The Russian Empire a Multi-ethnic History
The ""national question"" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with major consideration of the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4052484x*spi |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Note; Chronology; Introduction; 1 The Mediaeval Background; 2 The Gathering of the Lands of the Golden Horde between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 1. The Foundations of the Russian Multi-ethnic Empire: The Conquest of the Khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan; 2. The Advance to Northern Asia: The Conquest and Penetration of Siberia; 3. The Stepwise Advance into the Steppe; The Bashkirs; The Nogai Tatars; The Kalmyks; The Crimean Tatars; 4. Opening up the Steppe: The Cossacks and the German Colonists; 5. Summary.
- 3 Westward Expansion from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century1. Ukraine: Reunification or Coerced Integration?; 2. The First Step to Belorussia: Smolensk; 3. A Window to the West: Estonia and Livonia; 4. The Four Partitions of Poland; 5. Autonomy for Finland; 6. Bessarabia: Romanians or Moldavians?; 7. Summary; 4 The Pre-modern Russian Multi-ethnic Empire; 1. Ethnic Division and Social Structure; 2. The Inter-ethnic Division of Labour and the Specific Functions of non-Russians in the Russian Empire; 3. Religious and Cultural Diversity; 4. Non-Russian Resistance.
- 5. The Character of the Pre-modern Russian Multi-ethnic Empire5 Colonial Expansion in Asia in the Nineteenth Century; 1. Russia and the Ancient Transcaucasian Cultures: Georgians, Armenians and Muslims; 2. The Long War against the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus; 3. The Stepwise Advance into the Kazakh Steppe; 4. The Conquest and Incorporation of Southern Middle Asia; 5. Reaching Out to America and the Far East; 6. Summary; 6 The National Challenge; 1. The Polish Noble Nation as Forerunner; 2. The National Emancipation of the Peasant Peoples.
- 3. The Georgian and Armenian National Revolutionary Movements4. Islamic National Consciousness; 5. The National Awakening of the Russians; 6. Summary; 7 The Reaction of the State: Policy on Nationalities 1831-1904; 1. The Stabilization of Power through Repression under Nicholas I; 2. The Policy of Forced Integration in the West after 1863; 3. Traditional and Innovative Elements in Policy towards the Ethnic Groups in the East and the South; 4. From Integration and Assimilation to Exclusion and Discrimination: The Jews as Scapegoats; 5. Summary.
- 8 The Late Tsarist Multi-ethnic Empire between Modernization and Tradition1. The Changes in the Socio-ethnic Structure; 2. The Economic Division of Labour and Competition in the Age of Industrialization; 3. The Growth of Literacy and the Creation of National Intelligentsias; 4. The Character of the Late Tsarist Multi-ethnic Empire; 9 The Nationalities Question and the Revolution; 1. The Revolution of 1905 as the Springtime of the Peoples; 2. Political Participation and Reactionary Backlash in the Duma Period; 3. Territorial Changes and Destabilization in the First World War.
