Russian Empire

Jane Burbank is Professor of History and of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. Mark von Hagen is Boris Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian and East European Studies and Chair of the Department of History at Columbia University. Anatolyi Remnev is Professor at Omsk State University.

"Eighteen articles, mainly by US, Russian, and British scholars, cover various aspects of the Russian Empire from its foundation under Peter the Great to the rule of Stalin. The Russian participants, mostly historians and political scientists, come from the two Russian capitals and various other cities. The major focus is the geographies of rule in Russia. . . . The materials are derived in large part from Russian archives, especially those in Moscow. Several good maps aid readers' comprehension. . . . Recommended."—Choice"[D]emonstrates brilliantly how the Russian and Soviet empires were able to survive for so long . . . This is a genuinely valuable and thought-provoking collection of essays and it deserves a wide readership."—European History Quarterly"This book makes a substantial contribution to scholarship not only on Russian history but the whole study of empire."—New Zealand Slavonic Journal"Russian Empire offers much valuable information on a wide range of significant issues . . . genuinely thoughtful and thought-provoking."—Dominic Lieven

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsComing into the Territory: Uncertainty and EmpireJane Burbank and Mark von HagenPart I: Space 1.Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in the Eighteenth CenturyWillard Sunderland2. The "Great Circle" of Interior Russia: Representations of the Imperial Center in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesLeonid Gorizontov3. How Bashkiria Became Part of European Russia, 1762-1881Charles Steinwedel4. Mapping the Empire's Economic Regions from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth CenturyNailya Tagirova5. State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, Economic Expediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917-1924Francine HirschPart II: People6. Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith in the Volga-Kama Region, 1740-1870Paul Werth7. Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law and Rights in the Early Twentieth CenturyJane Burbank 8. From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870-1920Shane O'Rourke9. Bandits and the State: Designing a "Traditional" Culture of Violence in the Russian CaucasusVladimir Bobrovnikov10. Representing "Primitive Communists": Ethnographic and Political Authority in Early Soviet SiberiaNikolai Ssorin-ChaikovPart III: Institutions11. From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in the Monetary Politics of the Russian EmpireEkaterina Pravilova12. The Muslim Question in Late Imperial RussiaElena Campbell13. The Zemstvo Reform, the Cossacks, and Administrative Policy on the Don, 1864-1882Aleksei Volvenko14. Peoples, Regions, and Electoral Politics: The State Dumas and the Constitution of New National ElitesRustem Tsiunchuk15. The Provisional Government and Finland: Russian Democracy and Finnish Nationalism in Search of Peaceful CoexistenceIrina NovikovaPart IV. Designs16. Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Imperial Geography of PowerAnatolyi Remnev17. Imperial Political Culture and Modernization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth CenturySviatoslav Kaspe18. Federalisms and Pan-movements: Re-imagining EmpireMark von HagenList of ContributorsIndex