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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819855103321

Titolo

Russian empire : space, people, power, 1700-1930 / / edited by Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, and Anatolyi Remnev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

9780253117069 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (561 p.)

Collana

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BurbankJane

Von HagenMark <1954->

RemnevA. V

Disciplina

947

Soggetti

Russia Politics and government 1801-1917

Soviet Union Politics and government

Russia Ethnic relations

Soviet Union Ethnic relations

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

; 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.

Sommario/riassunto

Perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. This book 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.