Semyonov, Alexander Publications

Books

Sebastian Conrad, Chto Takoye Global'naya Istoriya?  [What is Global History?]/ Ed. and prefaced by Alexander Semyonov (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2018).

Novaia Imperskaia Istoriia Severnoi Evrazii [New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia]. 2 vols. (Kazan: Ab Imperio, 2017). (co-authored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Marina Mogilner)

Musul'mane v Novoy Imperskoy Istorii [Muslims in the New Imperial History] (Moscow: LLC “Sandra,” 2017). (coeditor with Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Marina Mogilner)

Empire and Nationalism at War (Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2014). (coeditor with Eric Lohr, Mark von Hagen, and Vera Tolz)

Konfessia, Imperiia, Natsiia, Religiia i Problema Raznoobraziia v Istorii Postsovestkogo Prostranstva [Confession, Empire, and Nation: Religion and the Problem of Difference in History of the Post-Soviet Space] (Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2012). (coeditor with Ilya Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner)

Izobretenie Imperii: Iazyki i Praktiki [Inventing Empire: Languages and Practices] (Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2011). (coeditor with Ilya Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner)

Imperiya i Natsiya v Zerkale Istoricheskoy Pamyati [Empire and Nation in the Mirror of Historical Memory] (Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2011). (coeditor with Ilya Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner)

Mify i Zabluzhdenia v Izuchenii Imperii i Natsionalizma [Myths and Misconceptions in Studies of Nationalism and Empire] (Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2010). (coeditor with Ilya Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner) ISBN 978-5-98379-139-8

Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire (Leiden: Brill, 2009). (coeditor with Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber) ISBN

Novaya Imperskaya Istoriya Postsovetskogo Prostranstva [New Imperial History of the Post-Soviet Space (Kazan: Ab Imperio, 2004).  (coeditor with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Marina Mogilner)

Peer-reviewed articles

“The Return of Longue Durée in Political History of the Russian Empire,” Russian History 48:1 (2021): 11-18

“Imperial Citizenship and Political Representation in the Russian Empire, 1905-06,” Ab Imperio, no. 2 (2021): 139-152 (co-authored with Maria Gulakova)

 “Imperial Parliament for a Hybrid Empire: Representative Experiments in the Early 20th-Century Russian Empire,” Journal of Eurasian Studies, 11:1 (2020): 30-39.

 “Autonomy and Decentralization in the Global Imperial Crisis: the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in 1905–1924,” Modern Intellectual History, 17:2 (2020): 1-18. (coauthored with Ivan Sablin)

 “Wither Russian Liberalism?” in: R. M. Cucciolla, ed., Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism: Historical Drama and New Prospects (Cham: Springer, 2019), 27-42.

 “The Ambiguity of Federalism as a Post-Imperial Political Vision: Editorial Introduction,” Ab Imperio, 3 (2018): 23-30.

 “Nationalism and Empire Before and After 1917,” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 17:3 (2017): 369-380. (coauthored with Jeremy Smith)

 “How Five Empires Shaped the World and How this Process Shaped those Empires,” Ab Imperio, 4 (2017): 27-51.

 ‘Greater Britain’ Into ‘Greater Russia’: A Case of Imagining Empire and Nation in the Early Twentieth Century Russian Empire,” in: J. W. Boyer and B. Molden, eds., Eutropes: The Paradox of European Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Center in Paris, 2014), 25-48.

 “Russian Sociology in Imperial Context,” in: G. Steinmetz, ed., Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013), 53-82. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner)

 “Russian Liberalism and the Problem of Imperial Diversity,” in: M. Fitzpatrick, ed., Liberal Imperialism in Europe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 67-89.

 “The Arc of Thinking about Nationalism in Challenging Time,” Ab Imperio 1 (2012): 245-250. (coauthored with Sergey Glebov)

 “Mirrors of Imperial Imagination in Early Twentieth Century Russia Empire,” in: A. Nowak, ed., Imperial Victims–Empires as Victims: 44 Views (Warsaw: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2010), 639-139.

 “Revoliutsiia 1905 Goda: Uskol’zaiushchaia Liberal’naia Al’ternativa [The Revolution of 1905: The Elusive Liberal Alternative],” in:  I. Prokhorova, A. Dmitriev, I. Kukulin, and M.  Maiofis, eds.,  Antropologiia Revoliutsii [Anthropology of Revolution] (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2009), 101-126.

 “The Real and Live Ethnographic Map of Russia”: The Russian Empire in the Mirror of the State Duma,” in: Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber, and Alexander Semyonov, eds., Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in The Russian Empire (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 191-228.

 “New Imperial History and the Challenges of Empire,” in: Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber, and Alexander Semyonov, eds., Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in The Russian Empire (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 1-32. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Jan Kusber, Marina Mogilner)

“Empire as a Moving Target,” Ab Imperio 2 (2008): 377-392.

 “Empire as a Context Setting Category,” Ab Imperio 3 (2008): 193-204.

