Extending the Borders of Russian History : : Essays in Honor of Alfred J. Rieber / / ed. by Marsha Siefert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• MitwirkendeR: Anan’ich, Boris V.,; Balzer, Harley D.,; Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam,; Breyfogle, Nicholas B.,; Firsov, Boris,; Fursenko, Aleksandr A.,; Ganelin, Rafail Sh.,; Gatrell, Peter,; Goldman, Wendy Zeva,; Haimson, Leopold H.,; Hrytsak, Iaroslav,; Joffe, Muriel,; Khodarkovsky, Michael,; King, Curtis S.,; Klier, John,; Kohut, Zenon E.,; Lewin, Moshe,; Loskoutova, Marina,; Martin, Alexander M.,; Miller, Alexei,; Mostashari, Firouzeh,; Paneiakh, Viktor M.,; Ragsdale, Hugh,; Riasanovsky, Nicholas V.,; Rimmel, Lesley A.,; Rosenberg, William G.,; Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,; Schrader, Abby M.,; Siefert, Marsha,; Sogrin, Vladimir,; Wortman, Richard S.,; Zelnik, Reginald E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Siefert, Marsha,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (568 p.)

The borders of Russian history, whether chronological, geographical, political or intellectual, have always been patrolled, have sometimes been evaded, but have never been invisible. This volume attempts to extend those borders in several ways. The articles stress continuity rather than ruptures and their organization emphasizes persistent factors over time, particularly across the 1917 divide. Geographical dimensions are explored not through conquest but through regional responses to the center: local variants of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial policies in the Caucasus and Turkestan are complemented by Central Asian petitions for citizenship in the 1930s and Siberian healing in the 1990s. Ukrainian aspirations take a special focus, from Kyivan Rus’ to Ruthenian dreams. Politically, of course, Marxist–Leninist ideology attempted to extend its own frontiers of Russian history. Several studies here attempt to assess the meaning of the Soviet period in terms of ideology, practices, processes and memory. It is fitting too that the now accepted boundaries of the Soviet era—the revolutionary decade and the first decade of transition—are subject to detailed attention and analysis. The intellectual borders of Russian and Soviet history, long policed from within and without, have been breached by the creative and wide-ranging use of newly accessible archival sources that form the basis for these articles. The sense of community exhibited by this collection, however, is not artificial nor is it wholly imagined. It derives from the honoree, whose scholarly life has exhibited the blurring of traditional boundaries, whether disciplinary, generational, or national, that is represented by the contributors to this volume.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Transliteration and Abbreviations -- Preface -- I NARRATING RUSSIA -- Agency and Process in Russian and Soviet History -- A Dynastic or Ethno-Dynastic Tsardom? Two Early Modern Concepts of Russia -- Spectacles of Subversion: Sexualized Scenarios, Gendered Discourses and Social Breakdown in Nineteenth-Century Russia -- National Narratives in the Representation of Nineteenth-Century Russian Monarchy -- II IMPERIAL RUSSIA: A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND ITS BORDERLANDS -- Precarious Existences: Middling Households in Moscow and the Fire of 1812 -- The Rise of Male Secondary Education in Provincial Russia: D.A. Tolstoy's Ministry Revisited -- Ruslan, Bohdan, and Myron: Three Constructed Identities among Galician Ruthenians/Ukrainians, 1830-1914 -- From Elisavetgrad to Broadway: The Strange Odyssey of Iakov Gordin -- Colonial Frontiers in Eighteenth-Century Russia: From the North Caucasus to Central Asia -- Colonization by Contract: Russian Settlers, South Caucasian Elites, and the Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century Tsarist Imperialism -- Russian Colonization of Caucasian Azerbaijan, 1830-1905 -- Diamond in the Rough: The State, Entrepreneurs and Turkestan's Hidden Resources in Late Imperial Russia -- III THE REVOLUTIONARY DECADE -- Worry about Workers: Concerns of the Russian Intelligentsia from the 1870s to WHAT IS TO BE DONE? -- The Political Evolution of Moscow's Kupechestvo in Early Twentieth-Century Russia: Observations and Reflections -- A Testament of the All-Russian Idea: Foreign Ministry Memoranda to the Imperial, Provisional and Bolshevik Governments -- The Day before the Downfall of the Old Regime: 26 February 1917 in Petrograd -- Unusual Comrades: Red Planning for the August 1919 Counter Offensive in the Russian Civil War -- Wartime Entrepreneur: Mikhail Riabushinskii's Banking Business, 1914-1919 -- Russia's First World War: Remembering, Forgetting, Remembering -- IV THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE -- The Political Police and the Study of History in the USSR -- The Internal Soviet Passport: Workers and Free Movement -- Class and Nation at the Borderlands: Pleas for Soviet Citizenship during the Great Terror -- The Soviet Position at Munich Reappraised: The Romanian Enigma -- Allies on Film: US-USSR Filmmakers and THE BATTLE OF RUSSIA -- Khrushchev and the End of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis -- Belief and Disbelief in the Soviet Union -- V PERSISTENT FACTORS IN RUSSIAN HISTORY -- The Contemporary Russian Transformation in Historical Context -- Intelligentsia, Intellectuals and Elites in Transition: A Critical Discourse at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century -- Public-Private Partnerships in Russian Education: Historical Models and Lessons -- Dynamic Ethnics: Socio-Religious Movements in Siberia -- The United States and Russia: From Rivalry to Reconciliation -- The Democratic Experience in Transitional Russia -- Bibliography and Chronology of Alfred J. Rieber -- List of Contributors -- Index