Ilya Vinkovetsky
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195391282
- eISBN:
- 9780199894369
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195391282.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter analyzes the place of Russian America, aka Alaska under Russian rule, in the context of nineteenth-century Russian Empire and colonialism around the world. Overseas colonialism was not ...
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This chapter analyzes the place of Russian America, aka Alaska under Russian rule, in the context of nineteenth-century Russian Empire and colonialism around the world. Overseas colonialism was not in the Russian imperial repertoire, so in their one and only overseas colony the Russians adopted colonizing strategies from West European colonialisms and blended them with conquest strategies that they carried over from Siberia. The result was a Russian overseas colonial system, a new hybrid form of colonial rule. This chapter analyzes the formation of Russian America as a colony, introduces its indigenous peoples, and analyzes their responses to being drawn into Russia's political sphere of influence and the international fur trade. It situates Russian America in the context of colonial studies, Russian imperial history, and Native American studies, and empire studies.Less
This chapter analyzes the place of Russian America, aka Alaska under Russian rule, in the context of nineteenth-century Russian Empire and colonialism around the world. Overseas colonialism was not in the Russian imperial repertoire, so in their one and only overseas colony the Russians adopted colonizing strategies from West European colonialisms and blended them with conquest strategies that they carried over from Siberia. The result was a Russian overseas colonial system, a new hybrid form of colonial rule. This chapter analyzes the formation of Russian America as a colony, introduces its indigenous peoples, and analyzes their responses to being drawn into Russia's political sphere of influence and the international fur trade. It situates Russian America in the context of colonial studies, Russian imperial history, and Native American studies, and empire studies.
Alexander Bitis
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263273
- eISBN:
- 9780191734700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263273.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter, on public opinion, charts the growth and spread of nationalist sentiment in educated society during the Turkish war. It reveals the tension between the popular demand for unilateral, ...
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This chapter, on public opinion, charts the growth and spread of nationalist sentiment in educated society during the Turkish war. It reveals the tension between the popular demand for unilateral, expansionist action and the conservative official tsarist policy which aimed at the conservation of the Ottoman Empire. It shows that official coverage of the 1828–9 war turned this conflict into the Russian Empire's first ‘media war’, and gave rise to the idea that popular nationalist sentiment might be harnessed as a means of ensuring the future stability of the regime. The discussion also considers the origins of the Third Section; the quest for social stability in 1826–9; the Cult of Nicholas; and public opinion during the 1829 campaign.Less
This chapter, on public opinion, charts the growth and spread of nationalist sentiment in educated society during the Turkish war. It reveals the tension between the popular demand for unilateral, expansionist action and the conservative official tsarist policy which aimed at the conservation of the Ottoman Empire. It shows that official coverage of the 1828–9 war turned this conflict into the Russian Empire's first ‘media war’, and gave rise to the idea that popular nationalist sentiment might be harnessed as a means of ensuring the future stability of the regime. The discussion also considers the origins of the Third Section; the quest for social stability in 1826–9; the Cult of Nicholas; and public opinion during the 1829 campaign.
Adalyat Issiyeva
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691182711
- eISBN:
- 9780691185514
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691182711.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
This chapter discusses Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera, The Golden Cockerel, in the context of his Orientalism, looking at its musical sources and more generally at the complexity of influences at work ...
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This chapter discusses Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera, The Golden Cockerel, in the context of his Orientalism, looking at its musical sources and more generally at the complexity of influences at work on an artist working in the capital of a Russian Empire that directed much of its energy and ingenuity to the task of keeping its Asian territories under control. Despite being raised on nineteenth-century Orientalist musical conventions, Rimsky-Korsakov's view of the East underwent a profound transformation and departed from Orientalism; it developed from simple imitation and reliance on the Orientalist truisms to the critique of these very truisms. His last opera's two most fantastic and undeniably eastern characters help to reveal not only the absurdity of Russia's political system but Rimsky-Korsakov's own skepticism vis-à-vis Eurocentric legitimations of colonial conquest.Less
This chapter discusses Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera, The Golden Cockerel, in the context of his Orientalism, looking at its musical sources and more generally at the complexity of influences at work on an artist working in the capital of a Russian Empire that directed much of its energy and ingenuity to the task of keeping its Asian territories under control. Despite being raised on nineteenth-century Orientalist musical conventions, Rimsky-Korsakov's view of the East underwent a profound transformation and departed from Orientalism; it developed from simple imitation and reliance on the Orientalist truisms to the critique of these very truisms. His last opera's two most fantastic and undeniably eastern characters help to reveal not only the absurdity of Russia's political system but Rimsky-Korsakov's own skepticism vis-à-vis Eurocentric legitimations of colonial conquest.
