Window on the East : : National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia /

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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Geraci, Robert,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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