AEER is a biannual edited journal of scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, the Balkans, and Central Asia. Our mission is to showcase fresh, up-to-date research and to help build a community of scholars who focus on the region. ISSN 2153-2931.

Current Issue

Vol 35 No 1 (2017)

Published: 2018-03-01

Articles

The Resilience of Soviet Ethnicity Concepts in a Post-Soviet Society: Studying the Narratives and Techniques that Maintain Ethnic Boundaries

Simon Schlegel

1-18

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“We do it for health (za zdrave).” Sensational Forms Related to the Cult of Healing Springs (ayazma) in Orthodox Christian Shrines in South-Western Bulgaria

Magdalena Lubanska

19-38

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“Forgetting Equals Killing:” Loss and Remembrance of the Missing Children in Post-War Kosovo

Rozafa Berisha

39-54

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Interview with Katherine Verdery

Yuxin Hou

55-63

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A Utopia of Eurasia: the Uses and Abuses of a Concept – a counter-reply to Chris Hann

Alessandro Testa

64-79

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Reviews

Hip Hop Ukraine: music, race, and African migration. Adriana N. Helbig. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. 258 pp. Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series. Notes. Bibliography. $25.00

Meredith Roman

80-81

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Youth Politics in Putin’s Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs. Julie Hemment. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015. 208 pp. New Anthropologies of Europe Series. Notes. Bibliography. Photographs. $22.95. Paperback.

Sofia Kalo

82-83

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Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: Gender and Migration between Moldova and Istanbul. By Leyla J. Keough. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 239 pp. Acknowledgements. Bibliography. Figures. Index. Maps. Paper cover: Paper.

Olena Fedyuk

84-86

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The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania. By Gediminas Lankauskas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2015. 317 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Photographs. Index.

Christine Beresniova

87-88

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The Return of Ancestral Gods. Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation. By Mariya Lesiv. Montreal & Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queens University Press. 2013. 244 pp. Notes. Glossary. Index. Photographs. $67.50: Cloth.

Marian Rubchak

89-90

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Sweet Burdens: Welfare and Communality among Russian Jews in Germany. By Sveta Roberman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2015. xii, 234 pp. Notes. References. Index. Hard-bound.

Fran Markowitz

91-92

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New Imaginaries: Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine’s Cultural Paradigm. Ed. Marian J. Rubchak. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. 330 pp. Bibliography. Index. $125.00, hard bound.

Emily Channell-Justice

93-95

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Rethinking Class in Russia. Ed. Suvi Salmenniemi. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2012. 284 pp. Bibliography. Index. $149.95, hard bound.

Alexey Golubev

96-98

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Fertility Holidays: IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness. By Amy Speier. New York: New York University Press, 2016. 167 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Table. Paper.

Susanna Trnka

99-101

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Women Without Men. Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia by Jennifer Utrata. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2015. 288 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95, hard bound. $29.95, paper.

Ericka Johnson

102-103

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