Burbank J., Von Hagen M., Remnev A. (eds.) Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930

Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. — 560 p. — ISBN10: 0253219116; ISBN13: 978-0253219114.Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia’s expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and the evolution of imperial administration and vision. The fresh research reflected in this innovative volume reveals the ways in which the realities of sustaining imperial power in a multiethnic, multiconfessional, scattered, and diffuse environment inspired political imaginaries and set limits on what the state could accomplish. Taken together, these rich essays provide important new frameworks for understanding Russia’s imperial geography of power.Coming into the Territory: Uncertainty and Empire
Space
Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in the Eighteenth Century
The Great Circle of Interior Russia: Representations of the Imperial Center in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
How Bashkiria Became Part of European Russia, 1762–1881
Mapping the Empire’s Economic Regions from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, Economic Expediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917–1924
People
Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith in the Volga-Kama Region, 1740–1870
Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law, and Rights in the Early Twentieth Century
From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870–1920
Bandits and the State: Designing a Traditional Culture of Violence in the Russian Caucasus
Representing Primitive Communists: Ethnographic and Political Authority in Early Soviet Siberia
Institutions
From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in the Monetary Politics of the Russian Empire
The Muslim Question in Late Imperial Russia
The Zemstvo Reform, the Cossacks, and Administrative Policy on the Don, 1864–1882
Peoples, Regions, and Electoral Politics: The State Dumas and the Constitution of New National Elites
The Provisional Government and Finland: Russian Democracy and Finnish Nationalism in Search of Peaceful Coexistence
Designs
Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Imperial Geography of Power
Imperial Political Culture and Modernization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Federalisms and Pan-movements: Re-imagining Empire