ISBN:
9781315736792
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 455 Seiten)
Uniform Title:
Rußland als Vielvölkerreich
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kappeler, Andreas, 1943 - The Russian empire
DDC:
305.800947
Keywords:
Russia (Federation)
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Electronic books
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Russland
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Geschichte
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Sowjetunion
;
Geschichte
;
Russland
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Politik
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte 1830-1917
;
Russland
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 The Mediaeval Background -- 2 The Gathering of the Lands of the Golden Horde between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 1. The Foundations of the Russian Multi-ethnic Empire: The Conquest of the Khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan -- 2. The Advance to Northern Asia: The Conquest and Penetration of Siberia -- 3. The Stepwise Advance into the Steppe -- The Bashkirs -- The Nogai Tatars -- The Kalmyks -- The Crimean Tatars -- 4. Opening up the Steppe: The Cossacks and the German Colonists -- 5. Summary -- 3 Westward Expansion from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- 1. Ukraine: Reunification or Coerced Integration? -- 2. The First Step to Belorussia: Smolensk -- 3. A Window to the West: Estonia and Livonia -- 4. The Four Partitions of Poland -- 5 Autonomy for Finland -- 6. Bessarabia: Romanians or Moldavians? -- 7. Summary -- 4 The Pre-modern Russian Multi-ethnic Empire -- 1. Ethnic Division and Social Structure -- 2. The Inter-ethnic Division of Labour and the Specific Functions of non-Russians in the Russian Empire -- 3. Religious and Cultural Diversity -- 4. Non-Russian Resistance -- 5. The Character of the Pre-modern Russian Multi-ethnic Empire -- 5 Colonial Expansion in Asia in the Nineteenth Century -- 1. Russia and the Ancient Transcaucasian Cultures: Georgians, Armenians and Muslims -- 2. The Long War against the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus -- 3. The Stepwise Advance into the Kazakh Steppe -- 4. The Conquest and Incorporation of Southern Middle Asia -- 5. Reaching Out to America and the Far East -- 6. Summary -- 6 The National Challenge -- 1. The Polish Noble Nation as Forerunner -- 2. The National Emancipation of the Peasant Peoples.
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