Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire

Acknowledgments Introduction Jane Burbank and David L. Ransel Part 1: Autocracy: Politics, Ideology, Symbol 1. Kinship Politics/Autocratic Politics: A Reconsideration of Eighteenth-Century Autocratic Culture Valerie A. Kivelson 2. The Idea of Autocracy among Eighteenth-Century Russian Historians Cynthia Hyla Whittaker 3. The Russian Imperial Family as Symbol Richard Wortman Part 2: Imperial Imagination 4. Collecting the Fatherland: Early Nineteenth-Century Proposals for a Russian National Museum Kevin Tyner Thomas 5. Science, Empire and Nationality: The Case of the Russian Geographical Society, 1845-1855 Nathaniel Knight Part 3: Practices of Empire 6. Lines of Uncertainty: The Frontiers of the Northern Caucasus Thomas M. Barrett 7. An Empire of Peasants: Empire-Building, Interethnic Interaction, and Ethnic Stereotyping in the Rural World of the Russian Empire Willard Sunderland 8. The Serf Economy, the Peasant Family and the Social Order Steven L. Hoch 9. Institutionalizing Piety: The Church and Popular Religion, 1750-1850 Gregory L. Freeze Part 4: Individuals and Publics 10. An Eighteenth-Century Russian Merchant Family in Prosperity and Decline David L. Ransel 11. Freemasonry and the Public in Eighteenth-Century Russia Douglas Smith 12. Constructing the Meaning of: The Russian Press in the Age of the Great Reforms Irina Paperno In Place of a Conclusion Jane Burbank Contributors Index