Images of otherness in Russia, 1547-1917 / edited by Kati Parppei and Bulat Rakhimzianov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parppei, Kati, editor.

Rakhimzi︠a︡nov, Bulat, 1976- editor.

Series:

Imperial encounters in Russian history.

Imperial Encounters in Russian History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Russia (Federation).

Ethnology.

Other (Philosophy).

Russia--History--Philosophy.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2023]

Summary:

Defining the Others, "them", in relation to one's own reference group, "us", has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities. This volume examines the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the external and internal Others in Russia from the 16th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Images, Otherness, and Images of the Others

Part One: Creating Prototypes

Section Summary

1. Varieties of Otherness in Ivan IV’s Muscovy: Relativity, Multiplicity, and Ambiguity

2. The Depiction of “Us” and “Them” in the Illuminated Codex of the 1560s–1570s

3. The Image of the Other: The Perception of Tatars by Russian Intellectuals and Officials in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Chroniclers, Diplomats, Voivodes, and Writers)

4. From Inozemtsy to Inovertsy and Novokreshchenye: Images of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Part Two: Classifying the “Internal Others”

5. From “Sovereign’s Foreigners” to “Our Savages”: Otherness of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia

6. The Russians and the Oirats (Dzungars) in Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Contacts and Images of the “Other” in the Era of Empire Building

7. “In a Menagerie of Nations”: Crimean Others in Travelogues, c. 1800

8. Visually Integrating the Other Within: Imperial Photography and the Image of the Caucasus (1864–1915)

9. Perception of Others within One Ethnic Minority: Jewish Ethnographic Studies in the Late Russian Empire

Part Three: The Other in Times of Conflict and Crisis

10. The Russian Imagological Bestiary: The Zoomorphic Image of the Enemy (“Other”) at the Turn of the Century, 1890–1905

11. Hungry and Different—“Otherness” in Imperial Famine Relief: 1891–1892

12. “Agitators and Spies”: The Enemy Image of Itinerant Russians in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1899–1900

13. The Self and the Other: Representations of the Monarchist Foe and Ally in the Satirical Press of the Russian Right (1906–1908)

14. The Construction of the Image of the “Other” in the Discussion of the “Yellow Peril”: Chinese People in Late Imperial Russia

15. “Own” and “Other”: Soldiers, Officers, and the Fatal Zigzags of the Russian Revolution in the Last Year of the Life of General L. G. Kornilov (1870–1918)

Contributors

Abbreviations Used by the Authors

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-87191-47-8

OCLC:

1357020427