Jennifer Siegel
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199387816
- eISBN:
- 9780199387847
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199387816.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter looks at the challenges of the 1904–1906 Russian imperial state loan negotiations. These loans were thrashed out in the face of civil unrest in response to the costly Russo-Japanese War ...
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This chapter looks at the challenges of the 1904–1906 Russian imperial state loan negotiations. These loans were thrashed out in the face of civil unrest in response to the costly Russo-Japanese War and the tumultuous Revolution of 1905. Russia’s increasingly precarious financial position and uncertain internal stability strained the Franco-Russian relationship. But as both the formal Russo-French political alliance and their more informal but far more tangible financial interrelationship seemed in growing jeopardy, the same circumstances appear to have strengthened the nascent and tenuous possibility of an Anglo-Russian rapprochement. It was within the context of the construction of the 1906 Imperial Russian Loan that the British banking house Baring Brothers rose to prominence in the Russian market; with the increased involvement of the City of London and British investment in Russian imperial finances came an ever greater chance of an amelioration of the long-standing Anglo-Russian geopolitical tensions.Less
This chapter looks at the challenges of the 1904–1906 Russian imperial state loan negotiations. These loans were thrashed out in the face of civil unrest in response to the costly Russo-Japanese War and the tumultuous Revolution of 1905. Russia’s increasingly precarious financial position and uncertain internal stability strained the Franco-Russian relationship. But as both the formal Russo-French political alliance and their more informal but far more tangible financial interrelationship seemed in growing jeopardy, the same circumstances appear to have strengthened the nascent and tenuous possibility of an Anglo-Russian rapprochement. It was within the context of the construction of the 1906 Imperial Russian Loan that the British banking house Baring Brothers rose to prominence in the Russian market; with the increased involvement of the City of London and British investment in Russian imperial finances came an ever greater chance of an amelioration of the long-standing Anglo-Russian geopolitical tensions.
Scott Ury
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804763837
- eISBN:
- 9780804781046
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804763837.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn-of-the-century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events ...
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This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn-of-the-century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, this book argues that the metropolitization of Jewish life led to a need for new forms of community and belonging, and that the ensuing search for collective and individual order gave birth to the new institutions, organizations, and practices that would define modern Jewish society and politics for the remainder of the twentieth century.Less
This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn-of-the-century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, this book argues that the metropolitization of Jewish life led to a need for new forms of community and belonging, and that the ensuing search for collective and individual order gave birth to the new institutions, organizations, and practices that would define modern Jewish society and politics for the remainder of the twentieth century.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804763837
- eISBN:
- 9780804781046
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804763837.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This chapter presents a historical analysis of the city of Warsaw, the city's Jewish residents, their Polish neighbors, and the Russian imperial context. It charts Warsaw's modest beginnings to its ...
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This chapter presents a historical analysis of the city of Warsaw, the city's Jewish residents, their Polish neighbors, and the Russian imperial context. It charts Warsaw's modest beginnings to its growth as an industrial, commercial, and financial center, and then discusses the key developments in Polish society, the rise of political organizations and institutions, and the changing visions of community and nation. It also discusses the various attempts by Russian government officials to wield control over Warsaw and its Jewish residents. The chapter concludes with a brief history of the Revolution of 1905 throughout the Russian empire.Less
This chapter presents a historical analysis of the city of Warsaw, the city's Jewish residents, their Polish neighbors, and the Russian imperial context. It charts Warsaw's modest beginnings to its growth as an industrial, commercial, and financial center, and then discusses the key developments in Polish society, the rise of political organizations and institutions, and the changing visions of community and nation. It also discusses the various attempts by Russian government officials to wield control over Warsaw and its Jewish residents. The chapter concludes with a brief history of the Revolution of 1905 throughout the Russian empire.
Ellie R. Schainker
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780804798280
- eISBN:
- 9781503600249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804798280.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
Chapter 5 analyzes narratives of relapsed converts and their multiple cultural fluencies using legal cases of converts suspected of illegally relapsing back to Judaism before 1905 and petitions for ...
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Chapter 5 analyzes narratives of relapsed converts and their multiple cultural fluencies using legal cases of converts suspected of illegally relapsing back to Judaism before 1905 and petitions for relapse after the legalization of apostasy in 1905. Imperial sponsorship of Russian Orthodoxy combined with the criminality of Orthodox deviance until 1905 created an environment in which Jewish converts often lived in the interstices of communal and confessional life, defying clear religious categorization. Relapsed converts and their tales of marranism, or secret Jewish practice, called into question the confessional state’s strategy of mapping identity and community onto confessional ascription-- especially in the wake of the cantonist episode when legal and chosen religious identities were often at odds. As church and state officials grappled with these difficulties, relapsed converts and their defenders tried to inscribe their cultural mobility into imperial law through freedom of conscience measures.Less
Chapter 5 analyzes narratives of relapsed converts and their multiple cultural fluencies using legal cases of converts suspected of illegally relapsing back to Judaism before 1905 and petitions for relapse after the legalization of apostasy in 1905. Imperial sponsorship of Russian Orthodoxy combined with the criminality of Orthodox deviance until 1905 created an environment in which Jewish converts often lived in the interstices of communal and confessional life, defying clear religious categorization. Relapsed converts and their tales of marranism, or secret Jewish practice, called into question the confessional state’s strategy of mapping identity and community onto confessional ascription-- especially in the wake of the cantonist episode when legal and chosen religious identities were often at odds. As church and state officials grappled with these difficulties, relapsed converts and their defenders tried to inscribe their cultural mobility into imperial law through freedom of conscience measures.
Barbara Alpern Engel
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199856749
- eISBN:
- 9780190497613
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199856749.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Family History, World Modern History
This chapter asks why Russian women included claims of involuntary marriage in appeals for marital separation, when such claims exerted no influence on officials of the Imperial Chancellery for ...
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This chapter asks why Russian women included claims of involuntary marriage in appeals for marital separation, when such claims exerted no influence on officials of the Imperial Chancellery for Receipt of Petitions, who determined the outcome of women’s appeals. To answer, the chapter explores the ideals of romantic choice that circulated ever more widely toward the close of the nineteenth century, challenging long-standing marital practices according to which the needs of household and family took precedence over the desires of the young, women especially. By encouraging women to act upon their feelings and choose a marital partner according to their own desires, the chapter argues, romantic ideals undermined patriarchal family relations, and indirectly, the autocratic authority they buttressed. Women’s self-assertion in the private realm contributed to the perceived marriage crisis of late imperial Russia. It also reflected the growing concern with individual rights that in 1905 would contribute to revolution.Less
This chapter asks why Russian women included claims of involuntary marriage in appeals for marital separation, when such claims exerted no influence on officials of the Imperial Chancellery for Receipt of Petitions, who determined the outcome of women’s appeals. To answer, the chapter explores the ideals of romantic choice that circulated ever more widely toward the close of the nineteenth century, challenging long-standing marital practices according to which the needs of household and family took precedence over the desires of the young, women especially. By encouraging women to act upon their feelings and choose a marital partner according to their own desires, the chapter argues, romantic ideals undermined patriarchal family relations, and indirectly, the autocratic authority they buttressed. Women’s self-assertion in the private realm contributed to the perceived marriage crisis of late imperial Russia. It also reflected the growing concern with individual rights that in 1905 would contribute to revolution.
