Russian-Ottoman borderlands : the Eastern question reconsidered / edited by Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky ; contributors Candam Badem [and ten others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frary, Lucien J., editor.

Kozelsky, Mara, editor.

Badem, Candan, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eastern question.

Russia--Foreign relations--Turkey.

Russia.

Turkey--Foreign relations--Russia.

Turkey.

Russia--History--1801-1917.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the nineteenth century-as violence, population dislocations, and rebellions unfolded in the borderlands between the Russian and Ottoman Empires-European and Russian diplomats debated the "Eastern Question, " or, "What should be done about the Ottoman Empire?" Russian-Ottoman Borderlands brings together an international group of scholars to show that the Eastern Question was not just one but many questions that varied tremendously from one historical actor and moment to the next. The Eastern Question (or, from the Ottoman perspective, the Western Question) became the predominant subject of international affairs until the end of the First World War. Its legacy continues to resonate in the Balkans, the Black Sea region, and the Caucasus today. The contributors address ethnicity, religion, popular attitudes, violence, dislocation and mass migration, economic rivalry, and great-power diplomacy. Through a variety of fresh approaches, they examine the consequences of the Eastern Question in the lives of those peoples it most affected, the millions living in the Russian and Ottoman Empires and the borderlands in between.

Contents:

Introduction: the Eastern question reconsidered / Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky

The Russian protectorate in the Danubian principalities: legacies of the Eastern question in contemporary Russian-Romanian relations / Victor Taki

"Dreadful scenes of carnage on both sides": the Strangford files and the Eastern crisis of 1821-22 / Theophilus C. Prousis

Slaves of the sultan: Russian ransoming of Christian captives during the Greek Revolution (1821-30) / Lucien J. Frary

Russia's quest for the Holy Grail: relics, liturgics, and great power politics in the Ottoman Empire / Jack Fairey

The Crimean War and the Tatar exodus / Mara Kozelsky

Russia, Mount Athos, and the Eastern question (1878-1914) / Lora Gerd

"Forty years of black days"? the Russian administration of Kars, Ardahan, and Batum (1877-1918) / Candan Badem

The idea of an Eastern Federation: an alternative to the destruction of the Ottoman Empire / John A. Mazis

Squabbling over the spoils: late Imperial Russia's rivalry with France in the Near East / Ronald P. Bobroff

The Eastern question in Turkish Republican textbooks: settling old scores with the European and the Ottoman "other" / Nazan Cicek

Epilogue: legacies of the Eastern question / Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299298036

0299298035

OCLC:

893910208