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Empire Speaks Out

Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvIlya Gerasimov,Jan Kusber,Alexander Semyonov

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Historians habitually write about empires that expand, wage wars, and collapse, as if empires were self-evident and self-conscious entities with a distinct and clear sense of purpose. The stories of empires are told in the language of modern nation-centred social sciences: multi-cultural and heterogeneous empires of the past appear either as huge “nations” with a common language, culture, and territory, or as amalgamations of would-be nations striving to gain independence. Empire Speaks Out reconstructs the historical encounter of the Russian Empire of the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries with the complex challenge of modernity. It does so by taking the self-awareness of empire seriously, and by looking into how bureaucrats, ideologues, politicians, scholars, and modern professionals described the ethnic, cultural, and social diversity of the empire. “Empire” then reveals itself not through deliberate and well-conceived actions of some mysterious political body, but as a series of “imperial situations” that different people encounter and perceive in common categories. The rationalization of previously intuitive social practices as imperial languages is the central theme of the collection. This book is published with support from Volkswagen Foundation, within the collective research project “Languages of Self Description and Representation in the Russian Empire”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-06-02
Mått155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt585 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRussian History and Culture
Antal sidor282
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004175716

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Jan Kusber is Professor and Chair of East European History at Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz. Among his publications are Krieg und Revolution in Rußland, 1904-1906 (1997), Eliten- und Volksbildung im Zarenreich während des 18. und in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts (2004). Ilya Gerasimov, Ph.D. (2000) in History, Rutgers University, is Executive Editor of the Ab Imperio quarterly. Among his publications in several languages is Modernism and Public Reform in Late Imperial Russia: Rural Professionals and Self-Organization, 1905-30 (Palgrave, 2009). Alexander Semyonov, Ph.D. (2006) in History, Central European University, is Associate Professor of History, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He has published extensively on the topics of empire and Russian liberal politics.

Part 1. Defining Empire in a DialogueIlya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Jan Kusber, Marina Mogilner, Alexander SemyonovNew Imperial History and the Challenges of EmpireAnn Laura StolerRefiguring Imperial Terrains: On Comparison and Gradations of SovereigntyPart 2. The Challenge of Unification and ResistanceJan KusberGovernance, Education and the Problems of Empire in the Age of Catherine IIHans-Christian Petersen“Us” and “Them”? Polish Perceptions of the Russian Empire between Homogeneity and Diversity (1815–1863)Sergey GlebovSiberian Middle Ground: Languages of Rule and Accommodation on the Siberian FrontierPart 3. The Challenge of Transformation and RationalizationMarina MogilnerRussian Physical Anthropology of the Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries: Imperial Race, Colonial Other, Degenerate Types, and the Russian Racial BodyAlexander Semyonov“The Real and Live Ethnographic Map of Russia”: The Russian Empire in the Mirror of the State DumaIlya GerasimovRedefining Empire: Social Engineering in Late Imperial RussiaIndex