Ilya Vinkovetsky
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195391282
- eISBN:
- 9780199894369
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195391282.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This is a book about Russian colonial practice in Alaska, aka Russian America, from the time that it was visited by Russia's first round-the-world voyage to the time that it was sold to the United ...
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This is a book about Russian colonial practice in Alaska, aka Russian America, from the time that it was visited by Russia's first round-the-world voyage to the time that it was sold to the United States. The setting of Russian America elicited unprecedented strategies and practices from the designers and implementers of the Russian Empire's colonial policies. As the one and only overseas colony of an empire situated on a huge contiguous landmass, Russian America presented them with a different challenge. In order to address it, St. Petersburg treated the overseas colony as a kind of an experiment, trying out approaches to governance there that were not pursued elsewhere in Russia's far-flung emporium. No other part of the Russian Empire was ever ruled on a contractual basis by an ostensibly commercial company, as Russian America was by the Russian-American Company between 1799 and 1867. Arguing that round-the-world voyages fundamentally reshaped the relationship between St. Petersburg and Russian America, this book examines Russia's overseas colonial system as it was implemented by the Russian-American Company after 1804. It examines how the decision to move the colonial capital from Kodiak to Novo-Arkhangel'sk (Sitka) that same year reshaped the Russian relationship with the indigenous people of Alaska. It analyzes how the Russians used indigenous laborers, and looks at how they attempted to transform indigenous cultures through trade, co-optation, social and cultural assimilation, and Christianization, and examines how the decision to sell the colony has obscured its place within the Russian Empire.Less
This is a book about Russian colonial practice in Alaska, aka Russian America, from the time that it was visited by Russia's first round-the-world voyage to the time that it was sold to the United States. The setting of Russian America elicited unprecedented strategies and practices from the designers and implementers of the Russian Empire's colonial policies. As the one and only overseas colony of an empire situated on a huge contiguous landmass, Russian America presented them with a different challenge. In order to address it, St. Petersburg treated the overseas colony as a kind of an experiment, trying out approaches to governance there that were not pursued elsewhere in Russia's far-flung emporium. No other part of the Russian Empire was ever ruled on a contractual basis by an ostensibly commercial company, as Russian America was by the Russian-American Company between 1799 and 1867. Arguing that round-the-world voyages fundamentally reshaped the relationship between St. Petersburg and Russian America, this book examines Russia's overseas colonial system as it was implemented by the Russian-American Company after 1804. It examines how the decision to move the colonial capital from Kodiak to Novo-Arkhangel'sk (Sitka) that same year reshaped the Russian relationship with the indigenous people of Alaska. It analyzes how the Russians used indigenous laborers, and looks at how they attempted to transform indigenous cultures through trade, co-optation, social and cultural assimilation, and Christianization, and examines how the decision to sell the colony has obscured its place within the Russian Empire.
Charles King
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195177756
- eISBN:
- 9780199870127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177756.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
The introduction describes the geographical setting of the Caucasus, highlighting the region's diversity, from high mountains peaks to arid steppe. It discusses the major ethnic, linguistic, and ...
