New Histories of Northern Eurasia, 700–1917

Ismael Biyashev is Assistant Professor of History and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan, USA.Ilya V. Gerasimov is Executive Editor of the Ab Imperio journal. His publications include Modernism and Public Reform in Late Imperial Russia: Rural Professionals and Self-Organization, 1905–30 (2009) and Plebeian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia 1906–1916 (2018).

• PrefaceForeword: Keeping the Focus, Decentering the Sources Chapter 1: Political Ecology: The Formation of the Northern Eurasia RegionChapter 2: Mechanisms of Political and Cultural Self-Organization of Northern Eurasia’s First Polities: The Formation of the Rous’ LandsChapter 3. Consolidation of New Political Systems: State-Building in Northern Eurasia (Eleventh–Thirteenth Centuries)Chapter 4. From Local Polities to Hierarchical Statehood: Interaction and Entanglement of Competing Scenarios of Power (Thirteenth–Fourteenth Centuries)Chapter 5. New Times: The Problem of Substantiating Sovereignty and Its Boundaries in the Grand Principality of Moscow (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)Chapter 6. The Transformation of Social Imagination: The Seventeenth Century Chapter 7. The Tsardom of Muscovy in Search of an “Assembly Point” Chapter 8. From the “Gunpowder Empire” to the “Modern State” Chapter 9. From the “Modern State” to the “Modern Empire” Chapter 10. The Modern Empire in Search of a Nation Chapter 11. Designing a National Empire Chapter 12. Empire and Revolution Chapter 13. The Collapse of the Rusian National Empire Regime Chapter 14. Self-Organization of the “Progressive Empire” Chapter 15. The War of Globalization and the Imperial Revolution BibliographyIndex

This anthology brings together a wide-ranging collection of primary sources from multiple languages that allow us to think about the history of post-Soviet space in a new way. Its emphasis on the diversity of historical actors and their entangled histories is refreshing and a major contribution to ongoing debates about Russian history. A remarkable achievement.