1st Edition
Kars Province under Russian Rule Imperial Rivalry and Nation-Building in the Periphery, 1878-1918
By Candan Badem
Copyright 2025
124 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book analyses the borderland province (oblast) of Kars under Russian imperial rule from 1878 to 1918. It is a study of imperial expansion, inter-imperial rivalry, colonization, legal and administrative pluralism, nation building and state building.
Based on archival work in the state archives of Turkey (Ottoman archives), Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the author develops a more... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: The “Military-Popular Administration”
Chapter 2: Migration and Colonization
Chapter 3: Land and Property
Chapter 4: War, Ethnic Cleansing and Revolution
Biography
Candan Badem is Associate Professor of History and an Academic at Risk in Turkey since 2016. His publications include The Ottoman Crimean War (2010), The Routledge Handbook of the Crimean War (ed.) (2022) and Çarlık Yönetiminde Kars, Ardahan, Artvin (2018).
