Call for entries: Marc Raeff Book Prize in 18th C Russian Studies

Marc Raeff Book Prize
The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for the second annual Marc Raeff Book Prize; and we encourage your press to submit relevant entries to the members of the prize committee (listed below).


The Raeff Book Prize is awarded annually for a publication that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia, particularly during the long eighteenth-century.  The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize, which will be presented in November 2012, during the ASEEES annual convention.  The award is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian, teacher, and dix-huitièmiste par excellence. 
Eligibility:


The publication must be a monograph, translation, or reference work about any aspect of the long eighteenth century, on any of the territories of the former imperial Russian state.  Textbooks, festschrifts, and edited collections of essays are not eligible unless they constitute significant and innovative contributions to the field.
The submitted work must bear a copyright date of either one or two years preceding the award year (e.g. for the 2012 competition the published copyright date should be 2011 or 2012).
It can be published in any language read by members of the ECRSA Prize Selection Committee (including Russian) and in any format (analog or digital).
The geographic area of study is broadly defined as the territories of the former imperial Russian state and the Soviet Union. The publication must deal in whole or in part with the long eighteenth century, here defined as the period from the last quarter of the seventeenth-century to the first quarter of the nineteenth-century.
Books that have received other prizes are eligible.
Scholarly merit, originality, and felicity of style will be the main criteria for selection. Submissions from scholars who are less than five (5) years from receiving their doctoral degree are particularly encouraged.
Nominating Instructions:  


Authors or publishers should send one copy of eligible publication to each ECRSA Prize Selection Committee member (see addresses below) AND to the ASEEES main office.
Submissions should be clearly marked “Marc Raeff Book Prize.”
Nominations must be received no later than 30 June 2012. 
Award winners will be personally notified of the award prior to 1 October 2012.
http://www.ecrsa.org/index.html

CFP: Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922

Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922:
The Centennial Reappraisal


If you are a professional historian or graduate student doing high-quality research on any aspect of Russia’s history between 1914 and the early 1920s, please contact us now.


We are an international collective of over 40 Russian, American, British and other scholars, and we aim to maximise the use of archival resources to produce a comprehensive scholarly reappraisal of Russia’s world-changing experience of war and revolution between 1914 and the early 1920s, 100 years after the events themselves.


Taking the period 1914-22 as a continuum of conflict, we have identified five core organizational themes for analysis: military affairs; international affairs; the home front; the empire; and culture. Particular concerns are to extend our knowledge of Russia’s Great War, which has been overshadowed in the historiography by the 1917 revolutions and their aftermath, and to explore how the Great War experience helped to shape Russia’s development between 1917 and the early 1920s.


The resultant series of about a dozen books will be fully peer-reviewed and available in both printed and electronic forms. The audiences are professional historians, graduate students and senior-level undergraduate students. Publication is scheduled for 2014–2017.


Additionally, we are developing a permanent public website for non-scholarly audiences, especially high schools, that will have accessible digests of our chapters together with illustrations, maps and selected source documents.
Our books and website will be published in English and, subject to funding, in Russian.


The series editors are:
Professor David McDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Dr John Steinberg, Georgia Southern University, USA
Dr Anthony Heywood, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
For further information please click on the link.


If you are interested in contributing a chapter, contact us now by email. Please put the acronym RGWR in the subject line and send this information to the series editors:
* your full name, title and institutional affiliation
* your email address
* a short description of your proposed chapter (150 words)
* the title of your proposed chapter
http://www.basees.org.uk/CFP5.shtml

The Art Newspaper Russia launched in Moscow

The Russian-language sister paper to The Art Newspaper launched on Monday 26 March with an event hosted at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Guests included collectors, critics and museum directors, including the Pushkin’s director Irina Antonova, who celebrated her 90th birthday. The launch was also celebrated at the Italian embassy in Moscow.

The publisher of The Art Newspaper Russia, Inna Bazhenova, is a mathematician, engineer and art collector, and with her husband has founded and runs an engineering firm. She also has five children. The editor-in-chief is Milena Orlova, who has been a journalist with one of Russia’s leading dailies, Kommersant, and was then editor-in-chief of the magazine Artchronika. 


The paper, which will also have an online presence, is being produced in Moscow under licence from Umberto Allemandi Publishing Ltd, the publishers of The Art Newspaper. It joins the network of newspapers founded by Umberto Allemandi in Turin in 1983: Il Giornale dell’Arte (Turin, founded 1983), Il Giornale dell’Architettura (Turin, founded 2002), The Art Newspaper (London and New York, founded 1990), Ta Nea Tes Technes (Athens, founded 1992), and Le Journal des Arts (Paris, founded 1994). The Art Newspaper Russia will take 50% of its news from the existing network and will generate the other half with its own journalists. This news will, in turn, become available to the network. 


The Art Newspaper Russia is for Russia, Ukraine, the central Asian republics and the Russian communities abroad. 


“For me, it is important that Russia has a publication that reports on art objectively, so that readers feel involved in its global context,” says Inna Bazhenova. “Many of our collectors are turning towards Western art and both our museum professionals and art enthusiasts feel the need for a wider range of information. I hope that The Art Newspaper Russia will also help the Western reader understand what is happening in Russia.”


“I am very pleased that we are about to have our first truly international publication covering the art market, museums, the conservation of our cultural heritage and contemporary art,” says Milena Orlova. “We have lacked a publication with analysis and news for professionals in these various fields. I am convinced that, besides being of interest to a broad readership, The Art Newspaper Russia will help integrate Russian art into the international art scene.”



Original article published online 22 March 2012 by The Art Newspaper. 
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/The-Art-Newspaper-Russia-launches-in-Moscow/26095