Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 / Edition 1

by Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen

Overview

Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and the evolution of imperial administration and vision. The fresh research reflected in this innovative volume reveals the ways in which the realities of sustaining imperial power in a multiethnic, multiconfessional, scattered, and diffuse environment inspired political imaginaries and set limits on what the state could accomplish. Taken together, these rich essays provide important new frameworks for understanding Russia's imperial geography of power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253219114
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	08/08/2007
Series:	Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies
Pages:	560
Sales rank:	685,488
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jane Burbank is Professor of History and of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University.

Mark von Hagen is Boris Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian and East European Studies and Chair of the Department of History at Columbia University.

Anatolyi Remnev is Professor at Omsk State University.

Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Coming into the Territory: Uncertainty and EmpireJane Burbank and Mark von Hagen
Part I: Space
1.Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in the Eighteenth CenturyWillard Sunderland

2. The "Great Circle" of Interior Russia: Representations of the Imperial Center in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesLeonid Gorizontov
3. How Bashkiria Became Part of European Russia, 1762-1881Charles Steinwedel
4. Mapping the Empire's Economic Regions from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth CenturyNailya Tagirova
5. State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, Economic Expediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917-1924Francine Hirsch
Part II: People
6. Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith in the Volga-Kama Region, 1740-1870Paul Werth
7. Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law and Rights in the Early Twentieth CenturyJane Burbank
8. From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870-1920Shane O'Rourke
9. Bandits and the State: Designing a "Traditional" Culture of Violence in the Russian CaucasusVladimir Bobrovnikov
10. Representing "Primitive Communists": Ethnographic and Political Authority in Early Soviet SiberiaNikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
Part III: Institutions
11. From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in the Monetary Politics of the Russian EmpireEkaterina Pravilova
12. The Muslim Question in Late Imperial RussiaElena Campbell
13. The Zemstvo Reform, the Cossacks, and Administrative Policy on the Don, 1864-1882Aleksei Volvenko
14. Peoples, Regions, and Electoral Politics: The State Dumas and the Constitution of New National ElitesRustem Tsiunchuk
15. The Provisional Government and Finland: Russian Democracy and Finnish Nationalism in Search of Peaceful CoexistenceIrina Novikova
Part IV. Designs
16. Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Imperial Geography of PowerAnatolyi Remnev
17. Imperial Political Culture and Modernization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Sviatoslav Kaspe
18. Federalisms and Pan-movements: Re-imagining EmpireMark von Hagen
List of Contributors
Index

What People are Saying About This

"Russian Empire offers much valuable information on a wide range of significant issues . . . genuinely thoughtful and thought-provoking."

Dominic Lieven

Russian Empire offers much valuable information on a wide range of significant issues . . . genuinely thoughtful and thought-provoking.

Editorial Reviews

"Eighteen articles, mainly by US, Russian, and British scholars, cover various aspects of the Russian Empire from its foundation under Peter the Great to the rule of Stalin. The Russian participants, mostly historians and political scientists, come from the two Russian capitals and various other cities. The major focus is the geographies of rule in Russia. . . . The materials are derived in large part from Russian archives, especially those in Moscow. Several good maps aid readers' comprehension. . . . Recommended."—Choice

"[D]emonstrates brilliantly how the Russian and Soviet empires were able to survive for so long . . . This is a genuinely valuable and thought-provoking collection of essays and it deserves a wide readership."—European History Quarterly

"This book makes a substantial contribution to scholarship not only on Russian history but the whole study of empire."—New Zealand Slavonic Journal

"Russian Empire offers much valuable information on a wide range of significant issues . . . genuinely thoughtful and thought-provoking."—Dominic Lieven

From the Publisher

[D]emonstrates brilliantly how the Russian and Soviet empires were able to survive for so long . . . This is a genuinely valuable and thought-provoking collection of essays and it deserves a wide readership.

European History Quarterly

This book makes a substantial contribution to scholarship not only on Russian history but the whole study of empire.

New Zealand Slavonic Journal

Eighteen articles, mainly by US, Russian, and British scholars, cover various aspects of the Russian Empire from its foundation under Peter the Great to the rule of Stalin. The Russian participants, mostly historians and political scientists, come from the two Russian capitals and various other cities. The major focus is the geographies of rule in Russia. . . . The materials are derived in large part from Russian archives, especially those in Moscow. Several good maps aid readers' comprehension. . . . Recommended.

Choice

"Russian Empire offers much valuable information on a wide range of significant issues... genuinely thoughtful and thought-provoking." —Dominic Lieven

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