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The introduction describes the geographical setting of the Caucasus, highlighting the region's diversity, from high mountains peaks to arid steppe. It discusses the major ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups, and emphasizes the multiple forms of identity that have been available to Caucasus peoples over the centuries, as they learned to thrive at the intersection of the Russian, Ottoman, and Persian empires. Major groups in the region include the Armenians, Georgians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and Circassians.Less
The introduction describes the geographical setting of the Caucasus, highlighting the region's diversity, from high mountains peaks to arid steppe. It discusses the major ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups, and emphasizes the multiple forms of identity that have been available to Caucasus peoples over the centuries, as they learned to thrive at the intersection of the Russian, Ottoman, and Persian empires. Major groups in the region include the Armenians, Georgians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and Circassians.
Jonathan I. Israel
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199279227
- eISBN:
- 9780191700040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279227.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas, European Modern History
This chapter explores the philosophes’ responses to developments in the Russian empire. Newly forged western skills and ideas made exceptional and impressive progress in Muscovy before 1750 but only, ...
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This chapter explores the philosophes’ responses to developments in the Russian empire. Newly forged western skills and ideas made exceptional and impressive progress in Muscovy before 1750 but only, seemingly, due to the exceptional zeal and energy with which one particular despot, Tsar Peter I (reigned 1689–1725), imported new ideas and expertise from the West while expressly setting out to attack custom and tradition. If the official ideology of the Russian Enlightenment engendered a new cult of tsarist autocracy — a pragmatic philosophy even more authoritarian than that of the newly ‘enlightened’ Prussian monarchy of Frederick the Great, or that of Maria Theresa in the Habsburg lands — the only other significant ‘enlightenment’ in eastern Europe before 1750, that flourishing among the newly thriving south-east European Greek diaspora, was itself fervently Russophile and authoritarian in attitude. Politically as well as religiously, culturally, and intellectually, the two indigenously east European ‘enlightenments’ were firmly linked.Less
This chapter explores the philosophes’ responses to developments in the Russian empire. Newly forged western skills and ideas made exceptional and impressive progress in Muscovy before 1750 but only, seemingly, due to the exceptional zeal and energy with which one particular despot, Tsar Peter I (reigned 1689–1725), imported new ideas and expertise from the West while expressly setting out to attack custom and tradition. If the official ideology of the Russian Enlightenment engendered a new cult of tsarist autocracy — a pragmatic philosophy even more authoritarian than that of the newly ‘enlightened’ Prussian monarchy of Frederick the Great, or that of Maria Theresa in the Habsburg lands — the only other significant ‘enlightenment’ in eastern Europe before 1750, that flourishing among the newly thriving south-east European Greek diaspora, was itself fervently Russophile and authoritarian in attitude. Politically as well as religiously, culturally, and intellectually, the two indigenously east European ‘enlightenments’ were firmly linked.
David Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199249978
- eISBN:
- 9780191697852
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199249978.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Nicholas I positively welcomed the prospect of chaos in western and central Europe. He had invaded the Danubian principalities in 1848 and Hungary in 1849, and was holding the ring between Austria ...
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Nicholas I positively welcomed the prospect of chaos in western and central Europe. He had invaded the Danubian principalities in 1848 and Hungary in 1849, and was holding the ring between Austria and Prussia in central Europe. However, this chapter contends that even the ostensible successes were really failures because the tsarist regime paid prices to achieve them that it could not afford. The chapter looks more closely at the regime's conduct in international relations and the way it maintained ideological conformity. It also looks into financial matters, the peasant question, and ethnic relations. In all these respects, the chapter argues that the tsarist regime lost more than it gained as the result of the way in which it responded to the European revolutions of 1848.Less
Nicholas I positively welcomed the prospect of chaos in western and central Europe. He had invaded the Danubian principalities in 1848 and Hungary in 1849, and was holding the ring between Austria and Prussia in central Europe. However, this chapter contends that even the ostensible successes were really failures because the tsarist regime paid prices to achieve them that it could not afford. The chapter looks more closely at the regime's conduct in international relations and the way it maintained ideological conformity. It also looks into financial matters, the peasant question, and ethnic relations. In all these respects, the chapter argues that the tsarist regime lost more than it gained as the result of the way in which it responded to the European revolutions of 1848.
