Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely
shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the
early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian
Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were
conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian
empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of
difference': the rulers and their elites at the center defined the
state's needs minimally - with control over defense, criminal law,
taxation, and mobilization of resources - and otherwise tolerated
local religions, languages, cultures, elites, and institutions. The
center related to communities and religions vertically, according
each a modicum of rights and autonomies, but didn't allow
horizontal connections across nobilities, townsmen, or other groups
potentially with common interests to coalesce. Thus, the Russian
empire was multi-ethnic and multi-religious; Nancy Kollmann gives
detailed attention to the major ethnic and religious groups, and
surveys the government's strategies of governance - centralized
bureaucracy, military reform, and a changed judicial system. The
volume pays particular attention to the dissemination of a
supranational ideology of political legitimacy in a variety of
media - written sources and primarily public ritual, painting, and
particularly architecture. Beginning with foundational features,
such as geography, climate, demography, and geopolitical situation,
The Russian Empire 1450-1801 explores the empire's primarily
agrarian economy, serfdom, towns and trade, as well as the many
religious groups - primarily Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism. It
tracks the emergence of an 'Imperial nobility' and a national
self-consciousness that was, by the end of the eighteenth century,
distinctly imperial, embracing the diversity of the empire's many
peoples and cultures.
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