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• List of images
• List of maps
• About the contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Note on transliteration
• Introduction / Valerie Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger
• Part I. Medieval Rus among the empires
• Early Rus : the nexus of empires / Monica White
• Placing Rus among the world empires in tenth-century Arab geography / Irina Konovalova
• The "imperial mirage" of Sviatoslav (twelfth century) / Sergei Kozlov
• Part II. Muscovy and the expansion of empire
• Empire and culture : the sixteenth-century English encounter the Samoyeds / Nancy S. Kollmann
• Racial imaginary and images of Mongols and Tatars in early modern Russia (1560s-1690s) / Valerie Kivelson
• Visual polemics : the Time of Troubles in Polish and Russian historical memory (1611-1949) / Ekaterina Boltunova
• The image of the good Orthodox ruler between Kyiv and Moscow (1660s) / Maria Grazia Bartolini
• Tents or towns : the limits of sovereignty in the Russian north in the late seventeenth century / Erika Monahan
• Divine creation and Russian exploitation of the environment in Siberia (c. 1700) / Evgeny Grishin
• Part III. Imperial Russia
• Re-visioning empire under Peter the Great / Ernest A. Zitser
• Depictions of China from a caravan journal (1736) / Gregory Afinogenov
• A "complete" atlas of the Russian Empire (1745) / Catherine Evtuhov
• What's in a hat? Representations of ethnicity and gender in eighteenth-century Russia / Nathaniel Knight
• Annushka, the Kalmyk (c. 1767) / Alison K. Smith
• "If fate had not given her an empire ..." : Catherine the Great and the optics of power (1762-1787) / Erin McBurney
• Depicting expertise and managing diversity in the Urals mining industry (1773-1818) / Anna Graber
• Father Hyacinth's Chinese portrait (early nineteenth century) / Willard Sunderland
• Vignettes of empire : "Asiatic peoples" at nineteenth-century imperial Russian coronations / Richard Wortman
• The women of empire strike back (1856) / Nadja Berkovich
• The peasant and the photograph : gender, race, and the sunlight picture in the Baltic provinces (1866) / Bart Pushaw
• Severed heads on display : visualizing central Asia (1868-1872) / Olga Maiorova
• The Cautious One : identity and belonging in late imperial Russia (1877) / Sarah Badcock
• Siberian travelogues : images of Asiatic Russia during the transport revolution (1860s-1890s) / Fedor Korandei
• "To the Caucasus" : representations of empire at Abramtsevo (1870s-1890s) / Maria Taroutina
• Archeological imagery colonizes the Caucasus / Louise McReynolds
• Chained to a wheelbarrow : hard labor on an 1890s picture postcard from Siberia / Alison Rowley
• Siberian roots in an imperial space : Yermak's Conquest of Siberia by Vasily Surikov (1895) / Rosalind P. Blakesley
• Alexander Borisov and Tyko Vilka : two artists who made worlds of their own from the Arctic wilderness / Anna Kotomina
• Yermak from Yenisei Province : a peasant painting from the early twentieth century / Galina V. Lyubimova
• Imperial color in the present tense : the photography of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky / Katherine M. H. Reischl
• Part IV. The revolutionary era
• "Go Be Russian" : political caricature, identity politics, and the Tbilisi press after the 1905 revolution / Naomi Caffee and Robert Denis
• In the claws of the imperial eagle : Finland, Georgia, and Joseph Stalin (1906) / Ronald Grigor Suny
• Agit-Empire : Bolshevik Civil War art / Laura Engelstein
• Breakfast in Suuk Su : the rise of visual "Tatarism" (1917-1923) / Angelina Lucento
• Part V. The Soviet Union
• Propaganda in translation : imagined Muslim viewers in early Soviet posters (c.1926) / Mollie Arbuthnot
• Two Laws : the image of the Tungus in Soviet dreamworlds (1920s) / Craig Campbell
• Views from the roof of the world : 1920s film expeditions to the Pamir Mountains / Oksana Sarkisova
• A shared Soviet space : overcoming difference in films of the Caucasus in the 1920s-1930s / Emma Widdis
• Socialist Orientalism : picturing central Asia in the early Soviet Union (1920s-1930s) / Helena Holzberger
• "Fascist colors" : Stalinist spatial ideology, cartographic design, and visual learning / Nick Baron
• Representing Jewishness in the Red Zion : the Jewish Autonomous Region in the 1930s / Robert Weinberg
• Love letters to O'g'ulxon : photography and imperial intimacy in the Second World War / Charles Shaw
• From ethnographic reality to Socialist Realism : illustrations in Soviet primers for the indigenous minorities of the north / Nikolai Vakhtin
• The Stalinist imperial body politic in a Soviet poster / Erika Wolf
• Caricatured empire : Cold War political cartoons / Stephen M. Norris
• "Where the sun begins its path over our soil" : Eldar Riazanov's documentary Sakhalin Island (1954) / Yana Skorobogatov
• Crafting the art of tradition : Chuvash embroidery reframed / Olessia Vovina
• The imperial iconography of the Georgian table (1900-1980s) / Erik Scott
• Representations of women in the Soviet periphery : Tartu photography exhibitions in the 1980s / Jessica Werneke
• Part VI. The post-Soviet era
• Competing nationalisms in imperial and postimperial space : Sviatoslav of Kiev and the diorama of his last battle / Yulia Mikhailova
• Return of the sables : the symbol of imperial Siberia from the seventeenth century to today / Evgeny Manzhurin
• Soviet war memorials in post-Soviet spaces / Karen Petrone
• Crimea in my heart : visualizing Putin's resurgent empire in 2014 / Elizabeth A. Wood
• The Maidan : anti-imperial modes of mythmaking in documentary film (2014-2015) / Joshua First
• The post-Soviet body politic : media, diaspora, and photographs in the Immortal Regiment / Olga Shevchenko
• Photo essay : picturing wartime (2022) / Joan Neuberger
• Credits
• Index

