Russian Empire Space, People, Power, 1700-1930

Name: Russian Empire Space, People, Power, 1700-1930
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ISBN: 9780253219114

ISBN-10: 0253219116

ISBN-13: 9780253219114

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, Anatolyi Remnev, Mark von Hagen

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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…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Edward Skidelsky is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Exeter, and a regular contributor to the British national press, including "Prospect", the "Daily Telegraph", and the N"ew Statesman".



Coming into the Territory: Uncertainty and Empire Jane Burbank & Mark von Hagen



Space



Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in the Eighteenth Century Willard Sunderland



The "Great Circle" of Interior Russia: Representations of the Imperial Center in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Leonid Gorizontov



How Bashkiria Became Part of European Russia, 1762-1881 Charles Steinwedel



Mapping the Empire's Economic Regions from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century Nailya Tagirova



State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, Economic Expediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917-1924 Francine Hirsch



People



Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith in the Volga-Kama Region, 1740-1870 Paul Werth



Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law and Rights in the Early Twentieth Century Jane Burbank



From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870-1920 Shane O'Rourke



Bandits and the State: Designing a "Traditional" Culture of Violence in the Russian Caucasus Vladimir Bobrovnikov



Representing "Primitive Communists": Ethnographic and Political Authority in Early Soviet Siberia Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov



Institutions



From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in the Monetary Politics of the Russian Empire Ekaterina Pravilova



The Muslim Question in Late Imperial Russia Elena Campbell



The Zemstvo Reform, the Cossacks, and Administrative Policy on the Don, 1864-1882 Aleksei Volvenko



Peoples, Regions, and Electoral Politics: The State Dumas and the Constitution of New National Elites Rustem Tsiunchuk



The Provisional Government and Finland: Russian Democracy and Finnish Nationalism in Search of Peaceful Coexistence Irina Novikova



Designs



Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Imperial Geography of Power Anatolyi Remnev



Imperial Political Culture and Modernization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Sviatoslav Kaspe



Federalisms and Pan-movements: Re-imagining Empire Mark von Hagen