Ab Imperio
Ab Imperio is one of a few remaining fully independent journals published by a team
of its founding editors since 2000 as an ongoing international
research project in the field of new imperial history of the post-Soviet region.
Institutionalized as Ab Imperio Inc. in Amherst, MA,
USA, Ab Imperio embodies an ideal of a professional periodical established by
scholars and for scholars, as an academic cooperative that
prioritizes providing opportunities for self-expression for researchers above some
formal strictures that university-based or publishing
house-owned journals had to comply with (be it word count or long waiting lists). Ab
Imperio combines the tradition of Russian "thick journals" with
the model of American peer-reviewed academic publication.
Its unrivaled distribution network and availability in the post-Soviet countries, in
Western Europe, and in North America makes Ab Imperio literally a household name in
the Russian and related area studies world-wide.
