โ Scribed by Jane Burbank, Mark Von Hagen, Anatolyi Remnev
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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.
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 12
Coming into the Territory: Uncertainty and Empire......Page 20
part one: space......Page 50
1. Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in theEighteenth Century......Page 52
2. The โGreat Circleโ of Interior Russia: Representations ofthe Imperial Center in the Nineteenth and Early TwentiethCenturies......Page 86
3. How Bashkiria Became Part of European Russia,1762โ1881......Page 113
4. Mapping the Empireโs Economic Regions from the Nineteenthto the Early Twentieth Century......Page 144
5. State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, EconomicExpediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917โ1924......Page 158
part two: people......Page 186
6. Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith inthe Volga-Kama Region, 1740โ1870......Page 188
7. Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law, and Rights in the EarlyTwentieth Century......Page 215
8. From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870โ1920......Page 237
9. Bandits and the State: Designing a โTraditionalโ Culture ofViolence in the Russian Caucasus......Page 258
10. Representing โPrimitive Communistsโ: Ethnographic andPolitical Authority in Early Soviet Siberia......Page 287
part three: institutions......Page 312
11. From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in theMonetary Politics of the Russian Empire......Page 314
12. The Muslim Question in Late Imperial Russia......Page 339
13. The Zemstvo Reform, the Cossacks, and Administrative Policyon the Don, 1864โ1882......Page 367
14. Peoples, Regions, and Electoral Politics: The State Dumas andthe Constitution of New National Elites......Page 385
15. The Provisional Government and Finland: Russian Democracyand Finnish Nationalism in Search of Peaceful Coexistence......Page 417
part four: designs......Page 442
16. Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Imperial Geographyof Power......Page 444
17. Imperial Political Culture and Modernization in the Second Halfof the Nineteenth Century......Page 474
18. Federalisms and Pan-movements: Re-imagining Empire......Page 513
List of Contributors......Page 530
Index......Page 534
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