of instrumentalisation of Islam by governments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and uses this evidence for developing a framework linking various discursive representations of religion to their political uses.     

当代亚洲政党政治演进的主要特点

亚洲国家的政党政治发源于19世纪,其发展历程蜿蜒曲折、复杂多样,大体经历了三个发展阶段:第一阶段,从19世纪到二战结束,为亚洲政党政治的形成阶段,产生了一批民族主义政党和工人阶级政党.第二阶段,从战后到冷战结束,为其迅速兴起和蓬勃发展的阶段,各种类型的政党相继出现,政党政治在多数国家立足并发挥作用.第三阶段,从冷战后至今,为其调整与演变阶段,政党政治出现了更为复杂的变化,多党民主浪潮在亚洲部分国家兴起,许多国家的政党政治发生深刻变动.     

Putin's militocracy? An alternative interpretation of Siloviki in contemporary Russian politics

This article challenges the perception of the rising numbers of siloviki in Russian politics as a conscious strategy and expression of a more authoritarian policy direction pursued by President Putin. Contextualising the phenomenon within the framework of the system of elite recruitment in contemporary Russia, and engaging in a micro-level study of individual siloviki, the article argues that the role of these figures is more modest than often asserted and the possibility of a coordinated ‘siloviki project’ is unlikely.     

The Bosnian Muslims and Albanians: Islam and nationalism

Andrew Ezergailis, The Latvian Impact oh The Bolshevik Revolution. The First Phase: September 1917 to April 1918. East European Monographs, no. 144. Boulder, Col.: East European Monographs, 1983. Pp. 432. $30.00. Distributed by Columbia University Press.

Romuald J. Misiunas and Rein Taagepera, The Baltic States — Years of Dependence, 1940–1980. Berkely‐Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983. Pp. 333. $27.50.

Orest Subtelny, The Mazepists: Ukrainian Separatism in the Early Eighteenth Century. East European Monographs, no. 87. Boulder, CO: East European Quarterly, 1981. Pp. 280. $20.00. Distributed by Columbia University Press.

Bohdan Krawchenko, ed. Ukraine after Shelest. Edomonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, 1983. Pp. 119. Paper.

Andrei S. Markovits and Frank E. Sysyn, eds. Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism: Essays on Austrian Galicia. Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, distributed by Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. 343.

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Bohdan Boychuk, Virshi, vybrani i peredostanni. New York: Sucasnist, 1983. Pp. 189.

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Jack Nusan Porter, Jewish Partisans: A Documentary of Jewish Resistance in the Soviet Union during World War II. 2 vols. Washington University Press of America, 1982. $12.75 each. Paper.

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Anthony Arnold, Afghanistan's Two‐party Communism. Parcham and Khalq. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 242. $10.00.

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Roland Breton, Lob der Verschiedenheit: Die Ethnie — Volk und Volksgruppe in der Gesellschaft der Gegenwart. Trans, from the French by Liesl Ehrlich and Erna Appels. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumuller Universitats‐Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1981. Pp. 100.

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Donald Quataert, Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire, 1881–1908. Reactions to European Economic Penetration. New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilization, No. 9. New York and London: New York University Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 2.05. Tables. $35.00.

Joseph Chada, The Czechs in the United States. SVU Press, 1981. Pp. 234.     

Russian hegemonies: historical snapshots, regional security and changing forms of Russia's role in the post-Soviet region

The broad purpose of this study is to exemplify changing forms of hierarchical rule manifested in post-Soviet Russia's varying provision of regional security related to military conflicts. Russia's regional role varies in form and in thickness. Although the endurance of Soviet legacy can be observed in four major areas (stabilising borders, economic interest, unification of fellow Slavs and fluctuating alliances), there is enough variance to suggest that over-deterministic theories about Russian regional foreign policy do not account for conjunctural factors that can contribute to change. Instead, we can view the Soviet and post-Soviet regional dynamic as one that is on a fluid anarchy–hierarchy spectrum.     

The Ascendance of Political Islam: Hamas and consolidation in the Gaza Strip

This article outlines the means by which the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas has developed and implemented a consolidation of power strategy that is inexorably driving it to a state of increasingly authoritarian control in the Gaza Strip. It discusses the factors that have driven Hamas in terms of power seeking as primordial to all radical Islamist movements or as a result of or response to other factors outside its control. The article highlights the concurrent demise of the Fatah organisation in the Gaza Strip as the largest and most visible symbol of secularism. It then reflects on the role of external, including international, actors in accelerating consolidation tactics following the Hamas ‘takeover’ of power from the Fatah-dominated institutions of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in June 2007. The article aims to demonstrate that Hamas' control in Gaza is an important signpost in terms of developing Islamism in the Middle East region.     

The phenomenology of vigilantism in contemporary America: An interpretation

Vigilante violence is studied, defined, and delineated from a phenomenological stance. An interpretation of American vigilantism is developed: violence is intended by the perpetrators to maintain and defend, rather than change, the established sociopolitical order. Four major types of vigilantism are discussed: (1) private, spontaneous vigilantism; 2) private, organized vigilantism; (3) official, spontaneous vigilantism; and (4) official, organized vigilantism. The main objective of vigilantism is the preservation of social stability in the face of innovative behavior. It is often a reaction to the widening range of officially tolerated innovation and the existence of state‐sponsored innovation. Besides a study of the typification of motivation, the article deals with the vigilante personality.     

俄罗斯知识分子的命运

这里发表的译文选自苏联新西伯利亚"科学"出版社1990年出版的布哈林文集<社会主义之路>,是尼·伊·布哈林在1925年做的一次关于知识分子问题的演讲.正文由山东大学政治学与公共管理学院博士研究生黄登学译出,中共中央编译局研究员郑异凡先生做了校订并补译了注释.讲演做于近70年前,今天听来却并无辽远之感.听得出,我们今天议论纷纷的诸如知识劳动者阶层的兴起、知识经济等当代资本主义发展的新趋势,讲演者在近70年前就做出了一定程度的预言,这不能不使人感佩这位杰出的马克思主义理论家的远见卓识.当然,对布哈林本人及苏联社会主义模式的命运感兴趣的读者可能另有感触:演讲词中关于创作自由、思想自由、普选权等问题的观点与讲演者本人及其为之奋斗的体制的结局之间可能有着某种关联.历史的积淀而使讲词蕴涵之富,恐远非讲演者本人当年所能想像.