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Asiatic Russia - Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts (Paperback)
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Asiatic Russia - Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts (Paperback)
Series: New Horizons in Islamic Studies
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Although the Russian Empire has traditionally been viewed as a
European borderland, most of its territory was actually situated in
Asia. Imperial power was huge but often suffered from a lack of
enough information and resources to rule its culturally diverse
subjects, and asymmetric relations between state and society
combined with flexible strategies of local actors sometimes
produced unexpected results. In Asiatic Russia, an international
team of scholars explores the interactions between power and people
in Central Asia, Siberia, the Volga-Urals, and the Caucasus from
the 18th to the early 20th centuries, drawing on a wealth of
Russian archival materials and Turkic, Persian, and Tibetan
sources. The variety of topics discussed in the book includes the
Russian idea of a "civilizing mission," the system of
governor-generalships, imperial geography and demography, roles of
Muslim and Buddhist networks in imperial rule and foreign policy,
social change in the Russian Protectorate of Bukhara, Muslim
reformist and national movements. The book is essential reading for
students and scholars of Russian, Central Eurasian, and comparative
imperial history, as well as imperial and colonial studies and
nationalism studies. It may also provide some hints for
understanding today's world, where "empire" has again become a key
word in international and domestic power relations.
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