1st Edition
From Empire to Federation in Eurasia Ideas and Practices of Diversity Management
Introduction: Imperial transformations and global waves of federalization
Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira
1 An empire’s reexamination of diversity for modernization: Ottomanism as imperial nationalism
Pelin Tığlay
2 Socialism and decentralization: The Marxist ambiguity toward federalism in the late Habsburg Empire, 1899–1914
Cody James Inglis
3 Provincial democracy: Language, self-determination, and federation debates in early twentieth-century India
Rama Sundari Mantena
4 Siberian Regionalism and Indigenous self-government: Buryat and Sakha agency in Russia’s imperial transformations
Aleksandr Korobeinikov and Ivan Sablin
5 Between a united Muslim nation and territorial autonomy: Tatar political visions in and after the Russian Empire
Diliara Usmanova
6 The construction of the Yugoslav Kingdom: The constitutional debate and its European context, 1920–1921
Jure Gašparič
7 Between provincial independence and an “Asian central government”: The Monroe Doctrine as a federalist instrument in East Asia
Egas Moniz Bandeira and Bruce Grover
8 Self-determination, for whom? A conceptual analysis of Chen Jiongming’s Federal Manifesto (1927)
Federico Brusadelli
9 A kingdom “one and indivisible”: A (non-)history of political decentralization in Thailand
David M. Malitz
Biography
Ivan Sablin is a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, and an interim professor and research project coordinator in the Department of History at Heidelberg University, Germany. His recent publications include Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union (Routledge, 2024).
Egas Moniz Bandeira is an associate professor in the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He is the co-editor, with Ivan Sablin, of Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development (Routledge, 2022).
