1st Edition
The Romanov Empire and Nationalism Essays in the Methodology of Historical Research
Edited By Alexei Miller
Copyright 2008
242 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Miller addresses the fabric of interaction between the imperial authority and local communities in the Romanov empire. How did the authorities structure the space of the empire? What were the economic relations between the borderlands and the center? How was the use of different languages regulated? How did the central authorities and local officials implement policies regarding different... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1. The History of the Russian Empire: in Search of a Scale and a Paradigm Chapter 2. Russification or Russifications? Chapter 3. Identity and Loyalty in the Language Policy of the Romanov Empire at Her Western Borderland: the Case of Script and Alphabet Chapter 4. The Romanov Empire and the Jews Chapter 5. “Official Nationality”? A Reassessment of Count Sergei Uvarov’s Triad in the Context of Nationalism Politics Chapter 6. The Empire and the Nation in the Imagination of Russian Nationalism Chapter 7. The Testament for the All-Russian Idea, Conclusion, Select bibliography, Glossary, References, Index.
Biography
Alexei Miller is recurrent visiting professor, Central European University, Budapest and senior research fellow, Institute for Scientific Information in Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
