Russian Exceptionalism between East and West: The Ambiguous Empire

Preface
Contents
List of Tables
1 Introduction
	Structure of the Book
	References
2 Conceptualising an Empire in Between
	Introduction
	Empires Between the Objective and Intersubjective
	Enter Saïd
	Russia’s Hybrid-Exceptionalist Empires
	Introducing Hybrid Exceptionalism
		Exceptionalism
		Hybridity
		Hybrid Exceptionalism
	A Note on Method
	References
3 Hybrid Exceptionalism Under the Romanovs
	Introduction
	Debating Modernity
	Managing Empire, to the East and to the West
	Thinking the ‘Empire’ In Between
		In-Between Manifest Orientalisms
		Thinking the West Away
	Russian Art and Empire between Orient and Occident
		Imagining the Orient
		Picturing Western Borderlands
	Conclusion
	References
4 The Soviet Union as a Hybrid Civilising Project
	Introduction
	An Anti-imperialist Empire
		Marxism-Leninism and the Question of Nationality
		Hierarchy and Soviet Nationalities Policy
		Restoring Russia
	Socialist Empire as Civilising Mission
		A Very Hierarchical Union
		Nativisation as Civilising Mission
		The Return of Great Russia
	The Scientific Way of ‘Emancipation’
	Soviet Imaginings of East and West
	Conclusion
	References
5 Hybrid Exceptionalism in Contemporary Russia
	Introduction
	Chaos and Flux: Russian Worldviews in the Nineties
	Hybrid Exceptionalism Redux
		Feigning Liberalism
		Constructing Difference
	Conclusion
	References
6 Looking East, Looking West
	Introduction
	Russia’s Continuing Orientalist Gaze
	Russia’s Western Fears
	The Scientific Way of Hierarchy
	Art, Hierarchy, and In-Betweenness
	Conclusion
	References
7 Conclusion: Beyond Empire’s Shadow
	Introduction
	Russia Between Empire and Reality
		Between Continuity and Change
		Russia Today
	Matching Values and Reality
	Emancipation Through Critical Engagement
	Conclusion
	References
Index