Francis Wcislo
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199543564
- eISBN:
- 9780191725104
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543564.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Political History
This chapter tells of a senior statesman in the Age of Empire, confronting in Russia what perhaps was the first of a series of 20th-century national and social revolutions. Following Russian military ...
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This chapter tells of a senior statesman in the Age of Empire, confronting in Russia what perhaps was the first of a series of 20th-century national and social revolutions. Following Russian military defeat in the Russo–Japanese War, and confronted by explosions of political and social protests as its aftermath, Witte sought to salvage, reform, and thus preserve the Russian Empire for the 20th century. It also examines the story of an aged memoirist, in his last years before he died during World War I, pondering, occasionally, the loss of his Victorian faith in the empire's longevity, even legitimacy in a 20th century where ethnicity, ideology, social movements, the nation-state, and the modern diversity of cultural experience challenged the imperial narrative that his life had constructed and his memoirs conveyed. He died suddenly in February 1915, a half-year after the outbreak of what was becoming the Great War.Less
This chapter tells of a senior statesman in the Age of Empire, confronting in Russia what perhaps was the first of a series of 20th-century national and social revolutions. Following Russian military defeat in the Russo–Japanese War, and confronted by explosions of political and social protests as its aftermath, Witte sought to salvage, reform, and thus preserve the Russian Empire for the 20th century. It also examines the story of an aged memoirist, in his last years before he died during World War I, pondering, occasionally, the loss of his Victorian faith in the empire's longevity, even legitimacy in a 20th century where ethnicity, ideology, social movements, the nation-state, and the modern diversity of cultural experience challenged the imperial narrative that his life had constructed and his memoirs conveyed. He died suddenly in February 1915, a half-year after the outbreak of what was becoming the Great War.
Ilya Vinkovetsky
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195391282
- eISBN:
- 9780199894369
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195391282.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
Why did Russia sell Alaska? The conclusion examines Russia's decision to quit New World colonization, and how it was related to the themes of this book, including the weakness of Russia's overseas ...
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Why did Russia sell Alaska? The conclusion examines Russia's decision to quit New World colonization, and how it was related to the themes of this book, including the weakness of Russia's overseas colonial system and the resistance to Russian rule by the Alaska Natives. The conclusion argues that the sale of Alaska was part of the Great Reforms policies of imperial retrenchment pursued by the cabinet of Emperor Alexander II. The conclusion contextualizes the sale of Alaska to the United States in the histories of the Russian Empire, the United States, and the North Pacific Rim, and briefly rehearses the different themes treated in the book.Less
Why did Russia sell Alaska? The conclusion examines Russia's decision to quit New World colonization, and how it was related to the themes of this book, including the weakness of Russia's overseas colonial system and the resistance to Russian rule by the Alaska Natives. The conclusion argues that the sale of Alaska was part of the Great Reforms policies of imperial retrenchment pursued by the cabinet of Emperor Alexander II. The conclusion contextualizes the sale of Alaska to the United States in the histories of the Russian Empire, the United States, and the North Pacific Rim, and briefly rehearses the different themes treated in the book.
Benjamin Nathans
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520208308
- eISBN:
- 9780520931299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520208308.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter traces the experience of Jewish students (women as well as men) who enrolled in Russia's institutions of higher education, moving figuratively beyond the Pale regardless of their place ...
