A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700

Ilya Gerasimov is co-founder and the executive editor of Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space. He has published several books and edited volumes in Russia and the US, most recently Plebeian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia, 1905–1917 (2018) Sergey Glebov is Professor of Russian history at Smith College and Amherst College, USA. He is the author of From Empire to Eurasia: Politics, Scholarship and Ideology in Russian Eurasianism, 1920s – 1930s (2017). Marina B. Mogilner is Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is the author of Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference: The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire (2023); A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness (2022); and Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia (2013). All three, along with Alexander Semyonov, are founding editors of Ab Imperio Quarterly.

Foreword
1. Political Ecology: The Formation of the Northern Eurasia Region
2. Mechanisms of Political and Cultural Self-Organization of Northern Eurasia’s First Polities
3. Consolidation of New Political Systems: State-Building in Northern Eurasia, 1000-1300
4. From a Local Political Space to Hierarchical Statehood: Interaction and Entanglement of Local Scenarios of Power, 1200-1400
5. New Times: The Problem of Substantiating Sovereignty and Its Boundaries in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, 1400-1600
6. The Transformation of Social Imagination in 17th-Century Northern Eurasian Societies
7. The Tsardom of Muscovy in Search of an ‘Assembly Point’
Bibliography
Index