Marina Mogilner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1536350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Mogilner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina |
| FAMILY NAME | Mogilner |
| SIGNATURE | MOGILNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
A Race for the Future
The forgotten story of a surprising anti-imperial, nationalist project at the turn of the twentieth century: a grassroots movement of Russian Jews to racialize themselves.In the rapidly nationalizing Russian Empire of the late nineteenth century, Russian Jews grew increasingly concerned about their future. Jews spoke different languages and practiced different traditions. They had complex identities and no territorial homeland. Their inability to…
Mediterraneanizing Europe
This essay explores the predicament of subaltern self-racializing in terms of European political and scientific modernity by tracing attempts to reconsider and appropriate the “Mediterranean race” concept on behalf of new and underrecognized nationalisms. The essay develops a perspective that brings together the least obvious global “coauthors” of the counternarrative of the “Mediterranean race”—such as Russian Zionism, turn-of-the-century Italia…
Seymour Becker
In 2004 Seymour Becker (1934-2020) began his response to the query "Why Russian history?" with the following recollection:Exactly thirty-five years ago I first visited Italy, and Florence, after working for nine months in the archives and libraries of Moscow and Leningrad on the research for my second book. . . .That was when I first asked myself, where did I go wrong?Why Russian history?Why not Italian history? . . .The food, the climate, the jo…
When Race Is a Language and Empire Is a Context
The essay considers a twofold question: Why, until recently, has our field remained so reluctant to engage with racial epistemology, and what higher form of understanding does "race" offer to students of Eurasia? The answer to the first part of the question is located in the divergence between the "imperial" and "modernity" paradigms in Eurasian studies. With regard to the second part of the question, the essay suggests viewing "race" as one of t…
The Science of Empire
The article explores deployment of the Darwinian narrative of the “natural history of humanity” in Russian physical anthropology in the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It traces two narratives developed by the leading Russian school of physical anthropology: one narrative advanced a universalist vision of collective scholarly enterprise working toward clarifying the missing links in the a priori accepted developmental evolutionary…
ARA relief campaign in the Volga region, Jewish anthropometric statistics, and the scientific promise of integration
Argument The article builds a case for the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (Obshchestvo Okhranenia Zdorov’ia Evreiskogo Naselenia [OZE]) as a project of medicalized modernity, a mass politics of Jewish self-help that relied on a racialized and medicalized vision of a future Jewish nation. Officially registered in 1912 in St. Petersburg, it created the space for a Jewish politics that focused on the state of the c…
The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia
This is a very important book for both Jewish studies and the history of the early Soviet Union. As a history of the revolution, it tells the story of mobilization of ethnicity that resulted in the failure of the revolution’s universalist and anticolonial promise and in the resurgence of racial animosity. Going against the mainstream view of Soviet modernity as unequivocally prioritizing class over race, Andrew Sloin presents the transition from …
Iuliia Safronova. Russkoe obshchestvo v zerkale revoliutsionnogo terrora, 1879–1881
A new book on late-nineteenth-century (1879–1881) Russian populist revolutionary terror should be welcomed if only because the field has been stagnating for quite a while. Research on populist individual terrorism received its last strong impetus in the late 1980s due to the opening of the Russian archives and the post-Soviet enthusiasm for reevaluation of the Russian revolutionary past. By 2000 a few important collections of historical sources a…
Racial Psychiatry and the Russian Imperial Dilemma of the “Savage Within
The article tells the story of racial psychiatry in the Russian Empire. The context in which it has developed is analyzed in epistemological as well as political terms, and the discussion of such scholarly categories as “savagery,” “atavism”, or “survivals” and the language of race in ethnography, race science, and psychiatry is complemented with the discussion of rising mass politics. These two threads of analysis are connected within a broader …
Deconstructing Integration
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New Imperial History. Post-Soviet historiography in search of a new paradigm for the history of empire and nationalism1
Les principales pistes empruntées depuis 1994 et la dissolution de l’Union soviétique pour explorer le passé impérial et national de la Russie et de l’URSS sont examinées. La renaissance de l’historiographie nationale est située dans le contexte épistémologique et politique de la post-modernité. Celui-ci associe des paradigmes de la fin du 19ème siècle avec le concept soviétique d’« ethnos » et avec une sensibilité postcoloniale. Le problème de l…