 “Wither the Liberal Alternative? Historical Memory and Historical Alternatives,” in: J. Kusber, ed., Das Zarenreich, Das Jahr 1905 Und Seine Wirkungen: Bestandsaufnahmen (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007), 351-381.

 “Plokhaya istoriya, plokhaya politika” [Poor history, bad politics],” Neprikosnovennyi Zapas 1 (2007): 119-123.

 “Empire and Nation in Russian Liberal Thought,” in: I. Zoltan, ed., Liberty and the Search for Identity: Liberal Nationalism and the Legacy of Empires (Budapest: Central European Press, 2006): 329-344.

 “Trudnyy Vybor Istorika: Istoricheskaya Pamyat’, Mifologiya i Genealogiya” [A Difficult Choice for Historians: Historical Memory, Genealogy, and Mythology],” Neprikosnovennyi Zapas 3(2006): 192-200.

 “In Search of a New Imperial History,” Ab Imperio 1 (2005): 33-56. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Marina Mogilner)

“ ‘The Story of US’: History and Perspectives of Modernization of Humanities in Russia. A Historian’s View,” New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie] 59:1 (2003): 190-210 (coauthored with Sergey Glebov and Marina Mogilner) [in Russian] https://magazines.gorky.media/nlo/2003/1/the-story-of-us-proshloe-i-perspektivy-modernizaczii-gumanitarnogo-znaniya-glazami-istorikov.html

 “Znaniye kak Politika i Prizvaniye (Po Materialam Istorii Rossiyskoy Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskoy Partii)” [Knowledge as a Politics and Vocation (Based on the History of the Russian Constitutional Democratic Party)],” in: N. Smirnov, ed., Vlast' i Nauka. Uchenyye i Vlast', 1880-e-Nachalo 1920-kh godov: Materialy Mezhdunarodnogo Nauchnogo Kollokviuma [Politics and Science. Scientists and Authorities. The 1880s-early 1920s: Materials of the International Scientific Colloquium] (St. Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin, 2003).

 “Conceptual Change and the Problem of Political Dialogue in Political Struggle and Ideological Debates In Early 20th Century Russia,” in: T. Artem’yeva, ed., Filosofskii Vek: Istoria Idei kak Metodologia Gumanitarnykh Issledovani (St. Petersburg: S. Peterburgskii Tsentr Istorii Idei, 2001), 44-60.

 “Chem Byl Sovetskiy Soyuz i Chto Oznachayet ego Raspad. Diskussii Zapadnykh Istorikov” [What Was the Soviet Union and What Does its Collapse Mean: Western Historiographic Debates],” Neprikosnovennyi Zapas 6 (2001): 26-32.

 “K Voprosu ob Avtorstve Dokumenta: Rannee Svidetel’stvo Politicheskoy Aktivnosti S.YU. Witte?” [“On the Question of Authorship of One Document: an Earlier Evidence of S. Iu. Witte’s Political Activity?”] Ab Imperio 3 (2000): 187-192.

Non-refereed articles

 “Finding Empire Behind Multinationality in the Habsburg Case: Interview with Pieter Judson,” Ab Imperio 1 (2019): 25-43.

 “Mark von Hagen: Member of the Editorial Board of Ab Imperio (2000–2019),” Ab Imperio 3 (2019): 229-232. (coauthored with Sergey Glebov)

 “Global History Is More than the History of Globalization: Interview with Sebastian Conrad,” Ab Imperio, 1 (2017): 23-43.

 “Do the” Assemblage Points” Exist?” Ab Imperio 1 (2014): 16-21. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Marina Mogilner)

 “Emancipatory Hybridity,” Ab Imperio 4 (2013): 16-21. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Marina Mogilner)

 “The Alien Origins of Freedom,” Ab Imperio 1 (2013): 15-20. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Marina Mogilner)

 “Structures and Cultures of Diversity: Nomadism as Colonialism without a Metropole,” Ab Imperio 2 (2012): 10-16. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Marina Mogilner)

 “The Centrality of Periphery,” Ab Imperio 1 (2012): 19-28. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Marina Mogilner)

 “From the Editors: Probing the Limits of Historical Metanarratives: Imperial Boundaries,” Ab Imperio 1 (2003): 17-22. (coauthored with Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovski, Marina Mogilner)

“We Study Empires as We Do Dinosaurs: Nations, Nationalism, and Empire in a Critical Perspective, Interview with Benedict Anderson,” Ab Imperio 3 (2003): 57-73.

 “From the Editors. A Window on the Dilemmas of History Writing on Empire and Nation,” Ab Imperio 2 (2003): 387-394.

 “From the Editors. The State of Art in History Writing on Nation and Empire,” Ab Imperio 3 (2002): 526-528.

Analytical reports

Co-authored with Ilya Gerasimov. The World Humanities Report:  Perspective from Russia, 2022, commissioned by Consortium of Humanities Centers and the Institutes (CHCI) and the International Council for Philosophy and the Human Sciences (CIPSH)-UNESCO (http://worldhumanitiesreport.org)