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From the Editors: Fun Facts vs. Dreary Concepts: Making Sense of Diversity and the Burden of Agency

pp. 9-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922245
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От редакции: Забавные факты против унылых концепций: осмысление разнообразия и бремя автономности субъекта

pp. 17-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922246
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LOL at Loss: Mainstream Narratives of Soviet History and the Laughter of Surprise

pp. 27-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922247
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Soviet History as Black Comedy

Sheila Fitzpatrick
pp. 30-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922248
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"History Is Not a Novel"

Anne Lounsbery
pp. 47-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922249
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Inverted Binoculars

Mark Lipovetsky
pp. 57-64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922250
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Великий Имитатор: Российская история от "Потемкинских деревень" до "Кубанских казаков"

Евгений Добренко
pp. 65-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922251
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Kafka's Smile

Galina Babak
pp. 73-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922252
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Embracing Laughter

Artemy Magun
pp. 83-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922253
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Laughing about Dictatorships – and Ourselves

Mark Edele
pp. 88-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922254
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Laughter in the Dark

Yuri Slezkine
pp. 95-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922255
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Sheila Fitzpatrick's Black Comedy

Ronald Grigor Suny
pp. 101-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922256
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The Longue Durée of Dark Humor

Benjamin Nathans
pp. 107-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922257
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Have You Heard a Chukchi Joke? In Search of Other Soviet Comedies

Ivan Sablin
pp. 113-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922258
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Autonomy or Unitary Sovereignty: The Democratic Republic of Georgia and Abkhazia, 1918–1921

Timothy Blauvelt, Anton Vacharadze
pp. 121-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922259
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Making Basic Law in a Postimperial State: Diffusion, Adjustment, and Legal Cunning in the Constitutional Debate on Ethnocultural Diversity in Poland, 1919–1922

Wiktor Marzec
pp. 155-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922260
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"Это… было моим тайным 'комплексом'": Иван Лысяк-Рудницкий и еврейство

Юрий Радченко
pp. 189-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922261
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Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547–1917 ed. by Kati Parppei and Bulat Rakhimzianov (review)

Diego Repenning
pp. 215-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922262
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Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism by Fabian Baumann (review)

Михаил Гаухман
pp. 220-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922263
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Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City by Andrii Portnov (review)

Elena Trubina
pp. 231-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922264
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The Shaken Lands: Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914–1923 ed. by Tomas Balkelis and Andrea Griffante (review)

Karsten Brüggemann
pp. 235-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922265
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Post-imperial Encounters: Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere, 1917–1922 by Svetlana Suveica (review)

Aleksandr Korobeinikov
pp. 241-245
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922266
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Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice by Xenia A. Cherkaev (review)

Dominic Martin
pp. 245-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922267
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Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond ed. by Ostap Kin (review)

Martin Paulsen
pp. 248-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922268
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German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton (review)

Walter Sperling
pp. 252-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922269
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Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time by Antony Kalashnikov (review)

Владислав Стаф
pp. 257-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922270
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Visions of the Future: Malthusian Thought Experiments in Russian Literature (1840–1960) by Natasha Grigorian (review)

Piotr Kuligowski
pp. 261-263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922271
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Author's Response to Per Rudling's Review of In the Maelstrom in Ab Imperio 2/2023

Myroslav Shkandrij
pp. 265-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922272
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List of Contributors

pp. 269-271
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922273
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Наши Авторы

pp. 272-274
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a922274
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