Provides a visual tour of the lands and peoples that constituted the Russian Empire and those that confronted it, defied it, accommodated to it, and shaped it at various times over more than a millennium of history. Bringing together scholars and experts from across the world and from various disciplines, this book consistently raises big historical questions, stimulating readers to think about images as embedded in the diverse, lived worlds of the Russian empire.-- Back cover
"Picturing Russian Empire brings a fresh approach to both Russian and Imperial Studies by centering the visual. In a series of short essays, focused on striking images, the authors reexamine historical encounters and exchanges within the shifting borders of the empire. The book not only offers interpretations of the images but also shows the kinds of work that images themselves can accomplish by changing or solidifying notions of how the world is or should be organized. The book advances the idea of a 'pictosphere' in which images from the many visual cultures of the empire interacted. The essays are lively and accessible, crafted to engage the reader. Picturing Russian Empire also provides a historical and visual approach to understanding present-day conflicts in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia."-- Provided by publisher

As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

"Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to be a double-thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands; they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditions in which they find themselves. But where did this concept come from? What analytical and ideological pillars does it stand on? What is at stake in using this term today? The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man' addresses all these questions and even explains why -- at least in its contemporary usage -- this concept should be abandoned altogether."-- ‡c Provided by publisher

• Camp Custer, Michigan-The 339th Infantry Is Formed
• The 339th Heads to the Western Front
• Why America Sent Troops to Russia
• First American Troops in Russia
• The Americans Settle In
• A Muddled Assault
• Assault on Verst 455
• A Change in Strategy
• The Great War Ends
• Archangel
• On the Front Lines
• The March to Pinega
• The Pinega Campaign
• Winter on the Railroad Front
• A Mutiny in Name Only
• The Fight for Bolshie Ozerki
• Prisoners
• Spring 1919
• Homeward Bound
• Bringing Home the Fallen