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This chapter traces the experience of Jewish students (women as well as men) who enrolled in Russia's institutions of higher education, moving figuratively beyond the Pale regardless of their place of study. It notes that in no other arena did selective integration, spurred by new forms of Jewish philanthropy, produce such dramatic results. It observers that unlike their counterparts in Central Europe, Jewish students in the Russian Empire typically found themselves in a remarkably open, egalitarian student milieu. It notes that by the 1880s, the rising number of secularly educated Jews had begun to recast the hierarchy of learning with the Jewish world, planting there the quintessentially, East European divide between “intelligentsia” and “folk”. Jewish students also became a lightning rod for anxieties over the growing presence of non-Russians in the empire's intelligentsia, leading in 1887 to official restrictions on the admission of Jews to secondary and postsecondary institutions.Less
This chapter traces the experience of Jewish students (women as well as men) who enrolled in Russia's institutions of higher education, moving figuratively beyond the Pale regardless of their place of study. It notes that in no other arena did selective integration, spurred by new forms of Jewish philanthropy, produce such dramatic results. It observers that unlike their counterparts in Central Europe, Jewish students in the Russian Empire typically found themselves in a remarkably open, egalitarian student milieu. It notes that by the 1880s, the rising number of secularly educated Jews had begun to recast the hierarchy of learning with the Jewish world, planting there the quintessentially, East European divide between “intelligentsia” and “folk”. Jewish students also became a lightning rod for anxieties over the growing presence of non-Russians in the empire's intelligentsia, leading in 1887 to official restrictions on the admission of Jews to secondary and postsecondary institutions.
Lynn M. Sargeant
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199735266
- eISBN:
- 9780199894505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735266.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music, History, Western
This chapter examines the role of the Russian Musical Society in fostering the expansion of musical institutions into the provinces. The expansion of musical life is tied to broader processes of ...
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This chapter examines the role of the Russian Musical Society in fostering the expansion of musical institutions into the provinces. The expansion of musical life is tied to broader processes of socioeconomic development and rapid urbanization in the Russian Empire after the Great Reforms. The enthusiasm for the piano and piano instruction was as strong in the provinces as it was in the capitals, a fact that was both resented and exploited by the Russian Musical Society's provincial leadership. The chapter also examines the importance attached to the symphony orchestra, the perception of a shortage of orchestral musicians, and consequent efforts by provincial branches to develop strong orchestral training programs. A wise variety of archival sources are used to outline the educational and concert activities of a significant number of the Society's provincial branches, including those in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, Saratov, Poltava, Tiflis, Kazan, Tomsk, and Ivanovo‐Vosnesensk.Less
This chapter examines the role of the Russian Musical Society in fostering the expansion of musical institutions into the provinces. The expansion of musical life is tied to broader processes of socioeconomic development and rapid urbanization in the Russian Empire after the Great Reforms. The enthusiasm for the piano and piano instruction was as strong in the provinces as it was in the capitals, a fact that was both resented and exploited by the Russian Musical Society's provincial leadership. The chapter also examines the importance attached to the symphony orchestra, the perception of a shortage of orchestral musicians, and consequent efforts by provincial branches to develop strong orchestral training programs. A wise variety of archival sources are used to outline the educational and concert activities of a significant number of the Society's provincial branches, including those in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, Saratov, Poltava, Tiflis, Kazan, Tomsk, and Ivanovo‐Vosnesensk.
Leonid I. Borodkin and Gregory Perelman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199603503
- eISBN:
- 9780191729249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603503.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History
The first section of the chapter describes the role of St. Petersburg as a financial centre of Russian Empire. Major “continental” style banks, presence of a stock exchange, and proximity of ...
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The first section of the chapter describes the role of St. Petersburg as a financial centre of Russian Empire. Major “continental” style banks, presence of a stock exchange, and proximity of all-powerful Russian government provided the necessary conditions for the city to become the focal point of Russian finance. Second section describes the history of St. Petersburg Stock Exchange from its founding in the early 18th century as commodities exchange through to the early 20th century when it became the main stock exchange of the Empire. The last section of the chapter fills a gap in the study of Russian financial markets by constructing a stock index of leading industrial companies traded on the St. Petersburg Exchange in 1897–1914. One of the surprising findings is an intermediate peak, which the index reached in 1905, a period generally considered to be one of crisis and stagnation in Russia.Less
The first section of the chapter describes the role of St. Petersburg as a financial centre of Russian Empire. Major “continental” style banks, presence of a stock exchange, and proximity of all-powerful Russian government provided the necessary conditions for the city to become the focal point of Russian finance. Second section describes the history of St. Petersburg Stock Exchange from its founding in the early 18th century as commodities exchange through to the early 20th century when it became the main stock exchange of the Empire. The last section of the chapter fills a gap in the study of Russian financial markets by constructing a stock index of leading industrial companies traded on the St. Petersburg Exchange in 1897–1914. One of the surprising findings is an intermediate peak, which the index reached in 1905, a period generally considered to be one of crisis and stagnation in Russia.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804778060
- eISBN:
- 9780804780568
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804778060.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter analyzes the Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian visions of Russia's boundaries, examining several main models of the imperial–national divide as it impinged on the mental maps of Russians. ...
