Russia's Empires
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-992439-4 (ISBN)
While other works in the existing historical literature have applied the concept of empire to the study of Russian history, the story told here is in several ways unique. First, the book tackles the long stretch of the history of the region, from the murkiest beginnings to its most recent yesterday, and follows the vicissitudes of empire, the absence, the coalescence, the setbacks of imperial aspirations, across the centuries. The authors do not impose the category, but find it a productive lens for tracking developments over time. Second, the framework of empire allows them to address pressing questions of how various forms of non-democratic governance managed to succeed and survive, or, alternatively, what caused them to collapse and disappear. Studying Russia's long history in an imperial guise encourages the reader to attend to forms of inclusion, displays of reciprocity, and manifestations of ideology that might otherwise go unnoted, overlooked under the bleak record of coercion and oppression that so often characterizes ideas about Russia.
Russia's Empires follows imperial patterns of rule through distinction, inclusion through reciprocity, and structures for legitimacy in order to trace the experiences of empire by both rulers and ruled. The book traces the coalescence and development of imperial relationships across more than a thousand years. This book brings histories of the peripheries and of the growth and rule of empire into central narratives based in Moscow and Leningrad or Petersburg, in order to understand all the pieces as part of an interrelated whole. The book brings together stories of despots and dictators at the center with those of people of all classes, conditions, and nationalities who jointly made the Russian Empire.
Valerie Kivelson is Valerie Kivelson (PhD Stanford University) teaches at the University of Michigan, where she is Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History. Her publications include Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2013); and Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2006). She is the editor of Witchcraft Casebook: Magic in Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, 15th-21st Centuries [Russian History/Histoire russe vol. 40, nos. 3-4 (2013)], and co-editor, with Joan Neuberger, of Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture (2008). Ron Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago, and Senior Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia. The author and editor of eighteen books, Suny pioneered the field of Soviet nationality studies, introducing the constructivist approach to the making of nations into Russian and Soviet studies. He wrote extensively on the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), the Russian Revolution, nationalism and empire. Among his principal works are: The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution; The Making of the Georgian Nation; Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History; The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union; and The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998; 2011).
List of Maps
Preface
About the Authors
Introduction
Thinking About Empire
Empires
Russia's Imperial Formations
Chapter One: Before Empire: Early Rus' Visions of Diversity of Lands and Peoples
Before the State: The Peoples of Rus
New Models for Understanding Kiev Rus': Stateless Head or Galactic Polity
Appanage Rus' and Further Fragmentation
Mongol Khans and the Aura of Empire
Chapter Two: Imperial Beginnings: Muscovy
Building a State; Claiming an Empire
Ivan the Terrible: Imperial Principles in Practice
Muscovite Autocracy: Power and Obligation
Who Were the Muscovites? What was Rus'?
The People Speak: The Time of Troubles
Imperial Conquest and Control
Chapter Three: Disrupting the Easy Road from Empire to Nation State: A Theoretical Interlude
Nation, Nationalism, and the Discourse of the Nation
Chapter Four: Responsive Rule and Its Limits: Force and Sentiment in the Eighteenth Century
Succession, Consultation, and the Politics of Affirmation
The Petrine Revolution and the Imperial State
Peter's Successors: A Century of Women (and Children) on Top
Chapter Five: Russians' Identities in the Eighteenth Century: A Multitude of Possibilities
What does Russian mean? Thinking about Nations in the Eighteenth Century
A Multiplicity of Nations: The Peoples and Divisions of Empire
Imperial Expansion in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter Six: Imperial Russia in the Moment of the Nation, 1801-1855
A Kind of Constitution
Clash of Empires
Imperial Conservatism
The Decembrists
Official Nationality
The Intelligentsia
Expansion, Conquest, and Rebellion
Imagining the Russian "Nation": Between West and East
Chapter Seven: War, Reforms, Revolt, and Reaction
A Foolish War
The Great Reforms: Nations, Subjects, and Citizens
Participatory Politics and Categories of Difference
Who Are We? More Questions of National Identity
Russification, Diversity, and Empire
"Pacifying" the Peripheries
Conquering Central Asia
Counter-Reforms and Political Polarization
Empire and the Revolutionary Movement
Chapter Eight: Imperial Anxieties: 1905-1914
The Fate of Empires in the Twentieth Century
The Modernizing Empire and its Discontents
Imperial Overreach: Tsarist Modernization and Expansion
The First Revolution, 1905
When Nationalism Goes Public: Reimagining Empire
Chapter Nine: Clash and Collapse of Empires: 1914-1921
The Great War
Nationality and Class Across the Revolutionary Divide
Soviet Power
Soviet Nationality Policies
Chapter Ten: Making Nations, Soviet Style: 1921-1953
The Stalin Years, 1928-1953
Beating Peasants into Submission
Empire-State and State of Nations
Building National Bolshevism
From Hot War to Cold War: External Empire as Defensive Expansion
Cold War at Home: The Internal Empire
Soviet Discursive Power
Chapter Eleven: Imperial Impasses: Reform, Reaction, Revolution
Policy and Experience: Friendship of the Peoples
A Strange Empire
The Soviet Union in the World
Stagnation
Gorbachev and the Test of Perestroika
Chapter Twelve: The End of Empire, 1991-2016 . . . Or Not?
Vladimir Putin and the Rebuilding of the State
Democratic Recession in the Post-Soviet States
Post-Superpower Russia and NATO Expansion
Red Lines in the Near Abroad: Georgia and Ukraine
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 229 x 155 mm |
| Gewicht | 816 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-992439-2 / 0199924392 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-992439-4 / 9780199924394 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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