Longina Jakubowska. Patrons of History: Nobility,Capital and Political Transitions in Poland. Burlington,VT:Ashgate, 2012; Sofia Tchouikina. Dvorianskaia pamiat’:“byvshie” v sovetskom gorode:Leningrad,1920–30 gody. Sankt-Peterburg:Izdatel’stvo EUSPb, 2006

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Dina Gusejnova
University College London

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As Nietzsche once remarked, “only that which has no history can be defined” (Nietzsche 1886). Ironically, within the social sciences and humanities, it is historians who often give their objects of research rigid definitions. Longina Jakubowska’s anthropology of Polish gentry and Sofia Tchouikina’s sociological study of noble memory in Soviet Russia provide complementary ways of studying social formations in Nietzsche’s sense.

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Anthropology of Elite, Sociology of Memory, Polish Aristocracy, Polish Szlachta, Russian Nobility, Symbolic Capital of Nobility, Biographical Methods, Old Elites under Socialism


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Gusejnova, D. (2013). Longina Jakubowska. Patrons of History: Nobility,Capital and Political Transitions in Poland. Burlington,VT:Ashgate, 2012; Sofia Tchouikina. Dvorianskaia pamiat’:“byvshie” v sovetskom gorode:Leningrad,1920–30 gody. Sankt-Peterburg:Izdatel’stvo EUSPb, 2006. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 5(2), 219–222. Retrieved from https://soclabo.org/index.php/laboratorium/article/view/338
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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2013): Ethnographic Conceptualism
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Book Reviews
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Dina Gusejnova, University College London

Dina Gusejnova is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UCL's Centre for Transnational History. She specialises in modern intellectual and cultural history and the social history of ideas, with particular interest in twentieth-century cultural internationalism. Her work addresses the relationship between biographical experience and constructions of political identity. Her current research project focuses on positive and negative notions of cosmopolitanism in European and American international cultural institutions during and between the World Wars. She is also completing a book manuscript on aristocratic memory and European identity. Dina holds a doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

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