Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire (Russian History and Culture)

Contents......Page 6
Part one Defining Empire in a Dialogue......Page 8
New Imperial History and the Challenges of Empire (Ilya Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Jan Kusber, Marina Mogilner, Alexander Semyonov)......Page 10
Considerations on Imperial Comparisons (Ann Laura Stoler)......Page 40
Part Two the Challenge of Unification and Resistance......Page 64
Governance, Education, and the Problems of Empire in the Age of Catherine II (Jan Kusber)......Page 66
"Us" and "Them"? Polish Self-Descriptions and Perceptions of the Russian Empire between Homogeneity and Diversity (1815–1863) (Hans-Christian Petersen)......Page 96
Siberian Middle Ground: Languages of Rule and Accommodation on the Siberian Frontier (Sergey Glebov)......Page 128
Part Three the Challenge of Transformation and Rationalization......Page 160
Russian Physical Anthropology of the Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries: Imperial Race, Colonial Other, Degenerate Types, and the Russian Racial Body (Marina Mogilner)......Page 162
"The Real and Live Ethnographic Map of Russia": The Russian Empire in the Mirror of the State Duma (Alexander Semyonov)......Page 198
Redefining Empire: Social Engineering in Late Imperial Russia (Ilya Gerasimov)......Page 236
Name Index......Page 280