New Imperial History
Les principales pistes empruntées depuis 1994 et la dissolution de l’Union soviétique pour explorer le passé impérial et national de la Russie et de l’URSS sont examinées. La renaissance de l’historiographie nationale est située dans le contexte épistémologique et politique de la post-modernité. Celui-ci associe des paradigmes de la fin du 19ème siècle avec le concept soviétique d’« ethnos » et avec une sensibilité postcoloniale. Le problème de l…
Heralds of Freedom
Heralds of Freedom I. Gerasimov (bio), S. Glebov (bio), A. Kaplunovski (bio), M. Mogilner (bio), and A. Semyonov When the article "Colonial Situation: A Theoretical Approach" by French sociologist and anthropologist, Georges Balandier, came out back in 1951, the anticolonial liberation movement was gaining momentum, and heated political debates on the meaning of concepts such as freedom, democracy, and progress were spreading over the metropoles …
Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform
Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform
Th e interplay between two of the most signifi cant categories in post-Hegelian European modernity-total war and race-has not been subject to analysis within the narrative of Russian history. "Race" was seen as the natural, historically conditioned human collective, a synthesis between a discrete human subspecies and the unique artefact of its "spirit." "Total war" was regarded in certain circles as an ideal mechanism for the selection of peoples…
Empire of Nations. Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch (review)
"Mifologiia "podpol'nogo cheloveka
Deconstructing Integration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
When Race Is a Language and Empire Is a Context
The essay considers a twofold question: Why, until recently, has our field remained so reluctant to engage with racial epistemology, and what higher form of understanding does "race" offer to students of Eurasia? The answer to the first part of the question is located in the divergence between the "imperial" and "modernity" paradigms in Eurasian studies. With regard to the second part of the question, the essay suggests viewing "race" as one of t…
New Imperial History. Post-Soviet historiography in search of a new paradigm for the history of empire and nationalism1
Les principales pistes empruntées depuis 1994 et la dissolution de l’Union soviétique pour explorer le passé impérial et national de la Russie et de l’URSS sont examinées. La renaissance de l’historiographie nationale est située dans le contexte épistémologique et politique de la post-modernité. Celui-ci associe des paradigmes de la fin du 19ème siècle avec le concept soviétique d’« ethnos » et avec une sensibilité postcoloniale. Le problème de l…
New Imperial History
Les principales pistes empruntées depuis 1994 et la dissolution de l’Union soviétique pour explorer le passé impérial et national de la Russie et de l’URSS sont examinées. La renaissance de l’historiographie nationale est située dans le contexte épistémologique et politique de la post-modernité. Celui-ci associe des paradigmes de la fin du 19ème siècle avec le concept soviétique d’« ethnos » et avec une sensibilité postcoloniale. Le problème de l…
Heralds of Freedom
Heralds of Freedom I. Gerasimov (bio), S. Glebov (bio), A. Kaplunovski (bio), M. Mogilner (bio), and A. Semyonov When the article "Colonial Situation: A Theoretical Approach" by French sociologist and anthropologist, Georges Balandier, came out back in 1951, the anticolonial liberation movement was gaining momentum, and heated political debates on the meaning of concepts such as freedom, democracy, and progress were spreading over the metropoles …
"Mifologiia "podpol'nogo cheloveka
Empire of Nations. Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch (review)
Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform
Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform
Th e interplay between two of the most signifi cant categories in post-Hegelian European modernity-total war and race-has not been subject to analysis within the narrative of Russian history. "Race" was seen as the natural, historically conditioned human collective, a synthesis between a discrete human subspecies and the unique artefact of its "spirit." "Total war" was regarded in certain circles as an ideal mechanism for the selection of peoples…
Heralds of Freedom
Heralds of Freedom I. Gerasimov (bio), S. Glebov (bio), A. Kaplunovski (bio), M. Mogilner (bio), and A. Semyonov When the article "Colonial Situation: A Theoretical Approach" by French sociologist and anthropologist, Georges Balandier, came out back in 1951, the anticolonial liberation movement was gaining momentum, and heated political debates on the meaning of concepts such as freedom, democracy, and progress were spreading over the metropoles …
New Imperial History. Post-Soviet historiography in search of a new paradigm for the history of empire and nationalism1
Les principales pistes empruntées depuis 1994 et la dissolution de l’Union soviétique pour explorer le passé impérial et national de la Russie et de l’URSS sont examinées. La renaissance de l’historiographie nationale est située dans le contexte épistémologique et politique de la post-modernité. Celui-ci associe des paradigmes de la fin du 19ème siècle avec le concept soviétique d’« ethnos » et avec une sensibilité postcoloniale. Le problème de l…
