The Russian empire : a multiethnic history / / Andreas Kappeler ; translated by Alfred Clayton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465510203321
• Autore: Kappeler Andreas.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-138-17131-X; 1-317-56810-9; 1-315-73679-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ClaytonAlfred
• Disciplina: 947/.004
• Soggetti: Nationalism - Russia (Federation); Nationalism - Soviet Union; Ethnic groups - Russia (Federation); Ethnic groups - Soviet Union; Electronic books.; Russia (Federation); Russia; Soviet Union
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Translator's Note""; ""Chronology""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Mediaeval Background""; ""2 The Gathering of the Lands of the Golden Horde between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries""; ""1. The Foundations of the Russian Multi-ethnic Empire: The Conquest of the Khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan""; ""2. The Advance to Northern Asia: The Conquest and Penetration of Siberia""; ""3. The Stepwise Advance into the Steppe""; ""The Bashkirs""; ""The Nogai Tatars""; ""The Kalmyks""; ""The Crimean Tatars""; ""4. Opening up the Steppe: The Cossacks and the German Colonists""""5. Summary""; ""3 Westward Expansion from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century""; ""1. Ukraine: Reunification or Coerced Integration?""; ""2. The First Step to Belorussia: Smolensk""; ""3. A Window to the West: Estonia and Livonia""; ""4. The Four ; Partitions of Poland""; ""5 Autonomy for Finland""; ""6. Bessarabia: Romanians or Moldavians?""; ""7. Summary""; ""4 The Pre-modern Russian Multi-ethnic Empire""; ""1. Ethnic Division and Social Structure""; ""2. The Inter-ethnic Division of Labour and the Specific Functions of non-Russians in the Russian Empire""""3. Religious and Cultural Diversity""; ""4. Non-Russian Resistance""; ""5. The Character of the Pre-modern Russian Multi-ethnic Empire""; ""5 Colonial Expansion in Asia in the Nineteenth Century""; ""1. Russia and the Ancient Transcaucasian Cultures: Georgians, Armenians and Muslims""; ""2. The Long War against the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus""; ""3. The Stepwise Advance into the Kazakh Steppe""; ""4. The Conquest and Incorporation of Southern Middle Asia""; ""5. Reaching Out to America and the Far East""""6. Summary""; ""6 The National Challenge""; ""1. The Polish Noble Nation as Forerunner""; ""2. The National Emancipation of the Peasant Peoples""; ""3. The Georgian and Armenian National Revolutionary Movements""; ""4. Islamic National Consciousness""; ""5. The National Awakening of the Russians""; ""6. Summary""; ""7 The Reaction of the State: Policy on Nationalities 1831â€?1904""; ""1. The Stabilization of Power through Repression under Nicholas I""; ""2. The Policy of Forced Integration in the West after 1863""; ""3. Traditional and Innovative Elements in Policy towards the Ethnic Groups in the East and the South""""4. From Integration and Assimilation to Exclusion and Discrimination: The Jews as Scapegoats""; ""5. Summary""; ""8 The Late Tsarist Multi-ethnic Empire between Modernization and Tradition""; ""1. The Changes in the Socio-ethnic Structure""; ""2. The Economic Division of Labour and Competition in the Age of Industrialization""; ""3. The Growth of Literacy and the Creation of National Intelligentsias""; ""4. The Character of the Late Tsarist Multi-ethnic Empire""; ""9 The Nationalities Question and the Revolution""