1st Edition
Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes Studies in Interdisciplinary and Comparative History of Russia and Eastern Europe
294 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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 edges of Eurasia. The book continues and amplifies the historiographic momentum created by Alfred... Read more
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
Biography
Andrei Cusco is Director of the Center for Empire Studies at the Department of History and Philosophy within Moldova State University.
Victor Taki is Sessional lecturer at Concordia University of Edmonton. His first book Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire was published by IB Tauris. His research interests include Imperial Russia’s Balkan entanglements and the intellectual history of the eighteenth and the nineteenth century.
