Russia's Empires 9780199924394
Russia's Empires explores the long history of Russia, the Soviet Union, and the present Russian Federation through
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Table of contents :
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
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
