Window on the East : : National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia / / Robert Geraci.
Robert Geraci presents an exceptionally original account of both the politics and the lived experience of diversity in a society whose ethnic complexity has long been downplayed. For centuries, Russians have defined their country as both a multinational empire and a homogeneous nation-state in the m...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 3 maps, 21 halftones |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Russian Rule and Ethnic Diversity in the Middle Volga -- 2. Nikolai I. Il'minskii and the Renaissance of Russian Orthodox Missions -- 3. Confronting Islam -- 4. Schooling the Minority Peoples -- 5. Kazan University, Civic Life, and the Politics of Regional Ethnography -- 6. Ivan N. Smirnov and the Multan Case -- 7. Il'minskii's System under Siege -- 8. Window, Wall, or Mirror? -- 9. Nikolai F. Katanov: lnorodets in the Russian Academy -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Robert Geraci presents an exceptionally original account of both the politics and the lived experience of diversity in a society whose ethnic complexity has long been downplayed. For centuries, Russians have defined their country as both a multinational empire and a homogeneous nation-state in the making, and have alternately embraced and repudiated the East or Asia as fundamental to Russia's identity. The author argues that the city of Kazan, in the middle Volga region, was the chief nineteenth-century site for mediating this troubled and paradoxical relationship with the East, much as St. Petersburg had served as Russia's window on Europe a century earlier. He shows how Russians sought through science, religion, pedagogy, and politics to understand and promote the Russification of ethnic minorities in the East, as well as to define themselves. Vivid in narrative detail, meticulously argued, and peopled by a colorful cast including missionaries, bishops, peasants, mullahs, professors, teachers, students, linguists, orientalists, archeologists, and state officials, Window on the East uses previously untapped archival and published materials to describe the creation (sometimes intentional, sometimes unintentional) of intermediate and new forms of Russianness. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501724299 9783110536157 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501724299 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Robert Geraci. |