Nationalizing the Russian Empire : the campaign against enemy aliens during World War I / Eric Lohr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lohr, Eric, author.

Series:

Russian Research Center Studies;

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Relocation--Russia--History--20th century.

Minorities.

Minorities--Government policy--Russia--History--20th century.

Minorities--Crimes against--Russia--History--20th century.

World War, 1914-1918--Russia.

World War, 1914-1918.

Forced migration--Russia--History--20th century.

Forced migration.

Political persecution--Russia--History--20th century.

Political persecution.

Russia--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2003]

Summary:

In this compelling study of the treatment of "enemy" minorities in the Russian Empire during the First World War, Eric Lohr uncovers a dramatic story of mass deportations, purges, expropriations, and popular violence.A campaign initially aimed at restricting foreign citizens rapidly spun out of control. It swept up Russian subjects of German, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds and drove roughly a million civilians from one part of the empire to another, resulting in one of the largest cases of forced migration in history to that time. Because foreigners and diaspora minorities were prominent among entrepreneurial and landowning elites, the campaign against them also became an explosive element in class and national tensions on the eve of the 1917 revolutions. During the war, the imperial regime dropped its ambivalence about Russian nationalism and embraced unprecedented and radical policies that "nationalized" the economy, the land, and even the population. The core idea of the campaign--that the country needed to free itself from the domination of foreigners, internal enemies, and the exploitative world economic system--later became a central feature of the Soviet revolutionary model. Based on extensive archival research, much in newly available sources, Nationalizing the Russian Empire is an important contribution to the study of empire and nationalism, the Russian Revolution, and ethnic cleansing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Nationalist Challenges, Imperial Dilemmas

2 The Moscow Riots

3 Nationalizing the Commercial and Industrial Economy

4 Nationalizing the Land

5 Forced Migrations

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Archival Sources

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-228) and index.

ISBN:

9780674274877

0674274873

OCLC:

1286429117