The Russian Empire: A Multi-ethnic History

by Andreas Kappeler

Overview

The "national question" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with major consideration of the Soviet phase. It asks how Russians incorporated new territories, how they were resisted, what the character of a multi-ethnic empire was and how, finally, these issues related to nationalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138171312
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/29/2015
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. The Medieval Background. 2. The Gathering of the Lands of the Golden Horde between Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 3. Westward Expansion from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. 4. Pre-modern Russian Multi-ethnic Empire. 5. Colonial Expansion in Asia in the Nineteenth Century. 6. National Challenge. 7. Reaction of the State: Policy on Nationalities, 1831-1904. 8. The Late Tsarist Multi-ethnic Empire between Modernization and Tradition. 9. Nationalities Question and Revolution. 10. Change and Continuity in the Soviet Multi-ethnic Empire.

Editorial Reviews

"an extremely timely book, for it is the first history of Russia which does the imperial theme full justice" Geoffrey Hosking, The Slavonic Review "the first attempt in any language to centre the whole of Russian history from the 16th century to the present day on the relations between the empire's ethnic groups...timely as well as innovative"David Saunders, English Historical Review

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