Russian empire: space, people, power, 1700-1930

Российская империя: пространство, народы, власть, 1700–1930
Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, Remnev, Anatolij Viktorovič 1955-2012
2008-06-01

Russian Empireethnographic knowledgeimperial political cultureimperial spacenational elites
Coming into the Territory: Uncertainty and Empire Jane Burbank & Mark von Hagen Part I: Space 1. Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in the Eighteenth Century Willard Sunderland 2. The Great Circle of Interior Russia: Representations of the Imperial Center in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Leonid Gorizontov 3. How Bashkiria Became Part of European Russia, 1762-1881 Charles Steinwedel 4. Mapping the Empire's Economic Regions from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century Nailya Tagirova 5. State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, Economic Expediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917-1924 Francine Hirsch Part II: People 6. Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith in the Volga-Kama Region, 1740-1870 Paul Werth 7. Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law and Rights in the Early Twentieth Century Jane Burbank 8. From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870-1920 Shane O'Rourke 9. Bandits and the State: Designing a Traditional Culture of Violence in the Russian Caucasus Vladimir Bobrovnikov 10. Representing Primitive Communists: Ethnographic and Political Authority in Early Soviet Siberia Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov Part III: Institutions 11. From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in the Monetary Politics of the Russian Empire Ekaterina Pravilova 12. The Muslim Question in Late Imperial Russia Elena Campbell 13. The Zemstvo Reform, the Cossacks, and Administrative Policy on the Don, 1864-1882 Aleksei Volvenko 14. Peoples, Regions, and Electoral Politics: The State Dumas and the Constitution of New National Elites Rustem Tsiunchuk 15. The Provisional Government and Finland: Russian Democracy and Finnish Nationalism in Search of Peaceful Coexistence Irina Novikova Part IV. Designs 16. Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Imperial Geography of Power Anatolyi Remnev 17. Imperial Political Culture and Modernization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Sviatoslav Kaspe 18. Federalisms and Pan-movements: Re-imagining Empire Mark von Hagen
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It connects imperial designs and modernization projects with the emergence of Soviet territorial, ethnographic, and political arrangements.
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It shows that imperial territories were continually redefined through mapping, economic regionalization, ethnographic knowledge, and administrative practice.
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The chapters trace changing conceptions of difference, assimilation, religion, legal rights, and political identity among diverse imperial populations.
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The collection demonstrates how imperial institutions—including monetary policy, zemstvos, Muslim administration, elections, and constitutional reforms—shaped regional and national elites.
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The volume examines how Russian imperial power organized space, populations, and institutions from 1700 to 1930.

the Russian Empire and its territories, populations, and institutions, 1700–1930

the spatial, social, political, and institutional organization and transformation of imperial power

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Jane Burbank
Mark von Hagen
Remnev, Anatolij Viktorovič 1955-2012
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