Imperial designs, postimperial extremes : studies in interdisciplinary and comparative history of Russia and Eastern Europe / Andrei Cusco and Victor Taki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cușco, Andrei, author.

Taki, Viktor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rieber, Alfred J--Influence.

Rieber, Alfred J.

Borderlands--Russia--History--19th century.

Borderlands.

Imperialism--Russia--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

Territory, National--Russia--History--19th century.

Territory, National.

Russia--History--1801-1917.

Russia.

Russia--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.

Russia--Boundaries--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Budapest, Hungary : Central European University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Anchored in the Russian Empire, but not limited to it, the eight studies in this volume explore the nineteenth-century imperial responses to the challenge of modernity, the dramatic disruptions of World War I, the radical scenarios of the interwar period and post-communist endgames at the different edges of Eurasia. The book continues and amplifies the historiographic momentum created by Alfred J. Rieber's long and fruitful scholarly career. First, the volume addresses the attempts of Russian imperial rulers and elites to overcome the economic backwardness of the empire with respect to the West. The ensuing rivalry of several interest groups (entrepreneurs, engineers, economists) created new social forms in the subsequent rounds of modernization. The studies explore the dynamics of the metamorphoses of what Rieber famously conceptualized as a "sedimentary society" in the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet settings. Second, the volume also expands and dwells on the concept of frontier zones as dynamic, mutable, shifting areas, characterized by multi-ethnicity, religious diversity, unstable loyalties, overlapping and contradictory models of governance, and an uneasy balance between peaceful co-existence and bloody military clashes. In this connection, studies pay special attention to forced and spontaneous migrations, and population politics in modern Eurasia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Forests, navies, and entangled empires: timber export and territorial governance in Russia in the eighteenth to early nineteenth century / Marina Loskutova

The projects on Cossack reform in the 1810s-1840s Russian Empire: unification versus flexibility / Andriy Posunko

Russian army and the Ottoman Empire: military reform and Eastern crisis / Victor Taki

Wartime mobilization of ethnicity, shifting loyalties, and population politics in the borderlands of nationalizing empires: reshaping Bessarabia and Bucovina, 1914-1919 / Andrei Cușco

Painting dogs into racoons: entertainment and culture in the Gulag / Oksana Ermolaeva

The Jewish exodus to the Balkans, 1933-1938 / Bojan Aleksov

Weathering the storm, toppled by the storm: North Korea's non-transition compared with the transition of Romania and Albania, 1989-1991 / Balazs Szalontai.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-003-72018-8

963-386-627-8

9781003720188

OCLC:

1393656684