"At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army 339th Infantry--nicknamed the "Polar Bears"--was deployed to northern Russia to prevent Allied supplies stockpiled near the port city of Archangel from falling into the hands of the Bolsheviks. Drawing on firsthand accounts from men in the regiment, their 18-month campaign is narrated from the point of view of the riflemen, NCOs and officers of companies I and M. Each chapter highlights an individual soldiers' experience fighting the Red Army and the Arctic winter, a quarter century before the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Les premières années (1920-1945)
• Quels émigrés russes ?
• La diaspora russe en Europe et en France
• L'antibolchevisme des Russes blancs
• Avec les Allemands
• Contre les Allemands
• 2. La guerre est finie
• La nouvelle donne
• Dans les camps de DP
• En Allemagne, en Autriche et ailleurs en Europe
• Un nouveau départ
• Aux États-Unis
• 3. En France, après l'orage
• France, terre d'asile ?
• Patriotes soviétiques
• Orthodoxes russes en France
• Un chant du cygne ?
• Quand nos aînés n'y seront plus
• 4. L'URSS n'est pas la Russie
• Les amis américains
• Les Russes parlent aux Russes
• Un devoir de culture
• L'Action chrétienne des étudiants russes (ACER)
• 5. La diaspora politique
• Russes blancs
• Un tsar pour la Russie
• Anciens de l'Armée Vlassov
• Les démocrates
• En quête d'unité
• 6. La NTS renaît de ses cendres
• L'heure du bilan
• À Memchehof
• Les éditions Possev
• Un nouveau départ
• L'école des cadres
• Compagnons de route
• 7. Au sommet de la vague
• Aux commandes de la NTS
• Idéologie et stratégie
• Un mouvement en évolution
• La NTS en France
• Le secteur "fermé"
• Tentatives d'infiltrations, d'assassinats, d'enlèvements
• L'affaire Khokhlov
• 8. Opérations en URSS
• Le projet CARCASS/CACCOLA
• Des agents bien préparés
• Le premier cycle d'opérations
• Les émissaires du deuxième cycle
• Autres opérations en URSS
• 9. Opérations en Europe
• La NTS à Berlin
• Le docteur Trouchnovitch disparaît
• Révolution en Hongrie
• Propagande tous azimuts
• Des compatriotes très recherchés
• Épilogue : Au-delà de la guerre froide.

"Si Entre Hitler et Staline (Éditions des Syrtes, 2021) évoquait Le difficile choix des Russes blancs et des Soviétiques dans l'espace européen durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Au cœur de la guerre froide poursuit l'exploration de l'histoire mouvementée de l'émigration russe à un moment de tension extrême entre l'URSS et [Occident. Après 1945, la diaspora russe a subi de profonds bouleversements. Renforcée par de nouveaux exilés venus grossir Les rangs des "personnes déplacées", elle a repris, autant que faire se pouvait, ses activités d'avant-guerre : vie politique, activités sociales et culturelles, associations religieuses, publications, radios en langue russe. Mais la conjoncture avait changé et Paris n'était plus la "capitale" incontestable de la Russie en exil. À partir de 1947 l'émigration russe anticommuniste devient un élément non négligeable de la guerre froide. La principale formation politique, l'Union national-travailliste (NTS) a mené diverses actions clandestines de recrutement et de propagande à Berlin et partout en Europe où il était possible de trouver des citoyens soviétiques. Elle s'impliqua également, en collaboration avec la CIA, dans des opérations en URSS que des documents récemment rendus publics permettent d'aborder dans Leur détail. Largement engagée dans le processus de renaissance des valeurs traditionnelles de son pays perdu, l'émigration russe a ainsi contribué à la chute de l'URSS."--Page 4 of cover.

