Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes : : Studies in Interdisciplinary and Comparative History of Russia and Eastern Europe / / ed. by Andrei Cusco, Victor Taki.

Anchored in the Russian Empire, but not limited to it, the eight studies in this volume explore the nineteenth-century imperial responses to the challenge of modernity, the dramatic disruptions of World War I, the radical scenarios of the interwar period and post-communist endgames at the different...

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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction: The Rieber Momentum in Historiography
  • Chapter 1 Forests, Navies, and Entangled Empires: Timber Export and Territorial Governance in Russia in the Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 2 The Projects of Cossack Reform in the Russian Empire (1810s-1840s): Unification versus Flexibility
  • Chapter 3 The Russian Army and the Ottoman Empire: Military Reform and Eastern Crisis
  • Chapter 4 Wartime Mobilization of Ethnicity, Shifting Loyalties, and Population Politics in the Borderlands of Nationalizing Empires: Reshaping Bessarabia and Bukovina, 1914-1919
  • Chapter 5 Painting Dogs into Racoons: Entertainment and Culture in the Gulag
  • Chapter 6 The Jewish Exodus to the Balkans, 1933-1938
  • Chapter 7 Weathering the Storm, Toppled by the Storm: North Korea's Non-Transition Compared with the Transition of Romania and Albania, 1989-1991
  • About the Contributors
  • Index