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This chapter analyzes the Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian visions of Russia's boundaries, examining several main models of the imperial–national divide as it impinged on the mental maps of Russians. It discusses Polish émigrés' decisively anti-imperial look at Russia's geography; and the Ukrainian vision, which emphasized an ethnically split empire rather than a national space dominated by Great Russians.Less
This chapter analyzes the Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian visions of Russia's boundaries, examining several main models of the imperial–national divide as it impinged on the mental maps of Russians. It discusses Polish émigrés' decisively anti-imperial look at Russia's geography; and the Ukrainian vision, which emphasized an ethnically split empire rather than a national space dominated by Great Russians.
Ekaterina Pravilova
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691159058
- eISBN:
- 9781400850266
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691159058.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. The book explores the development of the public sphere in the Russian Empire. It examines the shifting boundaries—in terms of ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. The book explores the development of the public sphere in the Russian Empire. It examines the shifting boundaries—in terms of concepts and actual legal practices—of property in Russia from the time of Catherine the Great to World War I and the Revolutions of 1917 to show the emergence of a new vision of society and new practices of treating “public things”—rivers, forests, historical monuments, art objects, and literary masterpieces. The main object of the present inquiry is a phenomenon that was never institutionalized in Russian laws but nevertheless existed in people's imagination, rhetoric, and politics—the concept of “public property,” the res publica—a world of things to be owned by the public yet managed by the state on the public's behalf. This vision in its general contours resembled the ideas of neo-liberals in Britain, the social philosophy of French solidaristes, and the legal concepts of late-nineteenth-century German and Austrian jurisprudence and sociology.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. The book explores the development of the public sphere in the Russian Empire. It examines the shifting boundaries—in terms of concepts and actual legal practices—of property in Russia from the time of Catherine the Great to World War I and the Revolutions of 1917 to show the emergence of a new vision of society and new practices of treating “public things”—rivers, forests, historical monuments, art objects, and literary masterpieces. The main object of the present inquiry is a phenomenon that was never institutionalized in Russian laws but nevertheless existed in people's imagination, rhetoric, and politics—the concept of “public property,” the res publica—a world of things to be owned by the public yet managed by the state on the public's behalf. This vision in its general contours resembled the ideas of neo-liberals in Britain, the social philosophy of French solidaristes, and the legal concepts of late-nineteenth-century German and Austrian jurisprudence and sociology.
Ryan Tucker Jones
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199343416
- eISBN:
- 9780199373819
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199343416.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, Cultural History
Empire of Extinction examines the causes and consequences of environmental catastrophe resulting from Russia’s imperial expansion into the North Pacific. Gathering a host of Siberian and Alaskan ...
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Empire of Extinction examines the causes and consequences of environmental catastrophe resulting from Russia’s imperial expansion into the North Pacific. Gathering a host of Siberian and Alaskan native peoples, including the Aleuts, from the early 1700s until 1867, the Russian Empire organized a rapacious hunt for fur seals, sea otters, and other fur-bearing animals. The animals declined precipitously and Steller’s sea cow went entirely extinct. This destruction, which took place in one of the most hotly contested imperial arenas of the time, also drew the attention of natural historians, who played an important role in imperial expansion. Their observations of environmental change in the North Pacific caused Russians and other Europeans to recognize the threat of species extinction for the first time. Russians reacted by instituting some of the colonial world’s most progressive conservationist policies. Empire of Extinction points to the importance of the North Pacific both for the Russian Empire and for global environmental history.Less
Empire of Extinction examines the causes and consequences of environmental catastrophe resulting from Russia’s imperial expansion into the North Pacific. Gathering a host of Siberian and Alaskan native peoples, including the Aleuts, from the early 1700s until 1867, the Russian Empire organized a rapacious hunt for fur seals, sea otters, and other fur-bearing animals. The animals declined precipitously and Steller’s sea cow went entirely extinct. This destruction, which took place in one of the most hotly contested imperial arenas of the time, also drew the attention of natural historians, who played an important role in imperial expansion. Their observations of environmental change in the North Pacific caused Russians and other Europeans to recognize the threat of species extinction for the first time. Russians reacted by instituting some of the colonial world’s most progressive conservationist policies. Empire of Extinction points to the importance of the North Pacific both for the Russian Empire and for global environmental history.