• Spiegel der Seele / Kateryna Mishchenko
• Verfinsterte Orte / Oksana Karpovych
• Zwei Bibliotheken / Volodymyr Rafeyenko
• Wenn der Pazifismus endet / Artem Chapeye
• Die Frage nach unserer Verantwortung / Alissa Ganijewa
• Das Haus, in dem eine Frau wohnt / Oksana Dutchak
• Di Stadt, die sich gewehrt hat / Angelina Kariakina
• Nach der Besatzung / Nataliya Gumenyuk
• Vorsicht, gefährliche Bäume / Kateryne Iakovlenko
• "Nobody will come"--Bildohnmacht in Zeiten des gestreamten Krieges / Yuriy Hrytsyna
• Terrorumgebungen / Svitlana Matviyenko
• Meine Idee von Gerechtigkeit / Stanisla Assejew
• Antinomien des Krieges. Philosophieseminare in Charkiw / Irina Zherebkina
• Zeitenwende. Ein Begriff des 24. Februar 2022 / Susanne Strätling
• Die Provinzialisierung des Russischen--Demaskierung des Imperiums / Tamara Hundorova
• Wie von einem Blitzstrahl erhellt / Karl Schlögel
• Zukunft aus Vergangenheit? Putin, die EU und die Ukraine aus der Perspektive ihrer Erinnerungskulturen / Aleida Assmann

"Seit dem Angriff Russlands auf die Ukraine sind Tausende Menschen umgekommen, Hunderttausende haben Terror und Zerstörung erlitten, Millionen Bürger sind geflohen. Dennoch: unterstützt vom Westen, halten Staat und Gesellschaft stand. Aus dem Nebel des Krieges entsteht eine neue, ungewisse Zukunft. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes - Schriftsteller, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Aktivisten, Künstlerinnen und Journalisten - halten die Gleichzeitigkeit fest: die Ruinierung des Lebens und seiner Orte; die zivile und militärische Selbstbehauptung; den Willen, eine neue, friedliche Heimat zu schaffen. Sie beschreiben und analysieren die Situation der traumatisierten Menschen im Krieg - ihre tiefgreifende Veränderung, ihre Fähigkeit, sich in sehr unklaren Zeiten dennoch wiederzufinden."--Publisher's website

• A white space on the map
• Lukashenka's rise
• The opposition's rise?
• Clampdown
• The west reacts.

In 2020, mass anti-government protests erupted across Belarus. The brutal crackdown that followed shocked the international community: the authorities arrested tens of thousands of citizens, shut down independent media and NGOs, and fomented a migrant crisis on the European Union's border. But where many thought Belarus's dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, would fall, he instead turned to Moscow for support, intensifying repression. Many of his opponents fled the country. Then, in February 2022, Belarus provided a staging area for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, allowing troops and missile systems to be based on its territory as large-scale war returned to Eastern Europe once again. Many outsiders now view Belarus as little more than a Russian military district, rather than a sovereign country. Paul Hansbury offers a wide-ranging account of these two related crises. Exploring the domestic origins of Belarus's political chaos and its international ramifications, he also assesses the effectiveness of western sanctions policy, as well as considering the history and prospects of Belarusian statehood. Does Belarus have a future as an independent polity? And how has Russia's war with Ukraine affected Belarusians' views of their dictatorship and the cause of democracy in their country?

"In Between The Seas, Deborah Paci takes a comparative view of insularity in island identities through case studies of islands in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. These case studies include, in the Baltic case, Gotland, Saaremaa and Hiiumaa; and in the Mediterranean case, Sicily, Sardinia, Malta and Corsica. Examining multiple sites of these islands' identities such as history, environmental concerns and governance systems, this study provides a historical perspective into the relations between islands and the larger geopolitical regions around them as well as historicizing "insularist" rhetoric deployed by pro-independence groups within them. Paci examines the changing role and increasing political importance of islands in the European Union against the history of island insularity and offers a significant contribution to the wider field of island studies"-- Provided by publisher