New Imperial History
Les principales pistes empruntées depuis 1994 et la dissolution de l’Union soviétique pour explorer le passé impérial et national de la Russie et de l’URSS sont examinées. La renaissance de l’historiographie nationale est située dans le contexte épistémologique et politique de la post-modernité. Celui-ci associe des paradigmes de la fin du 19ème siècle avec le concept soviétique d’« ethnos » et avec une sensibilité postcoloniale. Le problème de l…
Deconstructing Integration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Iuliia Safronova. Russkoe obshchestvo v zerkale revoliutsionnogo terrora, 1879–1881
A new book on late-nineteenth-century (1879–1881) Russian populist revolutionary terror should be welcomed if only because the field has been stagnating for quite a while. Research on populist individual terrorism received its last strong impetus in the late 1980s due to the opening of the Russian archives and the post-Soviet enthusiasm for reevaluation of the Russian revolutionary past. By 2000 a few important collections of historical sources a…
Racial Psychiatry and the Russian Imperial Dilemma of the “Savage Within
The article tells the story of racial psychiatry in the Russian Empire. The context in which it has developed is analyzed in epistemological as well as political terms, and the discussion of such scholarly categories as “savagery,” “atavism”, or “survivals” and the language of race in ethnography, race science, and psychiatry is complemented with the discussion of rising mass politics. These two threads of analysis are connected within a broader …
The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia
This is a very important book for both Jewish studies and the history of the early Soviet Union. As a history of the revolution, it tells the story of mobilization of ethnicity that resulted in the failure of the revolution’s universalist and anticolonial promise and in the resurgence of racial animosity. Going against the mainstream view of Soviet modernity as unequivocally prioritizing class over race, Andrew Sloin presents the transition from …
ARA relief campaign in the Volga region, Jewish anthropometric statistics, and the scientific promise of integration
Argument The article builds a case for the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (Obshchestvo Okhranenia Zdorov’ia Evreiskogo Naselenia [OZE]) as a project of medicalized modernity, a mass politics of Jewish self-help that relied on a racialized and medicalized vision of a future Jewish nation. Officially registered in 1912 in St. Petersburg, it created the space for a Jewish politics that focused on the state of the c…
The Science of Empire
The article explores deployment of the Darwinian narrative of the “natural history of humanity” in Russian physical anthropology in the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It traces two narratives developed by the leading Russian school of physical anthropology: one narrative advanced a universalist vision of collective scholarly enterprise working toward clarifying the missing links in the a priori accepted developmental evolutionary…
Mediterraneanizing Europe
This essay explores the predicament of subaltern self-racializing in terms of European political and scientific modernity by tracing attempts to reconsider and appropriate the “Mediterranean race” concept on behalf of new and underrecognized nationalisms. The essay develops a perspective that brings together the least obvious global “coauthors” of the counternarrative of the “Mediterranean race”—such as Russian Zionism, turn-of-the-century Italia…
Seymour Becker
In 2004 Seymour Becker (1934-2020) began his response to the query "Why Russian history?" with the following recollection:Exactly thirty-five years ago I first visited Italy, and Florence, after working for nine months in the archives and libraries of Moscow and Leningrad on the research for my second book. . . .That was when I first asked myself, where did I go wrong?Why Russian history?Why not Italian history? . . .The food, the climate, the jo…
When Race Is a Language and Empire Is a Context
The essay considers a twofold question: Why, until recently, has our field remained so reluctant to engage with racial epistemology, and what higher form of understanding does "race" offer to students of Eurasia? The answer to the first part of the question is located in the divergence between the "imperial" and "modernity" paradigms in Eurasian studies. With regard to the second part of the question, the essay suggests viewing "race" as one of t…
A Race for the Future
The forgotten story of a surprising anti-imperial, nationalist project at the turn of the twentieth century: a grassroots movement of Russian Jews to racialize themselves.In the rapidly nationalizing Russian Empire of the late nineteenth century, Russian Jews grew increasingly concerned about their future. Jews spoke different languages and practiced different traditions. They had complex identities and no territorial homeland. Their inability to…
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
History (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Soviet and Russian History (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works)