Agnia Grigas
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300214505
- eISBN:
- 9780300220766
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300214505.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Russian Politics
This chapter sets out the argument that contemporary Russian foreign policy vis-à-vis the post-Soviet space is neoimperial in nature, driven by efforts to rebuild its former empire, regaining ...
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This chapter sets out the argument that contemporary Russian foreign policy vis-à-vis the post-Soviet space is neoimperial in nature, driven by efforts to rebuild its former empire, regaining influence and territories of the Soviet Union. The historical, ideological, structural, economic, and political drivers of this imperialism are examined. The chapter and the book focuses on the seemingly innocuous Russian “compatriot policies” that had been in use for more than a decade and are part of Moscow’s policy paradigm that seeks territorial gains in the former Soviet Republics, particularly where three factors are present: 1) a large and concentrated population of Russian speakers who 2) reside in territories bordering Russia and 3) are receptive to Russia’s influence. When these three factors have been present, Russia has pursued a consistent policy that starts with soft power influence and proceeds from humanitarian policies toward its compatriots to passportization, creating Russian citizens. The conditions are ripe then for information warfare to create the need for “protection” of Russian speakers and citizens. The final stage is either outright or de facto annexation of territory.Less
This chapter sets out the argument that contemporary Russian foreign policy vis-à-vis the post-Soviet space is neoimperial in nature, driven by efforts to rebuild its former empire, regaining influence and territories of the Soviet Union. The historical, ideological, structural, economic, and political drivers of this imperialism are examined. The chapter and the book focuses on the seemingly innocuous Russian “compatriot policies” that had been in use for more than a decade and are part of Moscow’s policy paradigm that seeks territorial gains in the former Soviet Republics, particularly where three factors are present: 1) a large and concentrated population of Russian speakers who 2) reside in territories bordering Russia and 3) are receptive to Russia’s influence. When these three factors have been present, Russia has pursued a consistent policy that starts with soft power influence and proceeds from humanitarian policies toward its compatriots to passportization, creating Russian citizens. The conditions are ripe then for information warfare to create the need for “protection” of Russian speakers and citizens. The final stage is either outright or de facto annexation of territory.
Benjamin Nathans
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520208308
- eISBN:
- 9780520931299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520208308.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter deals with the crossing of visible and invisible boundaries in the Russian Empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It notes that its subject is the encounter between ...
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This chapter deals with the crossing of visible and invisible boundaries in the Russian Empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It notes that its subject is the encounter between Jews and Russians, the dynamics of Jewish integration into Russian society, and the various roles played in this process by individuals, social groups, and the imperial state. It further notes that the Russian-Jewish encounter is an essential part of the story of how and why the largest Jewish community in the world began its complex passage to modernity not in any of the various new worlds—the Soviet Union, the United States, or the Jewish settlements in Palestine—but in the old, under an old regime, and in the peculiar circumstances of a relatively backward dynamic empire.Less
This chapter deals with the crossing of visible and invisible boundaries in the Russian Empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It notes that its subject is the encounter between Jews and Russians, the dynamics of Jewish integration into Russian society, and the various roles played in this process by individuals, social groups, and the imperial state. It further notes that the Russian-Jewish encounter is an essential part of the story of how and why the largest Jewish community in the world began its complex passage to modernity not in any of the various new worlds—the Soviet Union, the United States, or the Jewish settlements in Palestine—but in the old, under an old regime, and in the peculiar circumstances of a relatively backward dynamic empire.
