Nationalizing the Russian Empire : The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens During World War I

• Autore: Lohr Eric
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Harvard University Press, , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Disciplina: 940.3/086/91
• Soggetto topico: Forced migration - Russia - History - 20th century; Minorities - Crimes against - Russia - History - 20th century; Minorities - Government policy - Russia - History - 20th century; Minorities - Relocation - Russia - History - 20th century; Political persecution - Russia - History - 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 - Russia; HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
• Soggetto geografico: Russia Ethnic relations History 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Nationalist Challenges, Imperial Dilemmas -- 2 The Moscow Riots -- 3 Nationalizing the Commercial and Industrial Economy -- 4 Nationalizing the Land -- 5 Forced Migrations -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Archival Sources -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this compelling study of the treatment of "enemy" minorities in the Russian Empire during the First World War, Eric Lohr uncovers a dramatic story of mass deportations, purges, expropriations, and popular violence.A campaign initially aimed at restricting foreign citizens rapidly spun out of control. It swept up Russian subjects of German, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds and drove roughly a million civilians from one part of the empire to another, resulting in one of the largest cases of forced migration in history to that time. Because foreigners and diaspora minorities were prominent among entrepreneurial and landowning elites, the campaign against them also became an explosive element in class and national tensions on the eve of the 1917 revolutions. During the war, the imperial regime dropped its ambivalence about Russian nationalism and embraced unprecedented and radical policies that "nationalized" the economy, the land, and even the population. The core idea of the campaign--that the country needed to free itself from the domination of foreigners, internal enemies, and the exploitative world economic system--later became a central feature of the Soviet revolutionary model. Based on extensive archival research, much in newly available sources, Nationalizing the Russian Empire is an important contribution to the study of empire and nationalism, the Russian Revolution, and ethnic cleansing.
• Altri titoli varianti: Nationalizing the Russian Empire
• Titolo autorizzato: Nationalizing the Russian empire
• ISBN: 0-674-27487-3; 9780674274877
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996472046003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Russian Research Center Studies; Ser.