Faith Hillis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452192
- eISBN:
- 9780801469268
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452192.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This introductory chapter documents an ambitious effort to mobilize a nation in defense of the Russian empire, in the process emphasizing the significance of this event and the implications it holds ...
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This introductory chapter documents an ambitious effort to mobilize a nation in defense of the Russian empire, in the process emphasizing the significance of this event and the implications it holds for imperial history. On many counts, the southwestern borderlands of the empire, which stretched from the right bank (west side) of the Dnieper River to the border with the Habsburg empire, would seem an unlikely locale to give rise to a Russian nationalist imagination. Yet from the beginning, right-bank activists had insisted that their program would strengthen the Russian state by preserving the values on which it was founded, aligning it with the desires of the people it ruled, and enhancing its ability to compete with its rivals.Less
This introductory chapter documents an ambitious effort to mobilize a nation in defense of the Russian empire, in the process emphasizing the significance of this event and the implications it holds for imperial history. On many counts, the southwestern borderlands of the empire, which stretched from the right bank (west side) of the Dnieper River to the border with the Habsburg empire, would seem an unlikely locale to give rise to a Russian nationalist imagination. Yet from the beginning, right-bank activists had insisted that their program would strengthen the Russian state by preserving the values on which it was founded, aligning it with the desires of the people it ruled, and enhancing its ability to compete with its rivals.
Faith Hillis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452192
- eISBN:
- 9780801469268
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452192.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This chapter examines how residents of the Dnieper region came to envision alternatives to the local estate system. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Little Russian nobles ...
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This chapter examines how residents of the Dnieper region came to envision alternatives to the local estate system. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Little Russian nobles descended from the early modern Cossack generals came to see the Orthodox East Slavs as the “native” inhabitants of the lands surrounding the Dnieper and chronicled their efforts to protect the traditions that they had inherited from Rus´. Presenting their native region as a citadel that had preserved authentic East Slavic values as well as a battlefield on which local residents struggled to defend their traditions, the Little Russian gentry thus insisted that the future of the East Slavs and the Russian empire would be decided on the banks of the Dnieper.Less
This chapter examines how residents of the Dnieper region came to envision alternatives to the local estate system. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Little Russian nobles descended from the early modern Cossack generals came to see the Orthodox East Slavs as the “native” inhabitants of the lands surrounding the Dnieper and chronicled their efforts to protect the traditions that they had inherited from Rus´. Presenting their native region as a citadel that had preserved authentic East Slavic values as well as a battlefield on which local residents struggled to defend their traditions, the Little Russian gentry thus insisted that the future of the East Slavs and the Russian empire would be decided on the banks of the Dnieper.
Leah Feldman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501726507
- eISBN:
- 9781501726514
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501726507.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter discusses Russian imperial poetics and its Azeri translations in the work of Nikolai Gogol and Jalil Memmedquluzade. Taking up Gogol’s parodic prose as central to the Russian literary ...
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This chapter discusses Russian imperial poetics and its Azeri translations in the work of Nikolai Gogol and Jalil Memmedquluzade. Taking up Gogol’s parodic prose as central to the Russian literary canon and Formalist poetics, I discuss Memmedquluzade’s interest in Gogolean parody as central to the development of a native Azeri prose canon and understandings of Russian and non-Russian ethnicity as well as the relationship between metropole and periphery through the period of revolutionary transition.Less
This chapter discusses Russian imperial poetics and its Azeri translations in the work of Nikolai Gogol and Jalil Memmedquluzade. Taking up Gogol’s parodic prose as central to the Russian literary canon and Formalist poetics, I discuss Memmedquluzade’s interest in Gogolean parody as central to the development of a native Azeri prose canon and understandings of Russian and non-Russian ethnicity as well as the relationship between metropole and periphery through the period of revolutionary transition.
